2023-12-14 05:53:00
The NBA announced this Wednesday an indefinite suspension for Draymond Green (Golden State Warriors), who on Tuesday was expelled for the third time this season after slapping Jusuf Nurkic (Phoenix Suns) in the face.
The NBA, which already suspended Green for five games for an expulsion earlier this season, assured that in this decision it took into consideration “the repeated history of unsportsmanlike actions” of this player.
The suspension will begin immediately and Green will have to meet certain league and team requirements, not specified in the press release, in order to return to the field.
Adrian Wojnarowski (ESPN) and Shams Charania (The Athtletic), the two journalists with the best sources within the NBA, maintained that Green will receive support and professional help so that a similar situation does not happen again.
Wojnarowski also assured that Green will meet tomorrow with the Warriors’ general manager, Mike Dunleavy Jr., and his agent, Rich Paul, to establish the roadmap for his return.
“The league did not want to put a specific number (of games) on the suspension but rather allowed Green to take the time he may need to deal with the challenges he is facing,” the ESPN journalist wrote on X, the social network before known as Twitter.
Green’s indefinite absence represents one more problem for the Warriors in total crisis with a terrible record of 4-11 in their last 15 games (10-13 in total balance).
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The keys to expulsion
Green was expelled this Tuesday for slapping Nurkic in the face in the game between the Phoenix Suns and the Golden State Warriors.
With 8:23 in the third quarter, the Warriors element was fighting to gain position against the Suns interior when he turned around and hit Nurkic in the face, who ended up on the ground.
The referees reviewed what happened and called a type 2 flagrant, so Green went to the shower early.
Green, essential in Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson’s Warriors but who has a long history of very controversial and controversial actions, has already been expelled twice this season.
The most serious of them was in mid-November when he grabbed Rudy Gobert by the neck with a key in a conflict in the duel against the Minnesota Timberwolves, an expulsion for which he also received a five-game ban from the NBA.
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The Warriors and Timberwolves got chippy just two minutes into their in-season tournament game ????
Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and Jaden McDaniels were all ejected. pic.twitter.com/m7UvULewa2
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 15, 2023
After Tuesday’s game, which ended with a victory for the Suns (119-116), Green appeared before the media and apologized to Nurkic.
“He was grabbing my hip and I was moving to try to get the refs to see a foul and making contact with him. As you know, I am not one to apologize for things that he wanted to do, but I do apologize to Jusuf because he had no intention of hitting him,” he said at a press conference.
Green repeated his apologies on several occasions, acknowledged that it was “a hard blow” that falls into the category of flagrant type 2 and noted that it was an “unfortunate” incident in which he made contact with Nurkic accidentally.
For his part, Nurkic, also before journalists after the meeting, gave his version of what happened and showed his concern for Green’s mental health.
“What happens? Don’t know. Personally I think this brother needs help. “I’m happy that he didn’t try to drown me… But at the same time he had nothing to do with basketball,” the center said with irony.
“I’m there trying to play basketball and he’s there hitting. I think we’ve seen it often, but I hope that whatever he has in his life is going to get better,” he added.
With information from EFE.
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