{"id":394592,"date":"2026-04-16T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394592\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:54:09","slug":"hornets-guard-lamelo-ball-fined-assessed-flagrant-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/394592\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets guard LaMelo Ball fined, assessed flagrant foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2163229\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2163229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages_lamelo_fine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2163229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LaMelo Ball was fined and assessed a flagrant foul for reckless contact on Bam Adebayo during the SoFi Play-In Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, April 15, 2026 \u2013 Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball has been fined $35,000 and assessed a Flagrant Foul 2 upon league office review for making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/bam-adebayo-back-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unnecessary and reckless contact<\/a> with Miami Heat center-forward Bam Adebayo that created a significant injury risk, it was announced today by James Jones, Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred with 11:13 remaining in the second quarter of the Hornets\u2019 127-126 overtime win over the Heat on April 14 in the SoFi NBA Play-In Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Ball has been fined an additional $25,000 for using profane language during a live postgame television interview.<\/p>\n<p>To view Ball\u2019s Flagrant Foul, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/watch\/video\/mia-at-cha-4-14-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LaMelo Ball was fined and assessed a flagrant foul for reckless contact on Bam Adebayo during the SoFi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[178229,187535,85,46,139715,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-394592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-fined","9":"tag-flagrant-foul","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-lamelo-ball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394592","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=394592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}