Each time the discipline comes down you think maybe, maybe, this time Draymond Green will learn. When the Warriors sent him home for cold-cocking Jordan Poole, when the league suspended him for chest-stomping Domantas Sabonis, when the NBA sat him down for five games after Green wrapped Rudy Gobert in a choke hold just last month. Whether it’s the fines, the missed games or the sheer embarrassment, eventually Green would grow up.
He didn’t, he hasn’t and Tuesday night offered the latest evidence that perhaps he won’t. Midway through the third quarter of Golden State’s game against Phoenix—its nationally televised game against Phoenix—Green got tangled up with Jusuf Nurkić. As he pulled himself loose, Green swung his arm, connecting with Nurkić’s head, a forearm-to-temple shot that dropped 6'11", 290-pound Nurkić to the floor.
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