{"id":472798,"date":"2023-12-14T03:31:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472798"},"modified":"2023-12-14T03:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:31:21","slug":"nba-suspends-green-indefinitely-after-nurkic-fight","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nba-suspends-green-indefinitely-after-nurkic-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA suspends Green indefinitely after Nurkic fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA suspended Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green indefinitely on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he struck Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the face, resulting in a Flagrant 2 foul and ejection.<\/p>\n<p>The league, under the direction of operations chief Joe Dumars, imposed the penalty immediately, marking Green&#8217;s second suspension this season. Before his return to play, Green is required to fulfill specific conditions set by both the league and the team.<\/p>\n<p>Citing Green&#8217;s history of unsportsmanlike acts, the NBA emphasized that the decision takes into account his repeated violations of sportsmanship standards.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, the Warriors had not issued a statement, but they announced that Green&#8217;s suspension would be discussed during shootaround on Thursday in Los Angeles before their game against the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>A key figure in four Warriors championships, the 33-year-old Green experienced his 18th career ejection, the highest among active NBA players, during the third quarter of a 119-116 loss to the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qktx_T4AOPM?si=Z1YV2PQ9zpYU-3Cm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe incident occurred as the Warriors were inbounding the ball near their bench, with Green and Nurkic vying for position near the baseline corner. The altercation resulted in Green&#8217;s right arm connecting with Nurkic&#8217;s face, prompting the suspension. Nurkic, expressing frustration, commented, &#8220;That had nothing to do with basketball. I\u2019m just out there trying to play basketball.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA suspended Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green indefinitely on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he struck Phoenix Suns center Jusuf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":472799,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20327,16989],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[20328,17876],"acf":{"announce":"Warriors' start has been ejected 18 times in his career - more than any active player in NBA","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472801,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472798\/revisions\/472801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472798"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472798"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}