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Yeah, he had to make his way to Dallas to become a star.
2026 NBA Finals Knicks vs Spurs
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Yeah, he had to make his way to Dallas to become a star.
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Wemby took a lot of cheap shots in this series. Brunson went at his knee, Jose tried to injure him about as obvious as I've seen twice in game 4. He's got guys putting him in arm bars, dudes stomping on his feet in the lane. He's such a physical freak that the refs just kinda let people flat out wrestle him in the paint.
Like... come on... this is 10 times worse than that close out... this isn't even basketball.
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Neither is this.
This is one of the dirtiest sequences I've ever seen and I cannot believe Jose didn't get a flagrant for it. First he tries to trip Wemby, then he's grabbing Wemby's leg, trying to pin it, so he can deliberatly buckle it with his weight, he does it twice and the second time with no remotely imaginable pretext, he isn't boxing out anymore, it's like a wrestling move at that point.
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If Jose had succeseed in his quest to blow out Wemby's knee the conversation would instead be 'why isn't the league looking out for this trash and instead a star player is put in spots where he starts retaliating?'
It was a chippy series, a fun series (despite it only being 5 games) and the Spurs shot themselves in the foot repeatedly. But I came away from this whole playoffs feeling like Wemby has a target on his back. The Thunder and Knicks repeatedly tried in severely injure him. I find plays where dudes are trying to blow out a guys knee far far more grotesque than an elbow or a shove.
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