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