cleo22270 | Heat

1506 | 7 hours ago

So he would have been ejected from the do-or-die game that he hit the game-winner in, but now it’s just an “Oopsie. Sorry we didn’t catch that”?

lol. Lmao, even.

Hovi_Bryant | Pistons

219 | 7 hours ago

This is a league which won’t budge on the 65-game rule. Star players MUST play if possible.

Edit: Obviously the league ruled in favor of Cade and Luka. Which is what I’ve wanted in the first place. 👏🏾

NoCarts

98 | 5 hours ago

Oh my god. Shut the fuck up about the 65 game rule. It is not too much to ask

JoshuaCastleBooks

50 | 5 hours ago

You have to understand, if you don’t hit the 65 post threshold you don’t qualify for the r/nba awards.

thatgreik | BOS

45 | 5 hours ago

Seriously. Why on earth should the league have to “budge” on one of its few positive changes in the era?? It is NOT too much to expect as fans.

crewserbattle | Bucks

1 | 2 hours ago

It’s the fact that a lot of guys have significantly more minutes played than Wemby yet aren’t eligible, but Wemby is. You know what would be an even better experience for fans? If multiple teams weren’t carrying significant injuries in to the playoffs.

The 65 game rule is addressing a symptom not the problem. That’s why it’s dumb.

JMMSpartan91 | CHA

7 | an hour ago

The league doesn’t care about minutes played. 10 mins a game of the star playing in every stadium in league sells tickets.

Star player playing 48 minutes at home and 0 on the road doesn’t sell tickets the same way. Obviously no player is quite at either of these extreme ends but that is the only point of the 65 game rule. Selling tickets for people who want to see the away team.

crewserbattle | Bucks

0 | an hour ago

Yes I understand that, but that doesn’t make it less dumb. Look at all the significant injuries teams have carried in to/had in the playoffs lately. There’s very obviously an issue with player health in the NBA and the 65 game rule is just punishing high usage players who get unlucky with injuries. There’s a reason teams are resting players in certain situations to begin with.

JMMSpartan91 | CHA

1 | an hour ago

Agree its pretty dumb and there is probably a better solution. But league is basically telling those high usage players to get their rest in games with more rotations rather than skipping entire games. The league office would rather every single teams star do exactly Wemby minutes to stay healthy than the other style load management.

Punishing high usage guys who can’t stay healthy without missing games seems to be the point of the rule from Silver/league office perspective. They want Wemby load management not Kawhi style lol. Because the only other way to address is extend length of season (NBAPA doesn’t want) or reduce number of games (NBA doesn’t want).

crewserbattle | Bucks

2 | 40 minutes ago

Not every team can afford to limit minutes on their stars like that. Wembys on/off values are so good so the Spurs can afford it. But most teams with stars can’t do that and consistently win. And there isn’t enough talent in the NBA for every team to run deep in their bench every game and win.

The NBA made this rule to make their TV deal more appealing, but if the result is we start seeing a worse playoff product it hardly seems worth it for fans.

NoCarts

1 | 19 minutes ago

I have to jump in and challenge this very prevalent idea that the NBA is the organization that doesn’t want to reduce the season length. The NBAPA doesn’t want to do that either.

There’s a really weird idea going around that only the NBA cares about league revenue when the NBAPA also cares deeply about it. Player salaries are intimately tied with the size of tv deals. Reducing games is reducing player salary.

JMMSpartan91 | CHA

1 | 12 minutes ago

Good point. I did not intend it to sound quite that black and white lol. Meant more which they’d push harder back on. Players would like less games and same money which league would say is impossible. League would want shorter off season and same money which players would say is impossible. Which is what makes the load management issue a difficult one to solve. That is before we even discuss the tv money element.

DaPhoToss | Raptors

4 | an hour ago

Minutes matter but not that much when you consider why the rule was implemented.. Wemby playing 28 minutes per game gets the fans in seats the same amount as if he played 48 minutes per game.

crewserbattle | Bucks

-1 | an hour ago

Great. I don’t care. The NBA doesn’t really either. This rule was purely so they could get a better TV deal. And I’d rather they found a better solution than a ham fisted rule that punishes high usage players significantly more. But that’s just what the NBA does. Look at all 3 of their horrible anti tanking rules they proposed. None of them actually solve the problem while still allowing bad teams a good chance at being good.

thatgreik | BOS

0 | 2 hours ago

This is the sort of nuance that I think is helpful in discussing the rule change - I would also argue that players should have to meet a games or minutes minimum (or both!)

I don’t know that it’s fair to cite injuries heading into playoff series. The awards do not matter more than playoff wins, and players can choose to avoid the minimum games/awards to preserve their health.

crewserbattle | Bucks

-1 | an hour ago

I kind of agree conceptually that having both a games and minutes minimum would be better than just games. But I’d rather they just made it minutes played and games played not involved at all.

retrospects | Lakers

0 | an hour ago

Luka played like 10 more games worth of minutes over Wemby. That’s crazy.

iggymcfly

1 | 44 minutes ago

The league’s made lots of positive changes. The principle of verticality to allow defenders to contest shots without getting called for ticky tack fouls all the time. The play-in tournament. The in-season tournament.

The 65 game rule is the single dumbest rule the league has come up with. The sooner it gets repealed the better.:s

LALester | Spurs

69 | 6 hours ago

players association negotiated that rule. tuff shit

ClaymoresRevenge | Bulls

16 | 6 hours ago

Yeah they should’ve left it alone.

AeroBlaze777

1 | 3 hours ago

I doubt the league will get rid of the rule but they’ll probably add multiple conditions to qualify, for example, 65 games or X number of minutes played.

Cudizonedefense | Heat

1 | 21 minutes ago

They aren’t going to add a minutes played caveat since it has nothing to do with why they made the rule in the first place

The complaint was fans going to games and not seeing players play. So this was a way to lessen the number of times that happens. They don’t care if you see Wemby play 20 minutes or 45 minutes and from a fan perspective, seeing 20 minutes of Wemby is better than none at all

izzybmatthews

63 | 4 hours ago

Breaking: this league budged on the 65-game rule. LOL

Alexcox95 | Heat

7 | 3 hours ago

I’ve seen enough.

Silver better give the Heat the first pick as compensation

Yamato_Naoe

57 | 5 hours ago

Some people here really thought they were gonna suspend Lamelo Ball from playing in a do or die elimination game LMAO

_Apatosaurus_ | Thunder

87 | 5 hours ago

I honestly didn’t see a single comment that said they thought the NBA would suspend Lamelo. I saw plenty of people that thought they should, but that’s obviously different. It feels like some of y’all are getting would and should mixed up.

shortyman920 | Lakers

11 | 4 hours ago

Yep, at this point we’ve seen enough of Silver to know where it was going to land. The guy is a complete sellout to profit. Bending the rules for stars is all part of his standard operating motto

WalkerHuntFlatOut

2 | 3 hours ago

I think you mean standard operating model

shortyman920 | Lakers

1 | 3 hours ago

Yes. I dk why my phone corrected my spelling to ‘motto’ lol

Captain_of_Gravyboat

2 | an hour ago

I didn’t think they would suspend him but i also didn’t think they would give him a retro F2. It doesn’t make any sense that they hit him with an ejectable violation but he misses zero time. They should have just given him a F1 and gone on down the road if there was going to be no suspension involved.

_Apatosaurus_ | Thunder

1 | an hour ago

It’s called compromise. He gets the severe penalty many wanted, but also no punishment. Win win! /s

throwawaycuzmeh

40 | 5 hours ago

LaMelo can suspend Bam, but the league can’t suspend LaMelo.

Power to the players lol

cashburro | Hornets

12 | 5 hours ago

LaCommissioner

Thunderhorse74 | SAS

2 | 2 hours ago

As someone who has broken their ass before, this goes beyond preventing a dude from playing, this threatens that man’s career. Its not like he hid his shoes or locked him in the bathroom - he sent him to the training room in pain with an injury that may linger and have a lasting effect.

etfvidal | Lakers

2 | 4 hours ago

Amazon & Gambling sites wouldn’t allow Adam to suspend him!

Helicapter | SAC

6 | 5 hours ago

Melo could cause another car accident today and the league would still let him play lol. Anything for viewership/ratings

bananasmash14 | Lakers

3 | 4 hours ago

Well this aged poorly

gawdlvl | Heat

2 | 4 hours ago

LaMao Ball

retrospects | Lakers

2 | an hour ago

I’m glad Cade got added to that too. Dude was balling out.

ThlammedMyPenis

1 | 3 hours ago

This just in: the league budged

althawk8357 | Hawks

1 | 3 hours ago

Cade and Luka got exceptions for the 65 game rule today.

Ok_Actuary6468 | Suns

1 | 3 hours ago

Oh look, they budged

Waesrdtfyg0987 | Celtics

0 | 3 hours ago

They just accepted Luka and Cade as eligible despite being under. If your goal was to be wrong, mission accomplished!

Striking_Food5273

30 | 6 hours ago

losing this is unironically good for the heat long term. I wouldn’t be too worked up about it

youarenut

4 | an hour ago

Doesn’t have to be one or the other. Can be good for them long term AND still be BS we should be worked up about.

Trendelthegreat | Heat

1 | 16 minutes ago

And it should be bad for Charlotte in the short term

But once again, it’s not

Xc0liber | Lakers

11 | 6 hours ago

Not much can be done after that. The game is done, they can’t undo the result.

TJFLASH1

73 | 6 hours ago

If you deem it’s a flagrant 2 suspend him for game time he should’ve missed in the next game based on when the foul occurred.

crewserbattle | Bucks

3 | 2 hours ago

Best we can do is a 35k fine

nowhathappenedwas | NBA

17 | 6 hours ago

It’s a shitty outcome, and LaMelo should have been ejected. These types of trips are always F1s (included a worse one from Embiid in the playoffs that injured Mitchell Robinson), but I can see the argument that this one should be an F2.

The only reason it would be a suspension would be because the refs missed it during the game. But calls get missed all the time, and the league can’t go back and correct those mistakes.

The league retroactively upgrades fouls to flagrant 2s several times a season without issuing a suspension.

And if a player stays in a game because the refs missed a 6th foul on him, they don’t suspend him for the next game.

AvailableReporter484 | Heat

12 | 5 hours ago

This is some of the most little dicked shit I’ve ever seen from the NBA

mhj0808 | Heat

4 | 4 hours ago

If we don’t hop up ten spots in the draft now, I’m dropping a dookie on Adam Silver’s front porch

Neemzeh | Timberwolves

5 | 5 hours ago

Can’t spell LaMelo with Lmao

LakerBlue | Lakers

1 | 3 hours ago

The fact the cup championship and play-in don’t count statistically is so dumb…

EricFredNorris

1 | 3 hours ago

Intentionally took out their best player then for some reason complained about it, didn’t get penalized or ejected, allowed to blatantly travel in OT to extend the lead to 5, then hit the game winner.

Thunderhorse74 | SAS

1 | 3 hours ago

What? You don’t feel vindicated that justice was served?

/s

ObiOneKenobae | Knicks

0 | 5 hours ago

Don’t give him credit, lamelo was basically throwing that game. Hornets probably win by 10 in regulation without him.

RollingCarrot615

-5 | 6 hours ago

No way that would have been called a flagrant 2 in game. It would’ve been called a 1 if it was reviewed in game, then upgraded to a 2 after the game to give the extra point towards suspension and warrant a bigger fine.

Some-Stranger-7852

39 | 6 hours ago

Nah, I feel like if it was reviewed, it would be Flagrant 2.

It was a 100% intentional non-basketball play with no attempt at the ball on an airborne player, that’s a clear Flagrant 2 if there is ever one.

HokageEzio | Knicks

20 | 6 hours ago

It’s not worse than what Embiid did a few years ago that got called a flagrant 1

I don’t think they would kick LaMelo out of the game. There’s enough wiggle room to say he was falling and just grabbing out that he didn’t know what he was looking at. Even if he did do it on purpose, they try not to determine the game by making a call like that. I think they gave him a flagrant 2 retroactively specifically because it means nothing now.

Shopler

496 | 6 hours ago

Not carrying over is pretty wild lol. New play-in strategy just dropped: “Just injure their best player 🤷‍♂️”

maidth1s4fun

147 | 6 hours ago

I mean seriously why wouldnt you none of the stats or fouls count or matter

shangalang69 | Raptors

50 | 6 hours ago

because any ref crew with competency would’ve reviewed it on the spot and ejected you from the game

maidth1s4fun

29 | 6 hours ago

Nah i was at that game the game was moving to fast bodies were hitting the floor like every other trip down the floor so i understood how they missed it i just understand not suspending melo for the next game

Hayabusa_Blacksmith

17 | 4 hours ago

so have your 12th man do it

Shafee024

12 | an hour ago

Well then you could do that regardless of whether it’s a play-in game or not

endium7 | Supersonics

8 | 4 hours ago

someone actually doing this intentionally wouldn’t send their best player to do it…

linux_ape | Thunder

12 | 4 hours ago

“Alright rook, get out and there and just suplex Melo first chance you get, you’ll be back after so it’s only this game”

Hayabusa_Blacksmith

1 | 4 hours ago

suplex T_T

KriticalKarl

2 | 4 hours ago

So it’s like Klay going 0/10 never happened basically?

/s

Icy_Razzmatazz_1594

2 | 2 hours ago

The reason you don’t do it in other sports

Don’t want to get your own guys injured. If you injury their best guy say goodbye to yours lol

dayarra

1 | 4 hours ago

the scenes when someone breaks a historical record at the play-in…

EggsAndRice7171 | Pacers

13 | 5 hours ago

Its been like that since the play in started. The points, assists, rebounds, etc all go into the void too. It’s pretty weird and I’m surprised they didn’t just consider it part of the playoffs.

ElChapo1515

16 | 5 hours ago

Or just simply have play-in stats lol

EggsAndRice7171 | Pacers

5 | 4 hours ago

Well yeah but then flagrants still wouldn’t carry over which I personally think they should

ReignOnWillie | NBA

10 | 4 hours ago

But how is that different from just having your end of the bench player come out, injure the other teams best player and potentially get ejected

I know this sucks and isn’t fair but this doesn’t turn bball into gladiator

Mr-Dicklesworth | Knicks

3 | 2 hours ago

https://youtu.be/H62TbXugOqQ?si=ZKmjzZGfda8pibvk

It’s a great strategy in the actual playoffs too lmao. Has been for years

Disregardskarma | Hornets

3 | 4 hours ago

As long as it’s something that’s impossible to see in real time, and it’s not during a change of possession,

EthicalBballFan | Heat

-1 | 3 hours ago

Ref was looking right at it mate. Ref sold the game, no way around it.

Peregrinations12

2 | 3 hours ago

The play in operates under “the purge rules”

Wyden_long | Suns

2 | 3 hours ago

Fuck it. I got 6 fouls. Ima use em all

nowhathappenedwas | NBA

1 | 5 hours ago

LaMelo gets like one flagrant foul a season. I don’t think he’d be too affected by points carrying over into a potential first round.

skysurfguy1213

1 | 2 hours ago

Bah Gawd that’s Dorts music!!!

helloaaron | Knicks

1 | 2 hours ago

NBA is the worst ran league by far.

No_Advisor_9583

366 | 6 hours ago

Wow on paper a harsh penalty, but in reality totally meaningless since it can’t carry over to the playoffs. The league can smile and say we gave him a harsh punishment with a flagrant 2 foul, and then laugh since it will have zero effect.

RickySuela

102 | 3 hours ago

I feel like this is the blueprint for the Kawhi Aspiration punishment: he’ll now be suspended for all 2026 playoff games.

penis_showing_game | Kings

1 | 29 minutes ago

Draymond licking his chops right now.

CJ4ROCKET | Rockets

1 | 6 minutes ago

Can’t believe an AI comment is this heavily upvoted

nicklovin508 | Celtics

218 | 7 hours ago

NBA: Play in flagrant foul points DO carry over to next years play in.. because fuck it why not we making shit up

Substantial-Sea-5729 | Thunder

51 | 6 hours ago

That would be a fun rule. Would matter a lot for the annual play-in teams (e.g. the heat)

jengo54 | BOS

18 | 5 hours ago

The melo rule. Start adding the points on his license to the flagrant points too

genericusername71

3 | 2 hours ago

imagine if you got a 20 game suspension for punching someone in the face and had to miss the next 20 play in games of your career

GeorgeRusseIl | Heat

144 | 7 hours ago

Cool, so when is Bam shooting those free throws

nicklovin508 | Celtics

53 | 7 hours ago

Used up all his FT attempts on the Wizards I’m afraid

Clemsontigger16

55 | 7 hours ago

I think he has had more than his fair share of FTs this year lol

Kimber80 | Pelicans

112 | 7 hours ago

IMO, he should have been suspended for Friday’s play-in game. The Hornets got a huge advantage the other night when his actions knocked BA out of the game, a game they won by one point in overtime. They should have to win with the disadvantage of having Ball out versus the Magic.

mindpainters | Cavaliers

79 | 7 hours ago

Agree here. It’s wild he got away with an ejectable offense while also taking out the other team’s best player. And there is no actual punishment for any of it

Happy_Peak_7818

13 | 6 hours ago

But Ball plays so care free and goofy, which is sadly, the epitome of Adam Silver’s current tacky @$$ NBA.

Tanking behavior? Goofy

Clippers Kawhi Ballmer investigation? Care-free.

“Bleep Blorp bitch so what bruh my rules”- Adam Silver, NBA commissioner and ambassador to the Earth realm

EggsAndRice7171 | Pacers

3 | 5 hours ago

I know it’s frustrating it’s taking so long with the clippers investigation but there is an aspiration court hearing on the 22nd of this month that the NBA was always going to wait for before coming to a verdict. Now they still could say something weak as shit I just don’t think it’s surprising they haven’t yet.

anesthesiologist2 | East

0 | 6 hours ago

It’s a highlight league!

chakrablocker | Thunder

1 | 6 hours ago

we talk a lot about rings but if we’re being honest a lot of it comes down to who the league likes or dislikes

loegare | Knicks

6 | 5 hours ago

ive seen a few other knicks fans say it. while i agree he should have been suspended, what he did wasnt even as bad as embiid on mitch 2 years ago, and that was a flagrant 1

LaMelonBallz | Hornets

0 | 3 hours ago

And when has the NBA ever suspended guys for shit like this outside of multiple repeat offenders?

Suddenly precedent is “whataboutism” when it’s us. You shouldn’t apply different rules to different players.

The Hornets are on the same arc as every up and coming NBA team. We were Reddit and the media’s darling for a few months and now people think we’re the worst team ever.

Aidanator800 | Hornets

1 | 4 hours ago

No dirty plays like this ever result in a suspension unless it’s a repeat offense, like with Draymond in the 2016 finals. Precedent has been set by this point, and it’d be silly to single out Lamelo for something that never gets punished when other players do it.

dearth_karmic | Warriors

2 | 2 hours ago

I agree that he shouldn’t be suspended, but we also see that he should have gotten an F2 during the game and been ejected. So this is legitimately unfair.

floop9

1 | 31 minutes ago

It’s not unfair. Flagrants are not always called during the game. The remedy for a postgame flagrant has never been a suspension, which is literally worse than an ingame flagrant in terms of team impact.

a_happy_future | Bucks

86 | 6 hours ago

Doesn’t Miami get 2 FTs?

wanna_meet_that_dad | Timberwolves

45 | 5 hours ago

And lemelo gets ejected. So…all his points post flagrant are deducted.

MaraudingWalrus | MIA

1 | 22 minutes ago

I’ll allow it.

DenseAsPoundcake | Nuggets

49 | 7 hours ago

This league is soft as baby shit and Silver is a spineless appeaser

Background-Economy85

15 | 6 hours ago

This is facts. As a heat fan that probably would have been a flagrant 1 if it was called on the court. Adam Silver really is a soft bitch who just makes decisions based on the media and fans.

Crafty_Substance_954 | Pistons

51 | 6 hours ago

The Play-in literally doesn’t exist outside of these few days before the playoffs start - so this doesn’t surprise me.

SirDiego | Timberwolves

40 | 5 hours ago

The play-in tournament exists in a pocket dimension outside our normal reality. Getting all the fans through the interdimensional portal is tricky but besides that it’s nbd.

ze_shotstopper | Thunder

1 | 2 hours ago

Wondering where the play-in fish is iykyk

stick_it_in_your_bum | Nuggets

3 | 4 hours ago

The play in exists to make the NBA more money they don’t care about anything else. All they care about is the bottom line.

timberwolvesguy | Timberwolves

3 | 4 hours ago

Imagine Bam got his 83 in this game. Does the game just never appear in the record books? It’s not regular season, but it’s also not postseason?

Crafty_Substance_954 | Pistons

8 | 3 hours ago

That would be correct.

It would not be a playoff record, it would not be a postseason record, it would not be a regular season record.

The stats in the play-in game really don’t exist.

duvie773 | Hornets

1 | 4 hours ago

Play-in is a dumb concept anyway. We just had 82 games to demonstrate the top 8 teams in each conference, why is there so much importance placed the 83rd and 84th?

LaMelonBallz | Hornets

2 | 3 hours ago

You know how everyone gets mad about tanking? The play in helps create extra competiveness it might just be a couple extra teams that are truly more competitiveness, but sometimes its four or more extra teams. It gives more teams something to play for

KWash0222 | Lakers

2 | an hour ago

Yeah this is the first time I’m hearing someone complain about the play-ins lol. It’s been pretty universally praised and for good reason (mainly the one you pointed out)

gnoob920 | Heat

31 | 4 hours ago

Cool. So basically no punishment. A lot of fun as a fan to see your team’s best player get intentionally injured in the biggest game of the season. Great product by the nba as usual.

Elgins-Finest

1 | 28 minutes ago

Y’all should have put Terry Rozier in the game

gnoob920 | Heat

1 | 4 minutes ago

Y’all should win a playoff series.

peanut-britle-latte | Knicks

11 | 6 hours ago

NBA needs to have stats from the NBA Cup Final and Play In Games count. You want us to care about these games, make the stats count. NBA Cup is added to regular season stats, Play-In are playoff stats.

By the way, my head cannon remains that Deni Advija dropped 40 in his playoff debut. Idc

DerrickWhiteFVMP202X

4 | 4 hours ago

Tatum still has the all time playin scoring record but it doesn’t exist anywhere so nobody cares smh

retrospects | Lakers

12 | 4 hours ago

So what’s even the point?

dearth_karmic | Warriors

0 | 2 hours ago

What should they do?

retrospects | Lakers

6 | an hour ago

If you are going to give him a retroactive flagrant 2 he should be suspended for the next game. Bam can’t shoot his free throws.

You give him a meaningless penalty and fine him under the cushions money. The only people truly punished are the Heat.

Either give him the flagrant 1 and the fine and we grumble about that or suspend him for the next game with the F2.

FlimsyTomatoes

4 | an hour ago

Suspend him

SamsungStealer | Hornets

12 | 7 hours ago

I guess this would be consistent with the current rules. Would love to have play-in stats not just disappear into the void, though.

MddlingAges | Knicks

8 | 5 hours ago

Beck checked with the association. The flagrancy will simply disappear.

Slashers23 | Mavericks

7 | 5 hours ago

How the hell did they not account for that lol

AntIsMyFather05 | Timberwolves

8 | 5 hours ago

Silver is a fucking pussy

Ok-Guidance-2112 | Rockets

8 | 5 hours ago

League is such a clown show. Obvious dirty plays get hand waved away

DtownBronx | Spurs

7 | 6 hours ago

Not a shocking result at all. The obvious thing to do here would have been call it a flagrant 1 and it kinda begrudgingly goes away fairly quick. By calling it a flagrant 2 you stir up the drama of he should be suspended. I guess you get both sides this way, all the talk is about you and you get to keep the player in the game

manchot29 | France

6 | 5 hours ago

That is wild. Who thought that was a good idea?

gene_parmesan_666 | Supersonics

6 | 6 hours ago

Hmmm I wonder if any players will try to exploit that stupid ass oversight

Affectionate_Reply78

7 | 4 hours ago

I don’t fully understand the logic of ‘we couldn’t review it during the game because it was a live ball situation and change of possession’ but ‘we reviewed it after the game and here’s what the penalty should have been’. There was a time out after where Bam was cleared from the court so ample time to review it. This looks like a face saving PR move with no impact on any game, which a F2 after the fact does not have.

20BeersDeep | Gran Destino

4 | 4 hours ago

Those free throws and lamelos ejection lost into the same void the Heat’s 1st round pick is

Roon23 | Spurs

3 | 5 hours ago

It’s up to the basketball gods now. Something tells me that magic is going to happen against all odds.

archivedpear

3 | 4 hours ago

the nba league office has been on a hot streak of hilarious lack of accountability moments this season

JonasAlbert84 | Lakers

3 | 4 hours ago

What’s the point?

Jive_turkie

1 | 2 hours ago

$65,000 for the league office I guess

GaimeGuy | Timberwolves

3 | 4 hours ago

so suspensions from the regular season due to flagrant foul points carry over into the playin and the playoffs, but flagrants in the playin don’t count either way.

Make it make sense

Laggo | TOR

1 | 2 hours ago

I think if you get a flagrant 2 or two flagrant 1’s in the play ins you are still suspended, the flagrant 1 just doesn’t carry over. Which is how it works from the regular season anyway.

HybridTheoryY2K

2 | an hour ago

That’s literally what’s happening here lol. He got a flagrant 2 in a play in game. No suspension. He should be suspended for tonight’s game but he’s not because reasons.

StrikingBake321 | Celtics

4 | 3 hours ago

For how many times I’ve seen Embiid, Draymond, Giannias, etc. get away with way worse upon review as just flagrant ones. Idk man.

Feels like Embiid goes through phases of doing this shit weekly and never actually gets F2 fouls or retroactive suspensions.

Thought the suspensions vs the pistons were too lenient on both Stewart and Duren, but fair for both hornets players.

The league needs to just be more consistent. Giving Cade and Luka exceptions is just ridiculous. Why even have the rule

Simple_Purple_4600

2 | 6 hours ago

The obvious take was that Silver was not going to keep Ball out of a game if Bezos wants him in it.

And that there would be an obligatory slap on the wrist with no real justice because that’s just Planet Earth 2026.

Everyday_ImSchefflen | Cavaliers

6 | 5 hours ago

Even if this was on NBA TV, we all know Ball would still be playing.

Lobster15s | Heat

2 | 5 hours ago

And this is why every NBA team should make sure one of those 11-15 roster spots have an enforcer/hothead. I couldn’t imagine Beef Stew, Haslem or any of those type of guys letting this slide.

FrankSamples

1 | 5 hours ago

You guys have become unbearable about this whole thing

I_Set_3_Alarms | Celtics

2 | 4 hours ago

They gotta change the rules and start using “post season stats” that include playoffs and play-in.

Then statheads can still separate out the play-in from playoffs if wanted. But leaving these stats and rules like this in no man’s land gets sillier every year the play-in exists

Salty_Examination486

2 | 4 hours ago

Its funny bc they won by one point what if they shot those two freethrows

taskmetro

2 | 4 hours ago

Amazon put the call in lol

derf_vader | Magic

1 | 4 hours ago

League is rigged

d0pp31g4ng3r

4 | 3 hours ago

For Charlotte? That’s comical

cmcg18 | Celtics

2 | 2 hours ago

I hate the heat for obvious reasons but they have been getting fucked by the league this year between this and the rozier stuff

AJ-Dybansta | Lakers

1 | 6 hours ago

Seriously how long had Adam been in this gig? Has his balls not dropped yet??

dwrek24 | Spurs

1 | 5 hours ago

Honestly I kinda respect the NBAs honesty because them admitting all this makes them look dumb.

This is one of the few times they could just cook the books or ouright lie and almost certainly get away with it.

Either just assess him a flagrant 1. Boom. Problem solved. It was debatable to begin with

Or

A little riskier but lie and say it counts because a play-in team likely isnt winning enough and getting enough flagrants to earn a playoff suspension anyway. The Hornets could get eliminated tomorrow. Or even if they advanced Ball isn’t Draymond Green.

Instead full on honesty that makes them look somewhat ridiculous. At least you know they’re telling the truth about this I guess.

Animefan420lol | NBA

1 | 5 hours ago

Like play-in stats, all the chicks disappear into thin-air when you play videogame OSTs

HideSelfView | Hornets

3 | 4 hours ago

Stardew Valley OST have em flooding in

msterling2012 | Mavericks

1 | 5 hours ago

The funny part is it’s way more in the interest of the Heat to lose that game and secure a lottery pick that could be used to trade for Giannis this summer, assuming they dont get insanely lucky and jump to the top 4.

Certied_Idiot | Rockets

2 | 5 hours ago

Im not saying i agree with not suspending him but the league needs/wants the hornets in the play offs. Lamelo is very popular with kids/teens.

twistytit

1 | 4 hours ago

they’re just encouraging more of this type of conduct

7FOOT7

2 | 4 hours ago

The real problem is it wasn’t picked up in game. That won’t happen every time so the players should still be nice to each other.

People love a good villain, so yeah nothing changes

twistytit

1 | an hour ago

that’s not the issue. one cannot catch everything in the moment, but to after the fact just wave it off means there’s less of a deterrence for dangerously reckless or malicious play

AleroRatking | Vancouver Grizzlies

1 | 4 hours ago

That sounds fair to be honest

YSLAnunoby | Raptors

1 | 4 hours ago

So what’s the point of a retroactive flagrant 2 if it doesn’t lead to a suspension and not even playoff flagrant points? This is useless as Hell

mixmasterADD | Lakers

1 | an hour ago

And the NBA knows it. It’s performative.

Chickachic-aaaaahhh | Thunder

1 | 4 hours ago

Corrupt ass league

BigHornLamb | Celtics

1 | 4 hours ago

What a joke

nbaistheworst

1 | 4 hours ago

Waiting to hear the penalty for Blair, Pedraitis and Zarba

howzdaweatha | Lakers

1 | 4 hours ago

I’m so salty for Heat fans.

Greengrasshole

1 | 3 hours ago

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DrKurgan | Raptors

1 | 3 hours ago

The play-in is the international waters of the NBA.

LovesBodyx2 | Spurs

1 | 3 hours ago

don’t let dillon brooks or draymond see this.

StrawberryItten | Spurs

1 | 3 hours ago

so what you’re saying is… play in teams should be using the dick kick more openly.

Alexcox95 | Heat

1 | 3 hours ago

So what’s stopping a Magic player from assaulting LaMelo on Friday?

colbyjacks

1 | 2 hours ago

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frubano21 | Registered to Vote

1 | 2 hours ago

Well a Flagrant 2 is an ejection call and since it was assigned after the game ended, shouldn’t Ball be suspended for 1 game? Or at least half the game since the foul occurred in the second quarter. Especially since the flagrant foul points don’t carry into the playoffs.

Moss_ear | Celtics

1 | an hour ago

Draymond is going to commit war crimes after learning this 😭

mixmasterADD | Lakers

1 | an hour ago

NBA issues a punishment they know will be meaningless because of an NBA technicality

fiasgoat | Kings

1 | an hour ago

NBA is a dead product

shiny1117

1 | an hour ago

Draymond’s ears just perked up lol. Deni best be wearing a cup next game.

Powerful-Analyst8061

1 | an hour ago

NBA wants DET CLT round 1. No way they’re suspending Lamelo.

crookt

1 | 32 minutes ago

This wasn’t a Draymond or Grayson type play, you guys want to be outraged more than it was dirty to some extent. But that clashes with the outrage you want, doesn’t it?

co_ex

1 | 32 minutes ago

A penalty that isn’t even a penalty

Elgins-Finest

1 | 25 minutes ago

The dirtiest team in the league over the past ten years sure do like to cry a lot about one dumb foul.

Eat a dick Miami

CloudstrifeHY3

1 | 20 minutes ago

Why would they say this when Draymond still has a Play-in Game to play lol

koiz_01

1 | 18 minutes ago

Its like that movie where every thing is legal for 24 hours.