Update: Draymond Green suspended for Game 3
NBA: "The suspension was based in part on Green’s history of unsportsmanlike acts"
The announcement
https://twitter.com/NBAPR/status/1648531506736840707?s=20
Money quote: “The suspension was based in part on Green’s history of unsportsmanlike acts.”
Slight elaboration
NBA Executive VP Joe Dumars tells ESPN on Draymond Green punishment: “Here’s what it came down to: Excessive and over-the-top actions, conduct detrimental and a repeat offender. That’s what separates this where you end up with a suspension.”
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1648696186440937473?s=61&t=P_FoYb59qpl6sz-fj5Z51g
Possible replacements?
Anthony Slater:
Steve Kerr could go a ton of directions to replace Draymond Green in starting lineup *Jordan Poole (juice the offense) *Gary Payton II (juice the defense) *Jonathan Kuminga (activate him with bigger role) *Donte DiVincenzo (regular spot starter) *Moses Moody (big role last night)
https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1648536337874812928?s=20
Sabonis’s sternum
Kings reported Sabonis was questionable because of a sternum (chest) injury, presumably due to “The Stomp”. Others noted that Sabonis ended the game with a flying dunk
https://twitter.com/djdsharp/status/1648551958683295750?s=20
and then chest-bumped his own teammate, which makes one wonder exactly how injured that chest can be.
https://twitter.com/WongBarrywong/status/1648549653812596738?s=20
Postscript
A suspension is crazy. - Damian Lillard
https://twitter.com/Dame_Lillard/status/1648541252655128578?s=20
For one series only Brooks is now my fav player.
https://youtu.be/TY7YSiJZ8sw I'm watching this to remember, at least there have been worse cases of instigators prospering? I don't know if that's really so feel-good, but maybe it's working.