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Draymond Green suspension: NBA's Joe Dumars explains decision, says everyone agrees he needs help
With questions surrounding the potential length of Golden State Warriors veteran Draymond Green’s indefinite suspension for swinging at Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkić on Tuesday night, Joe Dumars appeared on ESPN’s “First Take” to explain the decision. Dumars, executive vice president and head of basketball operations for the NBA, has plenty of experience discussing Green’s issues. “You wanna see guys grow and you wanna do what’s best for them,” Dumars told Stephen A Smith on-air Thursday. “Clearly something is going on. Clearly, he’s crossed a line and we need to deal with it.” Green will be required to satisfy undisclosed […]
With questions surrounding the potential length of Golden State Warriors veteran Draymond Green's indefinite suspension for swinging at Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkić on Tuesday night, Joe Dumars appeared on ESPN's "First Take" to explain the decision.Dumars, executive vice president and head of basketball operations for the NBA, has plenty of experience discussing Green's issues."You wanna see guys grow and you wanna do what's best for them," Dumars told Stephen A Smith on-air Thursday. "Clearly something is going on. Clearly, he's crossed a line and we need to deal with it."Green will be required to satisfy undisclosed league and team conditions before he returns to the court, the league said when announcing terms of the punishment Wednesday. The NBA cited Green's "repeated history of unsportsmanlike acts," language it has used surrounding the 33-year-old since he was issued a one-game suspension during a playoff series with the Sacramento Kings last season. This is his second suspension of the current campaign.Dumars rebuffed attempts to confirm a minimum amount of games Green will miss, emphasizing the priority on Green's wel-being."The reason we don't have a number is because the help that he needs to get, getting himself better, is what's most important," he said.Former Warriors forward Andre Iguodala, who played alongside Green for almost a decade, took over as executive director of the NBA players’ union last month. In his new role, Iguodala was "exceptional" in helping to "craft" the suspension, Dumars said.In addition to Iguodala's support, Dumars listed Warriors head coach Steve Kerr and general manager Mike Dunleavy as proponents of the idea."There's been no pushback," Dumars added. "Everybody is on board with 'You know what, this is the right thing to do to help him get better.'"Hours after Dumars' TV appearance, the Warriors added Green into the apparent concord.“We understand there’s a punishment that will take place but this is also about helping somebody," Dunleavy said via ESPN's Kendra Andrews. "They 100% agreed. So did Draymond.”Draymond Green will be away from Golden State Warriors for however long he needs. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)Durant, Nurkić say Draymond Green needs helpGreen's most recent incident occurred in the third quarter of the Warriors’ 119-116 loss to the Suns on Tuesday night in Phoenix. Struggling with Nurkić on an inbounds play, Green suddenly spun around and swung. He hit Nurkić directly in the face with his right hand, sending him down to the court.Green was assessed a foul, which was upgraded to a flagrant 2. He was tossed from the game as a result, marking his third ejection of the season. Green apologized for hitting Nurkić, asserting the strike was an accident caused by an attempt to sell a call."What’s going on with him, I don’t know," Nurkić said after the game. "Personally, I feel like that brother needs help. I’m glad he didn’t try to choke me... That had nothing to do with basketball. I’m just out there trying to play basketball."Nurkić was referencing Green's second ejection this season, which saw him place Minnesota Timberwolves big man Rudy Gobert in a rear naked choke last month. Green was issued a five-game suspension for the bizarre assault.When Kevin Durant was asked about Draymond Green’s most recent Flagrant 2, he echoed Nurkić's concerns. “That was insane to see. Glad Nurk is all right. Never seen that before in a basketball court in an NBA game," he said. "I hope Draymond gets the help he needs. It’s been incident after incident.”Dumars and the league didn't miss Durant and Nurkić's comments."When we see guys say stuff like that — Yeah, we see it," Dumars said Thursday. "You look at it and it kind of confirms what we're saying internally anyway. But it doesn't sway any part of the decision. It's just another factor that we look at."Green acknowledged he had "room to grow" after his incident with Gobert. Under the league's current ruling, it appears he'll be required to do so.
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Draymond Green has been suspended again. The NBA suspended the Golden State Warriors veteran indefinitely on Wednesday after his ejection for swinging at Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkić on Tuesday night, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. That marks Green’s second suspension this season. In the third quarter of the Warriors’ 119-116 loss to the Suns on Tuesday night in Phoenix, Green started jostling with Nurkić for position on an in-bounds play. Then suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, Green spun around and swung. He hit Nurkić directly in his face with his right hand, which sent the 7-footer to the court. […]
Draymond Green has been suspended again.The NBA suspended the Golden State Warriors veteran indefinitely on Wednesday after his ejection for swinging at Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkić on Tuesday night, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. That marks Green’s second suspension this season.In the third quarter of the Warriors’ 119-116 loss to the Suns on Tuesday night in Phoenix, Green started jostling with Nurkić for position on an in-bounds play. Then suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, Green spun around and swung. He hit Nurkić directly in his face with his right hand, which sent the 7-footer to the court.Green was quickly assessed a foul, which was upgraded to a flagrant 2. As a result, he was ejected from the game."I am not one to apologize for things I mean to do, but I do apologize to Jusuf because I didn't intend to hit him," Green said after the game, via ESPN. "I sell calls with my arms ... so I was selling the call ... and I swung and unfortunately I hit him."Nurkić said that Green's swing "had nothing to do with basketball." Suns coach Frank Vogel slammed Green after the game, too, calling his move "a reckless, dangerous play.""I'm sensitive to our guys getting hit on plays like that," Vogel said, via ESPN. "I didn't like it. The refs did what they had to do. The league will do what they have to do."This latest incident came just weeks after Green returned from his previous five-game suspension, which he was hit with after he put Minnesota Timberwolves forward Rudy Gobert into a chokehold. Green, with that in-season tournament game last month still at 0-0, flew in and put Gobert into a chokehold after Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels and Warriors guard Klay Thompson got into it, which sparked a larger altercation.Draymond Green was hit with his second suspension of the season on Wednesday. (Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today)Green did not apologize for his actions after that game, and said he would always defend his teammates, but admitted that there “is room for growth and I need to be better in those moments in different situations.”Green was suspended for “escalating an on-court altercation” after the chokehold incident, which was decided in part due to Green’s “history of unsportsmanlike acts.” This latest suspension is now Green’s sixth of his career. He was suspended last postseason after he stomped on the chest of Sacramento Kings forward Domantas Sabonis. Green now has 18 regular season ejections in his career, which is the most among any active player in the league. He’s been ejected three times already this season, too, or 20% of the games he's played in.Green entered Tuesday’s game averaging 10.2 points, 6.1 assists and 5.8 rebounds per game this season, his 12th in the league. With the loss to the Suns, the Warriors have dropped to 10-13 on the season. They'll take on the Los Angeles Clippers next on Thursday night, without Green.This article contains affilate links; if you click such a link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission.
The emotion that drove Draymond Green to the NBA’s 2017 Defensive Player of the Year award, four All-Star appearances and four championships has been described any number of ways — “competitive spirit,” “energy,” “bravado,” “the frenzy,” “passion,” “a fiery attitude,” “aggression,” and, yes, even “that rage.” As former Golden State Warriors guard Leandro Barbosa told ESPN for a 2016 piece titled, “Golden State’s Draymond Green problem,” the forward is at his best as “the guy that always gets mad, the guy everybody hates.” Everyone in the organization — front-office members, coaches, teammates and even the man himself — has spoken […]
The emotion that drove Draymond Green to the NBA's 2017 Defensive Player of the Year award, four All-Star appearances and four championships has been described any number of ways — "competitive spirit," "energy," "bravado," "the frenzy," "passion," "a fiery attitude," "aggression," and, yes, even "that rage."As former Golden State Warriors guard Leandro Barbosa told ESPN for a 2016 piece titled, "Golden State's Draymond Green problem," the forward is at his best as "the guy that always gets mad, the guy everybody hates."Everyone in the organization — front-office members, coaches, teammates and even the man himself — has spoken ad nauseam over the last decade about the importance of Green striking a balance between anger and action. The dynasty's success has depended on him straddling that line, they have all said."If you take my fire away, I may be a decent player because I can really think the game," Green told Howard Beck, then of Bleacher Report, in 2018, when the Warriors' wagon was rolling to its third title in four years. "I'd still have that, but if you take my fire away, I'm not near the guy that I am and the player that I am."This ignores Green's ability to play basketball. In addition to his anger and acumen was an athleticism — never elite by NBA means but enough to switch onto any position, help at the rim, recover to the perimeter. Enough to drop a 32-15-9 line in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals. Enough to put his acumen into action.But what happens when his athleticism fades, when he cannot compete with his less "fiery" rivals, when he can no longer make good on his basketball IQ? The only thing left for Green to act upon, I fear, is the anger.Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green has been involved in a long list of incidents during his NBA career that have mostly been overlooked because of the four championships. (AP Photo/Loren Elliott)Every so often in the past, Green crossed the line between passion and destruction, and each time the Warriors defended it as a fuel that drives them, for better or worse. With increased frequency, it is for worse, and Golden State is running out of ways to excuse his antics in the name of competition. You only take the good with the bad when the good helps deliver hardware, untold fortune and a new arena for everyone.Seven years ago, in the midst of Golden State's record-setting 73-9 campaign, after Green reportedly threatened head coach Steve Kerr and his teammates during a heated halftime exchange overhead from the locker room, was the first we really heard of this familiar refrain from Green and Golden State — let Draymond be Draymond.Months later, as Green kneed and kicked former Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams' groin in consecutive games, unraveling in the 2016 Western Conference finals, and then punched LeBron James' groin one series later, partly costing his team the greatest single season in NBA history, it was the same.Green: "I'm never going to be careful. I'm just going to be me, and the game will play out how it plays out."And Kerr: "The dangerous thing is, if you try to temper him too much, are you taking away his edge?"After Green repeatedly called Kevin Durant "a bitch" during a November 2018 verbal altercation that spilled from a timeout huddle into the locker room, Durant reportedly warned Green, "Everybody keeps saying, 'Draymond's emotional,' and, 'That's just Draymond.' As your brother, I'm not giving you that out. ... That's an excuse that everybody's allowed you to have, and I'm not allowing you to use that excuse anymore."Then-Warriors general manager Bob Myers issued a one-game suspension and said, "Basketball is an emotional sport, these things happen, we dealt with it in the manner we thought fit, and so we’re going to move on." Green swore he learned from the incident, even as he described it as something to "get through" rather than fix. Durant left in free agency at the end of the season, and Green later informed us, "I laughed in their — literally laughed in their face," when the Warriors ask him to apologize for his behavior.When Golden State retreated from the NBA consciousness amid Durant's departure, back-to-back season-ending injuries to Klay Thompson and a 2020 tanking campaign, so too did Green's ire (though he still ranked among league leaders in technical fouls, despite his own injury concerns). He had nothing to compete for.And when the Warriors returned to championship contention in 2022, Green nearly derailed them again. His athleticism failing him, Green resorted to mucking up the NBA Finals, pushing Jayson Tatum, running over Grant Williams, resting his feet on Jaylen Brown, shoving him and trying to pull his shorts down. It got so bad that Kerr benched Green at the end of Game 4 for the most important minutes of the series. Yet, when Green summoned a throwback performance in a clinching Game 6, the Warriors once again lauded him as the Stephen Curry of their defense, and Green accepted credit for his intensity's impact on another title."Draymond, his personality and his energy, his imprint is all over our team," Kevon Looney said at the time.When it's good, it's good, and it hasn't been good for a minute. Last season began with Green punching then-teammate Jordan Poole in the face, for which he received no suspension, and ended not long after he stomped on Sacramento Kings center Domantas Sabonis' chest, for which he received a one-game ban.After a second-round playoff loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, Kerr said in one breath that Green's fight with Poole derailed their championship aspirations and added in another, "If Draymond is not back, we’re not a championship contender." So, the Warriors rewarded him with a four-year, $100 million extension in July.Green is now seven years removed from threatening Kerr and countless excuses from accepting blame. Forgotten is his alleged assault of a college student in July 2016. Remembered are his defense and titles.Except, the Warriors are slipping from championship contention, Green's outbursts are becoming more frequent, and the correlation is coming into focus. He violently choked Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert at the end of last month, earned a five-game suspension and expressed no regret or apology upon his return. Instead, we heard the same old song-and-dance routine from Green and Golden State."I'm going to play basketball the way I play basketball,” said Green, somehow thinking that is basketball. "The way I play basketball has gotten me here. The way I play basketball has brought me a tremendous amount of success, individually and from a team standpoint, so I will always be myself. But I do understand and know there is room for growth, and I need to be better in those moments in different situations."Kerr said, "Draymond was wrong. He knows that. It’s a bad look. The five games is deserved, and we move forward." Then added: "Our defense instantly gets better with Draymond; we know that."Draymond Green turns 34 years old in March. If there was growth to be had, we would have seen some by now. Instead, on Tuesday night, Green swung at Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkić's face, earned an ejection and declared, "As you know, I’m not one to apologize for things that I meant to do, but I do apologize to Jusuf because I didn’t intend to hit him." His past behavior eliminates that benefit of doubt.So, Green awaits another suspension. And we await the next incident. This may soon fall under the guise of competitive spirit. Or, the Warriors will fade from the spotlight, Green's ability to prevent it will succumb to his age, and all that is left for someone who views every slight as a threat to his manhood will be the anger.This article contains affilate links; if you click such a link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission.
Draymond Green tried to argue his case. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports) Draymond Green might have another suspension in his future. Two weeks after returning from a five-game suspension for putting Rudy Gobert in a chokehold, the chronically embattled Golden State Warriors forward was ejected from a game against the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday for taking a wild swing at center Jusuf Nurkić. The play in question came in the third quarter, as Green and Nurkić jostled for position on an in-bounds play. For seemingly no reason, Green spun around and connected on a hard right to Nurkić’s face. The […]
Draymond Green tried to argue his case. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)Draymond Green might have another suspension in his future.Two weeks after returning from a five-game suspension for putting Rudy Gobert in a chokehold, the chronically embattled Golden State Warriors forward was ejected from a game against the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday for taking a wild swing at center Jusuf Nurkić.The play in question came in the third quarter, as Green and Nurkić jostled for position on an in-bounds play. For seemingly no reason, Green spun around and connected on a hard right to Nurkić's face.The play was immediately called as a foul and later upgraded to a flagrant 2, an automatic ejection.Green will almost certainly face a fine for the incident, with a suspension depending on how the league office reviews the incident.At the time of his ejection, Green had 2 points on 1-of-3 shooting, 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 turnovers.
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