Golden State Warriors NBA forward Draymond Green has been forced to apologize to Jordan Poole and his team after punching his teammate at practice on Wednesday
Green expressed his sorrow for the incident and then left the facility as the defending NBA champion Warriors practiced without him.
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Warriors general manager Bob Myers tried to hose down the hysteria surrounding the punch.
“Everybody’s fine,” Myers told reporters.
“Jordan practiced today. Draymond didn’t.
“Look, it’s the NBA. Professional sports. These things happen. Nobody likes it, we don’t condone it, but it happened.
“Draymond apologized to the team this morning. Jordan was there in the room, I was in the room, the team, the coaches, players. And we heard that.”
Still to be determined is how Green will be disciplined for the incident. Myers said he didn’t think the punishment would include missing any games.
“As far as any suspension, punishment, fine, we’re gonna handle that internally,” Myers said.
“I understand you might have questions on that, but that’s gonna be an internal process.”
Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he expects Green to return to the team on Saturday. The club has Friday off.
Kerr said there was high energy during Thursday’s practice.
“There’s been a great vibe,” Kerr said.
“We’ve had a hell of a camp. You have bumps in the road and you deal with it.”
Green forcefully struck Poole after the two came chest-to-chest during a heated exchange. The pair were then separated quickly and the Warriors stopped practice after the skirmish.
Green, 32, a four-time All-Star, is entering his 11th season in the league, all with the Warriors. He’s a seven-time All-Defensive selection with career averages of 8.7 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.4 assists.
Poole, 23, is entering his fourth season after the Warriors selected him No. 28 overall in the 2019 draft. He broke out last season, averaging 18.5 points per game in 76 contests (51 starts).
The next question that has been posed by many is: how was the vision of the incident leaked to TMZ?
Senior ESPN writer Ramona Shelburne said the Warriors are trying to find out.
The Golden State Warriors are taking “every legal course of action” to discover how the video of Draymond Green punching Jordan Poole during a scuffle at practice on Wednesday was made public, sources told ESPN.
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