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Miami Heat middle Dewayne Dedmon might be suspended for one recreation, following his ejection from Tuesday night time’s win over the Oklahoma City Thunder, per The Athletic. It what was one of many strangest ejections you will ever see, which unfolded after a heated dialogue with Miami’s teaching employees within the second quarter.
As Gabe Vincent was bringing the ball up the ground for the Heat, play was stopped as a result of an object instantly got here flying onto the courtroom. It turned out to be a hand-held therapeutic massage gun thrown by Dedmon out of frustration after an argument with the Heat teaching employees. Dedmon was promptly tossed from the sport.
It’s not completely clear what Dedmon was arguing about with the teaching employees, however on the play previous to the timeout he made a considerably halfhearted swipe on the ball on a Kenrich Williams drive.
“It’s the Miami Heat. We’re all a bunch of gnarly personalities,” head coach Erik Spoelstra mentioned. “That half was unlucky. Everything earlier than that, that is the Miami Heat. That half was unacceptable.”
This has been a irritating few months for Dedmon, who’s now in his third season with the Heat. He hasn’t began a single recreation, and is averaging simply 11.9 minutes — the bottom complete of his profession. Even with Bam Adebayo out on Tuesday, Dedmon remained on the bench whereas two-way participant Orlando Robinson joined the starters.
At simply 22-20 and sitting exterior of the top-six within the Eastern Conference, it is all however a lock that the Heat will look to make some kind of transfer on the commerce deadline. Dedmon already appeared like a candidate to maneuver provided that his cash for the 2023-24 season is non-guaranteed and youthful gamers on the roster have seemingly handed him up. After this incident, it appears much more probably that the Heat may discover transferring Dedmon.
