no chance he would’ve gotten suspended lets be honest lmao

When you’re a superstar they just let you do it.

No. No, he wouldn’t.

He would’ve played Game 6.

Wemby could shoot the ref in the middle of time square and they’d call a foul on KAT for it

NBA are gonna do tricks on social media in whatever report they’re gonna put out and say that Wembanyama would have been suspended. It’s easy to be accountable after the fact when you can just talk about what you would’ve done instead of having to do it so whatever they say is all just smoke.

If you watch that clip back there was nowhere else really for the refs to look, Brunson brings the ball up past half court and pulls up for a transition 3, how all three refs can miss a landing zone call as clear as that when the NBA has been trigger happy to call that exact foul on lesser infringements of the rule was wild to me. All three refs were terrified of having that call on their names.

I once saw Devin Booker rack up 3-4 uncalled fouls after hitting 5 in a finals game

League will always do everything in its power to keep the best player of a team playing

I missed most of the game but it seems the play has been buried by Knicks winning - can someone link it? Was it bad?

Which he needed to have been before. He’s a dirty ass player.

they won’t suspend adam silver’s golden boy

imagining Foster looking up to his secret morse code flashing guy in the rafters saying “f it man, 1 is going to be suspended, let the knicks finish ‘em off”

In would have loved to see Spurs do a finals game with Kornet as their main center lmao

Zero percent chance the league suspends him for game 6 - as obvious as it is that is a flagrant.

Throughout the series, you can see the frustration on the Knicks players that the Spurs were getting the advantage of every fringe call that shifted momentum.

Lowe is pretty unbiased and astute to these things. Did he call out the officiating as well? For example, KAT makes some dumb fouls BUT some of the fouls called on him during the finals were pretty horrible. It totally shifted the narrative that KAT was essentially Wemby’s daddy for G1 & G2. With the amount of physicality going back and fourth, the referees made it a POINT to single out KAT and not allow him to get physical or get him in foul trouble as quick as possible to limit his impact.

100% Dirty string bean

After review, the league has assessed a flagrant foul to Karl Anthony Towns

I hope this starts a discussion about how dumb the flagrant foul rules are. Particularly when they call the games the way they did in later rounds of the playoffs.

They definitely would have suspended, all the nba cared about was getting a game 6 in NYC so as long as the spurs win game 5 the nba could care less if the lose by 50 in game 6

All that stuff after the ? starting with “trackId”, can you guess what that’s doing? You can remove those sections of links without breaking them, just a PSA.

Doesn’t seem we’re being spared this talking point…

Am I alone in thinking he could have gotten suspended? Unless they deferred to the ‘on the court’ call. But at a certain point they could have let the discourse affect their decision, particularly with how egregious it was.

Since the Knicks won and the series is done, they’ll slap Wemby with the flagrant. Itll be like them rescinding the tech on Robinson because the made FT after didnt exactly matter.

Suspend him for game 1 of 2027 regular season. God the officiating needs to be looked at

They would not have suspended him.

Would not surprise me if they eventually rescind this rule.

It basically has only come up in situations where guys who are important players are at risk of missing an NBA Finals game, and then the NBA has to pretzel themselves into reasoning why they shouldn’t. They were going to find a way not to suspend Wemby Would be cleaner to scrap that rule entirely.

Despite the fact that he absolutely should have been if game 6 went on…I just don’t know if they’d have had the balls to make the right decision.

“Spared the discussion” yet here we are discussing it lol

  I hate that these podcasts are on Netflix, which makes them harder to share than YouTube, but alas.

Id be down to never hear from Simmons again so its all good

Should’ve and would’ve are much different 

No way man. Lol.

I think some may be forgetting - it led to Brunson twisting his ankle. The outcome also has an impact. I think it is very likely they would have had to suspend him.

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Cmon Billy boy

Can they still add him the flagrant and can he get suspended for next year? Would be funny

He arguably should have had his 3rd point rescinded anyway, but they left in place as a makeup for the Brunson miss.

0% chance that would have been upgraded to a suspension.

Lmao Simmons dead wrong

they are also on spotify

Can the rule be changed if they aren’t going to call it ? Maybe ban him for a quarter a whole game is bananas.

That was the most “we’re not gonna call it because of who it is” call I’ve ever seen. In my decades of watching ball.

It wasn’t even close. Wasn’t borderline.

I am curious as to what the league would have actually done for Game 6. If they had the balls to sideline the biggest star in the series for Game 6 of the NBA Finals.

It was so obviously a flagrant that I wonder if the NBA alters their suspension rules.

Instead of points equating to a suspension, maybe just means that points equate to more FTs.

Five attempts to make three. Or something like that.

The call came in to Scott after they say the replays, ‘series extension cancelled’

Yeah its for the best they won in 5. Imagine game 6 no Wemby

No way he gets suspended for game six if they won last night.

Bullshit lmfao no way he would have been suspended after all he’s gotten away with this playoffs

He should have been suspended for G5 with that Brunson head shove. How was that not a flagrant?

Bill Simmons has a marvelous hoe character arch