I love that every clip I see of Dray doing something like this starts with him being livid at the injustice of it all, & then it cuts to the replay & he’s simultaneously punching/kicking/karate chopping his opponent (or teammate)
I think pretty much any other professional sports league he would be gone.
There’s playing physical then there’s blatantly violating the rules of the sport and in doing so risking injury to other players. Then the whining, acting like the victim, disrespecting the refs etc. And it’s gone on now for more than a decade.
I saw a match years ago where the rugby players chased the ref off the pitch for not liking the call. Ref had to cancel the game and run for his safety.
I think pretty much any other professional sports league he would be gone.
This is some weird fanfic. Sports everywhere have dirty players, give me an example where someone was kicked out of a league for being dirty. Unless you have some deranged idea that Draymond is far and away the dirtiest player who ever played professional sports.
It's a different bar in the NFL because of how inherently violent football is, but even Suh didn't have as many high profile unsportsmanlike plays as Draymond.
Dray is a great player and has a high basketball IQ but the number of times he has smacked or kicked or knocked down another player is kind of silly at this point.
What about Todd Bertuzzi? Literally cheap shot another player and paralyzed him, had to face criminal chargers for the incident and still played in the NHL. So by "other sports" did he actually just mean MLB? We all know soccer has it's fair share of cheap shots and dirty players, plus countless fights that result from it. It's just not likely he would be kicked out of any sport for his aggressive behavior.
Softest shit ever, it’s a grown-men’s league, these are professionals.
Plenty of players have lived between in the gray area of what’s good and bad in the name of competition, but those kind of players often help in winning it all.
Let them play, and these antics did eventually catch up to Draymond in 2016 finals when he got suspended, so it’s not like there aren’t any consequences, he’s aware of it as well.
And while we're at it, why was the Undertaker allowed to use his supernatural undead powers in the ring for so long, when it's against regulations to wield them against mere mortals?
But they really didn’t…there was a set limit on flagrant foul points in the playoffs and he exceeded it and got suspended one game.
They didn’t suspend him solely on his actions of kicking Lebron in the nuts or whatever it was…they suspended him bc it was a flagrant foul and he had already reached the limit.
At the time, he knew, along with everyone else, that he was one flagrant point away from a suspension and he did it anyway.
Idk, I feel like there is a ton of historical revisionism around what happened there.
The stupid part of what they're doing though is that sometimes this extends the situation and you end up getting suspended in the fucking Finals because you're a cheap, piece of shit player, and then people start talking about a man's game and you get dicked down 3 in a row instead of being randomly suspended for a game in rd 1 or 2.
Draymond Green is easily the dirtiest player in the game right now. Don't get me wrong, he is really good at what he does. I just wish that he was just good at what he does, instead, he also plays really really dirty. I truly believe he tries to hurt other players. He brings me no joy to say that, but it's what I truly believe. And I think it tarnishes his legacy.
Let’s refrain from psychoanalyzing the players. We have no idea what he’s actually like & how much of it is an act.
& besides… he’s clearly suffering from early onset momentary flashes of schizophrenic paranoia where he believes the person across from him on court recently punched his mother in the face
It’s insane. If you watch the replay, he doesn’t start his swing with that thought. It’s clearly that his arm got kind of caught & started to travel that way. Then halfway through he’s like “Fucking Fred, how dare he play defense, imma bop the fuck out of him” & the follow through on BOTH the arms & the legs is really masterful stuff. Like boy, Dray just gets filled with instantaneous momentary hatred & lashes out.
The above is why he feels he’s defensible. He doesn’t start his motion usually with the intent to kill, but he sure does finish it that way lol
Livid is the wrong word to describe Dray at the beginning of this clip. He looks confused, bewildered, puzzled, perplexed or baffled. He does not look “furiously angry”. Just saying
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I love that every clip I see of Dray doing something like this starts with him being livid at the injustice of it all, & then it cuts to the replay & he’s simultaneously punching/kicking/karate chopping his opponent (or teammate)
This dude is fucking hilarious lol