JAVIER SNCHEZ
Updated Thursday, December 14, 2023 – 11:32
After Draymond Green’s punch, punished “indefinitely”, the Bucks star is involved in another violent incident
Antetokounmpo, after the game against Indiana.Morry GashAPNews The NBA suspends Draymond Green indefinitely for his “repeated history of unsportsmanlike actions”
On Monday, Adam Silver, NBA commissioner, arrived at the league’s headquarters in New York with multiple reasons to be satisfied. The NBA Cup, the In Season Tournament, had been a success in Las Vegas, with the victory of the Los Angeles Lakers of LeBron James and unique media attention. As already happened with the ‘Play-in’, the invention had worked. But Silver’s happiness or, at least, tranquility lasted only a few hours. They multiplied again to tarnish the image of the competition and force unpleasant measures to be taken.
A few days after the return of I Morantthe Memphis Grizzlies star who showed a gun on Instagram and hit a teenager on the street, two other NBA figures, Draymond Green y Giannis Antetokounmpothey showed their worst face.
Although the severity of both episodes had nothing to do with it. In fact, the first, the one starring Green, ended in a historic sanction: the Golden State Warriors player was suspended “indefinitely” by the NBA this Wednesday and will miss a good part of the season. On Tuesday, the partner of Stephen Curry y Klay Thompson He was expelled for the third time this year for punching a man in the house. Jusuf Nurkicof the Phoenix Suns, and the league decided to keep him off the court until he regained his composure.
As is usually done in these cases – as was done with Morant – what happened will be analyzed behind closed doors and the details of the punishment will not be exposed. In any case, it is unlikely that Green will play again before the All-Star game in February, who knows what will happen after that. His assault history is already too long.
Month of 170 techniques
This same year he had grabbed Rudy Gobert and had stepped on the chest Domantas Sabonis, although in the past he even had his own companions as victims. In 2018, I discussed with Kevin Durant in training and last year he threw a punch at Jordan Poole. Despite everything, the more than 170 techniques received, the 20 expulsions and the six suspensions in his career, Green continues to be a key piece for the Warriors and, in his own words, it is difficult for him to change.
“I’m in year 12 and you keep telling me to stop being Draymond. Don’t do a technique, blah, blah, blah. 12 years and you keep trying to train me on how I should be? I’m better at being Draymond than anyone else!” he exclaimed in one of their podcasts with little purpose of amendment. The NBA’s complacency towards him also does not help to redirect his behavior and, in general, does not avoid similar situations.
You just have to see what happened with Giannis Antetokounmpo this Wednesday. Among the problems of adapting his Milwaukee Bucks to new players –Damian Lillard– and the new coach, the Greek star scored 64 points against the Indiana Pacers and, at the end of the game, he was involved in an incident that darkened his performance.
Despite being in Milwaukee, a Pacers assistant kept the game ball and Antetokoumpo, furious, went to the locker room to look for it. He wanted the ball as a souvenir, it had been his highest score in the league. But in the halls of the pavilion he didn’t find who he was looking for, the security people asked him to calm down and he, still angry, went out to the court again in search of the Pacers star, Tyrese Haliburton, to insult him for not helping him. In the end, Antetokounmpo went home without a ball and with a stain on his record.
2023-12-14 10:32:44
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