Tom Brady

Tom Brady: Unbelievable.

The 243-report on “Deflategate” came out Wednesday and stopped barely short of calling the Patriots star quarterback a cheater. It did, however, call some of his claims “implausible” and left little doubt that he had a role in having footballs deflated before New England’s AFC title game against Indianapolis in January and probably in previous games.

In his report, attorney Ted Wells said the quarterback “was at least generally aware” of all the plans to prepare the balls to his liking, below the league-mandated minimum of 12.5 pounds per square inch. Wells said it was “more probable than not” that two Patriots employees — officials’ locker room attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski — executed the plan.

For his trouble, McNally asked for expensive shoes and signed footballs, jerseys and cash. He brokered the deals over a series of salty text messages with Jastremski that portray Brady as a hard-to-please taskmaster. “F--- Tom,” one read.

For the biggest home game of the season, McNally came through, taking the footballs from the officials’ locker room into a bathroom before delivering them to the field, the report said.

The footballs — measured by officials at halftime— somehow lost pressure between being tested by the referee and the break.

As for Brady’s claims that he didn’t know of efforts to deflate game balls: “We found these claims not plausible and contradicted by other evidence,” Wells wrote.

The penalties for all this? To be determined. League executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent is reviewing the report and will hand down the punishment.

This rules violation is most serious. It involves arguably the league’s top star, a four-time Super Bowl winner who is bound for the Hall of Fame, and its marquee team.