Warriors’ Draymond Green reinstated from suspension by NBA after missing 12 games

Warriors’ Draymond Green reinstated from suspension by NBA after missing 12 games

Warriors’ Draymond Green reinstated

from suspension by NBA after missing 12

games The NBA on Saturday lifted Draymond

Green’s ban, which he had served for 12

games after slapping Phoenix center

Jusuf Nurkić in the face on December 12.

During his suspension, which started on

December 14, Green “demonstrated his

commitment to conforming his conduct

to standards expected of NBA players,”

according to the league. In addition to

several collaborative sessions with

representatives of the league, the

Warriors, and the National Basketball

Players Association, he has also seen a counselor.

Those meetings, the league added, will

continue throughout the season.

The Warriors have gone 7-5 without

Green, who also was suspended for five

games in November for placing

Minnesota centre Rudy Gobert in a headlock.

Green’s “repeated history of

unsportsmanlike acts” was mentioned by

the league in imposing the most recent

penalty. In the playoffs of the previous

year, the four-time NBA champion was

also punished for standing on Domantas

Sabonis of Sacramento’s chest.

Green lost about $1.9 million in pay

while on suspension, having just signed a

new $100 million US contract with the

Warriors the previous summer.

The next game for Golden State is against

Toronto on Sunday at home.

The Warriors certainly need Green on

the floor more often. They are scuffling

along at 17-18 this season, 10th in the

Western Conference, just two years

removed from their most recent

championship. Green has played in just

15 games and the Warriors are 10-10 in

the games he has missed — including

two for an ankle sprain and another for personal reasons.

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