You want LaMelo suspended for taking out the Heat’s best player during a win or go home scenario.

I want LaMelo suspended for punching Hugo the Hornet in the face after the game.

We are not the same.

When’s the last time a non-call was upgraded to a flagrant 2? If that happens, is it necessarily a suspension?

I’ve heard enough, 12 months of hard labor and another 12 for terrorizing the streets of Charlotte

That was a dirty play that should be punished accordingly.

On the other hand, the NBA refused to suspend Embid for doing the exact same thing to Mitchell Robinson in the playoffs 2 years ago. The NBA has looked the other way on quite a few dirty plays over the years.

While nice, the damage has already been done

If only the Wizards knew about Bam’s Achilles heel, he wouldn’t have scored 83 on them.

Adam, can we have that pick back now?

It’s a disgrace that Ball wasn’t even called for a foul, let alone ejected, for that trip on Adebayo. This goes beyond the rules of the court, intentionally causing a hard fall like that is reckless endangerment. If the league won’t protect players from criminal-level ‘dirty’ antics, they are essentially condoning assault on live TV.

About as bad as you can get it for a single elimination game, to sustain their shooting without his playmaking Hornets potentially could have a very high chance of killing their season right now if he’s suspended.

for hornets fans is more coby white really a bad thing tho.

Punishing him after the Heat are already knocked out and not during the game would be very weird from a product perspective.

My feeling about how this impacted last nights game aside, it’s not the first time Lamelo has tried to trip Bam when he’s on the floor.

Clearly he thinks it’s fine to do something that legitimately puts other players at risk.

Adam Silver and the league should (but won’t) send a message.

Adam Silver would be too much of a coward to actually suspend him.

Just the weakest shit ever by Heat fans and the league. Dwyane Wade broke Rondo’s arm, no review no fine no suspension. Bam has literally stepped and stood on Julius Randle’s ankle in the playoffs, no review no fine no suspension. UD, Shaq, and so many others in the history of Heat Culture have committed dirty plays.

All this crying is coming from redditors, journalists, and lames who just don’t like who did it. Upgrade it to a Flagrant 1 and move on. The LaMelo hate on here and in the media by a certain archetype of people is weird and has been weird because it started before he even dribbled an NBA basketball. Feel however you want about the play but a suspension would be lame, considering Dort, Draymond, and more have gotten away with much worse.

A) He should have been tossed.

B) He wasn’t, so next appropriate thing is a game suspension

C) We’re only having a suspension discussion because the refs completely missed it. They should not be excused, and if Ball is suspended, then they should have some games taken from them as well

The NBA is about to think of the most absurd explanation for the play and not punish him at all I guarantee it. Such a scummy league now run by a POS commissioner who has no balls

Suspended? DOUG KICK HIM OFF THE TOUR

I think the hornets can beat the sixers without Embiid even if he gets suspended

he should be suspended. i think he probably will. it’s a bummer bc i love the hornets this year, but there’s no way he doesn’t get suspended for that— it is easily arguable that it changed the outcome of the game. not suspending would set a horrible precedent. 

Suspend him

Give him a shovel and send him to Camp Green Lake

Funniest possible ending to their season if he’s suspended

I honestly don’t get how so many hornets fans are offended by this lol..

Every time I hear about LaMelo I dislike him a little bit more.

It was a dirty play and the NBA should review. LeMelo’s excuse still doesn’t make what he did, sweeping Adebayo’s leg out from under him justified. Will he get a suspension? That remains to be seen. However, under no circumstances should what LeMelo did be justified.

welp it was a dirty play but not sure if a no call was ever upgraded to a suspension

Are the heat going to be able shoot some free throws if it’s upgraded a flagrant after the game ends. Doesn’t really matter after the fact

They need to start fining refs for missing huge calls like this.

Edit: spelling.

Hornets really hate the heats for some reason. Trading away rozier with all his problems then they had to injure bam just to win

Dirty play but I doubt they’ll suspend him. The nba at the end of the day cares about their product and having lamelo ball not play in an elimination game just isn’t something they would do.

Should be suspended

meanwhile they rescinded luka’s tech and are probably gonna exempt him from the 65 game rule. Favoritism league

Regardless of what current “precedent” is, the league needs to suspend him. League already has integrity issues with soft penalties, gambling, tanking, poor refereeing. I don’t expect them to do the right thing though. Silver is spineless

Real timely.

All I can think of after the Bam stuff and “punching” the mascot is that clip of Melo slapping the shit out of that fake clown behind the corner on hidden camera. Imma need to find it….

edit-he thought the clown was Bam

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hOpEUcExLBE

It will probably be upgraded to Flagrant 1 and a fine is enough wiggle room in that play for the nba to act like it wasn’t in purpose

Kick him off the tour!

Kick him off the, Doug

Am I crazy or does it just not seem intentional? I thought it was at first, but it seems like his eyes are closed after a hard fall of his own and it also just happens so fast in real time. I think he’s just flailing his arm for whatever reason and it was wrong place wrong time.

Those refs are horrible. It happened in real time they cant even call an F1 or atleast a tech.

NBA fans suggesting that LaMelo should be suspended are crazy. You can’t go from a non-call to an ejection. Additionally, why would the NBA do this from a product perspective? The Hornets are on the ascent, why intentionally harm their brand?

Meaningless theatrics after the fact. 

They might have a chance without him bricking 20 threes and getting scored on every possession 🤞

They are not suspending him after the game we just witnessed, the hornets are an exciting team the nba ain’t gonna fuck with their ratings like that

“Bulls” flair though lmao

Sixers lost tonight, LaMelo gets suspended tomorrow, Sixers lose on Friday. Almost guaranteed

What do you have to review? It was clear. He needs to sit at least the next game. Maybe even 5 games. Could’ve ended Bams career

Suspend that loser. He is reckless in public and reckless on the court. Immature as fuck.

Not even joking: how does the association not have the wherewithal to rule on that in real time, so that any consequences would be borne during the game when it happened?