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"I guess maybe if he would've grabbed him, he wouldn't have gotten suspended," Johnson said Friday morning, hours before Dallas faced the Spurs in Game 6 of their second-round series.

"You grab, you don't get suspended," he said. "But the rule is clear: You punch, you get suspended.

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