CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Decked mostly in comfortable attire that included sweat pants and padded slippers, players trickled out of Spectrum Center’s inner bowels one by one following a morning group workout.
Preparations for the Charlotte Hornets’ matchup with Indiana on Monday night were in full swing and the team’s star point guard remained in the weight room, pumping iron while on the long road to recovery. It’s a sobering reality for LaMelo Ball as he makes his way back from surgery to repair a fractured right ankle suffered on March 1.
“Oh yeah, it’s the worst,” Ball said Monday in his first comments since getting injured. “Not being able to play is always tough.”
