{"id":232100,"date":"2026-04-15T01:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232100\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:32:16","slug":"bam-adebayo-forced-out-of-miami-heat-play-in-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232100\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam Adebayo forced out of Miami Heat play-in game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE \u2014 Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo was injured and forced to the locker room in the second quarter of Tuesday night\u2019s NBA play-in game against the Charlotte Hornets at Spectrum Center, lost for the balance of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Adebayo took a hard fall when tripped by the hand of Hornets guard LaMelo Ball while saving the ball from going out of bounds beneath the Heat basket with the Heat down 28-26.<\/p>\n<p>Ball then scored 5-on-4 in transition, before the Heat called time with 10:58 left in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>The entire Heat bench went out to check on their center, who then was helped off the court and into the locker room alongside Heat physician Harlan Selesnick.<\/p>\n<p>Adebayo was replaced on the floor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/04\/14\/the-great-unknown-two-years-in-what-do-heat-have-in-kelel-ware\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at that juncture by Kel\u2019el Ware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adebayo at that stage was 3 of 3 from the field with three rebounds in his 11 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Heat minutes later termed it a lower-back injury, with Adebayo questionable to return. Then, during the third quarter, the team announced he would not return.<\/p>\n<p>With Adebayo out, forward Andrew Wiggins closed the first half at center for the Heat, with forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. starting the second half in his place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE \u2014 Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo was injured and forced to the locker room in the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[114,123,125,2490,124,2295,110],"class_list":["post-232100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-latest-headlines","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-heat","tag-miami-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}