The Charlotte Hornets go 1-1 over Thanksgiving break, but lose something much larger in the process. LaMelo Ball suffered a right ankle strain against the Magic and didn’t return. Over the holiday he revealed to Walker Mehl that he hasn’t worn braces all season. How much should we worry about LaMelo’s future now that he experienced yet another ankle injury?
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39 Comments
I hate being a Charlotte sports fan
Yet another phantom ankle injury. He didn't twist it. He never grabbed it while writhing on the floor. How long with this keep him out? How long will Martin be "in pain?" been over a year now. What's up with the NBA and these unseen injuries that just occur and take weeks or months to heal?
can we get a real training staff now that we have new owners??
Lamelo's ankles were hired by David Tepper
Can’t believe people actually thought the guy that changes his shoes at halftime when his shot is off was going to wear ankle braces
Its the MilesTerry/Miller show now
Why is basketball so injury prone? Sad situation.
I saw that tweet interaction idk how that guy got mad at you for just repeating public information 😂
Ankle strain doesn't make sense. You don't strain ankles….
I feel like during Melo youth shouldve had more weight training in leg/ankle dept.
Or even certain stretches to strength his lower body ankles calves etc.
🫡 to you walker and Doug I hope 🙏 you guys had a 👍 Thanksgiving . Dang I'm a little upset lamelo got hurt this early in the season I hope he get back in the line up soon him and my boy scary terry 3 good 👍 luck to those guys fire 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
Either call Dell or Stephen Curry to see how they got the ankle issue fixed.
They looked to me like they were about to cook the Magic before Melo went down. Positive vibes going out to Melo.
Wear High Tops , did he have his ankle braces on ???
POSs
Can we not escalate to the most pessimistic position possible, damm lol
S Word. “Shmackin”
Boy Melo need to hit the weight room
This miller time to show why he was picked it #2 if anything
Buddy landed on his foot
I don’t think tape>ankle braces is the reason LaMelo hurt his ankle.
Him not wearing ankle braces is so irresponsible. Do everything possible to protect yourself.
Same thing happened to Curry early in his career. He had to have multiple surgeries but overcame them to be the MVP he is today.
I just get frustrated that they don’t give us any info on these injury’s like they do with other teams. When Brandon miller tweaked his ankle there was no info until 1 hour before the next game just saying he was out. No status or anything until we saw him play the game after that.
Even when walker asked Lamelo “are you wearing ankle braces” he said “no” in a way where he knows he should be wearing them, you can hear it in his voice the way he said no…also walker I think the reason people are mad, is because you put out that news yesterday on twitter, if you put it out on twitter on Wednesday there would have been no problem, even though, yes it was on wfnz, you released it yesterday on twitter, which was the first time people had heard about it (on twitter) idk just my opinion, hard to keep everyone happy
Steve Clifford has to perform as well… don't see him outcoaching anyone.
You stuck with that line of questioning Walker!
he didnt like playing with the ankle braces so who the f cares. you want him to be as protected as possible? lmfao thats the dumbest thing ive heard today. lets put him in a body brace and wheel him onto the court so hes safe 😂
I thought NBA players were supposed to love their jobs. There always seems to be a reason why they can't to show up to work. I thought that was for us reg folks who hate our jobs. Not saying he's not really injured but, the sprained ankle from last year was the same; no twisting but all of a sudden it's sprained, and LeMelo will probably take what, the rest of the year off? Like Martin? Maybe he wants to go to Miami with his brother.
It’s time to talk about the pumas. The soles are to think keep his actual foot to high from the ground causing it to roll.
😢
I was at the magic game and seen him fall down and stay down on the ground for a min…you can definitely tell the vibes changed for the hornets when the injury happened….i got to dap up miles twice 🤘🏼
Obviously yall don't play basketball. If he tired the ankle braces n they make it worse u don't wear them.
It's a difference between being out of shape and ankle braces
Fatigue fracture and constant ankle instability indicates either enormous overload or relative muscle weakness. In both cases, the guy with splints will protect his ankles, but will certainly have other problems. Patella, Achilles, meniscus, adductors – the strain goes somewhere when you stabilize the ankles one-dimensionally with splints. Or the father has already worn him out so much as a child that the material is already showing degenerative weaknesses. When I look at the medical history of his two (!) brothers, there are clearly too many parallels for me. I also find this video documentary, in which LaMelo clearly exceeds the limits of stress in the middle of his growth, extremely worrying. Sad (family) story, and it doesn't get any better when the father blames the Bulls or the shoe companies.
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I’m stunned that he isn’t forced to lace up and wear braces.
Bad gene's. Blame the mother
Very few teams can win consistently giving up 120+ a game. Give up 100-110 and your chances are closer to 50/50
I just typed such a long elaborate description of what happened then i accidentally deleted it before I posted 🫠. I’ll just say this Doug and Walker. No Lamelo was not getting to the foul line at the at the same rate as some of these other super stars and the same can be said of his most recent injury. There should have absolutely been a foul call on paolo for not allowing Lamelo ball to land properly while he was attacking the basket. The nba needs to protect its players attacking the rim same way they protect the players landing space during a three point shot. That contortion of a shot really is what injured Lamelo. He was doing a reverse layup while his entire body was turned towards the basket to see if his shot had just went in. NBA needs to protect Lamelo in this instance for Paolo just blatantly landing in lamelo’s air space before landing and he quite frankly got mauled. NBA can certainly prevent injuries like this from happening. The ball went it. I know Paolo was just trying to competitively contest the layup but if you really look at this injury, Paolo was overly aggressive guarding Melo landing space and I guess there is no rule in place yet in the nba that prevents something like this from happening. As was aforementioned, 3 point shooters landing space is protected. Now replay that injury and tell me there isn’t somethjng of substance there. I saw that YouTube dr do the breakdown of Lamelos injury and a whole bunch of blackball Lamelo ball YouTube videos and it worries me no one is talking about this more. Lamelo does not get fouls calls and does not get to the fouls line. Doug and Walker, you talked about this is one of your recent podcast so I’m surprised we aren’t like up in arms about the way Paolo banchero guarded Lamelo on that reverse layup possession. It was grotesque not to get an and 1 right there. Course he wouldn’t have been able to shoot the free throws but damn bruh, he’s a superstar. It’s not like no one was around him. If it was a wide open layup, I think we would be having a different conversation and no injury would have happened. He still slightly came down on Paolo’s shoe. It wasn’t some freak injury or awkward landing on his own. He was propelled further into the air but the aggressive defense in the air caused by Paolo. No one in their right mind can tell me Paolo Banchero did not cause this injury so for us to just start blaming Lamelo?? No! you blame the nba, you blame Paolo. Last thing you do is blame the Franchise cornerstone. Lastly, charlotte needs to trade rozier for lonzo and some picks. I truly think terry would take looks away from Lamelo not allowing him to reach his full potential where as lonzo has no problem giving that rock up to his brother to get some off the ball looks and start really cashing in on 3s. Preventing more injury. I know the worry is having two injury prone ball brothers but honestly, while terry was out was when we saw lamelos emergence on the scoring front. May as well tank again, get ball and the next big thing in the draft hopefully even tho this class isn’t deep. Horner’s aren’t winning a championship this year. Take a page out of the OKC thunder book and Sam Presti the shit out of this.