NBA Season 2022-23

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The biggest problem is what he did after the foot stomp. Any reasonable excuse you have goes out the window when you start taunting the crowd like he's in a heel in a WWE promo, right after you do something that could seriously hurt someone. It's a terrible look for the league, especially with Silver sitting right there.

I hadn't seen the antics after that you refer to.  I found a video that continued and included that.  I agree with you that the league should frown on that pretty heavily.  I am not sure if the league will consider that in their assessment for a suspension.  They should, but I don't know if they will.

What it shows me is that if he gets away with this without any further penalty (he did get ejected) he will do it again.

The bolded 100%.  The league for some reason lets Draymond Green do anything he wants.  He screams at officials, is out of control with the flag fouls, but the NBA just doesn't do anything.

[celticsclay]

Green egging on the crowd may be what gets him a fine or one game suspension also. With all the fan player interactions over the last year (including kyrie in Boston) the league is sensitive to that staff. I also do think people are downplaying what sabonis did here. You can actually break someone’s ankle with what he did.

[Celtics2021]

Green egging on the crowd may be what gets him a fine or one game suspension also. With all the fan player interactions over the last year (including kyrie in Boston) the league is sensitive to that staff. I also do think people are downplaying what sabonis did here. You can actually break someone’s ankle with what he did.

Honestly, I think it’s a lot easier to say Sabonis’ contact was unintentional than Green’s.  He falls to the ground and it looks like he’s protecting his head with his arms, and in the process gets wrapped around Draymond’s leg, which was behind him and unlikely to be seen.

[SHAQATTACK]

Some of you have apparently never been stepped/stomped on and it really shows. 

I was about  13-14  in a pickup tag football game many moon ago. I was the youngest guy play n and definitely the smallest lightest by a good margin. But I was fast and thought I d  be ok , after all it’s tag ..right .  I made a couple scores on the 16-18 year olds .  This one guy got very angry .  He picked me up , put me in an airplane spin and tossed me like a rag doll across the grass yard  I had wind k Ickes out when I landed .  I wasn’t injured but I never have forgot that flight though space .

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Wonder if Kerr thought Draymond ‘broke the code’ … 🤔

[Goldstar88]

The Bucks officially listed Giannis Antetokounmpo as doubtful to play in Wednesday night's Game 2 against the Miami Heat as he continues to deal with a lower back injury.

[Goldstar88]

Beginning in 2024, all invited players will be required to attend and participate in the NBA draft combine or be ineligible to be drafted until the "first subsequent draft for which the player attends and fully participates."

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The Bucks officially listed Giannis Antetokounmpo as doubtful to play in Wednesday night's Game 2 against the Miami Heat as he continues to deal with a lower back injury.

Ok that is big news....can the Heat steal another one?  up 2-0 and going home for 2, man the pressure would ratchet up fast on the Bucks.

[slamtheking]

Beginning in 2024, all invited players will be required to attend and participate in the NBA draft combine or be ineligible to be drafted until the "first subsequent draft for which the player attends and fully participates."

I like that rule.  impacts the ability of college prima donnas that won't work out for teams in an effort to force their way to a team they want

[slamtheking]

The Bucks officially listed Giannis Antetokounmpo as doubtful to play in Wednesday night's Game 2 against the Miami Heat as he continues to deal with a lower back injury.

Ok that is big news....can the Heat steal another one?  up 2-0 and going home for 2, man the pressure would ratchet up fast on the Bucks.

but, but, but, they have Middleton.  He's supposed to be the player that makes the Bucks world champs and better than us and everyone else.  surely Miami can't beat the great Middleton 2 games in a row??!!!   

[Phantom255x]

Well, the league has suspended Draymond 1 game

Good

[Goldstar88]

Well, the league has suspended Draymond 1 game

Good

Tp for the good news. He’s the worst…

Draymond Green was suspended for one game without pay by the NBA after he stomped on Domantas Sabonis' chest during Monday's Golden State Warriors game against the Sacramento Kings.

The NBA announced the decision in a Tuesday statement from executive vice president of basketball operations Joe Dumars, who wrote that the ban “was based in part on Green’s history of unsportsmanlike acts.” Green will miss Game 3 on Thursday.

[keevsnick]

Will be interesting to see what the league does…

Adrian Wojnarowski: Sacramento Kings All-Star Domantas Sabonis is undergoing X-rays on his ribs/lungs, sources tell ESPN. Sabonis is getting evaluated after Draymond Green stepped on him in Game 2. – via Twitter wojespn

well maybe Sabonis shouldn't have grabbed Green's legs or continued playing.  I believe this report is entirely the Kings trying to get Green suspended.  Nothing more, nothing less.

Well Draymond requested an X-Ray for his ankle that Sabonis grabbed. Is he also trying to garner sympathy? 

Please. There's no excuse for what Draymond did right after which is stomping someone on the ground. And frankly, if the league does nothing about it then I think all bets are off, guys will have no problem playing even more physical and making "dangerous plays" too

Yep.  That is exactly what Draymond was doing.  Trying to avoid a suspension.  It is all gamesmanship.   

Green was given a flagrant 2 and ejected, that seems like the correct penalty given Sabonis instigated and started the entire thing with his own dangerous play.  Had Sabonis not grabbed Green's leg, then there is no stomp and no ejection.

Ya Sabonis shouldn't' have grabbed him. But the two things aren't really comparable in severity. Draymond should be suspended, 1-2 games. He has a history of stuff like this.

They weren't treated like they were the same.  Sabonis was given a technical.  Green was given a flagrant 2 and ejected.

He stomped, intentionally, on Sabonis’s chest.  Everyone is very lucky that Sabonis’ didn’t suffer serious injury to vital organs.  It was not a basketball play, it was not an accident, and that it was retaliatory doesn’t remotely mitigate anything.  Draymond has a long history of these types of actions, and should be suspended.  He won’t because it’s the playoffs, but he should be.  In the regular season he absolutely would be.

I just disagree.  I've seen the video a bunch of times and from a bunch of different angles.  I absolutely 100% believe, the only reason it happened was Sabonis grabbing his legs.  Draymond didn't put much force at all on that and didn't follow through.  He was stepping on him so he could push off and continue down the court.  If Draymond truly stomped on Sabonis, he wouldn't have gotten up like nothing happened (after his initial reaction to get Green ejected).

Well, whatever he did or didn't do the league decided it was enough to suspend him for game 3. Its the right call in my opinion, you can't give Green the benefit of the doubt in this situation, not with his history not to mention the way he acted immediately thereafter.

[Birdman]

It wasn’t the stomp that got me, it’s the way he stand on him with his force of his weight & both feet were up off the floor

[Goldstar88]

It wasn’t the stomp that got me, it’s the way he stand on him with his force of his weight & both feet were up off the floor

Both were disgusting. Have to imagine that the Warriors are getting tired of his antics. Will be interesting to see if he’s back after this year.