{"id":604875,"date":"2026-04-15T03:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604875\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T03:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:52:09","slug":"nba-play-in-tournament-scores-live-updates-hornets-beat-heat-in-ot-trail-blazers-suns-to-decide-wests-no-7-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604875\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA play-in tournament scores, live updates: Hornets beat Heat in OT; Trail Blazers-Suns to decide West&#8217;s No. 7 seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Charlotte\u2019s sharpshooting duo of LaMelo Ball and Kon Knueppel went cold, Coby White did not.<\/p>\n<p>The trade-deadline acquisition for the Hornets forced overtime with clutch 3-point shooting to spark a 127-126 overtime win over the Miami Heat Tuesday night. Then Ball redeemed himself from a poor shooting night and a late mistake to seal the win in overtime with a go-ahead layup in the final seconds.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Charlotte advances to the second round of the NBA play-in with a berth in the playoffs at stake. Miami\u2019s season is over.<\/p>\n<p>With the game on the line and a 3-point deficit in final seconds of regulation, Charlotte benched Knueppel, who led the NBA in made 3s this season. Charlotte instead set up a play for White, who\u2019d entered the fourth quarter shooting 4 of 5 from 3.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/breaking-news\/article\/nba-play-in-coby-white-3-late-lamelo-ball-layup-propel-hornets-in-ot-thriller-past-heat-022651832.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:Read here for more on the game;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Read here for more on the game&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\">Read here for more on the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Charlotte\u2019s sharpshooting duo of LaMelo Ball and Kon Knueppel went cold, Coby White did not. The trade-deadline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,11002,8028,11001,8224,459,15716,228494,1528,6002,6683,2696,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-604875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-detroit-pistons","12":"tag-lamelo-ball","13":"tag-miami-heat","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-orlando-magic","16":"tag-ot-victory","17":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","18":"tag-phoenix-suns","19":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","20":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","21":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}