Post-Game Thread: Charlotte Hornets (1-0) defeat Miami Heat (0-1), 127-126 in OT | NBA | Apr 14, 2026
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Greatest Play-In game ever. If this is the start of the 2026 Playoffs, get your popcorn ready!
I don’t see how Ball wasn’t ejected and suspended. Maybe he’ll be suspended by the front office today but, this was insane. Ball should be suspended multiple games for what he did.
Haslem and Dirk in the post game said it wasn’t ejection-worthy, for what it’s worth. Incidents like these happen every game and the only reason it’s a debate is because Bam got hurt from it.
I’m not gonna lie to you and say I didn’t wince pretty hard at that replay. I really wish he hadn’t done it because I knew it would taint whatever we did for the rest of the night. I also agree Heat fans have every right to be upset.
But, I think with incidents like these we have to remember that these are split-second decisions being made by hyper-competitive athletes. It’s not fair to judge someone wholly by how those decisions look in a slo-mo replay from countless angles.
And then there’s the influence of the outcome. Can you say for certain that if Bam had hopped back up and played the rest of the game, this would be a debate? I don’t think you can. The question then becomes, is it fair to litigate the incident based on that?
I think the most logical action is to zoom out and look at the player’s record. Was this Draymond or Dort? Hell yeah, hand out the pitchforks. Those guys have a reputation that they’ve earned. Say what you want about LaMelo, he’s not a dirty player.
Another person posted a link of hi grabbing Bam’s leg two years ago, too. But touching or tripping someone running on both legs is still something else. This was taking out a dudes only point of balance as he is falling away…good in mma…not so much in basketball.
I’m not crazy reactionary…I’m sure many comments on the internet are unhinged and want him gulag-ed for it. But I think you should expect push back on your views here. Too casual…gotta find a middle ground or start finding examples in every game played like you claim happens.
I don’t care about the outcome of the game at all.
It doesn’t matter which player does it, they should be ejected and suspended multiple games. This was intentional and dangerous and has no place in the game.
Any player who does this–and I’m sure there are many–has significant problems and needs help, and anyone who enables this needs to be suspended without pay.
I’m not talking about flowers and pronouns or eating dogs and cats here, I’m just talking about the most basic stuff in the game.
Yeah the nba should suspend the star player on a young and exciting new playoff team for their next play-in game and first series that will drive viewership through the roof!
I love seeing all the Celtics and Magic fans and other eastern conference teams defending the Hornets. People who watch the Heat play know they are dirty and it some point you just have to ply Heat basketball back at them
I am a Celtics fan and I hate the Heat.
Fuck LaMelo and fuck Miles Bridges.
I get dirty play, but that crossed a line.
Thriller of a game. Coby White is that guy man he made every single big shot the hornets needed
The bitterness of this game is going to feed reddit for months
Fuck Lamelo Ball. He a bitch.
Fuck Tyler Herro
Hahah love those down votes from salty Heat fans
I have been saying for years that basketball players need to learn how to do judo breakfall to prevent hard falls like that. I see bad falls too much. Its easy to learn and build your reflexes so its automatic.
Get ready to get stomped Charlotte
learning to fall saved Steph Curry’s career.
Dude! LEGIT Steph is the only player I have seen breakfall properly. Its realllllllly easy to learn and saved my ass so many times falling off my bike or slipping on ice.
I just wish Bam tucked and rolled onto his back even that wouldve taken most of the pressure from the fall
Steph had serious injury issues until he gave up trying to recover and just learned to go down safely every time he’s bumped. It’s not flipping for him, it legit saved his career.
Why are they getting stomped?
DEEEEEEEEEtroit
They aren’t even in the playoffs yet
They still need to beat the 7⁄8 loser first lol
Get the basketball players a day with some professional skateboarders!! They’ll learn how to fall
Sir the entire NBA now has two broken wrists. Please no more good advice, please!
What is this shitty box score generator that can’t be viewed on old reddit?
For real. Is it really that hard to just post the old stat box? I am not switching to new reddit, its horrific.
Reddit forced it smh… Relevant username
And on new reddit on mobile (not the app), it takes 80% of the screen and blocks scrolling, like if you’re doomscrolling and your thumb swipes down on it, it won’t scroll.
Looks neat, but yeah…
Looks really nice on mobile, but takes a few extra clicks to get to the box score.
Wishing Bam Adebayo a speedy recovery 🙏 Get well soon
Lamelo will probably get suspended for the next game
Dort wasn’t for what he did to Ja. No way Lamelo is.
They didn’t look the same to me
Doubtful, most likely fined and have a tech retroactively assessed that carries through the playoffs.
The trip aside, honestly can’t believe the Hornets won with LaMelo being his “old” “any shot is a good shot” self, going 12⁄31 from the field and 2⁄16 from downtown.
+15 and 10 assist with only 3 turnovers helps
It drives people crazy that he’s actually good at basketball. Even when his shot is awful he runs such a good offense. We looked terrible without him all night outside of the Coby White explosion.
People hate LaMelo and maybe rightfully so but he’s been playing winning basketball all year.
He’s also fun to watch. Never know if you’re going to see the best or worst play of the night on every possession.
That’s a decent but not outstanding assist-to-turnover ratio.
Individual plus/minus isn’t a rating score or evidence of how well or poorly an individual played either.
Really, if you said before any game that any player is going to miss 19 FGA, including missing 14 3PTA, you’d assume that’s a complete killer for their team.
Focus on what you want I guess
Credit to the Hornets for winning the game, it’s just surprising that they did with LaMelo’s shooting splits.
Jalen Green missed 15 FGA in the other game, and the Suns lost. Usually it’s hard to win the game or come close when you have a player missing that many shots, whoever it is.
Jalen Green isn’t the playmaker Lamelo is
Tripping by LaMelo was the play of the game. You gotta think with that ending that Bam would’ve made the difference.
Over turn the result.
Win means nothing. Trash ass move by Lamelo. Hope whoever loses the 7th seed battle knocks the Hornets out for that.
So you’ll root for the magic with multiple dirty players instead? The virtue signaling is insane
As opposed to the hornets with dirty players women beaters and people who assist in murder
Never said it wasn’t a dirty play. I can tell it’s virtue signaling though bc he’s inconsistent in his morals
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What a fucking psycho.. Is Tonya Harding your personal hero?
You’re not the smartest person out there, are you?
I mean if LaMelo Ball is your inspiration you can only aim so high
The game called basketball, not fucking wrestling
What a hapless loser lol.
It’s one thing to say it was accidental. Just completely shit to be happy that a player hurt another player.
Only losers celebrate dirty shit like that.
What
what an odd thing to say
Completely undeserved. I’m happy for Coby and that’s it. Fuck LaMelo, fuck Miles, that team just has so many weird, self absorbed, sketchy, and straight up awful people. Hope they get rightly erased by whoever they play next
Nah fuck the heat. You guys always have the most random nobodies pop off on us. Feels good to win one
I’m sure it feels good. It was however undeserved, unearned, fraudulent. It takes your man child baby of a “star” (he’s a star bricklayer for sure) playing dirty and injuring the opponents best player, AND the refs totally missing it (we win with 2 FTs + possession there even if melodrama stays in the game).
Having random nobodies pop off is just basketball. The way the Hornets won last night was not basketball.
The good guys lost last night. It happens. Hopefully your poverty franchise gets summarily dismissed quickly.
5 CHAMPIONSHIP > PLAY-INS BIATCH HAHA.
Bro the Lakers weren’t even playing?! Fucking Laker fans are all special
This is funny coming from a Heat fan. You guys constantly try to injure other teams and call it “Heat Culture”
Yeah, LaMelo did a dirty move, but I just find it a bit hypocritical.
They have done so many dirty plays against us this year. Then they try and take the moral high ground lol. That’s just what heat culture is. A bunch of dirty players gaslighting people in to thinking they’re just “playing hard”
Seems like they didn’t appreciate the heat culture last night
Least bitter Celtics fan
Bullshit but ofc biased Celtics fans say the this
They’re really hard to root for given bridges still exists.
He’s integral to their success too. As a casual fan it feels like he’s the glue that holds the team together lol.
he had an all-timer last night but he’s honestly hurt us more than helped us this season
If they win their rewards is getting their asses beat by us 4 straight but tbh they don’t even deserve that. Rooting for Orl/Philly for sure.
Nah fuck the heat :)
bitch ass lamelo
lamelo should be suspended the next game tbh
Draymond Green precedent means he gets an additional 29 dirty plays before receiving a suspension.
*Games - just in case they qualify
Agreed. But we all know he won’t.
Two guards with most three points in league shooting 2⁄18 from three and you win elimination game!! LaMelo clutch but he also probably should be ejected for causing Adebayo injury. Heat going to retool, Ware deserving much more run by Spo
Was it not 2⁄22?
Yeppp, dmhh
Buzz buzz
enjoy the win tonight yall fans deserve regardless how it ended.
cheers from a laker fan!
As a Charlotte heaver (bandwagoner) we got here. It doesn’t matter how but we got here. Now please beat Boston do I can enjoy my postseason
You guys play the loser of Orlando and Philly for the honor of playing Detroit round 1. Boston plays the winner of Philly Orlando
He’s saying they’ll beat Boston in the ECF
This gentleman gets it lol
This was one hell of a game as someone who is not a fan of either team I really enjoyed it
As someone who attended,, sitting front row, upper level,, it was an absolutely amazing experience. I was wearing my 2016 playoff shirt. Fuck the haters, hornets for the chip!
This game was the Hornets chip brother. They already paid for the banner that says 2026 play-in game winner and are arranging the frisbee dogs for the ceremony where they hang it next fall
I genuinely don’t understand why you’d be a hornets fan. They’ve been ass your entire life, and now they’re led by a dipshit whose liable to commit vehicular manslaughter on a daily basis, a certified woman beater, and an accessory to murder.
They’re a billion dollar company, not an embodiment of your city. Or at least you better hope they aren’t. Spend your time and money elsewhere.
I grew up in Charlotte in the 90s and that team was my heart and soul. Them moving to New Orleans destroyed me. Im sure you can relate.
Im happy for their success and they’re a fun team to watch now. That move by Lamelo tarnished this win, but it was still electric as fuck.
Youre about to get the Sonics back. Imagine getting your team back and seeing them be successful. Itll happen to you soon too
Your team doesn’t even exist 😂😂
He doesn’t have the spirit of a sports fan
Why would you say this today of all days
man this sub always has the unhinges shit on lock, makes the other sports subs look like amateurs 😭
lol I come here and r/baseball for sports and it’s really funny to see the stark difference. The baseball sub seems to actually enjoy the sport. This one I come to for my stories like a grandma watching daytime tv
Things that not supporting a team before they move to a market that does makes a man say….
Wow what a cool guy. I’m sure talking to you at a bar is super enlightening
Little bit of Pacific Northwest arrogance there friend. You probably don’t know what it’s like living in a place like that. You don’t pick your owners.
because you’re from Charlotte, that’s why. Why is this even a question lol
Bro they won in a thrilling ending and this is your takeaway 😭
Yeah? How did Bam finish the game?
Just the usual redditor take
Well LaMelo’s dad was junk and so is his son! He needs a fine for pulling that leg. Maybe even a suspension.
Please include %
This season has conclusively proven that the Charlotte Hornets can barely beat the Miami Heat when Bam doesn’t play.
It’s absolutely ridiculous that the Hornets are so bad whenever they’re playing the Heat that the only two times they beat the Heat this season was when Bam was out injured and they could STILL only barely win then.
Some teams just have another team’s number.
Didn’t the hornets win by like 30 last time they played?
And they ‘barely won’ a game where their two best shooters combined for sub 10% shooting on over 20 3pa. Miami had almost everything go right for them on defense and they still lost because of the talent discrepancy especially without bam playing
Yeah, we had everything going for us, specifically our All-Defensive C go down due to a bitch ass boy clown tripping him
HeAt CulTurE. Y’all been playing dirty all year long then cry when someone finally retaliates. Go cry in a corner dude. No one cares
Sure, that was a close game up until 10 minutes left in the game, then the Hornets pulled away. They made a few shots, and the Heat were stuck at 94 points for a while and basically conceded. The two teams are pretty evenly matched when Bam doesn’t play, which I guess makes sense, because Moose provides nothing on defense against Bam. Somebody’s grandmother would probably do a better job defending Bam than Moose.
Congratulations to all those disagreeing over “could STILL only barely win.” You know for a fact that the Hornets could not beat the Heat all season unless Bam didn’t play, so you feel you can get some satisfaction out of disagreeing over how close the game ultimately was, even though it was sitting at 96-90 with 10:30 left in the game; it got blown open late for reasons not because the Hornets are so much better than a Bam-less Heat, which they are not as last night showed.
Some may want to say, “Last night was the postseason” as a reason Miami played the way they did without Bam, which would only prove that they could’ve also played that way in the previous game, so why didn’t they if they could’ve? Like I said, they pretty much conceded that game shortly after the Hornets went up by double digits because it was just a regular season game. They didn’t concede last night.
But Melo and Kon didn’t shoot well last night, you say. Yeah, no duh, the Hornets tend to suck against the Heat, so there is nothing surprising about that either.
Every honest Hornets fan knows the main reason the Hornets are advancing in a 1 point game is because Bam left in the 2nd Quarter, so keep acting like a 96-90 game wasn’t close just because it ended 136-106 after the Heat called it a night with 8 minutes left because at that point in the season they had a better record than the Hornets and had already won the season series.
Enjoy your offseason, buh-bye now!
I never said I was a Heat fan. What I am is OBJECTIVE. The fact that the Heat have literally “owned” the Hornets, so much so that the Hornets still have to fight that hard at home to win a game when Bam doesn’t play for most of it, is absolutely pathetic.
Objective, uhhuh. Buh-bye, ‘not a heat fan’, enjoy your offseason. Lotto is on May 10th, check back in then!
Yeah, and my aunt was close to being my uncle right up until the balls refused to drop, and then she pulled away into auntie-dom
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Final score is not always indicative of how the game actually went. The score was 96-90 with 10 minutes left. Seen plenty of games like that one get blown open late, the other team calls it a day, and the score gets run up.
Tyler Herro is the worse.
This game was fucking insane what a start to the playoffs dawg
I feel bad for the colonoscopy chick!
*edit it’s a chick! Sorry for misgendering you!
I feel bad for me too 😭
Relevant username, haha.
Damn it’s him!
Her*
Damn I don’t know why I think colonoscopy and die hard hornets fan and immediately jump to “man” my fault!
😂 that’s okay 🤝🤝
YES
man wouldn’t have had to leave his seat cheeks would have been clenched all game
It was the right choice.
sauce: someone who has had colonoscopy.
What?
Yooooooooo fr😭
Élite ball knowledge
Had to be there
What😭
Yesterday a guy was asking if he should prep for his colonoscopy or go to the game and reschedule (a 1K fee)
Here’s the thread
Absolutely crazy game. As a neutral, this might be a best start to the post season. Silver is having a blast now.
Feels like a decent scenario for Heat fans. Get a lotto pick to play with and get the whole “if Lamelo didn’t injure Bam” cope.
Lol Heat fans love to cope. They swear they would’ve beat AD and LeBron if Dragic wasn’t hurt in 2020
yea, i mean does a team even really need their leading scorer?
In fairness I still firmly believe we beat you guys in 2020 if Jokic is defending AD and not Mason freaking Plumlee on that last shot. We all need a little cope sometimes 😂
Murray was fucked, he could barely play by Game 5 and was hobbling all over the court. The Nuggets might’ve defeated the Lakers, but they would be in absolute shambles by the time they got there. But, the Lakers were really good. Probably still would’ve defeated the Nuggets.
Logic brain agrees with you. Lizard brains says fuck you, Nuggets would’ve won 😂
Second highest scorer in nba history and you’re calling it cope 😭
Larper found
coper found
LaMelo ran over the Heat’s postseason hopes almost like that time your girl’s face looks ran over.
Alright I disagree with the other guy but this was an absolute swing and a miss response
Thunder fan reminding us. It’s still last Tuesday there.
Sorry if I stepped on anyone’s toe!
Lamelo fucked it up. This win will always be tainted.
hilarious cope
No way baby. We buzzin’
I can say I’ll gladly be waiting for either the Magic or Sixers to knock out the Hornets and if they survive that, for the Pistons to sweep their asses out. Lamelo and Bridges can fuck off.
Nah
Gotta hit your FT’s!
I doubt Silver will suspend Lamelo he wants the stars available for the playin games. Just can’t see him doing that for the do or die playin game Friday night
Peak cinema
Hornets playing like they are gonna do something to a physical team like the Pistons
Woulda been an all time game if melo didn’t destroy bam intentionally. Can’t wait to see how silver fucks this up
Give the man a break, he spent all the attention and justice on the Kawhi case
“The investigation is ongoing and a decision won’t be made until after the All-Star break.” ^Please ^please ^please ^forget ^about ^it ^by ^then
FRIENDS DONT FORGET!
Melo might have a future with the Magic after that? Maybe?
We ain’t letting this man go
Unbelievable game but it was tarnished by a disgustingly dirty play. I’d love to root for the hornets because they’re a fun team, but I won’t support that shit. That’s not basketball
Nobody gives a fuck if you support us. Let’s go Mellllooooo. Buzz buzz bitch.
Cringe asf
All 30 of your fans must be so happy.
Yeah, well actually fuck you then.
Cringe
can’t root for them also bc of miles bridges being a domestic abuser
As Rick Brunson coaches from your bench lol come on. Every fucking team has at least 1 piece of shit.
i hate rick brunson so much
Me neither, for the first time in a long while I was rooting for the Heat today after that play. The league had better take action and teach that punk a lesson.
That’s how dirty the play was, Lamelo actually got me to root for the Heat. I felt disgusted the whole time hoping Herro would end their season.
Yeah they ruined it for themselves
Yeah, I’d like for them to give us exciting basketball on Friday, and then lose to Detroit in round 1.
Our front office really went 4⁄4 in the draft last year, such a welcome change after years of dog shit MJ drafts
Spoelstra had a timeout and it was a no brainer to call it there. Bad look
They didn’t have one. The scoreboard graphic showing they did was just another way Amazon messed up tonight
Ok thanks I saw the graphic show one but the announcer did say that they didn’t.
Besides that crappy LaMelo play at Bam.. the game was insane. But Orlando Magic.. I wanna see y’all against the Pistons.
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