[Beck] The NBA retroactively assessed LaMelo Ball a flagrant foul-2. I checked with the NBA, and flagrant foul points assessed during the play-in round do NOT count against a player’s flagrant foul points limit in the playoffs. Like play-in stats, the flagrant points simply disappear into thin air.
During the NBA playoffs, suspensions of one or two games are meted out for every penalty point a player accrues above a total of three. A flagrant foul 2 would have counted as 2 points towards this threshold, but Ball’s points will again reset when the playoffs begin if the Hornets make it by winning the next play-in game.
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