{"id":311129,"date":"2026-05-12T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311129\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:30:11","slug":"barnes-breaks-bad-news-to-wembanyama-in-viral-video-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311129\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes breaks bad news to Wembanyama in viral video moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Sacramento Kings forward Harrison Barnes had to beak the bad news to San Antonio Spurs teammate Victor Wembanyama when he was ejected from Sunday\u2019s playoff game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n

The viral video moment occurred after Wembanyama threw an elbow that connected with the head and neck of Timberwolves forward Naz Reid during the second quarter of Minnesota\u2019s 114-109 victory in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t hard to read Wembanyama\u2019s lips after an official announced that the foul had been upgraded to a Flagrant 2, resulting in an automatic disqualification.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d Wembanyama asked Barnes.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re ejected,\u201d Barnes evidently replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m ejected?\u201d Wembanyama asked.<\/p>\n

Barnes nodded his head. With that, Wembanyama stood up, high-fived some teammates and headed back to the locker room. Minnesota went on to win the game, tying the series at 2-2 going into Game 5 on Tuesday in San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Barnes spent six seasons with the Kings before he was sent to San Antonio as part of a three-team sign-and-trade deal that brought DeMar DeRozan to Sacramento in July 2024. Barnes was later joined by former Kings point guard De\u2019Aaron Fox, who was traded to San Antonio in the deal that brought Zach LaVine to Sacramento in February 2025.<\/p>\n

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Jason Anderson is The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Kings beat writer. He is a Sacramento native and a graduate of Fresno State, where he studied journalism and college basketball under the late Jerry Tarkanian.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Sacramento Kings forward Harrison Barnes had to beak the bad news to San Antonio Spurs teammate Victor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-311129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}