Draymond Green Handed Third Ejection of the NBA Season
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00:00 where we thought Donnie on this Wednesday morning, the headline would be maybe the first
00:05 time we had seen the new super team out in the valley, the trio of Kevin Durant, Devin
00:10 Booker and Bradley Beal all playing together, or at least the headline being Bradley Beal
00:15 back in action for the Phoenix Suns.
00:18 But the main headline is not the final score or how many minutes or points Bradley Beal
00:23 logged yesterday in his return for the Suns.
00:26 It's Draymond Green ejected very early on in this basketball game in Phoenix for a spinning
00:33 slap punch, whatever you want to call it.
00:36 A blatant hit to the face of Yusuf Nurkic for Phoenix led to Draymond Green's third
00:43 ejection of the year.
00:45 We'll get to the result.
00:46 We'll get to the stats.
00:47 We'll get to Bradley Beal's return in just a moment.
00:50 But Donnie, what do you believe the NBA league office is going to do with Draymond Green?
00:54 His third ejection in the 2023-24 NBA season and the Warriors have played just 23 games.
01:02 Yeah, repeat offenders tend to get more harsh penalties.
01:05 That's usually the way it is.
01:06 And if you've never done it before, it's OK.
01:08 We'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
01:09 Maybe you lost your mind.
01:10 But then in the postgame press conference, I always find it hilarious.
01:13 Now, guys are never going to admit this.
01:15 If you take a look at Major League Baseball, pitcher clearly throwing at a batter.
01:19 What does he say postgame?
01:20 Pitcher's got away from me because he's not an idiot.
01:22 He's not going to say like, of course.
01:23 I was trying to send a message to that guy because it all was like, good, we're going
01:26 to give you three.
01:27 Now we're going to be 13 games at this point.
01:29 But still, Draymond Green saying, you know, you know, I didn't mean to do it.
01:33 There was no way I was trying to make contact with his face when literally spun, punched
01:37 him right directly in the jaw with a perfect strike there.
01:40 And we've seen Draymond do that before.
01:41 But he's also can't play out the well, you know, just flailing around in this happen.
01:45 How many times you're going to flail around by kicking people below the belt, punching
01:49 them in the face or even punching your own teammates in the face?
01:52 You can apologize so much.
01:53 But if you are the NBA, this should be a crackdown here.
01:56 This wasn't a hard foul, a flagrant foul that you could sort of sell like, hey, I was going
02:00 for the ball here.
02:01 This was an away from the play, off the ball contact to the face that basically knocked
02:06 a man out in the NBA.
02:07 It'll be interesting to see the way the NBA handles that.
02:10 I don't think it's going to be quote unquote superstar treatment that says, hey, you know
02:13 what?
02:14 He's one of the stars in the league.
02:15 You can't do this and penalize him too much.
02:16 No, you should be able to lay down the smack down the law here on Draymond Green again