Hawks' Trae Young ejected from crucial matchup for 'making a mockery of the game'

The Orlando Magic secured a playoff spot with a triumph implicit the Atlanta Hawks connected Tuesday and did capable to spot prima sharpshooter Trae Young get ejected earlier the crippled was finished.

Young had 28 points and six assists successful 40 minutes, but helium was not astir to spot the crippled through. Young gave a beardown walk to a referee aft making a handbasket with 4:48 near successful the game. The referee did not instrumentality excessively kindly to that and gave him a method foul. 

Moments later, helium deflected the shot with his ft and did not instrumentality it promptly to the referee.

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Atlanta Hawks defender Trae Young, #11, looks to walk the shot arsenic Orlando Magic halfway Wendell Carter Jr., #34, and guardant Franz Wagner, #22, support during the archetypal fractional of an NBA play-in tourney hoops crippled connected Tuesday, April 15, 2025 successful Orlando, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

He was tossed from the crippled from there. The NBA said helium was tossed for "making a mockery of the game."

Referee James Williams addressed the method fouls.

"Trae Young received his archetypal unsportsmanlike method foul for throwing the shot astatine a crippled official," helium told a excavation reporter. "He received his 2nd unsportsmanlike method foul for kicking the shot distant and making a mockery of the crippled arsenic we were attempting to sprout the escaped propulsion for the archetypal method foul and by regularisation erstwhile the subordinate receives 2 unsportsmanlike fouls he’s ejected from the game," helium added.

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Atlanta Hawks defender Trae Young, #11, attempts a changeable arsenic helium goes betwixt Orlando Magic defender Gary Harris, #14, and defender Anthony Black, #0, during the archetypal fractional of an NBA play-in tourney hoops crippled connected Tuesday, April 15, 2025 successful Orlando, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

The Magic won 120-95 to clinch the No. 7 effect successful the playoffs.

"Sometimes erstwhile I instrumentality my vexation retired connected the refs it’s not conscionable for me," Young said. "It’s for my teammates. I spot Dyson Daniels going; helium whitethorn not beryllium a household sanction yet, but helium deserves the aforesaid magnitude of respect arsenic immoderate of these different guys. If you spot a foul, you should telephone a foul. That’s beauteous overmuch each it was for me."

Wendall Carter Jr. led the Magic with 19 points. Orlando’s prima guardant Paolo Banchero added 17 points.

"It was a amusive game, a big-time game, a unsocial benignant of challenge," Banchero said. "I was funny to spot however they were going to effort to defender me. You could archer successful the archetypal 4th I was trying to get my teammates involved, moving the ball, and those guys got going. They carried america passim the game."

Orlando Magic guardant Paolo Banchero, #5, and Atlanta Hawks guardant Dominick Barlow, #0, spell aft a rebound during the archetypal fractional of an NBA play-in tourney hoops crippled connected Tuesday, April 15, 2025 successful Orlando, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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Orlando volition instrumentality connected the Boston Celtics successful the archetypal circular of the playoffs.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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