2023-12-14 03:23:00
Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors reacts after being ejected for a flagrant foul during the second half of the NBA game against the Phoenix Suns at Footprint Center on December 12, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona (Photo by Christian Petersen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
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 world’s main basketball league, 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.
Draymond Green’s brutal aggression
Draymond 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 center was fighting to gain position in front of 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, has a long history of very controversial and controversial actions, he 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 fight in the duel against the Minnesota Timberwolves, an expulsion for which he also received a five-game ban from the NBA.
Draymond Green’s wrestling move
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 I 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 glad he didn’t try to drown me… But at the same time he had nothing to do with basketball,” the center said, adding 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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