{"id":11530,"date":"2023-11-27T12:35:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T09:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/11530\/draymond-green-says-he-doesnt\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T12:35:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T09:35:58","slug":"draymond-green-says-he-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=11530","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green says he doesn&#8217;t regret incident with Rudy Gobert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draymond Green says he doesn&#8217;t regret incident with Rudy Gobert\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Kendra Andrews, ESPN<span class=\"timestamp \">November 26, 2023, 11:54 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Draymond Green does not regret the actions that earned him a five-game suspension.  Putting Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert in a headlock on Nov. 14 was in pure defense of Golden State Warriors teammate Klay Thompson, Green said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t live my life with regrets,&#8221; Green said after practice, the first time he spoke to reporters since his suspension.  &#8220;I stand up for a teammate whenever I am in a position to stand up for a teammate. &#8230; What matters most to me is how the people I care about feel. How are they doing? Are the people I care about affected? How are the people I care about doing, what are they dealing with? That&#8217;s it for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just 100 seconds into the November 14 game, Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels and Thompson found themselves linked together in transition, as Thompson held McDaniels&#8217; jersey while waiting for a long bounce.  They refused to let go and began swinging and pushing each other, leading McDaniels to tear Thompson&#8217;s jersey and Thompson to swing his arm at McDaniels.<\/p>\n<p>As other players rushed towards the two, Gobert wrapped his arms around Thompson to pull him off of McDaniels, which is when Green put Gobert in a headlock and pulled him into back for several seconds.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Draymond-Green-says-he-doesnt-regret-incident-with-Rudy-Gobert.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Green and Gobert share a rich and mean-spirited history.  But Green would not say Sunday whether their past interactions played a role in his actions that night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings can be interpreted however people want to interpret them,\u201d he said.  &#8220;I&#8217;m not here to judge people&#8217;s interpretations or try to change them. They are who they are. I know that for me, I&#8217;ll always be there for my teammates. That&#8217;s who I am. That&#8217;s who I am as a teammate is who I am as a friend. \u2026 Right, wrong or indifferent, look beside you and I will be there \u2013 or even in front of you.<\/p>\n<p>After the NBA announced Green&#8217;s suspension, Warriors coach Steve Kerr said Green&#8217;s actions were &#8220;inexcusable&#8221; and that the organization should find the best ways to support Green moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Green didn&#8217;t elaborate on any private discussions he had with Kerr or general manager Mike Dunleavy, but gave a little insight into the team&#8217;s feelings on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The consensus among all of us is that I&#8217;m going to be myself no matter what. That&#8217;s not going to change,&#8221; Green said.  &#8220;But in saying that, there&#8217;s always a better way to do something. So it&#8217;s about finding a better way. That&#8217;s the consensus among all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NBA Executive Vice President Joe Dumars said in a statement announcing Green&#8217;s suspension that his history of unsportsmanlike conduct played a role in the length of the ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo keep mentioning, \u2018Oh, well, he did that in the past,\u2019 I paid for that,\u201d Green said.  &#8220;I was suspended in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. You cannot continue to suspend me for these actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Green said the question he asks himself repeatedly after these incidents is: &#8220;Am I learning from this?&#8221;  What often comes to mind is his team&#8217;s need for him to be present on the field.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Green&#8217;s return will come at a critical time, when the Warriors visit the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday.  The Warriors have lost eight of their last 11 games \u2013 four of those losses without Green.<\/p>\n<p>The three main issues Green sees are spacing, defense and turnovers: the first two issues he said he knows will help with, and the other he hopes not to make worse.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that Green&#8217;s presence on the field will have an immediate impact.  But in reality, this won&#8217;t miraculously solve everything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where I can help the most is by requiring that everyone communicate, not me coming back and saying, &#8216;Oh, he&#8217;s the savior,'&#8221; Green said.  &#8220;It&#8217;s not working. There are no saviors in the NBA. But what I can do is come back and hold more people accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerr said Green would not be on any minutes restrictions heading into Tuesday&#8217;s game because, unlike when a player returns from injury, Green has been able to practice and maintain his fitness.<\/p>\n<p>Green said he only had one full day off during his suspension and spent a lot of time shooting and lifting weights.  He also traveled with the team to Phoenix last <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/week\/\"   title=\"week\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">week<\/a> where he played scrimmage and was able to play with other teammates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our defense instantly improves with Draymond; we know that,&#8221; Kerr said.  &#8220;Then it&#8217;s really about finding the right combinations in the game that are rhythmic and clickable. We&#8217;re looking for the best two-way version of our team. &#8230; I would say with all the absences and injuries and stuff, we&#8217;re always looking That.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s game will also determine whether the Warriors or Kings advance to the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/quarterfinals\/\"   title=\"quarterfinals\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">quarterfinals<\/a> of the season-opening tournament.  This will be Green&#8217;s first time playing at Golden 1 Center since Game 7 of the first round of last season&#8217;s playoffs \u2014 a series in which he was suspended for stomping on Kings big <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/man\/\"   title=\"man\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">man<\/a> Domantas Sabonis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be a lot like Game 7,\u201d Green said.  &#8220;The atmosphere, the excitement, the anxiety. The feeling I expect is that it will be like a Game 7.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draymond Green says he doesn&#8217;t regret incident with Rudy Gobert\u060c Kendra Andrews, ESPNNovember 26, 2023, 11:54 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Draymond Green does not regret the actions that earned him a five-game suspension. Putting Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert in a headlock on Nov. 14 was in pure defense of Golden State Warriors teammate Klay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3777,2453,6514,179,1895,2139,6513],"class_list":["post-11530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-doesnt","tag-draymond","tag-gobert","tag-green","tag-incident","tag-regret","tag-rudy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11531,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions\/11531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}