Joe Dumars, the NBA's executive vice president and head of basketball operations, provided a deeper explanation for Draymond Green’s Game 3 suspension.
, as they trail the Kings two games to none in the best-of-seven series and desperately need a Game 3 win Thursday night at Chase Center.
Dumars, a Hall of Fame guard who worked in various Kings front-office positions from 2019 to 2022 before joining the NBA, also told Wojnarowski that the importance of this moment in the series had to be set aside in considering Green’s punishment. Green's status as a “repeat offender weighs as heavy as anything,” per Dumars, as the Warriors star now has 162 technical fouls, 17 ejections and four suspensions in his 11-year NBA career.
Dumars to ESPN on weighing the circumstances of the Warriors down 2-0 to the Kings in the series: “You know what the situation is, but you have to set that aside and look at the facts in front of you…Repeat offender weighs as heavy as anything.”
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