Let Me Clairify

Draymond Green has never been shy since coming into the league in 2012. He has been involved in verbal and physical conflict both on the hardwood and in the practice facilities. In greens latest altercation he assualted, former Michigan state shooting guard and Teamate, Jordan poole. In the video Green is seen creeping towards Poole quietly. The two players come face to face and Poole pushes Draymond away leading to the full force punch to the face that left Jordan Poole Lying on the ground.

This is not Draymond Green’s first physical altercation that affected the teams success. In 2016 Green kicked LeBron James in the groin during the NBA Finals which then led to what many sports historians consider the greatest Comeback in the history of basketball. Green was subsequently kicked out of the game and The Cleveland Cavaliers went on to win their first Championship in over 50 years.

Physical violence has never been far away when Draymond green is involved in July of 2016, Draymond green was arrested for assaulting a Michigan state football player. The case never went to court but it doesn’t change the fact that he has some troubles with his temper.

Green has since separated himself from the Golden State Warriors, but the question still remains, Can the Warriors move past this due to Draymond performance. The former Defensive player of the year has been a crucial part of the team for the last decade and has been the deciding factor in many tight exhibitions. Is his Temper something that can be looked past moving forward with the organization. We will see with the coming up how it all plays out.

I spoke to a local big ten sports fan about the whole mess and they are and confused as the rest of the world. My roommate Rhett Lyon a huge Big Ten sports expressed that the “this whole situation is making big ten basketball look worse and worse”. He is not super concerned with how Michigan state, the alma mater for both poole and green, is perceived. The problem that he really had with the whole situation is that he said “the big ten is already perceived as having less NBA ready talent then some of the other poor 5 universities” he thinks its going to make the big ten basketball scene and “push the conference further and further behind the ACC and the SEC”