The NBA playoffs have descended into chaos with San Antonio superstar Victor Wembanyama ejected over a wild elbow to the face and throat of Minnesota\u2019s Naz Reid.<\/p>\n
Holding a 2-1 series lead, the Spurs will play out the remainder of Game 4 without their game-changing centre.<\/p>\n
The French former No.1 draft pick was wrestling for an offensive rebound after a missed three-point shot by teammate Carter Bryant, but became entangled with Timberwolves duo Reid and Jaden McDaniels.<\/p>\n
Victor Wembanyama ejected from NBA playoffs<\/p>\n
Attempts by the Minnesota pair to steal the ball prompted a wild swing from Wembanyama, who cocked his elbow back and struck Reid.<\/p>\n
The foul was upgraded to a flagrant two by the officiating crew, and Wembanyama \u2013 after having the ruling explained to him by Spurs teammate Harrison Barnes \u2013 was ejected from the game.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama had four points and four rebounds in 12 minutes of the game, which the Wolves led 34-30 at the point of his ejection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA playoffs have descended into chaos with San Antonio superstar Victor Wembanyama ejected over a wild elbow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-663021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}