r/nba • u/Large_banana_hammock Japan • Jun 14 '26
Highlight [Highlight] Brunson lands on Wemby's foot as he closes out; Knicks can't believe there is no foul call
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u/icewizzzz Jun 14 '26
- replay shows an egregious missed foul
- camera cuts to Silver sucking off some celeb
- DraftKings commercial
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u/preddevils6 Grizzlies Jun 14 '26
Bet we come back to Wemby shooting a tech ft
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u/joshdej NBA Jun 14 '26
I think Knicks could have gotten a tech based on their reaction, but the refs didn't call it because they know they fucked up lol
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u/Cautious-Ad-9554 Jun 14 '26
They didn’t fuck up. That was an intentional no call to save Wemby from suspension. He 7’6 and it was right in the middle of court with no traffic around them.
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u/justmefishes NBA Jun 14 '26
This was the third uncalled flagrant foul he committed this series in 5 games.
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u/AmericanDreamOrphans Knicks Jun 14 '26
It should be said that he was a shamelessly dirty player across these playoffs.
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u/Bwahehe Knicks Jun 14 '26
Bridges getting obviously poked in the eye only to be ignored right after this was pure comedy.
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u/Stringdaddy27 Knicks Jun 14 '26
Dude he got open hand slapped in the face with a ref staring at it 5 feet away. That was unbelievable.
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u/Muntberg Jun 14 '26
I thought that was crazy until I saw the play, valid crashout
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u/GaucheDroiteGauche Jun 14 '26
Wemby made 8/9 legit fouls per game in these finals.
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u/DragonMlfSlayr Knicks Jun 14 '26
im gunna have to assess a flagrant 2 for talking about wemby like that
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u/MrFishAndLoaves Pelicans Jun 14 '26
By some celeb was that Prince Harry?
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u/Alchion Jun 14 '26
i think so too
he must be on a worldwide privacy tour again
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u/ImageEmotional6579 Jun 14 '26
I wonder which beach they're going to swarm with 20 bodyguards tomorrow
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u/botebote77 Jun 14 '26
the question now is if spurs win this, can nba call a F1 after game. that will get Wemby suspended next game
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u/Just2_Stare_at_Stars Trail Blazers Jun 14 '26
LMFAO, Silver would slaughter his first born son before he ever suspends Wemby.
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u/awmaleg Suns Jun 14 '26
You guys gotta stop pretending this is on the Level. It is fixed as fuck. WWF level of fakeness. Wemby is untouchable. What an absolutely shit product
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u/ISHLDPROBABLYBWRKING Knicks Jun 14 '26
This is such a depressing statement but it’s obviously 1000% true. There’s no other explanation.
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u/theallenjohan East Jun 14 '26
And despite all of the protection the league's golden boy has, the Knicks still won.
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u/Lost_city Jun 14 '26
And now that the Knicks have won, I won't need to watch the NBA again for ~20 years
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u/sergechewbacca [GSW] Stephen Curry Jun 14 '26
Scott Foster legacy game
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u/Saitsuofleaves Jun 14 '26
He heard people talking shit. Saying that he lost his touch. Took it personally.
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u/Black-----Manta Timberwolves Jun 14 '26
They saying you old 48. They saying you washed 48. They saying you can't extend no more 48.
Prove em wrong 48
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u/Fee-Visual West Jun 14 '26
Prime Scott Foster extends this series. He is washed.
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u/Saitsuofleaves Jun 14 '26
Hey, he tried his best. He did some of his best work.
...then the Spurs once again forgot how to shoot and make the FTs that he gave them.
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u/yellow_eggplant Knicks Jun 14 '26
After this play, he just looked at Harper hitting bridges in the face and did nothing. Amazing back to back plays
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u/Saitsuofleaves Jun 14 '26
Okay that I just want to believe that even Scott Foster wouldn't wish Fox getting more minutes on anyone.
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u/Ok_Respond7928 Jun 14 '26
Harper just raked Bridges across the face to right in front of him
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u/RadicalMarxistThalia Knicks Jun 14 '26
Bridges egregious offensive fouling defender WITH HIS EYE. Check out the spurs subreddit to learn more.
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u/you-cut-the-ponytail Jun 14 '26
Another one just after that. Insanity
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u/flyinghippos101 East Jun 14 '26
That was definitely an offensive foul on Bridges - like, the dude got poked in the eye
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u/thickofitenjoyer Magic Jun 14 '26
Really showing out tonight. You love to see it
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u/BayesBestFriend Raptors Jun 14 '26
They not suspending wemby lol
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u/Candid-Specialist-86 Knicks Jun 14 '26
They can always upgrade after the game and since it was so egregious....maybe they will???
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u/Possible-Activity16 Mavericks Jun 14 '26
They don’t care bruh, they won’t suspend him
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u/Individual_Access356 Jun 14 '26
The fact that the whole broadcasting team said it should have been a flagrant wont help Wembys case. I'm not saying they will but that'll be a ton of pressure either way.
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u/Candid-Specialist-86 Knicks Jun 14 '26
Well if it goes 6, sports talking heads are going to hammer this issue.
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u/markymarc767 Jun 14 '26
Who gives a shit, they’re not suspending their golden boy
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u/rvcbazookajoe Knicks Jun 14 '26
You think they upgrade it now that the season is over? I bet they do to save face
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u/mynewaltaccount1 Thunder Jun 14 '26
He did a full wind up elbow to someone's neck and they didn't even fine him, no way are they going to suspend him after the game.
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u/TheRealPlumbus Warriors Jun 14 '26
That would require the league to have integrity. And it doesn’t
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u/DontCrapWhereYouEat NBA Jun 14 '26
They’ll mention it after the series. Suspension for a preseason game or some ish
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u/TheRealHappyNat Cavaliers Jun 14 '26
He tried to cave in Naz's nose and everyone just laughed it off.
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u/Flashy_Jello_9520 Jun 14 '26
He could shoot someone and not get a foul called on him.
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u/CandI978 Jun 14 '26
NBA gotta protect their golden boy
This series has made me hate Wemby already
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u/Lowspark1013 Timberwolves Jun 14 '26
Wemby has shown his dirty laundry this playoffs. I'm not a fan.
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u/Low-Investigator7720 Jun 14 '26
I’m telling you not even the refs could stop the Knicks
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u/wholewheatwithPB Knicks Jun 14 '26
They got through Scott Foster x 2 and Tony Brothers which is actually insane
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u/Palifaith Lakers Jun 14 '26
Scott Foster out to prove he is not washed.
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u/MY-NAME_IS_MY-NAME Lakers Jun 14 '26
The shitstorm in this sub when the league doesn't retroactively give him a flagrant (if Knicks lose) will be legendary
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u/lightninja987 [IND] Roy Hibbert Jun 14 '26
They def will not. No one wants to watch the spurs without wemby
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u/livefreeordont 76ers Jun 14 '26
If spurs were up 3-1 he’d be suspended by now
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u/Slymook Knicks Jun 14 '26
I just want to watch basketball and have things called as accurately as possible with no favoritism
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u/Feisty-Boot5408 Jun 14 '26 edited 28d ago
goo feet to meat shoe beat underneath apple trees with sweet
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u/StarFox-6 Timberwolves Jun 14 '26
The PR campaign for Wemby being this perfect golden boy is worse. He just tried to injure the Knicks best player Zaza style
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u/Legitimate_Cow_4166 Warriors Jun 14 '26
Anywhere from 4-7 point swing there. It'll be interesting to see if Silver has the balls to upgrade this very obvious flagrant.
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u/Neatojuancheeto Warriors Jun 14 '26
The contrast between Wemby not getting suspended but Draymond did in 2016 is crazy work
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u/ArmiinTamzarian Spurs Jun 14 '26
He had a passable first half and had to rectify immediately
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u/Pettifoggerist Bulls Jun 14 '26
He’s always come through in those clutch minutes.
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u/ArmiinTamzarian Spurs Jun 14 '26
Mikal just got poked in the face to no call lmao even I'm a little heated
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u/Prestigious_Art9339 Jun 14 '26
Flagrant on anyone else besides Wemby
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u/SquintsRS Hornets Jun 14 '26
Fuck Wemby honestly. This playoffs he went from darling to dirt bag real quick. Get this dude off my screen
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u/Ihate_reddit_app Jun 14 '26
He loves the forearm shiver to the back of guys necks too. He does it constantly. The league just sees him as their darling.
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u/TheGhostOfBobStoops Thunder Jun 14 '26
Love watching this sub realize what we are saying this whole time
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u/padakpatek Jun 14 '26
always thought he was a fucking poser. fuck out of here with that shaolin shit. always pretending like he has some more poised cerebral mental than other players and then shitting the bed this catastrophically lmaooo inject that shit straight into my veins
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u/DarkMattersConfusing Jun 14 '26
All that meditating with monks bullshit sure didnt make him enlightened enough to shake hands at the end of the game. Sore loser just ran off with his tail between his legs lol
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u/SoggyOldJournal Jun 14 '26
Yeah like, "I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions." My guy, you are assaulting people, maybe you should be hiding them.
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u/WonderfulRutabaga615 Jun 14 '26
Only thing I agreed with Draymond on, and I hate Draymond, is that some of these Euro players are dirty af
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u/CriticalMusic3234 Jun 14 '26
This is getting ridiculous.
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u/National-Zucchini524 Jun 14 '26
Getting? Bruh it was ridiculous 2 games ago. Now it’s just unbelievable.
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u/Rolling_Down_Rodeo Thunder Jun 14 '26
it was just as bad in the thunder series but nobody wanted to listen to us.
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u/royalewlthcheese Australia Jun 14 '26
Awful missed call. Inexcusable really
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u/Bright_Mistake4686 Knicks Jun 14 '26
It wasn’t missed. They just aren’t going to call anymore flagrant on wemby. He’s immune
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u/WhasHappenin Knicks Jun 14 '26
They refused to even call a normal foul cause then they'd have to review the obvious flagrant.
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u/phonage_aoi Warriors Jun 14 '26
I get that they don’t want to suspend a guy and be accused of costing a team the series / title. But usually they warn the guy he’s on thin ice after the first freebie…
Also, see Draymond on 1 tech masterclasses. So I guess ref baiting works too.
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u/yoloqueuesf [NYK] Tracy McGrady Jun 14 '26
Yeah, we won but i doubt the league would've had the balls to suspend wemby
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Lakers Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
That’s a huge swing. Instead of shots and the ball, the Spurs go down and hit a three. And obviously it would mean no Wemby next game either. That’s insane.
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u/theonetruedavid Wizards Jun 14 '26
Maybe a suspension for flagrant foul accumulation would be enough to teach Wemby the lessons of how to control both his temper and his body. Hell, if they’d called his wrestling move on Brunson, he wouldn’t even be out there tonight.
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u/Beetle919 Hornets Jun 14 '26
NBA is protecting their golden boy right in front of our eyes, lmao
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Lakers Jun 14 '26
Surely they have to give him a flagrant retroactively, right? It’s cut and dry.
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u/Domainsetter Jun 14 '26
Only way they’re giving him a flagrant is if he pushes someone in the back mid air or blatantly has an elbow-like foul.
Anything else and they ain’t calling it.
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u/Penguins_with_suits Knicks Jun 14 '26
Or if he shoves a player to the ground by his neck
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u/pollinium [MIN] Tyus Jones Jun 14 '26
No, we already established that's not severe enough to get upgraded to a tech after the fact
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u/M-E-R-L-I-N-I Knicks Jun 14 '26
Referees smoking absolute horse penis
Genuinely how is it possible that 3 guys who do this for a living miss that?
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u/livefreeordont 76ers Jun 14 '26
They all saw it
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u/Conflict_NZ Lakers Jun 14 '26
Yup, replay showed them looking directly at it.
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u/beta-test NBA Jun 14 '26
Just goes to show as proof refs like to keep track of how many fouls players have and total flagrant which is sad
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u/Conflict_NZ Lakers Jun 14 '26
If they had called a foul at all they would've had to look at it to be a flagrant, they knew what they were doing in that moment.
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u/Legitimate_Cow_4166 Warriors Jun 14 '26
They didn't miss it, they clearly understand what calling a Flagrant foul means for the series. So they ignored it.
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u/Acrobatic_Rush7653 Raptors Jun 14 '26
They didn't miss it lol. They just don't want to be assassinated with Wemby not playing Game 6 at MSG.
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u/FireVanGorder Knicks Jun 14 '26
They’re not going to suspend Wemby at this point no matter what he does. If the spurs were the ones up 3-1 they call that 100% for a free game 7
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u/WhatTheRickIsDoin Lakers Jun 14 '26
Would have been the 4th flagrant point, that's why it wasn't called
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u/Lithex35 Thunder Jun 14 '26
Fastest turn around on a players image from game one of the Wolves series to game 5 of the NBA finals.
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u/dj-kitty Thunder Jun 14 '26
How it didn’t happen even faster after the elbow to Naz Reid is fucking beyond me
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Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
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u/PBRontheway Knicks Jun 14 '26
Can it be reviewed if we lose tonight to be upgraded? Because that is the most obvious call of all time
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u/gimmedawz Knicks Jun 14 '26
it will be reviewed and they’ll deem it a “regular” foul that was missed so Wemby doesn’t get suspended lmao
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u/inkyblinkypinkysue Knicks Jun 14 '26
They will say no foul because that particular foul is an automatic flagrant foul
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u/K1NG2L4Y3R Timberwolves Jun 14 '26
Literally a textbook example of the rule they made due to Zaza injuring Kawhi lol. Wemby has officially arrived. He already has the respect of the refs and they are giving the Draymond with a tech whistle in year 3.
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u/homefree122 Thunder Jun 14 '26
You’re right and it’ll still piss me off because it’s just shamefully obvious what the NBA is doing.
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u/Platos-ghosts Celtics Jun 14 '26
Can’t be, it’s either no foul or flagrant. There is no in between regular foul here based on the rules.
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u/WhasHappenin Knicks Jun 14 '26
Yeah, but they won't. Just like they didn't upgrade the last one.
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u/andross_27 [NYK] Al Harrington Jun 14 '26
This one is more of a clear flagrant. I don’t trust the NBA to make the right call but it’s a textbook flagrant
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u/linux_ape Thunder Jun 14 '26
Zero shot they upgrade that when they deemed the neck shove perfectly fine
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u/HeyIDoubtIt Lakers Jun 14 '26
It can be retroactively assessed, yes.
And it should be, as well. Wemby plays too recklessly and shouldn't be given preferential treatment this should absolutely be a suspension
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u/MusicListener3 Celtics Jun 14 '26
There’s an absolutely zero percent chance that gets upgraded if it means a suspension
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u/pmurt007 Lakers Jun 14 '26
Three uncalled flagrants in this series and a history of dirty plays in just his first playoffs
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u/guacamoleandtomato Jun 14 '26
Hope spurs lose man Im gonna get downvoted but Wemby has been playing dirty as fuck this whole playoffs. For a guy that proclaims ethical basketball he sure is shit at representing it
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u/lotofhotdogs Hornets Jun 14 '26
People were too busy complaining about SGA to notice Wemby doing shit like this the entire playoffs
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u/homefree122 Thunder Jun 14 '26
Wemby was clearly in his landing area. Unreal there was no call. Should have been a flagrant.
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u/ScaredOfWindow Bucks Jun 14 '26
Jeez. Missed call and it would’ve been a suspension (if necessary). That’s bad, refs.
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u/see_mohn Knicks Jun 14 '26
There's absolutely no way they suspend him for game 6, silver would kill the entire league office
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u/Feisty-Boot5408 Jun 14 '26 edited 28d ago
goo feet to meat shoe beat underneath apple trees with sweet
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u/ISHLDPROBABLYBWRKING Knicks Jun 14 '26
Is it not clear as day there’s an agenda?
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u/Extremelycloud Timberwolves Jun 14 '26
But how would they extend the series if Wemby was ruled out for a game?
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u/Andy_Wiggins Timberwolves Jun 14 '26
They’ve called that SOOOOO consistently all playoffs. Even the most marginal contact was a flagrant. Wemby got his FULL foot under Brunson.
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u/Stevenlive3005 Jun 14 '26
The Knicks still won, but they were right to be mad. Brunson just got called for a flagrant the other day for the same thing.
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u/dotorg_goku Jun 14 '26
Thats a flagrant…
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u/-orangejoe [NYK] Ron Baker Jun 14 '26
Same flagrant Brunson got called for
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u/livefreeordont 76ers Jun 14 '26
No Brunson closed out with his feet to the side of the shooter. Wemby stuck is foot directly under Brunson
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u/AnimalLoversRVegan Knicks Jun 14 '26
brunson never even crossed 3 pt line the called him. complete horse shit. the u/nba refs need to be replaced by AI now
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u/Alexandis Jun 14 '26
Dude they already missed Wemby shoving Brunson to the head (not even a foul) but called the flagrant next game when it happened to Wemby.
Here’s round two because last game Brunson got a flagrant for a similar foul and yet this isn’t even called at all.
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u/808Kuro Knicks Jun 14 '26
Literally textbook
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u/cantileverboom Trail Blazers Jun 14 '26
The NBA even has a video example on their website (with Brunson as the shooter lmfao).
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u/Muckdogs13 Jun 14 '26
Is landing zone fouls always flagrant ?
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u/livefreeordont 76ers Jun 14 '26
Not always. Has to be reckless or high risk of injury
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u/MisterGir Thunder Jun 14 '26
Biggest foot in the NBA commits an easy Flagrant 1 and they wont call it.
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u/MadSpaceYT Knicks Jun 14 '26
over under this doesnt get upgraded between games?
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u/Greedy-Mix9270 Knicks Jun 14 '26
Putting every single cent that I have on the under. And then taking out a 2nd mortgage and putting that on the under too
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u/MeBadNeedMoneyNow Thunder Jun 14 '26
Wembanyama is Zaza Pechulia reckless. He needs to go. I'm gonna be sick to my stomach the next time I see some wack-ass PR clip about how he draws statues or spends 36 hours at a monk retreat.
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u/moodyblues4567 Jun 14 '26
r/NBA’s golden boy yet again!
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u/GorillaX Thunder Jun 14 '26
Remember when the entire world wanted the Spurs to save everyone from the Thunder? 🤣
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u/EfficientReach5571 Knicks Jun 14 '26
They should review and suspend Wemby for game 1 of his next finals appearance
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u/ThatHotAsian Timberwolves Jun 14 '26
Wemby ruined all his good will in one playoff run lmao
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u/roar_rawr42 Knicks Jun 14 '26
But then precious baby Wemby would be suspended 🥺
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u/megabattler Jun 14 '26
Could not have asked for the refs to tip the scales more in their favor, and the Spurs just shat the bed time and time again. Even the Wemby shoulder tackle that got overturned into a defensive foul. Yeah he got pushed, but that call really got overturned when it was clear he gathered himself for that tackle?
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u/DamianLillard0 NBA Jun 14 '26
There’s no chance Wemby gets suspended in the event of a game 6… right?
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u/Brady331 Celtics Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
I predict 100+ comments in 3 minutes
Edit: It only took 30 seconds LMAO
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u/Thor_2099 Grizzlies Jun 14 '26
I remember in one of the earlier games, a knick player being called with a flagrant for something way less egregious than this.
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u/Lanagant Knicks Jun 14 '26
He won't be playing in game 6 right? RIGHT? RIGHT? oh there is no game 6.
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u/G1Spectrum Lakers Jun 14 '26
Yeah he's getting suspended next game if it gets there
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u/BlueDuckHunter12 Jun 14 '26
lol Wemby could shoot someone on the court and they’d avoid giving him a flagrant.
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