By Leobert Julian A. de la Peña
Draymond Green’s timetable of return after receiving an indefinite suspension from the NBA has been finally revealed.
According to veteran NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Green will most likely be out for 11-13 days and may be extended if he fails to meet the league’s criteria for his return.
Last December 18, 2023, Joe Dumars, the NBA’s Executive President and the Head of Basketball Operations, announced that the veteran power forward would be suspended for at least three weeks.
Aside from his suspension, the NBA also announced that Green will be undergoing counseling and will be cooperating with the Warriors franchise and the league committee.
In retrospect, Green was involved in a past melee against the Minnesota Timberwolves when he choked Gobert.
With only two minutes gone in the very first quarter of the Western Conference clash, Warriors’ shooting guard Klay Thompson and Minnesota’s Jaden McDaniels got into it after pulling each other’s jerseys in the middle of the court.
After the referees whistled to stop the physical altercation, Gobert came in and grabbed Thompson by bear-hugging him.
Green then noticed what Gobert did to Thompson which forced him to headlock Minnesota’s starting center while dragging him to the other side of the court.
Both Thompson and McDaniels were whistled for technical fouls and ejection while Green was slapped with a Flagrant 2 foul and also exited the game.
After his incident with the Timberwolves, Green repeated his on-court misconduct last December 13, 2023, when he was whistled for a Flagrant Foul 2 after hitting Suns’ Jusuf Nurkic in the face.
Green was jockeying for position during an inbound play and was tightly guarded by Nurkic in the baseline. After a few seconds, the big man was caught swinging his arm that went directly to the center’s jaw.
