The players union wouldn’t have been on board with an indefinite suspension for Draymond Green if he wasn’t willing to accept it himself, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said on a SportsCenter appearance (video link).
Green and his agent, Rich Paul of Klutch Sports, will meet today with Warriors general manager Mike Dunlevy Jr. to determine what kind of help Green will need to deal with the issues that are leading to his repeated suspensions, and sources tell Wojnarowski that Green has a desire to get counseling.
“I’m told he wants to get help to keep this from happening again,” Wojnarowski said, “to handle whatever issues he might have and whatever challenges he might have in his life.”
Woj adds that by making the suspension indefinite, commissioner Adam Silver is “trying to get to the root of the problem” rather than placing a number of games on Green’s latest act, which involved striking Phoenix center Jusuf Nurkic in the head in Tuesday’s game. Sources tell Wojnarowski that Green is looking to deal with the underlying causes of his behavior, maybe for the first time in his career.
There’s more on the Green suspension:
- The NBA office is sending a message to the Warriors that it’s tired of dealing with Green’s frequent transgressions and their effect on the league’s image, according to Tim Kawakami of The Athletic. Kawakami points out that Green has already missed five games this season due to suspension and has been ejected from three others. If his current ban lasts for 10 games, he will have been either suspended or ejected from 18 of the team’s first 33 contests. He’s also just two more flagrant fouls away from another automatic one-game suspension. Green seems incapable of controlling his behavior, adds Kawakami, who speculates that the league’s response to a future incident would be “swift and thunderous” and may result in a suspension for the remainder of the season. If that happens, Kawakami notes that the Warriors’ could either try to get out of the remainder of the four-year, $100MM contract that Green signed this summer, trade him for little or nothing in return, or release him and take the financial hit.
- Green’s latest incident could spark much-needed roster changes, suggests Sam Amick of The Athletic. The Warriors have lost 12 of their last 17 games and aren’t doing enough to justify a payroll that hovers around $400MM with luxury taxes. With Green unable to stay on the court and Klay Thompson‘s dramatic drop in production ahead of free agency, Amick sees a reduced chance that they and Stephen Curry will all get to retire with Golden State.
- Green’s suspension will result in a financial benefit for the Warriors because it was imposed by the league instead of the team. Scott Allen of Spotrac looks at how much the organization might save depending on how long Green is out of action.
If I hit somebody at work I’d go to jail. Why are athletes special?
Cause of a certain color..green
Certain amount of contact is expected, also. If your job involved physical competition between you and others, there would be more leeway.
Draymond is so far over that limit it’s not even funny.
Ask the NHL
You wouldn’t go to jail for that relax Karen.
Simple answer to your asinine question. Nurk doesn’t care that much
They are not special. Most normal people and athletes never go to jail so forget about green needing a get out of jail card.
Green got caught on a accident. Add that to his past behavior and it doesn’t matter the intent of it. Suspect it will be 25 games suspended. Similar to morant
Both made stupid mistakes after being counseled.
Warriors need to get out from his contract. If no cancel then trade him for peanuts
Nut shots
Punching a teammate at practice
Ufc choke hold
Karate chop to the neck
Draymond should be given a life time ban with no chance of being reinstated.
Counseling isn’t gonna help this dude. First couple weeks back he’s gonna get into again with someone and be right back to square one
How many chances is nba gonna give this loser?
Counseling is not going to help this dude? Pretty narrow thought process and an affront to an entire profession. I don’t agree with you.
Saying counseling won’t help draymond doesn’t insult the entire profession. Thats a pretty silly conclusion.
Counseling helps some people. It doesn’t help everyone and doesn’t have 100% success rate.
Furthermore draymond isn’t gonna suddenly change his ways cause he sat down and talked out child hood mommy daddy trauma issues.
Dude shows 0 remorse for his actions. That’s something counseling very rarely fixes especially in adults. Empthay and sympathy guilt knowing right from wrong are things you learn as kids.
My point is I don’t agree with you. Number two he has shown remorse with this one particular Act and has apologized.
Sure we’re supposed to learn some of these things as kids as you say but we see currently that’s not as common as it once was.
But the hope is as we mature we begin to learn these things. I guess I’m off base but I have faith that people can turn things around. Even a knucklehead like Draymond Green.
Right.
Shows remorse once he’s facing an indefinite suspension.
How convenient.
Jobu is spot on. Eon, hold onto that degree a little tighter.
He really didn’t show remorse or apologized. He said it was accidental and that he “apologized for the unintentional contact” to Jusuf, but not accepting any fault isn’t really an apology. It’s like you punching someone on the face and apologizing for their face accidentally getting in the way of your fist.
As somebody who knew and had a couple of long discussions with Draymond when he was a junior in high school I disagree.
I had Draymond in a big All-Star event in Chicago. One of the most polite and respectful young men you will ever come across. Draymond’s parents raised a quality human being regardless of basketball.
The man is dealing with some things that is causing his anger. Being an entitled, millionaire athlete does nothing to contain that anger. It causes others around you to have to deal with it.
Yeah and I’m the second cousin twice removed from steph curry
“99% of things said on the internet are true”- Abraham Lincoln 1869
@Very Barry Money changes people. The young polite and respectful Draymond you knew isn’t the person he is now.
This is a wild accusation and im just speculating but he might be lowkey racist. Think about the things he has done to whom, Steven Adams nut kick, The Sabonis Stomp, Kevin love “Friendly Competiton Incident” and probably more examples those just off the top of my head. He seems to have a thing for White Bigs at the very least.
Jordan Poole thinks otherwise!
Yeah draymonds an equal opportunist. Equal rights and equal lefts for everybody to catch these hands.
When you put race into it shows you are the real racist. He has had run ins with all races not one race.
Two of Dray’s most notorious incidents involved LeBron James and Rudy Gobert.
Stop it Gabe
Barry, jobu, arc, and chuck are all correct ; I would add that adams isn’t even a ‘white big’
The only pattern I’ve seen in Dray’s antics over the years is that he likes to target players that could kick his ass but won’t. He’ll start it but he doesn’t want to deal with repercussions.
Look at how he’s cut; always a step ahead with passing, and the anger outbursts. In combination they point to steroids.
When it comes to “therapy”… You cant really teach a old dog new tricks. I like draymond, his playstyle and defensive IQ is genuinely one of the best in the league and he was one of the big 3 in one of the best teams EVER, so give him his flowers. At the same time, that doesnt excuse him hitting people n tackling people whenever his emotions get too high. I dont know what to do but this Suspension is gonna be a long one
First and foremost, Draymond needs to be willing to accept counseling/therapy from the bottom of his heart, not simply as a means of reinstatement. It’s just the first step, but it’s also the hardest one: to give yourself up to an idea your brain rejects, or at least has rejected throughout your life. To accept that you have a real problem and currently lack a means of preventing it from happening again no matter how hard your brain may try to convince you it is something you can control.
I have no idea how this ends for him, but for his sake and the sake of his family I hope he emerges a better person.
Rich Paul is a scumbag
Free Draymond
Ban Draymond
FYI I was listening to Warriors radio yesterday driving to work they are making no excuses for him and agreed he should be suspended. Fans calling up all said they are tired of Green acts. many want him gone. So don’t claim warrior fans are giving him a bye.
Yeah because they’ve been losing games. If they were actually playing well you’d still hear plenty of excuses. Don’t get it twisted.
take out the Ts and flagrants and the warriors would have 3 more wins in those games Green played. Everyone can see he is causing them to lose games even you know that is true.
That’s when you know things are really bad lol.
I’ve tired of Draymond Green a long time ago..he hurts the team more than helps
Get him to Detroit for anything, just trick them into eating this contract.
Life is good Dray..multimillionaire doing what you love..won championships..have a family..desire to go wherever you like..but I guess all that doesn’t matter when you got mental health and anger issues..
Given his extensive history with these situations it’s awfully telling that he is apparently on board with the suspension. He knows how bad this one looks. He knows the hole he’s dug in just this season alone. Not that the Warriors push over FO would ever do it but he also knows that his contract can be voided because of incidents like this. Green talks, money talks even louder.
Who needs help to learn how to NOT punch, slap, kick or choke someone?
Thugs gonna thug
Draymond has to stop trying to pass this off as “an accident”. No one who saw it believes that. This is the excuse the Warriors need to give Kuminga the run he’s earned. want to win get the best ahtletes out there who can play without costing techs and suspensions and bringing chaos to a talented team.
All things being equal,
I recall days where actuall punches thrown caused less umbrage than this flailing b&*ch slap.
There is no way that I would get to keep my job if I conducted myself in this manner! Ban him for life! He has had to many chances! The only way that he would learn his lesson is to take all his money.
Wiggins tried to hold out
Originally, indefinite suspension sounded like a long suspension. Now its sounding more and more like Silver is just not definite on there being much of a suspension. He has to see which way the wind is blowing first.
^^^
Draymonds action here is not up to the level of Kermit Washington, so he should not serve anywhere near the suspension that incurred.
If it was 1 lone incident…
Draymond been playing WWE far too long…
Draymond should just retire and go speak with Vince McMahon…
Vince likes bullies… He makes a lot of money off of the heat they generate…
“DirtyDra” at it again.
Time to make an example ….