For the game, the Hornets could be without their best player, as LaMelo Ball is on the injury report. The 2022 NBA All-Star is averaging 28.6 points, 4.6 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.4 steals per contest while shooting 46.

The viral video shows Ball walking through a doorway and getting spooked by a hidden mechanical clown at Spectrum Center.

As the Hornets prepared for their Friday showdown against the defending champion Boston Celtics, the team pulled a Halloween prank on Ball at their practice facility. The Hornets scared their star point guard, who screamed and threw punches at a three or four-foot-tall clown mannequin hiding at the bottom of a stairwell.

Charlotte Hornets point guard LaMelo Ball has shown zero rust through the first six games of the 2024-25 season after having missed the last three-plus months o