The Knicks took exception to a flagrant foul 76ers star Joel Embiid committed on Mitchell Robinson, calling the play 'dirty.'
in the first quarter of Philadelphia's 125-114 Game 3 victory, calling it"dirty" and saying Robinson was fortunate to avoid serious injury on the play.added."I'm all for tough fouls, tough playoff fouls, but that's something that can put a guy out for a significant amount of time. So we're lucky he didn't get seriously hurt during that time."
The play was reviewed to see if it would be a Flagrant 1 or a Flagrant 2. If it was deemed the latter, Embiid would have been ejected from the game. Ultimately, though, crew chief Zach Zarba ruled it a Flagrant 1 and said in a pool report after the game that there was a unanimous ruling among the three officials doing the game -- Zarba, James Williams and Kevin Cutler -- plus the replay center that it should be a Flagrant 1.
"It was unfortunate. I didn't mean to hurt anybody. I just ... in those situations I gotta protect myself, because I've been in way too many situations where I'm always the recipient of the bad end of it. So yeah, it was unfortunate, but physical game. They want to bring the physicality. We can be physical too, and we are. So it goes both ways. I get bumped all over the place, and I just keep playing and I'm not going to take it.
For his part, Embiid said he wasn't sure why the call was changed from a technical to an offensive foul upon review.
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