The Miami Heat have been eliminated from championship contention
What a game.
Heat are faded.
Third straight year where they fail to win a playoff series.
Sleepy Pat probably won’t do anything this offseason.
Reunited with our bros in Chicago
Welcome back
Thanks gang. It was scary out there without y’all
it’s ok, we can recover together
Ya’ll save us our customary poolside seats in Cancun?
Coby finally completed the mission.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen him happier
Me too, i’m more used to him walking out looking dejected.
Went back home and won a playoff game. That’s crazy
Our play-in mediocrity was the stuff of legends.
The two teams that retired Jordan’s number.
It’s how things were meant to be
When it’s a one point game, shoot a 3 - Charlotte philosophy
When it’s a basketball game, shoot a 3 - FIFY
Also sweep the leg
Some cobra Kai shit except it paid off
Karma comes around.
LaMelo says he “hit his head” and didn’t even know where he was when he grabbed Bam’s leg? I’m struggling to see when he took the head strike.
Maybe he meant from the car accident
years ago
It was dust in bams waist belt.
Rozier probably bet on it
Bro did it for Kobe🙏🏻
Resolved: let Bam crane kick Lamelo in the face
You have a PROBLEM with that?
That was Herro philosophy too.
Not a wild strategy in 2026
Lowkey, I kinda suspect the 3 point era is drawing to a close. iirc, y’all are the only contender in the top 10 of made threes this year
But teams are still attempting a lot right?
One would think, though I haven’t checked that specifically. The point is, though, that most of the successful teams aren’t the teams making a lot of 3s. Spurs and OKC are dead middle and the Pistons are in the lower third. Don’t recall where Denver falls
Denver is among the best in percentage iirc, but I don’t think they attempt very many relative to the rest of the league
The math just doesn’t take into consideration things like momentum and the clutch. People can think that all shots are individual from each other but when you’re hot you’re hot, when you’re cold you can be cold.
3 > 2 but when you need a SINGLE bucket 2>0.
Probably would be a bit different if Bam was playing or if Melo was called for that play. Insane game overall. Fed families
Does Lamello have the worst carries when he ‘dribbles’ the ball?
I know the NBA is loose with the dribble rules, but this dude literally has his palms up when he has the ball going up.
LaMelo is to the fundamentals of basketball what LaMelo is to the fundamentals of driving.
I have to agree with nbacirclejerk when they call him a basketball terrorist lmao
Lol that nickname makes me like him more
Lamello is the puma x Cheetos collab sneaker of basketball players. Fire but also wtf.
Yep that’s him
I had never seen puma x cheetos so I googled it. Turns out lamelo also has a fast and furious puma shoe similar to the cheetos shoe 🤦
Fuck this is good
His game is like drunken style kung fu.
Yea I was astounded watching it. I get that carries are barely a rule anymore. But there’s got to be a line at some point, right?
It’s part of why he’s such a good passer. He just holds the ball for a split second between every dribble. It’s also easier to turn the corner if you don’t have to dribble.
Shai does the same, just a bit sneakier
just a bit sneakier
More than a bit. Everyone carries in the modern NBA. What Lamelo does is a whole new level of egregious.
The line was Jordan Poole and nobody else apparently.
Crazy how Jordan Poole got targeted by the refs, sucker punched in the face by a teammate, and abandoned by his coach/other teammates/organization, after being a key piece in winning a championship.
Must be a mindfuck for real.
Imagine the asshole at your work punched you in the face, and your entire company sided with him and kicked you, their best salesman who gets along with everyone, out of the company
I would absolutely lose my mind
Imagine being a late first round pick, grinding your way from the G League to the NBA Finals, being lauded for your work ethic, signing a lucrative extension, regressing, shooting 34.5% in a crucial playoff series, getting traded away from your original team, and then failing so bad at your next two stops that you are deemed unplayable by the Wizards and Pelicans.
At some point we need to stop pretending that Draymond Green is the architect of Jordan Poole’s career. Poole got the bag and then became an unserious player who has been a net negative everywhere for the last three seasons. He had chances for a fresh start in DC and New Orleans. He did not seize those opportunities, and that isn’t on Draymond or Kerr.
Laughable narrative. Dude went supernova (69% shooting on 28ppg first 3) in the ‘22 Denver series. Had an excellent Memphis and Dallas series. That’s an insane rising star kind of performance in the playoffs.
In October in the offseason he calls Green an expensive backpack, gets knocked out, and the organization abandons him. Then WITHIN A MONTH everything he does is a carry. The league conveniently forgets immediately for every other player in the league since then.
And your dumbass is like “he signed a contract”… Fuck you, fuck expensive backpack, fuck the warriors, fuck the league.
i mean imagine all that but you earned over 100 million dollars in 4 years, would you really? I’d get punched in the face for that over and over
Poole was pretty bad. But I never totally understood why they let Brandon Ingram do the same thing just as badly in the same era. Ingram pretty much carries every time he touches the basketball.
Ja Morant also just carries the ball constantly and never really got called much on it. Giannis and KD too. NBA will even post slow-mo footage themselves of SGA carrying the ball on highlights these days. It’s wild.
I really have little problem with the zero-step and most of the step-backs and drives of top players take a lot of skill and timing to pull off, but carrying is just blatantly against the rules. They really should be calling it so much more.
Like you said, we know the carries aren’t a super huge thing at this point Lamello’s are just egregious, on every dribble lol
I don’t think this dude would be nearly as high as he is if he just had to dribble the ball like, you know, the rest of the league lol
Everyone does it a little bit, but I swear it’s every single dribble with him
His are the worst I have seen. I fell off basketball this year because I refuse to sign up for peacock, I already pay cable + league pass + prime so when I couldn’t watch a good game because it’s on peacock. So I cancelled everything and bought myself a fire stick for the playoffs lol
It’s to the detriment of the league to start calling it. Kids love LaMelo and this type of corny circus act. he’s one of the most popular players they have. They will allow the players to do whatever it takes to get people watching and excited. The simpletons who never played the game think LaMelo is some wizard so the carries and travels have been woven so deeply into the fabric of the league that it wouldn’t function without it. If they went back to pure basketball noone would watch because all this circus shit is impossible to do without bending the rules. Its a joke of a league
I see your point. But I think heat fans are justified to be pretty furious if the league doesnt look into that play. Injuring a starter on a dirty play in such a high stakes game like this cannot and should not be swept under the rug. The least the league can do is to review it to check if there was intention.
Sorry I was more ranting about the palming, carrying and traveling the league encourages so it can lead to flashy TikTok plays. The play on Bam had obvious intent to harm, no clue how it can be seen differently
Yes and the wildest thing is that Jaylen Brown got called for one when Lamelo had been doing it all night.
The world would be a much better place if carries and travels were taken seriously.
Yeah at the beginning of every year when they’re gonna “start calling carries” he gets hit pretty hard. That usually dies down by the 3rd or 4th week though
He is definitely towards the top. I said before that in most ways players are better than they ever were but when people mock the handles of previous generations it isn’t a fair argument. If A.I could just palm the ball man…..
Allen iverson was patient zero for the palming epidemic. When he was playing he had so many people calling out his carries.
As AI said in 2017, “I carried my crossover all the way to the Hall of Fame”
A lot of guys carry, KD, Morant, Keyonte George, Giannis, and even Shai and Luka come to mind. But they can pass the eye test for the most part. LaMelo feels like the most egregious example by a wide margin, though. In this very game, I counted so many occurrences, but one particular one where he did a hesi dribble to go left at the extended elbow and it was so bad. Like, this is the shit that we would get killed on when being coached as kids.
The league should 100% adapt with the changes in the game, but they should never bring the skill level down by turning a blind eye to obvious palming, carrying and traveling violations in order to make the game feel more accessible(?). What it really feels like, and I don’t think I’m making some Einstein level insight here, is just “numbers go up makes it easier to place bets”.
I’ve given up on ever seeing a carry called consistently in the NBA. Travels are getting there too
For sure would have been different
Ball should’ve been ejected for that trip.
It’s over now we rest
Lottery train is that way
Silver giving the Heat a top 3 pick to spite the tanking teams
If Miami gets a top 3 pick I’ll become Adam Silver’s greatest soldier dawg. I defend that man from satan himself for a top 3 pick on my whole soul
Corruption is not bad. Corruption is only bad if I’m not involved. Yes. But if I’m part of that corruption, I defend it.
Yknow what I don’t get? How come you guys don’t get more corruption your way? Cuz Toronto is a BIIIIIIIIIIG city. A massive market like that surely should’ve been given some help, right????
got 27yo prime kawhi for a bag of chips
The problem with Toronto is that no superstar wants to live in toronto. Money aint the problem. Kawhi went there because he was traded. He literally bolted after winning a ring.
Man i fw you. We get shorted in every major league. The Gods are cruel
One random eliminated play-in team should be awarded an ethical +5% to their lottery odds at the expense of the least ethical two tanks
What’s more ethical than losing by one in a play in game while being a franchise that notoriously doesn’t tank?
Doing it in OT!
Heat enter the lottery in some of the most ethical ways: this, 31-10 finish to miss by a game, just straight sucking to line-up contracts for 2010.
He owes us for the Rozier situation, the second round pick was a ploy to distract them from the hidden envelope with a top 4 pick
Silver IS Satan himself though.
I’m running a burner twitter account praising everything Adam Silver does if this happens.
Even Kevin Durant would be ashamed at the shamelessness of my burner.
I would lick that devil’s bald head clean if he did
“Heat and Warriors get AJ Dybantsa and Darryn Peterson, fuck the tanking teams” -Adam silver or something
Inshallah
Lakers and Spurs already got their handouts. It’s the Heat’s turn next.
Heat have been good with lottery picks lately. Also looking smart for not going all in on Butler or Dame.
We will see y’all in Valhalla
The culture can finally rest in peace
Not with Shams trying to get Giannis out of Milwaukee
Breaking news from Shams Charania: Giannis Antetokoumpo is….. open minded to being traded from Milwaukee
……………maybe
Technical Difficulties
Okay so it wasn’t just me!??
I was about to flip my lid lmao
Had to quickly shut off my paid prime subscription on TV, then set sail on the high seas, just to see that ending 🏴☠️
2 trillion dollar company right there
“The best customers get the worst service”.
all things considered about the most noble way you can go out with the type of season we had
Thanks for the draft position, fuck that wifebeater bridges, hope the boys are ready for next year
Such is life for a Heat fan. Now you guys are back in the running for Giannis only to be disappointed again next year when you run it back with Bam and Herro lmao
Maybe Bam will score 101 next year
honestly one more year of mediocrity might be worth the 101.
For a 101 I’d take a decade easy and smiling all the way.
No, he learned his lesson and will stop at 80 to honor Kobe’s record
He’ll stop at 82 out of respect for Bam.
He should stop at 82 out of respect to himself.
Damn son give us a single night of grief first
Wilt Bam Kobe
There’s no way Giannis stays in Milwaukee man
lakers were gifted an exit from mediocrity by the dumbest fucking shit to ever happen
I see you know Heat basketball.
Actually a great loss for you guys. Better draft like you said and a better idea of who to keep and who to let go….I’m looking at Herro/Powell.
Both of those are likely cemented as trade aggregate for a bigger name.
how can the nba and charlotte be so down for bridges? First game I watched all year and the psycho wife beater is front and center
Because he’s a crucial part of the hornets success this year, simple as that.
Maybe you’ll get your whale this year (you wont)
You got 83 out of Bam this year. This season will always be a success for that alone.
My homeboy Tyler, he play in South Beach He told me this summer he gon’ fix my jumper
Tell him to fix his health
Championship contention?? We were never it in anyway. The loss was for the better
Yeah I’m not mad and it was a great game.
I’m not mad at the loss and went into the game hoping for it. But I’m mad at LaMelo dirt leg sweep that injured Bam.
That was a real bitch move
Honestly a lottery pick was probably best for you guys. Still think if you guys strike out with Giannis, it might be time for a soft reset
Miami cannot soft reset without losing spo, he is too good
We thought that about y’all in 2023, that’s proof anything can happen
We had jimmy buckets, I believed in those heat teams.
Last year we get annihilated off the floor by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
FADED
DRANK
Drank
POST UP
Looked like Bam was going for 84 so Lamelo took the Tonya Harding approach
“Once there was this girl who, swore that someday she would be a figure skating champion. And when, she finally made it, she found some other girl who was better…
So she hired LaMelo to club her in the knee caps 🎶”
If I’m a heat fan I’m fuming after this game.
LaMelo shouldn’t even have been in the game lmao
I mean, hell of a game.
We were not competing for shit this playoffs.
Not competing but also fuck that shit he should be suspended for the next game
Doug, kick him off the tour!
Maybe, maybe not, but you deserved to win that game. Would have changed the game flow a ton if Ball was ejected.
LaMelo moght get karma payback before it’s all over. He shot for shit after that
I’m glad we got a lottery pick but fuck lamelo ball for what he did to Bam
Whale hunting time
Zion and Ja will love Miami
Ill support the fucking celtics before I suffer either of those clowns on this team ong
LFG the Miami Celtics 🍀🔥
Otoh, if there’s a team that can make them work it’s Miami. If we weren’t intimidated by Shaq, ain’t no skinny Ja or fat Zo getting their way.
Time for another delusional offseason
Thank you, Hornet bros. More importantly,
WE ARE FINALLY FREE!!
No more hanging on to three shreds of hope while having to repeat “zombie heat” 500 times!
Glad we get a lottery pick but fuck lamelo
Crazy work they gave him the Amazon playmaking chain after that
It’s America these days. No one cares about process or ethics. It’s all about results. Helps if you are orange.
That game was one of the most entertaining I’ve ever watched!
Both teams had crazy comebacks. I thought the Heat were dead at the end before Herro had two clutch plays, but Lamelo ultimately ended it.
Thanks for the recap Magic
They got absolutely screwed. Fuck Lamelo.
Letting the travel go was the worst part
Theres always a lot of should coulda wouldas but the bam one hurt. The whole game wouldve been entirely different if the refs did what they were suppose to
Felt like a WWE match where the heel wins
Oh well, beats getting blown out in the real playoffs
And Lamelo only had to injure Bam in the first quarter to do it.
He better be suspended for a week at least for that shit. Deliberately injuring another player should be mandatory suspension, especially in a playoff game.
I cannot abide dirty players.
Word. Genuinely disgusting
The play was bad and he should’ve been called for a flagrant, but it’s not like LaMelo has a history of injuring players left and right. He made a mistake, a lot of players do in the heat of the moment. I agree he shouldn’t have done it, but people are acting like LaMelo is the new Draymond.
He has done the same thing to Bam before. LaMelo absolutely had a history of trying this.
LaMelo should have been tossed from the game. Even if they had just called a foul on the Bam trip he fouls out on the Herro contest and someone else has to make that last shot.
The heat got screwed, but the funny part is the fans complaining about it in this thread are mainly Pistons and Celtics fans that don’t want to play the Hornets. Heat fans seem to recognize they weren’t going to make playoff noise and will gladly take an earlier pick.
Why would Cs fans be complaining? They wouldn’t play the Hornets until the ECF.
Won’t*
Hope the league suspends ball
He will get a T for it and a $5k fine, nothing more because fuck the Heat.
I do wonder how things would’ve been different if LaMelo didn’t injury Bam but this is probably Miami’s preferred outcome anyway. They now have a chance to pull a Dallas and climb in the draft.
Disgusting. Lamelo should have been ejected. Game should be given to Miami.
Absolutely should have been ejected but we never should have been in the playins
Fuck this team, blow it up and start over
Wish Bam didnt go down during the game
Say it like it is, we all wish LaMelo didn’t intentionally injure Bam and get away with it.
If this game doesn’t mean change the roster, I just don’t know what is anymore :c
Larsen at the hoop on the final play, but Davion says “no W tonight”.
Not saying this out of salt because we lost, but LaMelo Dort shouldn’t have been in the game. That was CLEARLY a dirty play on Bam. The league needs to post review that sh*t for suspension 🤷🏽♂️
At least lottery flattening is on its way. Help is coming Miami.
They gonna blow that one too.
Idc, fk lamelo
I don’t watch the Heat. Is this how Herro usually plays? Just terrible stuff.
yes herro is the most up and down player never is consistent
Not really but their defensive game plan was to keep pressure on him double/trap when they can. He absolutely cant be the #1 but put him as the #3 and he would take a lot of pressure off the rest of the team
What a entertaining game
Did well without bam
Pat Riley dancing cause now he has a lotto pick to throw at Milwaukee
I hope not, Giannis is one major injury away from being a non factor. And with his reliance on athleticism and still no shot, it’s a bad investment.
Sad Bam noises
Lamelo did bam dirty af
In the long run it is better that we lost.
I really wanted to beat them for Bam tho. Fuck that dirty ho Lamelo ball and his shitty 2k tattoos, patchy, thin facial hair, and reckless inability to drive a car.
Miles bridges just got off probation for beating the absolute shit out of his children’s mother.
Coby White is cool. So is Brandon Miller. I wish them the best.
So why is lamelo allowed to travel for game let alone stay in the game after purposely injuring bam
Oof, lamelo definitely should get a suspension from the league or something, that was clearly dirty.
Herro really was the Hero for the Heat in those last seconds
God hates the cardiovascular health of the citizens of Charlotte and Miami
Lamelo intentionally injures Bam and proceeds to be straight ass.
That was an insane game.
As a 10th seed should
Only took a free flagrant 2 on our best defensive player in our weakest depth to beat us by 1. Congrats Hornets.
Ware was fantastic with the extra minutes at least
Thanks to lamelo ball hurting bam
There are no basketball gods. Lamelo didn’t deserve to hit the game winner, and Miles Bridges shouldn’t even be in the league to make that game winning block. Not even sure why I’m so sour about it, I’ve loved the hornets feel good turnaround but that Lamelo play was so dirty it flipped me entirely.
Never let this distract you from the fact that after this season
It’s Wilt, Bam, Kobe. In that order