Watch: Hornets star LaMelo Ball has hilarious reaction to Halloween clown prank

Watch: Hornets star LaMelo Ball has hilarious reaction to Halloween clown prank

Watch: Hornets star LaMelo Ball has hilarious reaction to Halloween clown prank

Watch: Hornets star LaMelo Ball has hilarious reaction to Halloween clown prank

Hornets’ All-Star guard was in for quite a surprise
Published: Oct. 31, 2024 at 12:30 PM EDT

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – The Charlotte Hornets shared a hilarious video in the spirit of Halloween, showing superstar LaMelo Ball’s reaction to a clown inside the team’s facility in Uptown.

In the video, Ball is shown walking through a hallway into a stairwell. Just inside the stairwell was the clown, dressed in a blue and yellow outfit with a classic red nose and little hair tufts.

When he walked into the stairwell, the clown – an animatronic – started moving.

After letting out a loud scream, the video then showed the Hornets’ All-Star guard take a big swing at the clown’s head. When the clown kept moving, Ball took another hack, knocking its head off and taking it to the ground.

“It’s too early for that,” cameras caught him saying. “Oh my…feel my heart!”

Bleacher Report, Overtime and other social media outlets shared the video, with basketball fans hysterical in the comments.

“Someone should make a meme with this,” one fan commented. “This is hilarious.”

“This has me crying,” another wrote. “Great job.”

The scare comes amid one of the hottest starts to the 23-year-old’s NBA career. Through the Hornets’ first four games, Ball is averaging 28.5 points and 7 assists per game, while shooting nearly 40% from three-point range.

Charlotte is 2-2 under new head coach Charles Lee, with back-to-back home games coming up against the defending champion Boston Celtics on Friday and Saturday. Lee came to the Hornets after winning last year’s title with Boston.

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