{"id":42269,"date":"2026-05-12T04:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/victor-wembanyama-ejected-for-flagrant-foul-as-san-antonio-spurs-beaten-by-minnesota-timberwolves\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:55:05","slug":"victor-wembanyama-ejected-for-flagrant-foul-as-san-antonio-spurs-beaten-by-minnesota-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/victor-wembanyama-ejected-for-flagrant-foul-as-san-antonio-spurs-beaten-by-minnesota-timberwolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama ejected for flagrant foul as San Antonio Spurs beaten by Minnesota Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the ejection was announced, Wembanyama appeared to ask Spurs team-mate Harrison Barnes: &#8220;What does that mean?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Timberwolves&#8217; victory on Sunday levels the best-of-seven series at 2-2 before game five in San Antonio, Texas on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said, while he did not condone Wembanyama&#8217;s actions, he was glad he &#8220;took matters into his own hands&#8221; as he believes the 7ft 4in (2.24m) star needs more protection from referees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johnson added: &#8220;I&#8217;m glad Naz Reid is OK and I didn&#8217;t want him to elbow him. But [Wembanyama&#8217;s] going to have to protect himself if no-one else does for him. And I think it&#8217;s disgusting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wembanyama finished with four points and four rebounds in just under 13 minutes of action, while his Spurs team-mates De&#8217;Aaron Fox and Dylan Harper scored 24 points each. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reid, meanwhile, contributed 15 points and nine rebounds off the bench for the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We never expected them just to go away,&#8221; Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They won a game in the Portland series without Wembanyama, so they&#8217;re a very good team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also on Sunday, the New York Knicks advanced to the Eastern Conference finals as they brushed aside the Philadelphia 76ers 144-114 in game four. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miles McBride scored 25 points and Jalen Brunson added 22 points to hand the Knicks a 4-0 series clean sweep. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Knicks will take on top-seeded Detroit Pistons or fourth-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers for a spot in the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cn8p4nwgqzeo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the ejection was announced, Wembanyama appeared to ask Spurs team-mate Harrison Barnes: &#8220;What does that mean?&#8221; Timberwolves&#8217; victory on Sunday levels the best-of-seven series at 2-2 before game five in San Antonio, Texas on Tuesday. Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said, while he did not condone Wembanyama&#8217;s actions, he was glad he &#8220;took matters into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42271,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42269\/revisions\/42271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}