{"id":500227,"date":"2026-06-09T11:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=500227"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:44:30","slug":"victor-wembanyama-shoves-jalen-brunson-in-tense-game-3-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/victor-wembanyama-shoves-jalen-brunson-in-tense-game-3-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama shoves Jalen Brunson in tense Game 3 moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">There was a tense moment in <strong>Game 3 of the 2026 NBA Finals<\/strong> between the <strong>New York Knicks<\/strong> and the <strong>San Antonio Spurs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">During the first quarter, <strong>Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> forcefully shoved <strong>Jalen Brunson<\/strong> on a Knicks possession, risking a major call. After the game, Brunson reacted to the episode: \u201cYou all saw what happened, he threw me away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs went on to win <strong>115-111<\/strong>, handing the Knicks their first loss after a long playoff winning streak. Wembanyama finished with <strong>32 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks<\/strong> in 39 minutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brunson on Wemby shoving him in Game 3:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever you saw is what you saw.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BA8b1tTk5u\">pic.twitter.com\/BA8b1tTk5u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/espn\/status\/2064205013493137851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French star risked trouble in the first quarter before leading the Spurs to a win at Madison Square Garden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":500226,"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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-500227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-09-alle-11.41.12.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500227","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=500227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500227"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=500227"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=500227"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=500227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}