It was a total beatdown for the Trail Blazers and they earned the big win over Charlotte. In the game, Portland shut down Hornets star point guard LaMelo Ball. Ball was limited to just five points ...

Mike Schmitz, currently the Portland Trail Blazers' Assistant GM, worked as an NBA draft analyst at ESPN. He published a piece, "Deni Avdija belongs in the top tier of the 2020 NBA draft," making a ...

Anfernee Simons scored 25 points and the Portland Trail Blazers posted the largest ... while Charlotte star LaMelo Ball had just five points on 1-of-10 shooting. Nick Smith Jr. scored 14 points ...

Portland Trail Blazers (23-33 ... out (hamstring), DaQuan Jeffries: day to day (knee), LaMelo Ball: day to day (ankle), Tre Mann: out for season (back).

TORONTO, ON — Shaedon Sharpe scored 36 points to lead the Portland Trail Blazers past the Toronto Raptors 112-103 on Thursday night. Sharpe, from London, Ontario, was in an all-Canadian ...

Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball will miss the remainder of the campaign to undergo a pair of minor procedures to address ...

Shams Charania: Team doctors and outside specialists concluded that the two procedures will allow LaMelo Ball to heal and have a full offseason. The decision ends Ball’s career year in scoring.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball won't play again this season and will have arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle as well as a minor procedure on his right wrist.

That raises the obvious question: What about LaMelo Ball? Sources said the Hornets have no interest in moving on from their star guard. But setting aside the questions about Williams moving ...