Charlotte Hornets level guard LaMelo Ball has proven no rust by the primary six video games of the 2024-25 season after lacking the ultimate three-plus months of final yr’s marketing campaign resulting from nagging accidents to the ankle.
Ball scored the ball at a particularly excessive however environment friendly price, averaging 30.2 factors per recreation, which ranked fourth within the NBA behind Anthony Davis, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jayson Tatum. He shoots the ball 47% from the sphere and 40% from three-point vary, connecting on a number of robust photographs.
Sam Perley of Hornets.com got here throughout a mind-blowing stat following the workforce’s loss Saturday to the Boston Celtics. LaMelo Ball grew to become solely the second participant in NBA historical past to make 30 or extra baskets in his workforce’s first six video games of the common season. The one different participant to realize this feat is Stephen Curry, who has carried out it 5 occasions.
Ball has made a minimum of 4 threes in 5 of six video games, together with a career-high 9 he set within the second recreation of the season in opposition to the Atlanta Hawks.
LaMelo and the Hornets shall be again in motion Monday evening as they tackle the Minnesota Timberwolves at 9 p.m. EST.
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