By rule, it is prohibited, but unless offficials have definite knowledge the player reported late, they may be hesitant to keep them from checking in.
I've done a number of games where a player is waiting to enter, a timeout is called (meaning they are now in the game) and after the buzzer, they come back to make sure they were reported in.
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