Watch Draymond Green grabbed Patty Mills by the neck and pulled him to the floor | Streamable

It's a play that endangers another athlete on the court and it isn't even a play on the ball. I think it's unfair to other players who have to play against him. I'm also interested to see how the league responds. He had an indefinite suspension that worked out to 16 games for a history of actions like this and came back in January of this season. The league doesn't want to suspend him because they're concerned they might make less money if they do so, but they also need to maintain some image as a legitimate authority in this matter. Gotta keep GSW in the play-in too ;)

Agreed

this is not nearly as bad as the ones that got him suspended. y’all are just looking to be outraged, give him a flagrant and move on with your lives.

Please, please, please. Why don't you start by watching the video again?

It's not a case of 'Draymond's arm just happened to get stuck as he moved through a smaller player.' No dude, it's a case of him absolutely grabbing the other player around the top of his chest, then wrapping his hand around Mills' neck, pulling him down backwards in a completely unsafe way.

There's also the fact that Draymond's so much bigger and stronger than Mills that he had easily enough leverage and strength to do all that with a lot less force & intention than it would have taken for say... someone like Nikola Jokic.

It was a horrible-looking series of actions, and I hope I never see it again.

When the league reviews this, if they don't handle this the right way, then all their talk about Draymond needing to change is just so much hot air.

@streetfestival@lemmy.ca

I don't know where you got the outraged part from my comment - I think we can make observations without such strong emotions?, especially when they don't affect you personally.

Who is “y’all”?

Yup i agree. Hes fighting through contact. Arm gets stuck. He removes it. Draymond rightfully has a reputation, but this isnt dirty. The nba in general needs to let stuff like this go and allow physical play from both offense and d.