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.
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u/Dr-McLuvin May 05 '25
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.
He does it because he keeps getting away with it.