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The NBA is letting them play \u2014 at least with Victor Wembanyama in this one instance.<\/p>\n

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The Spurs star will not receive a flagrant foul upgrade for pushing Knicks star Jalen Brunson in the first quarter of NBA Finals Game 3, The Post\u2019s Stefan Bondy reported.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama will stay at two flagrant points, which he received for a flagrant 2 penalty after throwing an elbow at the Timberwolves\u2019 Naz Reid earlier in the playoffs. If Wembanyama had \u2014 or does \u2014 earn two more flagrant points, he would be suspended for one game.<\/p>\n

The Spurs big man, with a little less than five minutes left in the first quarter of San Antonio\u2019s 115-111 win over the Knicks, shoved Brunson in the head from behind, sending the New York guard to the Madison Square Garden floor. <\/p>\n

Immediately, former NBA star and ESPN\/ABC analyst Richard Jefferson called for Wembanyama to be called for a flagrant 1. No foul was called on the play.<\/p>\n

NBA senior vice president of referee development and training Monty McCutchen said on \u201cNBA Today\u201d earlier on Thursday that while the league missed a foul on the play, it would need something \u201cclear and conclusive\u201d to upgrade the play to a flagrant 1 or 2.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think we can all agree that a foul was missed on that play. A big part of our job is on-ball, off-ball exchanges between referees. We did a poor job of that here, where we got two people on-ball, and we don\u2019t see the screening action,\u201d\u00a0McCutchen said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf we break down in our fundamentals, in even the smallest amounts, we have the opportunity to miss a clear foul, as we missed here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The shove has drawn sharp criticism from a number of former NBA players, including ex-Knick Stephon Marbury, who labeled the play \u201cdirty.\u201d <\/p>\n

Even Mayor Zohran Mamdani chimed in, saying the play should have been a flagrant.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama and Brunson will be back on the Garden court for Game 4 on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

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