{"id":71779,"date":"2026-04-15T08:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/spoelstra-says-hornets-ball-should-have-been-ejected-before-ending-miami-heats-season\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:55:49","slug":"spoelstra-says-hornets-ball-should-have-been-ejected-before-ending-miami-heats-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/spoelstra-says-hornets-ball-should-have-been-ejected-before-ending-miami-heats-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoelstra says Hornets\u2019 Ball should have been ejected before ending Miami Heat\u2019s season"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Ball appeared to trip Bam Adebayo in Tuesday\u2019s game<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Hornets went on to win play-in game in overtime<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said LaMelo Ball should have been ejected for tripping Bam Adebayo, leading to an injury that knocked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/11\/bam-adebayo-83-points-miami-heat-washington-wizards-nba\">Heat\u2019s star center<\/a> out of Tuesday night\u2019s 127-126 play-in tournament loss to the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>Ball fell to the floor after missing a shot on a drive to the basket early in the second quarter, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C29Pudky5AA\">appeared to reach out and grab Adebayo\u2019s left leg<\/a>, causing the center to fall on his back. Ball was not called for a foul, and Adebayo remained on the floor as play continued. He eventually walked to the locker room under his own power but did not return.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/15\/lamelo-ball-charlotte-hornets-miami-heat-bam-adebayo-nba\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ball appeared to trip Bam Adebayo in Tuesday\u2019s game Hornets went on to win play-in game in overtime Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said LaMelo Ball should have been ejected for tripping Bam Adebayo, leading to an injury that knocked the Heat\u2019s star center out of Tuesday night\u2019s 127-126 play-in tournament loss to the Charlotte Hornets. &#8230; <a title=\"Spoelstra says Hornets\u2019 Ball should have been ejected before ending Miami Heat\u2019s season\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/spoelstra-says-hornets-ball-should-have-been-ejected-before-ending-miami-heats-season\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Spoelstra says Hornets\u2019 Ball should have been ejected before ending Miami Heat\u2019s season\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}