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Much to get to here.

We've got to talk, of course, about what took place in the lottery.

The Knicks closed out their series against Philly, Oklahoma City, all but did so against the Lakers.

But first, we need to start with what took place in Minnesota, Wolves 114, Spurs

109, and the final two and a half quarters of the game occurred in the absence of Victor

Wembeyanama, who was ejected for a flagrant two-file elbowing Nasreed. What did you think of what went down there?

I'll start with this.

I think that the call was appropriate.

And flagrant twos need to be a big thing.

But that was an aggressive swing of the elbow that could cause a real injury.

And I, so first of all, in the early part of it, I thought, oh, man, even if, even if how hard Wembe Diyama swung that elbow, even if he didn't see Nasreid, then I think it still would have been deserved. But, because you could have felt him, it's the risk or, you know, potential risk for injury. but there was one of those alternate views, which I think was partially used

to show Dylan Harper's reaction

to Wembe Nama's elbow,

where you see Wemaniyama check a little bit out of the side of his eye, and I think he saw this of something's there. So I have zero problem with that being an ejection. There's a real risk for injury. And it's also just so unnecessary. I'm sympathetic a little bit to Wemba Namaama on the base because I'll talk a little bit about how this game was officiated in terms of through glass, but that still doesn't give you a free license to just throw your arms around like your Carlin. Yeah, it was definitely a pretty vicious elbow and as soon as I saw the replay, I'm like, yeah, I think he's probably going to get ejected for this, even though he is a superstar. I do think, though, that the referees share some culpability of this. And again, I will reiterate, what he did was worthy of a flagrant too. If I had been the referee, I would have looked for an excuse to not throw him out, though. And I'm not sure I agree with you of like, oh, he saw him. He was like trying to hurt him or something like that. Clearly, there is a wild swing with elevated

physicality and you're responsible for what you do when you do something like that. But he just

got mauled on that play. And it's not to say, I don't know what was going through his mind.

You can never know that.

But having been in that situation as a player and having talked to players and talked to referees about these sorts of circumstances, we talk a lot about the referees feeling

like they need to get control the game.

And I think they do that a little bit too aggressively at times.

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