7:33pm: The NBA has officially confirmed Green’s five-game suspension, as well as the $25K fines for Thompson, McDaniels, and Gobert.
In its press release (Twitter link), the NBA said Green was suspended for “escalating an on-court altercation and forcibly grabbing (Gobert) around the neck in an unsportsmanlike and dangerous manner.” The length of the suspension was based in part on Green’s “history of unsportsmanlike acts,” the league added.
7:16pm: Warriors forward Draymond Green will be suspended five games by the NBA for his role in Tuesday’s altercation against Minnesota, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter link).
After Klay Thompson and Jaden McDaniels engaged in some grabbing, pushing, and shoving that resulted in a stoppage in play early in the first quarter of Tuesday’s game, Green entered the fracas and put Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert in a headlock for several seconds (Twitter video link via Bleacher Report).
The game’s officials, who ruled that Gobert had been trying to deescalate the situation, hit Green with a flagrant 2 foul and an ejection.
A report earlier in the day from Wojnarowski indicated that the NBA was reviewing the situation, with Green considered to be the focus of that investigation due to the Gobert headlock as well as his history of on-court physicality and suspensions. When Green was suspended in the 2023 playoffs for stepping on Domantas Sabonis, his reputation as a “repeat offender” was cited by the league.
As a result of the five-game ban, Green will miss the Warriors’ games against the Thunder on Thursday and Saturday, as well as their contests vs. Houston (Nov. 20), Phoenix (Nov. 22), and San Antonio (Nov. 24). That game vs. the Spurs is an in-season tournament matchup.
Golden State is also without top scorer Stephen Curry in the short term due to a sore right knee. Curry has been ruled out for Thursday’s game vs. the Thunder and is expected to be reevaluated later this week.
The suspension will cost Green a total of $769,704, or $153,941 per game, tweets ESPN’s Bobby Marks. His salary for the 2022/23 season is $22,321,429, and he’ll forfeit 1/145th of that salary for each game of the suspension.
While Green is the only player being suspended as a result of Tuesday’s squabble, Thompson, McDaniels, and Gobert will be fined $25K apiece, Wojnarowski tweets.
F*** Adam Silver and F*** the refs!
You need a nap bro.
Wahhh
IDK how that dude is still the commissioner definitely a great person but when it comes to decision making dude is terrible dude hates the warriors just look up vids on his tone when talking to them he pays the refs to rig games against GSW the only way he out of commissioner if the players and owners making a stand but they won’t do it for obvious reasons.
So, just wondering… How much does a good tin hat cost these days?
You must have missed it when they won four championships in the last decade.
You knew he would get suspended but for 5 games? Problem was Green held Golbert for too long. If he released him instead of dragging him it wouldn’t be so long.
This, again, is showing leniency to Green and yet Dub fans will get all butthurt and angry.
It should have been 7-10 games.
Probably should be 10 for previous history. Gobert did nothing wrong he was breaking it up and didn’t even have a squeeze or anything on Klay. The only reason he may have held Klay was to not fall over because Draymond was quickly there and had him in sleeper moving backwards.
He grabbed Klay by the throat from the front. You want to break up a fight you grab your guy you dont grab the other dude by the throat
Sleeper requires the second arm to be involved and makes it impossible almost to pry him off. Was his right hand gripping his left elbow with his left hand on Goberts back of head forcing his neck into the right elbow? No, so it was a headlock like tons of kids do to each other when wrestling…
“…You want to break up a fight you grab your guy…” Spoken like a real sucker. You never grab your guy as it might enable his attacker to get in some free hits. Alwys neutralize the enemy first.
This isnt a fight in the yard. Your trying to get the two guys in front of 20k people to chill go after their guy and his teammates go after you go after your guy and somebody on the other team will handle the other dude. All the assistant coaches rush out and break it up.
Bruh, c’mon you really tryin to defend Green here? You need to rewatch without those dub tinted glasses. Gobert is behind Klay the entire altercation. Alls he did was split them up with his arm across his shoulder. For Green to come flying in from behind like he’s Ric flair!!
FWIW I don’t like either team, but you can’t come echoing Kerrs BS statement on a grab on the throat from Gobert. Kerr then followed that bogus defence with “I only saw it once quickly but my staff on the bench saw it and said so”.
Personally I don’t think Klay(although he was holding McDaniels first) or Gobert did much/anything wrong but the suspension for Green is lenient. That ain’t needed in basketball.
Should he have grabbed him like that? No. But its real that Dray gets hate where he does something people would normally care less about, but because its Draymond, and now the league acts that way too. Hes not perfect but a lot of these guys play loose with the rules from a competitive place.
Like I still swear if you watch it in real time not this slow mo BS the “Stomp” was him getting his ankle put in an arm bar and the hop that looked like a stomp was him trying to not land all his weight on the douche holding his leg. Everyone crys for Sabonis when he pulled a dude down on his chest… Like WTF and then tossed from that game and the next for having his ankle grabbed (which is a dirty play thats against the rules)
Gobert grabs Klay straight up undeniable, and if that happens with a guy on 29 other teams someone on that dudes team is going for him.
Gobert had one arm on Klay’s shoulder and his other arm was under Thompson’s other arm from behind. There was no intent other than to try to stop the altercation.
I would say in most instances 1 game would’ve been enough as people do lose their cool and he was defending his boy, but one It’s Draymond Green and he has a prior history of incidents like this two, he has a longstanding prior beef would Gobert and three, he didn’t need to hold on to for it as long as he did.
A sleeper is a fake wrestling hold lol you absolutely can choke a guy out with one arm around his neck.
Not easily. Its not easy to do it quickly with the right move and bad technique, much less a single arm choke.
Hopefully it will choke some sense into Klay and he will stop sucking.
“Gobert did nothing wrong” lol this mainly happened cause of Gobert.
Dude that warriors flavor kool-aid you’re drinking must be pretty strong. He really didn’t.
He did but you cleary hate the Draymond and the warriors for owning your team. Gober is that you?
lol, Warriors have beaten my team…a lot, but I don’t hate Green at all. Good pod, reasonable role player on a contender, you know back in the day……but a poor wrestler.
Not a fan of either team, and I’m from the East Coast, and all I saw was Goebert trying to separate the two. Gotta step off the bias @SomeWhere
KAT should have punched his lights out once he started choking Gobert.
I would have liked to see him get in there and pull Green off, but between his history of injuries and how well Minnesota is playing, I’m glad he didn’t put his on-court status at risk.
Like Pat Bev said. “Don’t nobody like Rudy anyway”.
Lol kat is soft as hell
How about suspending the refs who are obviously out to get GSW?
Nah, they handled it exactly as they should have, minus not giving Klay a flagrant 1. But I can see an ejection for Klay having been enough.
McDaniels was the one throwing himself around dragging Klay and tried to pull Klay down on his face when he tore his jersey. Klay held a players jersey thats a common foul. Even McDaniels was a simple T for jersey yank at the end.
Love how the refs let Gobert throw elbows all night, or the bulls*** call where he holds down Dray the previous game, along with a bunch of other calls the previous game. Dray got kicked square in the balls and they dont even review it, but they toss him for a play they shouldnt be able to review…
Steph gets fouled at least 10 times a game that go un called and gets the worst star whistle for a top 3 player in history. He gets punished for finishing layups after illegal contact. Plus the grabs and every other dirty off ball thing they do when refs arent watching…
Why wasn’t McDaniels suspended for 1 game? He elbowed Klay and tried to throw Klay down way after Klay let go. Double standard there by the NBA.
If McDaniels had tried to throw Klay down after Thompson had let go Thompson would’ve been on the ground. Klay still had a hold of McDaniels jersey. Using that logic Klay should’ve been suspended as well as he initiated the incident by grabbing McDaniels jersey in the first place. Ejections for both Klay and McDaniels and a fine for for Gobert for getting involved were the proper punishments for all three.
Dude he tried to throw him down when there were already 8 people around. He violently yanks him down so that he bends all the way over just before Dray comes in. It just happened in a crowd…
Klay only held onto McDaniels did not try to throw down him. McDaniels still held onto Thompson after Klay let him go. Golbert put his arms around Thompson when both of Thompson arms were down by his waist. All Green saw was Globert bear hugging Klay for no reason.
Bahahahahahahahahahaha
As a long time warriors fan I’m not mad at 5 games. Homers were calling for season long and life long bans, 5 seems appropriate. He put his arm around the neck of another player which is explicitly forbidden according to the rules, even though it was a safe headlock and not a chokehold as is irresponsibly being reported. Also fine with McDaneils and Klay not being suspended. But by the letter of the rules Gobert put his arm around Klays neck before Draymond grabbed him and more effectively did the same thing. Gobert should be out at least a game if not 3-5 as well. Gobert was the one who escalated the situation. He wasn’t breaking up the fight, he was holding down Klay so his guy could take a swing. If he was breaking it up he would have pulled his own guy off or just got in the middle. NBA has to push the narrative that Draymond is the bad guy. They are desperate for a heel to make their soap opera work.
8 games when dude fired shots at a strip club. When was the last suspension for more than 2 games for any on court fracas. I mean Joker got 1 game for breaking Markief Morris and that dudes careers been done since…
Morris deserved it to be fair and jokic should not have been suspended.
He, a 280 pound dude, threw his full weight straight into a dudes spine, so that he missed 3 months and never looked the same since. From the blind side. Like was Morris wrong to shove him first? Sure, but he cheap shotted him in a way where your likely to cause permanent injury…
Priors count
According to Refs they do since they kicked out Green for a bump on 2 plays before.
HOW that’s too many games Warrios and Draymond need to appeal immediately! Gobert has plenty of history of doing dirty stuff yet he gets 0 games what a joke lol Common Adam Sliver L dude has ruined the league be soft on suspended ppl who have actually done bad and terrible stuff yets Draymond gets 5 for nothing just a ego move.
Five is way too light for grabbing a guy -who was trying to deescalate the situation- by the throat and dragging him, from behind. This isn’t Draymond’s first offense, either. He’s a dirty player, plain and simple. The suspension should have been 10 games, minimum.
You’ll get your wish, though. Green will appeal, it’ll probably be reduced to three, and Green will just do it again eventually.
Draymond should have gotten more! THUG!
When was the last suspension for any on court aggression over 2 games?
Keep drinkin that HaterAid with Silver
racism at its finest here.
@thec’s just call him what you really want to
That’s an embarrassingly light suspension for what he did and his history.
Brooks 1 game for breaking GPIIs wrist with a dirty shot. Joker 1 game for giving Morris whiplash with a shot to the upper back from behind not involved with any other already occurring fight. Grayson Allen dirty shot 1 game…
Gimmie a break bro nobody gets suspended more than 1 game for anything like this. I would rather have him put me in a headlock then punch me if Im not 7’2″ and hanging by his arm. Course you could quit begging for the foul with your hands up and hold his arm to not choke since he only has the one on you.
Soft af.
Should have been at least 10 games suspension.
I agree, 10 games seems about right…and I’ve been a Dubs fan since the mid-60s. Draymond’s act has got to change and Kerr is either unable or unwilling. It’s bad for the Dubs and the NBA. Latrell Sprewell, also a Warrior, got suspended 68 games for his actions and that happened during a practice with the head coach. Adam Silver appears to have caved to the networks where Draymond is viewed by many as an MMA star on the court.
Draymond gets refed differently than anyone. We all know why. I am just glad Gobert got fined
Because he acts differently than everyone else, stepping on people, punching peiople and coming flying in to a pile to throw an extended chokehold on an opponent. We all do know why, we have seen it over and over again.
Gobert really should have been suspended for at least a game.
Only if Draymond got more than 5 games, which clearly wasn’t happening.
Why not giving Dray a 25 games suspension warning also ?
No wonder SF is known as a junkie apocalypse. Y’all shuffling along your feces strewn streets completely delusional and whacked out of your minds. SMH at the homer takes on this thread.
The pot calling the kettle black, as if homerism is exclusive to any individual sports team.
Crazy to see men defend a male who has kicked multiple men in the groin. A lot of you need help
Anyone defending any of Draymonds on court antics needs help…
Draymond is a punk. But the D Mitchell thing was a huge joke! And Gober and Mcdaniles should have been suspended also. I am good with Greens punishment just think Rudy and McD should also miss some games maybe less than green because he is who he is but still Gober acts innocent, he is a huge clown
And side note, I clearly only watch gsw but just asking?? Are there way way way way more whistles and free throws this year? Seems like I’ve been watching free throw contest
Warriors announcers say it’s the Chris Paul effect but it’s a lot of fouls
I can’t believe the most unprofessional dirty unsportsmanlike athlete of all time did something unprofessional dirty and unsportsmanlike again.
I agree, 10 games seems about right…and I’ve been a Dubs fan since the mid-60s. Draymond’s act has got to change and Kerr is either unable or unwilling. It’s bad for the Dubs and the NBA. Latrell Sprewell, also a Warrior, got suspended 68 games for his actions and that happened during a practice with the head coach. Adam Silver appears to have caved to the networks where Draymond is viewed by many as an MMA star on the court.
Glad to see not every Warriors fan is a raging homer…
10 games seems far more appropriate to me…
Green gets five games for trying to choke someone. Ja Morant gets 25 for exercising a constitutionally protected right.
Only one of those is a criminal offense. And Dub fans have the nerve to say Silver is out to get them. Adorable
Violence is violence…
What does that even mean? There is no act of violence that’s constitutionally protected. There is no criminal offense that is constitutionally protected
Silver and his weak discipline will guarantee that Draymond does something this stupid again…