Wembanyama avoids suspension after flagrant foul ejection, will play Game 5

In the compressed drama of playoff basketball, a moment of lost composure by Victor Wembanyama — an elbow, an ejection, a Flagrant 2 — has been weighed by the NBA and found to require no further consequence. The league's swift ruling that the ejection itself was punishment enough allows the young San Antonio star to continue in the Spurs-Timberwolves series, but it also reopens the older, unresolved question of how accountability is measured when the player in question is exceptional. What the rulebook permits and what feels just are not always the same thing, and the distance between them is