When he faced off against the Sacramento Kings, Golden State forward Draymond Green himself embroiled in yet another controversy. Due to the 33-year-old’s step on Sacramento’s Domantas Sabonis’ chest, he was suspended for one game without pay. Thursday night’s Game 3 of the Warriors’ first-round playoff series will be missed by Green.
Joe Dumars, executive vice president and director of basketball operations, made a decision, the NBA revealed late on Tuesday. The suspension, according to the statement, was a result of Green’s history of unsportsmanlike behavior.
What Exactly Happened Between Draymond Green and Sabonis?
The incident happened during the fourth quarter of Monday’s 114-106 Game 4 victory for the King. Following Steph Curry‘s acquisition of a defensive rebound, Green stood on Sabonis’ chest. The ball was being advanced up the court by the Warriors.
While all of that was going on, Sabonis collapsed to the ground. Green then trampled on him, causing him to remain on the ground for a while. Green was assessed a flagrant-2 foul and Sabonis has assessed a technical foul for grasping his leg. He was consequently promptly dismissed from the contest.
Tests, according to Sacramento, found that Sabonis damaged his sternum and was questionable for Game 3. While all of this was going on in the NBA, a Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle and a Las Vegas Raiders offensive lineman got into a physical fight a while back.
Trysten Hill Got Suspended for Punching an Lv Raiders Player
The 25-year-old was benched by the league in 2021 for two games without compensation. After their game, Hill struck a Raiders player. The footage was examined after the Raiders’ Thanksgiving Day victory over the Cowboys, which ended 36-33 in favor of Oakland. John Simpson, an offensive lineman for the Raiders, lost his helmet after being struck by Hill.
Hill received a letter from the NFL’s vice president of football operations. You displayed behavior that this office views as uncalled-for roughness and lacking of sportsmanship. After finding him, you moved in the opposite way of your locker room toward him.
You and your opponent got into a verbal chest-to-chest argument, which you aggravated by punching his facemask with your open palm so forcefully that it detached.
Dallas selected Hill in the second round of the 2019 NFL Draft. He was released by the team in 2022. Never in a season did the fifth-year pro play more than seven games.
