00:00First of all, a flagrant one, and nothing was called on Wemby and Brunson the other day when
00:05Jalen was grabbing his shirt, then Wemby threw him to the ground and did contact his neck while
00:10he was throwing him to the ground. I've watched this video 150 times. A flagrant one is an
00:14unnecessary but not excessively violent contact. That's a flagrant one. A flagrant two is more
00:22severe. In my opinion, that was a flagrant one. They missed it on the floor. They had the opportunity
00:28to call it yesterday, and they didn't. Now, Knick fans, I want you to think about this.
00:34The fact that they did not upgrade it, and upgrade is probably not the right term since
00:38nothing was ever called. So I don't even know what the right word would be. The fact they didn't just
00:43retroactively give him a flagrant one. It's the best thing that happened to you. Now, hear me out
00:49on this. This is very important, and I don't like being a host or a caller who says, no one
00:54has said
00:54this. I haven't listened to the radio station every second, so I can't be arrogant enough to say
00:59no one has said this. Maybe someone did, but I know I thought this yesterday and brought it up
01:04briefly yesterday. If they had upgraded or put a flagrant one on Victor Wambanyama yesterday,
01:11as we all know, he would have been one more flagrant away from an automatic suspension.
01:16Are you trying to tell me that the officiating, who would know he's one flagrant away from an
01:23automatic suspension, are you trying to tell me they would have called anything on him tomorrow
01:28or three days from now? The answer is no. They don't want this man suspended. So you should be
01:35happy that he's still two points away from an automatic suspension, because tonight at Madison Square
01:40Garden, if Wemby does something like this, if he throws Jalen Brunson to the ground like a rag dog,
01:46there's a real chance they will call a flagrant. They wouldn't have called it if he was a point
01:51away from an automatic suspension. So I get the hand-wringing and the anger and the conspiracy
01:57theorists who are mad that something that should have been a flagrant wasn't called a flagrant.
02:01I am with you on that, ladies and gentlemen, but you gotta look at the bigger picture, especially
02:06if you actually believe that officials look at star players and the decision-making on if a flagrant
02:14or a technical or any kind of foul is called. They were never going to call a flagrant one
02:20on Wemby that was going to give him an automatic suspension. And if they called it yesterday from
02:25a boardroom in New York City, that was going to make Wemby even more bulletproof than you
02:30already think he is.
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