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Charlotte Hornets<\/a> guard LaMelo Ball<\/a> is available to play in Thursday night’s game against the Houston Rockets<\/a>, one day after wrecking his customized GMC EV Hummer<\/a> in an accident in Uptown Charlotte. Ball was not injured in the two-car crash<\/a>, which came at an intersection downtown and totaled his vehicle.<\/p>\n Video obtained by WSOC-TV<\/a>\u00a0showed Ball’s vehicle making contact on the driver’s side with a KIA sedan shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday. The front left tire of Ball’s Hummer came off of the vehicle during the accident before the GMC came to a stop near the shoulder.<\/p>\n Ball was later spotted at the scene being picked up in a Lamborghini shortly after the accident. Both cars involved in the wreck were reportedly towed from the scene<\/a>, but an accident report has not been made available.<\/p>\n The Hornets have won 10 of their last 11 games with Ball leading the charge. The sixth-year pro and former No. 3 overall pick is averaging 19.3 points per game and 7.4 assists this season.<\/p>\n Charlotte (26-29) is currently the No. 9 seed in the Eastern Conference standings, 3.5 games back of Miami. The Hornets’ starting lineup of Ball, standout rookie Kon Kneuppel, Brandon Miller<\/a>, Miles Bridges<\/a> and Moussa Diabate<\/a> has the franchise in line to make its first postseason appearance since the 2015-16 season if the hot streak continues.<\/p>\n Earlier this month against the Rockets, Ball led the Hornets with 20 points during a road victory, which marked Charlotte’s eighth straight win — the first time that’s happened since the 1999-00 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball is available to play in Thursday night’s game against the Houston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,970,684,473,3878,685,194,966,81233,63602,81232,48626,10510,6357,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-612210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brandon-miller","10":"tag-charlotte","11":"tag-charlotte-hornets","12":"tag-charlottehornets","13":"tag-hornets","14":"tag-houston-rockets","15":"tag-lamelo-ball","16":"tag-lamelo-ball-charlotte","17":"tag-lamelo-ball-hornets","18":"tag-lamelo-ball-hummer","19":"tag-lamelo-ball-injury","20":"tag-miles-bridges","21":"tag-moussa-diabate","22":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116098980846327955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}