{"id":392565,"date":"2026-04-15T01:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392565\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:47:09","slug":"heats-bam-adebayo-exits-sofi-play-in-tournament-game-with-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392565\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat&#8217;s Bam Adebayo exits SoFi Play-In Tournament game with back injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2161246\" class=\"wp-image-2161246 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bam-injury-041426-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1439\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2161246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bam Adebayo lies on the ground after being tripped by the Hornets\u2019 LaMelo Ball during the 2nd quarter.<\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo limped off the court early in the second quarter of Tuesday night\u2019s SoFi Play-In Tournament game against Charlotte after he got tripped by Hornets point guard LaMelo Ball, causing him to land hard on his back.<\/p>\n<p>The Heat said Adebayo would not return.<\/p>\n<p>Ball was on the ground after driving to the basket and missing a shot when he appeared to take a swipe at Adebayo\u2019s left foot with his left hand, causing Adebayo to fall backward. Adebayo stayed down as the action moved to the other end of the court and then back again before play was stopped.<\/p>\n<p>After being attended to by trainers, he got to his feet and walked off under his own power and was taken to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Ball was not called for a foul and the play could not be reviewed because play wasn\u2019t stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Adebayo scored 83 points in a game last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bam Adebayo lies on the ground after being tripped by the Hornets\u2019 LaMelo Ball during the 2nd quarter.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[186792,85,46,105],"class_list":["post-392565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bam-adebayo-injury","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}