{"id":107951,"date":"2024-11-19T20:32:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T01:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=107951"},"modified":"2024-11-19T20:32:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T01:32:51","slug":"warriors-green-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/11\/19\/warriors-green-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Enforcer Draws Suspension Talks After Latest Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

The incident involving Warriors enforcer\u00a0<\/span>Draymond Green<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Zach Edey<\/span><\/a>\u00a0during Golden State’s win over the\u00a0<\/span>Memphis Grizzlies<\/span><\/a>\u00a0last Friday has strangely gone under the radar. By that, I mean no supplemental discipline was handed down, minus an upgraded flagrant one foul the next day. Green avoided a much harder slap on the wrist, to which ESPN analyst\u00a0<\/span>Kendrick Perkins<\/span><\/a>\u00a0adamantly believes the NBA should have come down harder on the multi-repeat offender.<\/span><\/p>\n

Warriors Enforcer Draws Suspension Talks After Latest Incident<\/h2>\n

Warriors Enforcer Draymond Green Deserves ‘Extended Suspension’<\/h3>\n

While guest appearing on\u00a0<\/span>First Take<\/span><\/em>\u00a0Tuesday morning, the former NBA player-turned-analyst indicated that Green should receive an extended suspension for\u00a0<\/span>his takedown of Grizzlies big man<\/span><\/a> Edey. Perkins, who is not shy in calling out Green and his antics over the years, argued that Green’s history and non-basketball play on Edey warrants a time-out. Following up on Stephen A. Smith’s opening remarks<\/a>, where he admitted he believed the flagrant one upgrade was satisfactory, Perkins disagreed. [2:20 mark]<\/span><\/p>\n

“Well, I do, I do, and I actually think Draymond should be suspended for an extended period of time. We’re talking about a play where he pulled on the opponent’s [Edey] achilles while the opponent was going the opposite direction. We’re talking about a guy in Zach Edey whose 7’2, 7’3, probably 300 pounds\u2014this could have been a season-ending injury right here.” Perkins continued, “It’s a sticky situation because it is Draymond. Some people like me are saying this is a dirty play. He needs to be penalized for this; he needs to be suspended, and there’s are others who say, ‘Hold on, let’s take a deeper dive into it; we don’t want to make it as if we’re picking on Draymond. But if you ask me, he needs to be suspended for an extended period of time. There’s no room, no place in our game for those type of actions.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s quite a strong response from Perkins, who, again, has gone after Green on numerous occasions in the past. That’s not to say there are motives behind Perkins’ comments. Simply put, he sees Green’s takedown of Edey as dangerous, and Edey was lucky to have avoided injury.<\/p>\n

No Suspension, but Likely on Thin Ice<\/h3>\n

Green played in the Warriors next game against the\u00a0<\/span>Los Angeles Clippers<\/span><\/a>. So, if the NBA were going to suspend him, the call would have happened by now. <\/span>This<\/span> means Green will avoid a suspension as it stands today. Still, the question remains: should he have <\/span>been suspended<\/span>? It <\/span>definitely<\/span> wasn’t a basketball play, which Edey even stated following the game. Video footage clearly showed\u00a0<\/span>Green<\/span><\/a>\u00a0squeeze on Edey’s ankle, which caused him to fall forward. Yet, the NBA decided the upgrade to a flagrant one foul was sufficient <\/span>enough<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given Green’s history, most recently as last season, a suspension wouldn’t have been a surprise. It’s more surprising he escaped this one. Which leads to the point that Green, in the future, needs to be extra careful. If the NBA let this one slide, it could be much worse if Green causes another incident later in the season. If that’s the case, and Green does something wild, Kendrick Perkins might have his argument justified\u2014an extended suspension for Draymond Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The incident involving Warriors enforcer\u00a0Draymond Green\u00a0and\u00a0Zach Edey\u00a0during Golden State’s win over the\u00a0Memphis Grizzlies\u00a0last Friday has strangely gone under the radar. By that, I mean no supplemental discipline was handed down, minus an upgraded flagrant one foul the next day. Green avoided a much harder slap on the wrist, to which ESPN analyst\u00a0Kendrick Perkins\u00a0adamantly believes the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5081,"featured_media":107955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1608,62],"tags":[409,3215,3836,4741],"class_list":["post-107951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-warriors","category-basketball","category-nba","tag-draymond-green","tag-kendrick-perkins","tag-stephen-a-smith","tag-zach-edey"],"modified_by":"Aaron J Zacharias","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}