Post-Game Thread: Orlando Magic (1-1) defeat Charlotte Hornets (1-1), 121-90 | NBA Play-in Tournament | Apr 17, 2026
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Lamelo Ball didn’t take out Paolo Banchero that’s why Hornet couldn’t win.
It’s actually interesting to think that, up until Kyrie and then Tatum… the most successful NBA duke player was Grant Hill.
Thank you for avenging Bam
Justice for Bam. LaMelo is so dirty
Charlotte was supposed to beat the Pistons in the first round though HAHAHAHAHA
coming from a hornets fan, well played from the magic. we were getting bullied all game. paolo has a bright future
Last time we played Charlotte, yall shot lights out from 3 and crushed us. Not sure if it was perimeter pressure or what, but Hornets just didn’t have the touch from deep tonight
Paolo has a bright future
Words that are never been more controversial lool
Only because people are actually stupid lol. Anyone with half a brain can tell coaching has been holding him back MASSIVELY.
Goddamn Charlotte, that could have been an email
Damn so much Kon hate ,as if rookies are expected to carry in the post season.
Kon’s a beast. He’ll shake it off and bounce back for another great season
Con’s a fraud. Give Cooper ROY
That’s a paddlin
I knew for sure this was gonna be a 20+ blowout. I just thought it was gonna be Charlotte. Proud of my Magic for not simply rolling over. Could’ve easily given up the season the way the last month played out. Very happy to be playing Detroit instead of Boston. It’s gonna be a rock fight.
Hoping for a good series. Give props to Banchero–he showed up tonight.
When ball threw up those two ugly Hollywood deep threes in the first you just knew where the game was heading
Jamahl Mosley gets to coach 4 more NBA games, I guess
Imagine if now, free of the pressure of trying to keep his job, he full sends it with his craziest ideas and actually wins it all
Absolute haram ball from Hornets
was kinda expecting more comments in this thread considering how hyped the hornets been all season but I guess this game was over by halftime lol
Very disappointing by the hornets
Trash team reverted back to the mean
When are the Hornets going to learn that you can’t win with Lamelo as your best player?
He won’t be their best player for much longer.
Did this one game save Jamahl Mosley’s job?
No, it would take an ECF run to retain him
Glad to see these frauds lose. I have no idea why this sub loved them so much when their 3 best players are a clown, woman beater, and a accessory to murder
whatd kon do
Wait, who’s the accessory to murder?
Brandon Miller
I forgot about that one, but didn’t he get acquitted or am I confusing him with someone else? Was he the one that gave a friend a ride, and the friend got out the car and went to kill someone?
Faded
Expected a little more fight in there after not getting their star suspended
It was a bigger punishment for the Hornets to have LaMelo play.
Fitting. I expect all Hornets fans to give Nick Wright an apology now, it’s clear he was right.
The Magic played really well
But I thought Hornets upsetting the Pistons in the first round was basically a done deal?
I just want you to know that we all expect you to kick our ass but we’re also just happy to be here
We don’t really have much playoff experience besides 1 series last year, magic/pistons had an even series this season, and yall seem to be meshing with Franz back.
Oh also we’re both physical defensive demon teams. G1 combined 160 points lets go
Should be a fun series!
Lonzo should’ve been suspended but in retrospect making him play was a much better punishment.
Edit:Lamelo, f me.
Y’all cut Lonzo lol
Edit: Traded. Then the Jazz cut
Oops guess he’s still living rent free in my head.
Hornets looked awful tonight.
Bam has been avenged
Almost beat em by 83
grown men buckets, grown men beating
Congrats to Cooper for ROTY. Hornets really need to move on from Bridges and Ball.
Your biggest problem is Diabate as the primary 5. I love him as a 4 / small 5 in spots, but as your roster currently stands you’re incredibly susceptible to being bullied. Bam was on his way to doing it before Lamelo took him out.
Move on from Melo???, bros just typing shit.
Who else can completely eliminate the opponents best player from a game?
Hornets need to move on from the NBA
Bridges never should’ve been brought back. Who would want Ball?
On his current contract I can’t imagine the list is all that long. Maybe the warriors or something when they start the rebuild
How can we blame Paolo for this
Ooooooooooo
Orlando Magic
Was it close?
In the words of uncle ruckus’s dad**:
Did I just catch you tryna be shit?
That was his dad who said that.
Punchline revised we shall never talk about this lack of ball knowledge again
No one beats up our little brother (Bam) except us!
My username remains relevant
u/HornetsAreDirtyButKarmaIsReal would like a word
Incredible long con letting the hornets beat us throughout the regular season to get them overconfident and losing to the Celtics backups to get away from a first round Boston matchup
Kon is the con here. Cooper for ROY.
Great end of the season regardless, time to build further on it next season 🤞🏽
Lots of eyes on Charlotte now. Do y’all expect any roster moves this summer?
Schrodinger’s Magic.
You never know what you’re gonna get
Cooper for ROTY is a no brainer
Kon been injured for a little while tho should play a factor
Coop got injured too for a month in January
Not a factor at all. He is over there playing.
Would it be better he sit out then? Hornets entire hot streak was dependent on his insane gravity.
objectively the funniest outcome considering all the chatter around these teams this season
The hornets beat them 3 times this season, but couldn’t do it when it counted.
Huge because the magics pick to Memphis won’t be a lottery pick
Belt to Ass
This was some pretty sweet near instantaneous karma.
Turbo ass with generational slander is a wild ride
The lights were too bright for buzz city
The Hornets massacre
The catch and shoot man when teams are actually closing out on him.
Rent free lmao
Yall Mavs fans weird as hell. Glad yall lost Luka
🎶 Slam dunk sesame 🎶
And Kon is the guy they want to make ROTY 😂
Playoff performance shouldn’t reflect on regular seasons awards.
Which is what ROTY is.
It’s still funny though, heh.
Not as easy to take 13 games off and rest when your team isn’t tanking
🤣
You sound upset.
Now you get the pleasure of seeing real playoff teams actually play.
💋
Bruh my team got punked of course I’m upset lmao
Point still stands though, Kon’s been playing hurt
Ok well he should be able to get some rest this off season.
But he’s still not ROTY.
63% TS vs 54% TS. For an extra two points a game. Just chucking 😂
And all Kon does is shoot 3s. Hasn’t developed anything else.
I’m looking forward to when Kon gets jammed up next year cuz teams actually got a scouting report on his ass.
You sound upset
Nah. Thoroughly entertained.
All this shit is funny as hell to me 🤣
At least he was here instead of being on one of the worst teams in the league.
10th seed isnt one of the worst teams in the nba?
Is that Cooper’s fault?
Ever heard of the draft?
regular season award
Flagg was better anyway
Lamelo at 54% TS - trash
Flagg at 54% TS - GOAT
You’re comparing the TS% between a 6 year vet on a 200M contract vs a rookie?
As a benchmark for how inefficient he’s been this season, yeah that’s where he lines up.
LaMelo is a great player, you are talking to the wind here.
Flagg is a better player than Kon, that is pretty obvious. In retrospect it will be laughable that there was even a discussion about it…
Lamelo is a good player, not great he’s way too inefficient. Cooper has that same problem this year.
The award is for the better year, not who projects to be the better player.
Lamelo also isn’t a 19 year old rookie. Rookies are usually inefficient
Only like 3 weeks ago I heard multiple podcasts say the Hawks would lose in the 9-10 game and the hornets were a threat for conference finals. Shout out to them.
Hawks ain’t played nobody pawl
Turns out Magic is just RAID
Kon RoTY defenders who claimed playing playoff basketball was an advantage are in shambles.
Hornet going out sad couldn’t happen to a more deserving team.
Lol right. Coming from a Kings fan
You are clearly so butthurt man, going down the thread making salty replies to everyone. Go to bed lol
Suck my ass
It’s not as dirty as LaMelo, I’ll give you that.
Ah there’s another one!
APOLOGIZE
barely sneaked out a game at home without the Heat’s best defensive player. No surprise a physical team punked them
Bam sends his regards, Charlotte 😂😂😂
From Cancun?
Well, probably from a doctor since LaMelo is a soft, dirty player.
LaMelo will probably be joining him there soon but you never know because he might crash his car again on his way to the airport.
Great comeback considering yall when Cancun two days later. Fucking loser
Form the hospital
The Hornets played well for half a season and people were acting like they were a darkhorse for the ECF, so ridiculous.
I heard they would beat the fraudulent Pistons before even making the playoffs.
Playing well enough bc half the league is tanking 😂😂😂
UNFORTUNATE FROM THE HORNETS
MAYBE SHOULDVE TRIED INJURING A PLAYER A BIT EARLIER IN THE GAME HUH
Womp Womp, little brother brought the insecticide
lol, the Heat joined the NBA one year before the Magic. I guess that makes us lil bro.. Yall got Spo and some rings too. We did whoop yall 5 times this season though. 😎
you know when you don’t want your brother to cry so you let him win?
Big bro, get it right.
LMFAO
aye let’s not get carried away you’ll be joining the ferry with us on Tuesday.
Respectfully, of course
If we play like this, we can force 7 games.
fine whatever, you’re joining the ferry the 5th of May then, we’ll have fun without u anyways
Lmfaooo, long live the state of Florida
What a fucking horrible way to end the season. We lose 2 of our last 3. Winning only against a Knicks team resting everyone. Barely win against the heat, plus lamelos bullshit massively tainting the win, and then this embarrassment. Regardless of the strides we made this season, we revert back to our default when it matters most.
I feel for yall. Kon’s going to continue to develop into a monster though. Do you expect any roster moves this summer?
just when i thought i was out, THEY PULL ME BACK IN
Wow I really thought the Hornets were gonna be a dark horse in the playoffs. Didn’t even consider them getting whooped in the playins lol
Edit: Okay dark horse is the wrong term haha. I thought they could get like one or two games against the top seeds and make it competitive is what I’m saying
they kinda fucked up not being able to win their final few games of the regular season (in addition to their season finale against). The Hornets unfortunately need to get 6th or higher to even be safe since they seem to not have enough to safely get out of the Play-Ins…
They finished 9th seed for a reason…
Weird how much harder it is to win when your local crash dummy doesn’t take out opponents best player huh
And get away with it.
PLAY THE SONG
🎶 SLAM DUNK SESAME 🎶
Buzz fucking Buzz
Remember guys, the Magic are bad guys, the Hornets are bad people
As pissed as I am at Goga Bitadze, as far as I know he never beat his wife
Buzz Buzz has been Buzzed
LaMelo suspended himself this game out of respect for Bam
Take me back to February!
Amazing win. Confidence booster.
Now, if the next coach can find a way to look like today’s team more often, and like a high school basketball team at a football-focused public school less often, we might be able to reach our potential.
The more I watch Ball the more I feel like he can never be your number one option.
Its so obvious. Anyone denying that hasn’t seen more than one game. Lot of talent on that squad tho
Guys like LaMelo don’t win in spring time, never have
3 Play In Appearances 3 blow out losses
Just goes to show the regular season record ending the season mean absolutely nothing
Mosley going to survive another week is Orlando’s biggest loss
As long as he’s gone after the season.
ESPN should be fucking canceled for constantly supporting these bums
Buzz buzz lol
The “Scary” Hornets played scared.
None of this is gonna matter on judgement day.
THAT WAS FOR BAM
Karma (sometimes) happens!
Lamelo Ball should apologise for this performance also
He was the best Hornets player.
when the game was already over…
The game after the 2 quarter was like an unstoppable cutscene
At some point they needed the mercy rule that game never even got close
Well pretending Charlotte was a dark horse 3rd best team in the East was fun while it lasted
Luckily the refs were there to stop any semblance of that narrative.
I think when you’re down 35 points in the first half, your right to complain about refs being the difference is pretty much forfeited
Refs decide to review a play instead of letting Hornets get away with trying to injury someone and suddenly hornets fans are convinced refs had it out to get them lol
Grand opening, grand closing
I’m just here to call Con a fraud and Cooper should be ROY
Podcasters made sports books a lot of money
Soon the Hornets beating the brakes off the Celtics right before Tatum’s comeback game will seem like a weird dream.
Just wait for the Charlotte-Washington ECF next year
Brooklyn vs Washington would be funny.
Should the NBA have the Hornets and Magic redo their game in case it was a big fluke? No disrespect to the Magic, I’m a firm believer that Orlando beating them is a huge fluke and robs them of truly accomplishing what they’re capable of. I’ve spent the last few minutes in pure disbelief and it just doesn’t make sense to me. I’ve spent the entire second half of the season watching the Hornets play great basketball it’s just not fair. If the Hornets lose again I will face that the Magic deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to the Hornets and the NBA.
you forgot the /s
I made the mistake of assuming people recognized the taste of the pasta
Great win for the magic but they have no chance with the Pistons
As if the Hornets would do shit
Charlotte getting blown out in the play-in needs to become the new “Bulls-Hawks-Heat invitational” meme
Hornets and losing by 25+ in a road playin game
Name a more iconic duo
Kon Knueppel is Keegan Murray+
Kon is playing through an injury
Andre Drummond made more 3s than him in the postseason
Not any more lol