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| Draymond is a thug with talent, but at heart a thug. |
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The league acted appropriately, although 7-10 games would have been better.
PiPress, a five game suspension without pay:
NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has suspended Golden State’s Draymond Green for five games for grabbing Minnesota’s Rudy Gobert around the neck “in an unsportsmanlike and dangerous manner,” the league said Wednesday night.
[...] Green will pay the biggest price, both in terms of games missed and money lost. The suspension will cost him $769,704 in forfeited salary.
“The length of the suspension is based in part on Green’s history of unsportsmanlike acts,” the NBA said in the release announcing the penalties. [...] Green was assessed a Flagrant Foul 2 for grabbing Gobert. That category of flagrant comes with an automatic ejection, which was Green’s second in Golden State’s last three games.
Repeated flagrant fouls in a short span demonstrate a problem individual.
A ten game suspension without pay would have cost Green twice the $770 thousand amount, and might have been a more fitting message.
$1,540,000 would have been felt. The guess is Green will not change a thing because without playing that way his skill set might not have kept him in the league.
He's just mean as a way to keep his job, and that should not be. It is not football.