{"id":493042,"date":"2026-04-16T08:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493042"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:15:40","slug":"lamelo-ball-fined-60000-after-play-in-game-vs-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lamelo-ball-fined-60000-after-play-in-game-vs-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"LaMelo Ball fined $60,000 after play-in game vs. Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1698\" data-end=\"2127\">The NBA has fined <strong data-start=\"1716\" data-end=\"1731\">LaMelo Ball<\/strong> a total of <strong data-start=\"1743\" data-end=\"1754\">$60,000<\/strong> following the <strong data-start=\"1769\" data-end=\"1791\">Charlotte Hornets\u2019<\/strong> 127-126 overtime play-in win over the <strong data-start=\"1830\" data-end=\"1844\">Miami Heat<\/strong>. The penalty includes <strong data-start=\"1867\" data-end=\"1878\">$35,000<\/strong> for \u201cunnecessary and reckless contact\u201d with <strong data-start=\"1923\" data-end=\"1938\">Bam Adebayo<\/strong>, with the league adding that the play created a \u201csignificant injury risk,\u201d and Ball was also assessed a <strong data-start=\"2043\" data-end=\"2062\">Flagrant Foul 2<\/strong> upon league office review.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2129\" data-end=\"2449\">Ball was also fined an additional <strong data-start=\"2163\" data-end=\"2174\">$25,000<\/strong> for using profane language during a live postgame television interview. The incident involving Adebayo took place in the second quarter of the <strong data-start=\"2318\" data-end=\"2336\">April 14, 2026<\/strong> play-in game, and the Miami big man later exited with a lower back injury.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2451\" data-end=\"2517\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Hornets star was sanctioned by the NBA for dangerous contact on Bam Adebayo and for using profane language in a postgame TV interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":492901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-493042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/Ball-Adebayo.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493042"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493042"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493042"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}