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NBA: Warriors' Green unrepentant as ban for Gobert headlock ends

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) reacts after a foul call during the second half of Game 6 in the NBA Western Conference playoff semifinals against the Los Angeles Lakers at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, USA, May 12, 2023. Allison Dinner, EPA-EFE/File." src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/11/27/20231127-golden-state-warriors-forward-draymond-green.jpg"/><figcaption>Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) reacts after a foul call during the second half of Game 6 in the NBA Western Conference playoff semifinals against the Los Angeles Lakers at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, USA, May 12, 2023. Allison Dinner, EPA-EFE/File.</figcaption></figure></div>SAN FRANCISCO -- Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green, banned five games by the NBA after grabbing Minnesota&#x27;s Rudy Gobert in a headlock, Sunday defending his decision to defend a teammate.Green lost his cool in the opening minutes of a game in San Francisco, after teammate Klay Thompson and the Timberwolves&#x27; Jaden McDaniels got into it and Green saw Gobert try to pull Thompson away.He flung an arm around Gobert&#x27;s neck, dragging him across the court in what officials called a headlock but which could have as easily been called a chokehold.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/11/16/23/warriors-green-suspended-5-games-for-gobert-headlock">NBA: Warriors ace Green suspended five games for Gobert headlock</a></li></ul>&quot;Anytime there is a situation and a teammate needs you to come to his defense, I’m going to come to their defense,&quot; Green said as he prepared to return to the court on Tuesday against Sacramento.&quot;Especially with someone I&#x27;ve been a teammate with for 12 years. That&#x27;s more than a teammate, that&#x27;s a brother.&quot;Things can be interpreted how people interpret them, I&#x27;m not here to judge people&#x27;s interpretations or change them. They are what they are. But for me, I will always be there for my teammates.&quot;The NBA may have been hoping for more reflection from Green when it meted out a suspension &quot;based in part on Green&#x27;s history of unsportsmanlike acts.&quot;Green said he thought that was unfair.&quot;To continue saying, &#x27;Oh, what he did in the past..&#x27; I paid for those,&quot; Green said.&quot;I got suspended for Game 5 of the Finals,&quot; he added -- a reference to the one-game ban he drew in the 2016 Championship series. &quot;So you can’t keep suspending me for those actions.&quot;However, since the league has &quot;made it clear&quot; they would continue to take past transgressions into account, Green said he would &quot;need to adjust where I see fit.&quot;&quot;I&#x27;m going to play basketball the way I play basketball,&quot; Green said. &quot;The way I play basketball has gotten me here. The way I play basketball has brought me a tremendous amount of success, individually and from a team standpoint, so I will always be myself. But I do understand and know there is room for growth and I need to be better in those moments in different situations.&quot;<div>© Agence France-Presse</div>