Draymond Green suspended five games for Rudy Gobert headlock
Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green suspended, could return Nov. 28

>Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green (23) gets in the confrontation
between Golden State Warriors’ Klay Thompson (11) and Minnesota
Timberwolves’ Jaden McDaniels (3) in the first quarter of a NBA game at
Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. (Ray
Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
By SHAYNA RUBIN | srubin@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: November 15, 2023 at 5:42 p.m. | UPDATED: November 15, 2023
at 5:46 p.m.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/11/15/draymond-green-suspended-for-five-games-for-rudy-gobert-headlock/

SAN FRANCISCO — Draymond Green will be suspended five games for putting
Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert in a headlock during Tuesday’s game, the
league announced. This is Green’s fifth career suspension.

Green will miss the Warriors’ next two games against the Oklahoma City
Thunder, then games against the Houston Rockets, Phoenix Suns and San
Antonio Spurs. He should return for an in-season tournament game against
the Sacramento Kings on Nov. 28.

The NBA’s punishment is in line with what the league established as
something of a repeat-offender rule for Green during the playoffs last
season after his entanglement with Sacramento Kings center Domantas
Sabonis that led to a one-game suspension. Green’s punishment is harsher
because of his history with the league.

“The length of the suspension is based in part on Green’s history of
unsportsmanlike acts,” NBA executive vice president Joe Dumars said in
the league statement announcing the suspension.

Klay Thompson, Jaden McDaniels and Rudy Gobert were each fined $25,000
for their involvement in the skirmish.

Green was ejected two minutes into Tuesday’s game along with Klay
Thompson and Timberwolves’ forward Jaden McDaniels, who got into an
altercation after a handsy box-out and McDaniels ripped Thompson’s
jersey. Both teams, coaches and security got involved to separate the
two, and Green caught Rudy Gobert pulling Thompson away from the scuffle
by the neck and grabbed Gobert in a headlock to pull him away.

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In a pool report, game officials said Gobert was acting as a
“peacemaker,” which absolved him of a foul called against him in real time.

“It’s kind of funny because before the game, I was telling myself that
Steph is not playing, so I know Draymond is going to try and get
ejected,” Gobert told reporters after the game. “Because every time
Steph doesn’t play, he doesn’t want to play — it’s his guy Steph. He’ll
do anything he can to get ejected.”

Steve Kerr defended Green and Thompson.

“There is no way Klay should have been ejected,” he said. “That’s
ridiculous … as far as the Draymond part, Rudy had his hands on Klay’s
neck. That’s why Draymond went after Rudy.”