[Highlight] Bam Adebayo asked about LaMelo’s flagrant foul
This is what I sound like talking to my boss about the person I don’t like working with, but trying not to just directly throw them under the bus.
šš, dead ass heās definitely not happy about it
His season ended and he couldnāt even be a factor. And the guy that injured him won the game on a last second shot. Heās justifiably pissed and sad
“I can’t tell you what goes through his mind” is definitely a very nice way to say “Bro is dumb as hell”
I’m not sure sure there’s anything that you could say about LaMelo that could be interpreted otherwise.
“LaMelo’s an idiot” - (everyone assumes you’re calling LaMelo an idiot)
“LaMelo’s a genius” - (everyone assumes you’re mockingly calling LaMelo an idiot)
“LaMelo’s got an average mind” - (everyone assumes you’re saying he’s stupid in a nicer way)
It didnāt seem that way to me
Bro you dumb as hell
Nah yāall just putting words into Bamās mouth.
Lmao this is so accurate
Reddit cracks me up, Bam literally said they donāt really have an issue, yet yāall read it as he hates Melo and wants him dead. š
Do you think the commenter wants their coworker dead?
Bam seems chill asf lol
Bam is one of the most likeable dudes in the nba, Iāve enjoyed listening to him in a lot of interviews, he just seems really down to earth
There’s a reason that Bam seems to be friendly with almost everyone in the league. Dude just seems like a great guy to be around.
It’s kind of off topic now but I think seeing he be friends with Tatum and other Cs while Bill is always respectful of the Heat made me not have a rivalry anymore. Last ECF we made to me for the first time felt like winning against a brother, not someone I hate, and I think it impacted my life positively. Even here, I started to have a lot of good conversations with Celtics flairs.
Years ago I’d be mad that they have a genuine shot at a ring. A Bam later and I’m happy to know they’ll put good games in the playoffs and that I’ll have fun watching without being invested in the result.
There was a rivalry when the Heat were able to win and knock Boston out. The Celtics are just much better now. Hard to have a rivalry when one of the teams is irrelevant.
I still won’t be rooting for the Celtics in the playoffs, though. I’d like to see some new blood in the Finals again, but we’ll see how it goes.
Theyāve split the 4 playoff matchups theyāve had in the last 7 years, seems like a rivalry to me
Sure. I’m just saying it’s not front and center since the Heat aren’t good. It certainly feels like a rivalry when they play.
Yeah he came down to earth alright because of actions of a clown. I think anyone could see that what Lamelo did was really bad.
He’s only the greatest player of our generation
Second greatest scorer of alltime
WILT. BAM. KOBE.
Wilt??? Send da video
Until then Bam is my GOAT
That would make a funny tim robinsonesque sketch about faking a record to compete with another sports broadcast
One of the humblest and most hardworking guys. Spent years behind Whiteside just working on his game and being coached up.
Dudes been like that since high school, was really hoping bam would come home and play for the Hornets someday but that may be on hold for a bit now lol
That was my take away. Didnāt know he was chill like that.
Lamelo is hilarious for publicly apologizing and hasnāt hit him up yet
He’s got a concussion or he doesn’t remember.
He doesnāt really know how apologies work
āWhat this pedal here next to the gas do?ā
“oooh yellow bucket full of water, lemme dump this on kon”
We talking about Lamelo not shaq
Or concussions
Both, he doesnāt remember what a concussion is lol
He gave a concussion to Hugo
Not clear.
Bam was asked whether that conversation has happened yet, and he says no because by that time he had hit the showers. Leaves open the possibility that LaMelo reached out.
exactly what happened. people on here just like to comment first instead of understanding the words they heard
That’s supposedly what happened
It sounds like Melo wanted to apologize in person but Bam was already in the showers
It sounded to me like Melo apologized to Bam in person while he was in the showers.
Head, shoulder, knees, and toeeeees
Ethical
This is how fanfics start
Thatās possible
Why didnāt he get in the shower to apologize?
Thatās not what he said. He stated he was in the shower and figuring stuff out so seems like Melo tried and he didnāt respond.
Heās dumb as rocks and Iām offending rocks
He didn’t know where he was when he said that.
Thatās not what Bam said tho. Yall dragging it.
Lmaoo, I knew Lamelo was saving face with that Iāll check up on him BS
I feel bad for bad, heās a good guy and sad.
I feel bad for bad too. Unfortunate name to have
Bad Adebayo: Bamās evil twin that is bad at basketball
He’s so bad he’s named after it.
He’s bad, sh’mone
No, bad Bad
WILT BAD KOBE
āa bad for a bad makes the whole world feel badā - Mahatma āBadā Ghandi
i mean players get other players number through agents all the time. lamelo didnt care enough to apologize lol
Not even a text either
It sounded like they might have spoke on the phone while Bam was in the shower
That’s hot
Ball was just saving face knew itĀ
Well, not anymore
I get the feeling and I’d literally have to look at tape to confirm, but I have a feeling bam just gets the better of melo and he’s too stupid to do anything other than hurting him out of frustration.
Melo is so ass of a person. I blame Lavar.
huh? they donāt even matchup against each other lol
They do when bam is in the paint and melo drives lol
Moron who commented on that didn’t realize bam is a big and meets dummies like melo at the cup all the time š¤¦š¤¦š¤¦
Itās weird to have any moral judgment on these players who you donāt know. Youāre talking about the parenting skills of a man you donāt know because you think another stranger is an ass person despite never meeting them. Very parasocial. You can think Melo had a dirty play without psychoanalyzing the guy.
Also, even if the pull on the foot was intentional he had no way of knowing it would cause an injury. Yall should really look at how the league played in the 80s and 90s. Yall would be appalled and call everybody in the game a horrible person because of how many dirty plays there was. Go look at the Bad Boy Pistons
Acting like we don’t know this lol…you can go way further back than the bad boy Pistons, if you’re talking about on court violence.
Exactly! So seeing this moral outrage and parasocial breakdown because LaMelo while bringing his arm down ended up hitting Bamās foot is ridiculous. Like Dirk said, plays like what happened are commonplace. It happened within a split second while Melo was getting hit in the back of the head. Itās reasonable to assume he just pulled his arm in instinctively without looking. The outrage here is ridiculous. People are acting like LaMelo shot the guy. People saying heās a horrible human being even though they donāt know him at all. People blaming the parenting skills of Lavar and his wife is weird. Maybe Melo is a horrible guy, maybe heās an angel. No one here knows the guy and itās weird to act like people know him personally because he tripped a guy and crashed his car once. A whole lot of crying over something that isnāt a big deal. It happens.
Even Coach Spoelstra says he agrees with the NBAās punishment and that LaMelo isnāt a dirty player who wanted to hurt anyone. This sub is just a weird negativity echo chamber that picks a new player every month to hate on to virtue signal how much more moral they are. Itās weird! This sub cares more about drama than actual games. Iāve seen far more discussion over someone getting tripped than the Warriors beating the Clippers or the Blazers beating the Suns.
Hand was already down and sweeped the leg. We have eyes. No need to lie or exaggerate.
You can say he has a momentary lapse of judgement and just kinda was being a bitch for a second.. doesn’t make him evil .. just immature
There’s already a case of him doing this to Bam 2 years ago…
I really do think it was an accident. Itās cool if you disagree. Thank you for being reasonable thoughā¦ even if it was on purpose this was a split second decision and wasnāt an intentional act of malice or evil
My guy wrote an essay lol
Point is, he is reckless, both on the court and off. It’s just who he is. Stop defending him.
2 paragraphs is an essay now
Heās really not reckless on the court. 2 incidents over his entire career is not a history of dirty play. This one was almost certainly an accident that happened in a split second. He actually had a dirty play against Bam 2 years ago. But heās been in the league for 5 years. 1 maybe 2 dirty plays is not a reckless history. The dude is terrible at driving. Who cares? Itās weird to see people foaming at the mouth and talking about his childhood upbringing. Itās basketball, not a soap opera. Only this sub is so angry. Even Spoelstra thinks the NBA had the right response. Itās over, time to move on. Itās sad that the spotlight is being taken off of the Sixers and Blazers who are now in the playoffs, and off of the Hornets and Warriors who won their games too.
And again another long paragraph to prove a point.
It won’t change opinion on him, regardless of what you say.
Keep defending him bc its falling on deaf ears…or blind eyes š¤·
I just simply think he’s a jackass and I can’t wait until he matures and proves me wrong. I’m truly waiting for it, bc that will mark the moment he becomes a better player as well.
You not being able to read one paragraph isnāt a gotcha like you think it is. Iām expressing my take clearly and that takes more than a one liner saying that X player is a horrible person.
Bam has ended plenty of seasons himself by injuring players. Itās part of the game. But keep hating players and moralizing on the personal lives of strangers I guess. Itās weird
If Bam did the exact same thing and hurt LaMelo I would have the same opinion
Again, for me, it really boils down to my last small paragraph. Boy needs to mature. If you can’t see that, then I don’t know what to say.
Heās not a mature person but I donāt think it affects his play, thatās the odd part for me. I donāt see why everyone on this sub cares so much about his personal life. Heās a goofball and a grown up kid. I donāt see why anyone cares when he is an amazing basketball player. Heās a winner and uplifts everyone on the court around him. Hornets fans have known this for a long time. Every year heās been healthy weāve been in the play-in, every year heās hasnāt weāve been a bottom 5 team in the league.
he’s right, you have your pitchfork out. Chill
I mean, Bill Laimbeer is an absolute shitbag for the stuff he pulled
damn so this is where we’re at huh? LaMelo is on the same level as Bill Laimbeer
Hey, did you see what he did to Bam? He literally amputated his finger and made him eat it on live TV. And now the league hasn’t suspended him so every single player in the NBA is going to be running around making the other team’s best player eat their fingers so they don’t have to play basketball.
At least that what I got from the general tone of the discourse around the issue.
It goes way beyond just basketball, especially with melo.
He poured plastic shamrocks out of a cup! The horror.
It was hilarious too lol. Clearly the Hornets staffers agreed considering they posted it and laughed at it.
I swear these people are delusional
You donāt know him though? None of us know what heās like beyond basketball other than heās a bad driver.
Bad driver is one thing. Driving with no regard for anything else while youāre glued to your phone or high is something different.
He doesnt have a DUI. I just donāt see why fans donāt focus on basketball. Itās not like heās Miles Bridges and committed a crime or anything. A lot of people are too caught up in NBA drama instead of play yk?
This is discussing both. His egregiously dirty, immature play and the parallels to his egregiously unsafe and immature driving habits.
Hornets fans say this same shit about Miles Bridges
Itās very human to pass moral judgements on people you do not personally know. You do it too. Everyone does.Ā
Melo grabbing dudes feet because his dad needs them
I doubt it is that even remotely, I bet we could easily find tape that when he’s in that situation he just pulls people’s legs to stop the fast break. Probably has nothing to do with Bam personally, doubt he even knew about the injury, it’s just some stupid dirty shit he always does, and this time it looked really fucking bad.
Trumpās burner?
I re-read that comment and my imagination read it in Big Donās voice.
Kinda fucked he never spoke to bam after that while saying he would
Bam’s a class act.
The trip heard around the world
This shit is so dumb lol
This sub is a big circlejerk. You can be mad at what happened and even think Melo had a dirty play but people here really think LaMelo is a calculated evil man who wanted to kill Bam š
lol yeah people think Melo wants to murder Bam, that’s what I got from reading these comments. GTFOH you are the circlejerk
Hyperbole bro
And people do think LaMelo intentionally injured Bam and specifically wanted him to get hurt. Itās ridiculous. Even Spo doesnāt think LaMelo tried to hurt anyone. Itās nonsense
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Itās dumb that yāall thought this would result in anything more than what it has, as if we havenāt seen similar situations go down the exact same way. The way youāre treating this as some special occurrence, especially because youāre a Pistons fan, is the dumb part
Pistons fans really canāt be making fun of teams for being bad for a long time
Go watch how your team played in ā90 lol
really want to know if this happens again to a diffrent team next round would anyone even give a shit. this shit has so clearly become a lamelo hate circlejerk.
You think the public is out to get…… the Charolette Hornets? Lmfao of course it would happen to another team.
Their sub is hilariously sad… they’re telling themselves that now they’re hated because they’re finally successful. Dudes… you had to cheat to not lose out and miss the playoffs entirely. Most of us are like me, we wanted the Hornets to win, then LaMelo was a piece of shit who deserved to get thrown out but won instead, and now we want fairness in the form of him getting sent home early. Fans go through wild mental contortions to justify the unjustifiable sometimes.
I mean people absolutely hate lamelo and always have. Especially on reddit. Before Lamelo had ever done anything bad, and all we knew about Ant was that he posted homophobic videos on his social, this sub vastly preferred Ant to Lamelo at every turn. Hard not to notice that when he’s the face of our poverty franchise. I think our fan base is rightfully sticking up for him in the face of the peak reddit circlejerk, even if we can all agree the play was dirty/reckless
Maybe if he wasnāt such a fucking idiot off the court and now apparently on it, people wouldnāt hate on him so much.
The dude seem stuck in a 14-year-oldās mindset.
It absolutely would, holy victim complex. You canāt understand why people are upset and not letting go of a teams best player getting injured on a non basketball play in a win or go home game that ended on a game winning shot in OT by the guy that took out the other player?
Every single player and every single team would be getting hate.
Exactly ANY major league sports player and their fanbase would be pissed as fuck if their best player who scored 83 this season gets taken out. Silver is such a piece of shit. Like the dude scored 83 thatās something to celebrate and he is intentionally injured and the guy who does it didnāt even get a game? Ridiculous. This is a 2 game suspension even if David Sterns shady ass was still here
We only hate your star player because he’s dumb as rocks and intentionally injured someone else in a do or die game lmao.
Lamelo regularly endangers regular people in Charlotte with his reckless driving, why are you defending an asshole millionaire running over plebs like you and me bc he’s on his phone while driving?
Lolll yep this is the dumb that Iām talking about
lmfao if you think that, imagine the reaction on this sub if draymond did this
The sub would be shut down
Wouldn’t Charlotte be possibly among the most neutral teams in the NBA for other fan bases? I cannot think of any rivalry they have.
People are just reacting because Ball did a dirty play, then they went on to win razor thin game with him getting the game winner.
The entire sub is a hate circlejerk
Yea
Damn, I feel bad for the guy
Honestly this whole ordeal between LaMelo haters vs. his defenders really highlight the new discourse between Gen Z fans and older fans. It’s a new era for sure
If this was back in the day LaMelo would of got his head stomped in by Bam’s team for tripping him especially since the team’s star player.
If this was back in the day there would be no outrage at all. Worse plays happened every quarter back then.
You must be young.
If this were 07 and someone did this to Wade, UD would be in jail.
If this were 93 and someone did this to Mike, Rodman would knock their teeth out.
Theres plenty of footage that disagrees with your hypotheticals. No one was ever getting sent to prison and getting teeth knocked out over someone tripping somebody. Youāre acting act Melo kicked him in the balls or stomped on his chest like Draymond and Sabonis
Usually as time passes, people tend to overexaggerate what is actually true. In 20 years people are gonna say Lamelo almost killed Bam
Solid answer. Absolutely no one knows whatās going through his mind.
Lamelo Is a fking clown
Anyone that thought Melo was actually going to apologize directly is delusional, dude doesnāt give a fuck about any of his actions look at the year heās had lol
It is what it is. Silver slide that top 4 pick and the entire Miami fanbase did not see shit, just like your sorry ass ref.
Silver is a Knicks fan and it keeps impacting how he treats the Heat. We will get one of the worst picks possible and Nick Arison will keep gobbling it up like a good boy.
Lamelo is the worst! Miles Bridges….. for a franchise nobody hates, the Hornets are crazy unlikable
Respect the fans there, but Lamelo/Bridges are easily the most dislikeable duo in the league.
I’ve decided I’m going to just start hating Ryan Kalkbrenner for no reason. Just lump him in with Lamelo and Bridges, never explaining why.
Wait, what? I thought Bam was in the league before Lonzoā¦
same, nba draft years absolutely fuck me up when I look back at them honestly haha, the variation in age throws me off so much
looking back at that draft, its also got Tatum, Dillon Brooks, Donovan Mitchell, Markkanen, OG, Jarrett Allen
like, no way would i ever remember all those guys as the same draft class, some of them seem so much older and some of them I still think of as like 25
Nah, Bam and Fox were drafted in the same draft as Lonzo, only say that because I’m a UK fan and they beat UCLA/Lonzo in 2017.
Took the high road but bro did it twice to u this one was fatal smh definitely not a coincidence
Fuck LaMelo.
Wonder if Bam has reached out to apologize to everybody heās injured over the years
Huh? Knicks fans are the only ones that think Bam is dirty for some reason
Like Randle, three separate times. Bam knows a thing or two about ruining someone’s postseason, at least he doesn’t need offseason surgery.
Or ending Quickleyās season after diving at his ankles in our playoff series against them
Like Josh Hart diving into Jimmy’s legs injuring him for the rest of the 2023 playoffs
Since we bringing up old shit Dwade literally tripped and dragged Rondo to the ground which resulted in a dislocated elbow
Did Rondo apologize to Kirk Hinrich for pushing him into the scorerās table?
It’s almost like the majority of players commit frustration fouls and fans acting all high and mighty is dumb as fuck
Yep
And Rondo still stole a ball with that arm
And gave Paul George a concussion with his knee in the ECF
And threw Mike Bibbys shoe into the crowd
And broke Kobeās nose in an ASG
Twice, in the same series
Clearly not intentional lmao but we just gonna act like Jaime Jaquez didnāt end Randleās season by undercutting him on a charge attempt with 4 minutes left in a 17 point game?
Intentional when it’s not a player on your team.
He literally slips in the video you can just go watch it
love that everytime they being up something that happened to them it’s shit that happened 3 fucking years ago.
This comment thread is about something that happened 3 years ago tf? Lamelo has swiped at Bamās ankle twice and and Knicks fans crying as if Josh hart is hurting people out there too. The team that criminally defrauded another organization out here trying to be the victim, after all that youāll still get bounced in the first round
i legit cant find anyone of this online? wanna share the videos of bam supposedly injuring players?
These plays happen all the time because when you have to react instantly, sometimes it looks reckless in slow mo.
Yeah thatās the case after a couple times, if youāre consistently hurting people it becomes a pattern
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You mean swindled as in hid crucial information about a federal investigation?
You mean the same federal investigation that Chauncey Billups was under when his organization signed him to a contract extension less than a year ago? You think the FBI gives you a courtesy call before they show up at your door?
There isnt any evidence the feds let the Hornets know they were investigating Rozier. Im not entirely sure why they would tbh.
Wait youāre proud of the rozier trade?
If the heat were on the other side of the rozier trade they would photoshop Pat Riley as the Godfather so fast it would make your head spin.
If Pat Riley made any trades at this point we would be celebrating in the streets
hEaT cUlTuRe
Lamelo is a bitch
Lamelo is a pos loser but this sub loves him
This sub has become a huge circlejerk of hating him what are you talking about lol
Nearly every post isnāt even talking about the play theyāre calling LaMelo illiterate and calling him human garbage. This sub hates him in a very parasocial way and this sub has been anti-LaMelo since he was in high school because his Dad made people annoyed.
are you reading the same comments I am?
Lol im shocked Lamelo didnt reach out
Ok
1ļøā£WILT. 2ļøā£ BAM. 3ļøā£ KOBE.
Why does anyone even pretend that Lamelo has a possibility of being a good person? The way he plays shows a lot about his personality, the dirty shit shows it, AND his fucking off court criminality is a whole other bag of worms. I donāt understand why anyone defends Lamelo for anything. Heās clearly a piece of shit
One action made the Hornets go from darling Dark Horse team to public enemy #1 we’ll all celebrate getting eliminated
Well they also employ miles bridges so it wasnāt hard to get there
If you would have told me that someone from the hornets would have me lividā¦. It would be bridges or something new came out about rozier.
But I guess it isnāt surprising it gets to be Ball
public enemy #1
lol on reddit. so you know no one in the real world will give a shit and as already probably forgotten it even happening
We are following pro basketball, no one in the real world gives a shit about any of this as is
Except itās been a discussion within NBA talk shows and sports media since it happened. No one that doesnāt care about basketball is still talking about it but thatās to be expected with most basketball related topics, itās still getting some heavy coverage.
Whatever helps you sleep better. Tbh Pistons fans seem more upset about it than yāall do.
Real name Edrice Femi Adebayo
āHostile actionā is weak af. Dude was already falling backwards.
You’re right, that’s how physics works.
melo talm bout sum, I’m gonna check up on him later
Flew too close to Kobe and ultimately got his ass wrecked. Parable as old as time.