Jalen Suggs got Beef Stew’d during Saturday’s Game 3.
Suggs and the Orlando Magic faced off against Isaiah Stewart and the Detroit Pistons for the third game of their first-round playoff series. In the second quarter at Kia Center in Orlando, Fla., Stewart rotated over to defend a Suggs drive to the rim and ended up whacking the Magic guard in the face.
Take a look at the video (in which Stewart caught Suggs with a downward swipe as Suggs was airborne).
Jalen Suggs takes an elbow to the face from Isaiah Stewart.
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Stewart was whistled for a common foul on the spot. Upon an official review however, the foul was upgraded to a flagrant 1.
This is not the first incident for Stewart in the series against the Magic either. Before Game 1, Stewart got physical with Orlando’s Desmond Bane during a pregame run-in.
While the foul against Suggs itself looked like a fairly weak flagrant call, Stewart’s reputation may have preceded him there. The 24-year-old big man Stewart is known as perhaps the most confrontational player in the league and has had multiple (very) physical incidents with opponents just this season alone.
