OT - Should Draymond Green be suspended?

Now that you mention it, Draymond does use a LOT of peanut butter in that commercial where he's making the sandwich.

 

No joke. I was 100% against OKC...until the Blazers played Golden State and I got a taste of Draymond Green and GS league favoritism. After that I was 50/50 on either team. Now with "The Kick" and "The Punishment", I'm 100% anti-GS. It doesn't help that it brings back so many bad Lakers memories. Fuck the NBA.

 

Over 70% of responders in the ESPN poll disagreed with the decision not to suspend, and the vast majority of those that did agree came from California (big surprise). I'm not so sure that players want to be able to be kicked in the groin with impunity just because it's the playoffs...but hey, whatever.

 

If I were commish I would put a stop to all of the limb-flailing that players do these days - anything that isn't a natural movement would be a foul. Kick your leg out? That's a foul. Unnatural follow-through? That's a foul. Jumping INTO the defender rather than shooting a jump shot like any normal person would? Oooh you better believe that's a foul.

 

Nope. Still should be suspended. Now people will say it's okay to kick people in the junk, since the refs aren't going to enforce it because that too would affect the championship blah blah blah.

There's no excuse. All that crap is just that, crap.

 

"Balls Don't Lie" ~ Sheed

 

It's almost like...they should pass a rule against flopping....

 

I kind of want to mail Draymond Green some nuts.

 

I think they should let him start and play up to the time he kicked Steven Adams and then he's out... If they'd called the Flagrant 2, like the league decided the next day, he would have been tossed.

 

A nutcracker.

 

Haha... and they thought a Spurs/Pacers final was as "small market" as they could get. :MARIS61::MARIS61::MARIS61:

 

That's how I feel. I really don't think Toronto has a chance but love their fan base and would love to see that happen. But, I think it'll be Cleveland so I decided that I would be OK with LeBron getting one more for the fans because they deserve it after what he put them through.

 

I'll say again: The OKC fans should throw rocky mountain oysters onto the court when Green is announced. Make a spectacle. Fuck the NBA.

 

I said most NBA players (and ex-players) not fans. It was kind of obvious that fans felt differently.

To me the bigger issue was the flop. There are several players who continually kick their legs out, either to exaggerate they are fouled or to draw the foul. (Miller used to do it, and Crawford does it now) The fact that Green ended up kicking Adams in the balls while intentionally kicking out his legs.......could not be verified by the NBA front office as being intentional.......to the groin.

The flop on the other hand can't be debated. He admitted it. It was intentional all the way...there is absolutely no doubt about that.

 

Are they willfully blind? (He asked rhetorically.)

Green went up, came down, had both feet planted, and THEN he kicked a field goal between Adams' legs. Intentional, pure and simple.

 

So very wrong - it's not a credible championship if one team doesn't have to play by the rules. I understanding the league not wanting big stars out but it ruins the overall game. How am I, as a Blazer fan (or any other small market team) going to continue to pull for my team if there's a separate, more restrictive, set of rules for my team? I'm a Blazer fan first and NBA fan second but I always watch all the teams in the play offs. If I don't feel like my team has a fair shot I won't watch at all!

 

It occurs to me now that the correct answer to the question, "Should Draymond Green be suspended?" is, "By which anatomical part?"

 

Setting aside which body part got kicked, it was an intentional and flagrant foul, and warranted a suspension. Doesn't matter if he'd kicked him in the shin or the chin, kneed him in the knee or the noggin, or elbowed him in the back or the buttocks, it was a flagrant foul administered with the intent and purpose of injuring the player. But since it was Draymond Green doing the kicking, it's all good. Seriously, what blackmail does this goon have on the NBA?