The NBA today has fined Warriors power forward Draymond Green $25K after he cursed at a referee during Golden State’s 110-108 loss to the Spurs on Sunday, per a PR announcement (Twitter link). Green was ejected following the incident.
Green had been playing in only his third game since returning to the team from a back injury that held him out of the Warriors’ lineup for 29 consecutive contests. Prior to the defeat, the 32-year-old had made his first All-Star team since 2018 and had been clearly on the hunt for Defensive Player of the Year hardware.
The 6’6″ vet out of Michigan State is averaging 7.6 PPG on 52.9% shooting, 7.5 RPG and 7.1 APG for the 47-23 Warriors, currently the third seed in the Western Conference.
As JD Shaw of Hoops Rumors points out (via Twitter), the Green fine marks the league’s fourth such penalty announced today. Timberwolves point guard Patrick Beverley, Bucks reserve guard George Hill, and injured Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic were all fined between $15K and $40K.
Not seeing it, no need to fine the man if he was already harshly expelled of the game, just silly to fine him!
If you didn’t see it, you shouldn’t be commenting about it then. Just sayin
This is america Gilbert, all comments are allowed, but if refs don’t get fined for their awful calls players shouldn’t be fined for cursing, cushion world
I did see the play, not the reason for the fine… yeeesh!
Try reading comprehension, dude!
You literally said “Not seeing it” wtf.
Geez Gilbert. “not seeing it” is an expression. In this instance it means getting fined doesn’t make sense to the poster. As in, “I’m not seeing why he got fined” or from my viewpoint “I’m not seeing why Gilbert doesn’t understand”.
Green reminds me of a guy I used to know. He was that fun to hang out with, was loud and obnoxious, and got into fights too much. The thing though was he always had the back of our group no matter what. He’d take the brunt of the anger in a bar (which he usually was the fault of).
My point is Green seems like the kind of guy you’d love to have on your side, but would loath otherwise.