With each passing day, we grow closer to the return of our beloved 19-year-old franchise cornerstone, LaMelo Ball. During a press conference on Monday afternoon, Charlotte Hornets head coach James Borrego said both Ball and Malik Monk took part in on-court workouts but were unable to participate in live drills (per Jacob Rude, USA TODAY). It’s almost time.
When Ball, then Monk, and then Gordon Hayward all went down with injuries, most of the NBA community put a fork in the Hornets—and that wasn’t wrong, because for a minute it looked real bad with a void of offense and scoring punch in the rotation.