Stephen A. Smith ‘disgusted with the NBA’ suspending Warriors’ Draymond Green over stomp

The NBA got here down exhausting on Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green Tuesday evening, suspending the four-time NBA champion for Sport 3 of the playoff sequence towards the Sacramento Kings. 

Inexperienced was suspended after being ejected from Monday evening’s recreation with 7:03 remaining within the fourth quarter after stomping on the chest of Kings All-Star Domantas Sabonis. 

Draymond Inexperienced, #23 of the Golden State Warriors, strikes the ball throughout Spherical 1 Sport 2 of the 2023 NBA Playoffs on April 17, 2023 at Golden 1 Heart in Sacramento, California. (Noah Graham/NBAE by way of Getty Pictures)

When saying the suspension, the NBA stated Inexperienced’s “historical past of unsportsmanlike acts” factored into the choice.

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ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith mentioned the suspension, and he was not pleased about it. 

“I’m disgusted with the NBA this morning,” Smith stated on Wednesday. “I’m sick and uninterested in everyone performing like that is simply one other recreation. It’s not simply one other recreation. It’s a playoff recreation. You bought to do one thing way more flagrant than this to be suspended.” 

After going over Inexperienced’s historical past of playoff unsportsmanlike acts, Smith famous that Sabonis performed a job within the altercation. 

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Draymond Inexperienced, #23 of the Golden State Warriors, reacts to a name in the course of the third quarter towards the New Orleans Pelicans at Chase Heart on March 28, 2023 in San Francisco. (Picture by Loren Elliott/Getty Pictures)

“My challenge is, you see what Sabonis has finished,” Smith stated. “He’s not some harmless bystander in all of this. Context, which I’ll depart it to J.J. [Redick] to offer, undoubtedly must be considered right here. 

“And then you definitely obtained to consider that it’s the rattling playoffs. And contemplating how nice Sacramento has appeared on this sequence, and the way nice they’ve appeared all season, for us to be sitting right here and to be speaking about this, and doubtlessly how this can seal Golden State’s fate is a rattling disgrace.” 

NBA government vice chairman and head of basketball operations Joe Dumars informed ESPN that Inexperienced’s “extreme and over-the-top actions” performed a big function within the determination to droop him. 

Draymond Inexperienced, #23 of the Golden State Warriors, steps over Domantas Sabonis, #10 of the Sacramento Kings, within the second half throughout Sport Two of the Western Convention First Spherical Playoffs at Golden 1 Heart on April 17, 2023 in Sacramento, California. Inexperienced was issued a flagrant foul 2 on the play, and ejected from the sport. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Pictures)

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“This is what it got here all the way down to: Extreme and over-the-top actions, conduct detrimental and a repeat offender,” Dumars informed ESPN. “That is what separates this the place you find yourself with a suspension.”

The Warriors face their first 0-2 deficit in a playoff sequence since 2007.