Coming into the season you could see the Charlotte Hornets heading for a ravine. They lost their second-best player to off-the-court issues, and LaMelo Ball was literally limping into the year. Well, the family wagon smashed right off that cliff.
The third-year point guard is the team’s best shot at a franchise building block since forever, and his entire 2022 campaign has been hollow, if not a complete wash. Ball has missed almost half the games with ankle injuries, and I’m not sure how much it would’ve helped even if he had been healthy.