Erik Spoelstra wanted to see in real time<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cHe should have been thrown out of the game for that,\u201d Spoelstra said following Tuesday night\u2019s loss. \u201cThere\u2019s no place in the game for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blair was standing next to Adebayo as the Heat center fell, staring down toward Ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cCurtis was there,\u201d Spoelstra said. \u201cIt\u2019s his responsibility to see that. If it\u2019s not his responsibility, then Zach\u2019s got to see it. Somebody has got to see that and he should have been thrown out of the game for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spoelstra said Thursday he has moved on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not really thinking about that anymore,\u201d Spoelstra said during the Heat\u2019s season-ending media session. \u201cI said what I had to say about it. I didn\u2019t think that he needed to be penalized more moving forward. I don\u2019t think that would make sense.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s a dirty player. I just think at the moment, both things can be true. In that moment, it was a dirty play and a dangerous play.\u00a0 It should have been caught at that moment, but it wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 And then you move on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adebayo said he did not know if it was anything personal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always had great conversations with him,\u201d Adebayo said. \u201cThere\u2019s never been any, like, bad blood between us. It\u2019s always been good.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike I said, I can\u2019t tell you what goes through his mind. My thing is, like I said, with the referees and the NBA, I feel like you should be able to review a hostile act no matter how long.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hornets coach Charles Lee said he respected the league\u2019s adjudication.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the league handed out something that was what they deemed to be fair,\u201d Lee said in Charlotte. \u201cAnd we\u2019re glad that we still have him going on to the next game. I know he never has the intent to try to hurt anybody out there on the court. But I\u2019m glad everything\u2019s kind of settled now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ball also was fined $25,000 for the use of profanity in a broadcast postgame interview, as he celebrated the Hornets\u2019 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 In a case of too little way too late, the NBA ruled after the fact that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,685,165,189,6,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-711930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-hornets","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-miami-heat","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116415935980899435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}