{"id":496513,"date":"2026-05-12T08:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=496513"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:52:35","slug":"victor-wembanyama-avoids-suspension-will-play-game-5-against-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/victor-wembanyama-avoids-suspension-will-play-game-5-against-timberwolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama avoids suspension, will play Game 5 against Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1322\" data-end=\"1549\"><strong data-start=\"1322\" data-end=\"1343\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> will not be suspended after elbowing <strong data-start=\"1381\" data-end=\"1393\">Naz Reid<\/strong> in Game 4 between the San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Timberwolves.<br data-start=\"1461\" data-end=\"1464\" \/>The Spurs star will be available for Game 5 in San Antonio, with the series tied 2-2.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1551\" data-end=\"1802\">According to ESPN, the NBA will not issue any further discipline after the flagrant foul 2 that led to Wembanyama\u2019s automatic ejection. The contact came in the second quarter after Reid and Jaden McDaniels trapped the French big man outside the paint.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1804\" data-end=\"2053\">Following video review, officials ruled the hit to Reid\u2019s jaw and neck area as excessive contact above the neck. Wembanyama\u2019s ejection, with 8:39 left in the second quarter, was the earliest for an All-Star in a playoff game in the play-by-play era.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2055\" data-end=\"2223\">Minnesota went on to win Game 4, 114-109, tying the Western Conference semifinal series. San Antonio will now have its franchise star back for a crucial Game 5 at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Wembanyama non sar\u00e0 squalificato dopo la gomitata a Naz Reid in Gara 4 tra San Antonio Spurs e Minnesota Timberwolves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":496375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-496513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-alle-07.43.33.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496513"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=496513"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=496513"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=496513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}