League Statement: Jesse Wagstaff

The Hungry Jack’s National Basketball League advises an independent Game Review Panel (GRP) has completed its assessment of an incident involving Jesse Wagstaff (Perth Wildcats) on Friday night against Melbourne United, and has handed down the following sanction:

Jesse Wagstaff was charged with unduly rough play.

The incident has been assessed as a two-game suspension, reduced to a one-game suspension with an early guilty plea.

The panel deemed the incident as careless, high impact and high contact.

Wagstaff has until Wednesday at 6pm AEDT to take the early plea or appeal the decision to a Single Member Tribunal.