Charlotte Hornets star guard LaMelo Ball lays on the court as the buzzer sounds in the team’s 114-112 loss to the Indiana Pacers at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C. on Thursday, January 8, 2026.

The second ball drop will honor America's semiquincentennial year. After the clock struck midnight on Jan. 1, 2026, revelers ringing in the new year in Times Square got a second treat as red, white ...

For the first time ever, New York’s venerable New Year’s Eve ball drop, a Times Square spectacle every year since 1907, will happen twice in a single year. The Constellation Ball, the ninth and ...

The nearly 1,000-pound Future of Pittsburgh Ball was tested Tuesday and is ready to rise on New Year’s. Mounted on an 80-foot-tall pole atop Penn Avenue Place in Downtown Pittsburgh, the illuminated ...

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The Charlotte Hornets have had to deal with injuries to LaMelo Ball for the majority of his career. Ball has been one of the more injury-prone players in the NBA, but his skill and talent level can ...

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The new ball will have more lights and round crystals and can be visited year-round, for a price. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll find out about the new New Year’s Eve ball in ...

Following the Hornets’ disappointing road loss to the 2-13 Indiana Pacers — their fourth straight, dropping Charlotte to 12th in the Eastern Conference with a 4-11 record — star guard LaMelo Ball has ...

LaMelo Ball has stuck with the Charlotte Hornets through years of struggle, but the point guard reportedly is now open to a trade. Per Yahoo Sports' Kelly Iko, Ball "has grown increasingly frustrated ...

LaMelo Ball was chosen third in the 2020 NBA Draft, by Charlotte, after Minnesota took Anthony Edwards with the top pick. Elsa / Getty Images LaMelo Ball grew up hearing he’d be better than Michael ...

Ball Corp. has parted ways with Daniel Fisher, who had been at the helm of the aluminum packaging supplier since early 2022. Ball on Monday said Fisher is no longer chairman and chief executive of the ...