'I might have touched him, but I don't think it deserved the flagrant, if you're going to compare those two. 'When you compare (James’) to the one I got, which I thought didn't really hit him, I didn't elbow him,' Embiid added. 'I guarantee you that if it was me, I would have probably been ejected from the game, which has happened in the past with me getting flagrant fouls for nothing.'Ī minute after his collision with James, Embiid received a flagrant 1 himself, after connecting his elbow with Anthony Davis. 'First of all … that's a very dangerous play,' Embiid told reporters.

James moved across the key and positioned himself in front of Embiid, then pushed off with both hands, with moderate force, as his rival got airborne. Embiid caught a lob pass, had a clear route to the basket and wound up to unleash a thunderous dunk. With 5:44 remaining in the third quarter of a hard-fought clash between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers, things heated up a little. If you were prepping for bed by the time it happened, or if you’re too focused on the Super Bowl to think of anything else, or any of the other reasons why what happened on Wednesday night might have passed you by, here is the abridged version before you go do the sensible thing by finding an online video of the incident and its fallout. It wasn’t exactly the thud heard around the league, for the NBA community can’t yet make up its mind about whether the alleged cheap shot LeBron James leveled at Joel Embiid and the verbal dagger sent in the other direction is everything or nothing.

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