Red-Hot Hornets Cool Off Heat in Play-In Victory | Real Ones

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, and Howard Beck are back with another edition of Real Ones to react to the wild Tuesday night play-in games. The Hornets defeated the Heat in OT thanks to LaMelo Ball’s late-game bucket. What are the chances of the Hornets taking a team deep in the first round? Plus, the Suns fell to the Blazers in the Western Conference play-in. Should they consider trading Devin Booker? Plus, the mailbag!(0:00) Intro (1:14) Fan Duel ad break (2:38) Hornets-Heat (3:52) Lamelo Controversy (28:14) Amazon Prime ad break (28:45) Fan Duel ad break (29:54) Blazers-Suns presented by Ferrero (45:58) Mailbag Hosts: Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, and Howard BeckProducers: Victoria Valencia and Clifford AugustinAdditional Production Support: Ben Cruz and Conor Nevins Hit the mailbag! ⁠realonesmailbag@gmail.com⁠The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out ⁠rg-help.com⁠ to find out more, or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Order and it will come. Like today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's popping? Real Ones. Logan Murdoch here.
0:08.7	Roger Bell and Howard Beck in a second. Real Ones After Dark.
0:12.2	We are going to be reacting to the Tuesday playing games between the Suns and the Blazers.
0:19.0	And also probably the game of the night. The Hornets and the
0:23.2	heat, so many subplots was Lamello Ball out of pocket for tripping Bam out of bio and should he
0:29.1	deserve to be kicked out of the game, which would have had a crazy butterfly effect because I
0:33.5	don't think that the Hornets would have won without Lamello. Then we talk about the futures of the Blazers and the suns.
0:39.9	Then we get to your mailback questions.
0:41.2	We had a really fun, wild and delirious time tonight.
0:46.0	A lot of our peeps like Cliff and Howard and Raja, we're all on East Coast time.
0:53.1	So what's for a special type of delirium on a late night podcast.
0:57.7	So tapping with all that at a really fun time.
1:00.9	Also, Real ones, Melvin's Melbaug at g-mo.com.
1:02.4	Room ones, mailbag at gmail.com.
1:03.7	Run ones, mailbag at gmail.com.
1:05.8	We asked your questions every Tuesday.
1:07.1	It was really, really fun.
1:08.0	We had a really great mailbag tonight.
1:10.3	I'm delirious. I'm going to go to
1:11.6	sleep. But before that, Cliff play the theme music. The Ringer NBA show is brought to you by Fandul. The NBA postseason is here, and Fanduel knows the only thing better than watching your favorite team win is winning along with them. Fandle is the best place to bet the teams, players and plays during their playoff run. Build the same game parlay or try live betting and jump in
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