NBA play-in tournament scores, live updates: Hornets beat Heat in OT; Trail Blazers-Suns to decide West’s No. 7 seed

With their victory over the Heat, the Hornets will now face the loser of Wednesday’s sport between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Orlando Magic. That sport shall be on Friday with the winner claiming the East’s No. 8 seed and a first-round matchup with the Detroit Pistons.

LaMelo Ball made up for his foul in opposition to Tyler Herro by driving for a layup with 4.7 seconds left for the go-ahead basket. Miami didn’t have a timeout and pushed the ball the size of the ground however Miles Bridges got here up with the game-saving block.

Tyler Herro makes a 3-pointer, LaMelo Ball will get trapped and loses the ball in the backcourt, then Herro attracts a foul from Ball and will get three free throws, making all of them. Holy chokejob by the Hornets.

In the ultimate minute of a winner-take-all sport, the Prime Video stream minimize out for seemingly its whole viewers. Viewers missed a LaMelo Ball lay-up to put Charlotte up 125-120. The feed is again now, however that’s past embarrassing for Amazon.

LaMelo Ball simply summed up his evening in three possessions. He misses a deep 3-pointer (now 2-of-16 from deep), loses his man on protection to let the Heat minimize the deficit to 1, then hits Brandon Miller for an and-1 to ignite the group.

Hornets now up 5 with 1:33 left, and it’s wanting dire for Miami.

Tyler Herro nonchalantly runs the ground and makes an attempt a deep 3 to win it, which clanks away. We’ve obtained time beyond regulation.

Coby White steps up, making a contested turnaround 3-pointer to tie this sport with 10.8 seconds left. That provides the Heat a correct probability at profitable it, however what a second for the Hornets.

Tyler Herro, a 92% free throw shooter this season, will get the ball and burns 6 seconds off the clock earlier than the Hornets can foul him. He makes each free throws and it’s Hornets ball, down by 3 with 12.9 seconds left.

The Hornets wing makes a 3-pointer and it’s now Heat ball, up by 1, 18.6 seconds left.

The Heat lead 111-108 with 28 seconds left after Grant Williams misses a would-be game-tying 3-pointer. So the Hornets have began fouling, with Jaime Jaquez Jr. getting the primary hack and splitting the free throws. Four-point lead for Miami.

Thye Hornets tied it, then Andrew Wiggins responded with 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions. That’s as many 3-pointers as Kon Knueppel (0-for-6) and LaMelo Ball (2-for-14) have all sport mixed.

The Heat constructed up their lead to seven factors, however a Ryan Kalkbrenner putback and Miles Bridges and-1 has narrowed that to two with 5 minutes to go.

The Hornets constructed up an eight-point lead early in the fourth quarter, however a small rampage by Davion Mitchell and an and-1 from Andrew Wiggins has given Miami the lead again with 7:49 remaining.

More dangerous information for the Heat. They ruled out Bam Adebayo late in the third and can have to try to rally with out him.

Make that 4 3s for Coby White in the third quarter.

White beat the buzzer to give Charlotte an 89-83 lead heading into the fourth and is up to 16 factors off the bench. He’s 4 of 5 from distance.