{"id":675220,"date":"2026-05-31T02:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675220\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:40:09","slug":"victor-wembanyama-getting-away-with-flagrant-1-landed-thunder-coach-a-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675220\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama getting away with Flagrant 1 landed Thunder coach a tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Antonio Spurs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Antonio Spurs&quot;}\" class=\"link \">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> superstar forward <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/10094\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Victor Wembanyama;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Victor Wembanyama&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a> elbowed <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oklahoma City Thunder;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Oklahoma City Thunder&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> center <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/5856\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Isaiah Hartenstein;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Isaiah Hartenstein&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a> in the face, and Thunder coach Mark Daigneault indirectly got the worst call for it.<\/p>\n<p>During the first half of Saturday night&#8217;s Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals in OKC, Wemby got Hartenstein in the face with his elbow, which led to an offensive foul. However, it wasn&#8217;t upgraded to a Flagrant 1.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Daigneault protesting the refs not calling a Flagrant 1 foul on Wemby earned him the more severe call between the two. It was clearly a Flagrant 1, and we get why Daigneault was furious. However, it&#8217;s just cruel irony he got the tech.<\/p>\n<p>You lose some&#8230; you lose some.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2026\/05\/30\/victor-wembanyama-getting-away-flagrant-1-landed-thunder-coach-tech-foul-game-7\/90336972007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Victor Wembanyama getting away with Flagrant 1 landed Thunder coach a tech;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Victor Wembanyama getting away with Flagrant 1 landed Thunder coach a tech&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Victor Wembanyama getting away with Flagrant 1 landed Thunder coach a tech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs superstar forward Victor Wembanyama elbowed Oklahoma City Thunder center Isaiah Hartenstein in the face, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[21976,120882,355,6402,2116,99,32090,69310],"class_list":["post-675220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-isaiah-hartenstein","tag-mark-daigneault","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-victor-wembanyama","tag-western-conference-finals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}