Draymond Green suspended 5 games for grabbing Rudy Gobert

The NBA has suspended Golden State’s Draymond Green for five games for grabbing Minnesota’s Rudy Gobert around the neck. According to the franchise, it was “an unsportsmanlike and dangerous manner,”, announced Wednesday night.

Also penalized by the league for their roles in the incident, which happened early in Tuesday’s game between the TimberWolves and Warriors, were Gobert, his Minnesota teammate Jaden McDaniels and Golden State guard Klay Thompson. All of them will have to pay $25,000 fine.

Green will pay the biggest price, both in terms of games missed and money lost as the suspension will cost him $769,704 in forfeited salary.

“The length of the suspension is based in part on Green’s history of unsportsmanlike acts,” the NBA said in the release announcing the penalties.

Draymond Green: ejected
Klay Thompson: ejected
Jaden McDaniels: ejected

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Thompson and McDaniels were each assessed a technical foul and ejected, while Green was assessed a Flagrant Foul 2 for grabbing Gobert.