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A suspension has come for Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green after he hit Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkić in Tuesday’s 119-116 loss.
“Based on my discussions today—and based on the transparency, the facts that everyone can see—Green will be suspended,” ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported. in turn. NBA Today. “Either today or sometime tomorrow before Thursday’s game in L.A. The question is, how long will he be out?”
Green apologized after the game, saying he wasn’t trying to hit Nurkić but that he “sold the phone in my hands. He grabbed me and pulled my hip back.
Nurkić offered a more nuanced response to the incident.
“What happened to him?” he asked while speaking to reporters. “I don’t know, personally, I feel like that brother needs help, I’m glad he didn’t try to strangle me, but at the time same thing, nothing to do with basketball, i’m just out there. there he tries to play basketball but there is a swing. … Hope whatever he’s doing in his life is good.”
Phoenix Suns head coach Frank Vogel mentioned a “reckless, dangerous game.”
He’s probably lost the benefit of the doubt now – he’s already been sent off three times this season. His first came on November 11, after committing two fouls against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
His second came just three days later when he choked Rudy Gobert from behind while pulling him out of a tackle during a game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Similar to Tuesday, he was given flag 2 during that incident and immediately sent off.
That earned him a five-game suspension, with the NBA citing his criminal history as the basis for the length of the suspension. Perhaps an equal or longer suspension will be in store for this latest situation, a huge blow for a Warriors team that is off to a 10-13 start this season.
“We need him. We need Draymond. He knows that,” head coach Steve Kerr told reporters after the game. “We talked to him. He has to find a way to stay calm and be out there for his team.”
It looks like he won’t be going out for a while after this latest incident.