Woj’s update on the Draymond Green suspension & path to returning for the Warriors | NBA Countdown

Woj’s update on the Draymond Green suspension & path to returning for the Warriors | NBA Countdown

The second game of our Christmas Quinn tupple header is the Warriors and the Nuggets it’s at 2:30 on ABC The Warriors gentlemen they continue to be without Draymond Green who was suspended this month after striking Phoenix’s Yousef nurkic in a game our senior NBA Insider

Adrien WJ narowski is with us now so wo when the suspension was announced the league said right that Draymond Green he would need to quote fulfill certain league and team conditions so what details have you learned about his path to return here well beyond his own individual counseling that Draymond

Green is a part of of now I’m told uh that he’s doing periodic essentially virtual meetings zooms with uh that include the Warriors Mike dun leevy Jr their GM the league office The Players Association his agent Rich Paul also on these calls just to get a sense as they

Move through this what Draymond Green is learning here where he’s at with this the League this is an unusual process this is an unusual suspension open-ended indefinite and what the league has wanted to to do in Partnership essentially with the Players Association the Warriors and even Draymond Green who

I’m told has been very open to this very engaged in this is try to see if they can get to the roote of what may have played a part in What You’ve seen some of these violent encounters going back to Jordan pool this year with Rudy Gober

And of course you Yousef nurkic and this is going to play a part uh in his return to play I’m told still it’s probably looks like barring any setbacks an 11-13 game window uh that he’ll be out 11 to13 game window for Draymond Green but even without Draymond stepen a the Warriors

They’ve rattled off five straight wins they’re looking for a sixth today given all that we just heard from wo what’s your confidence level that they can keep it rolling when Draymond comes oh my confidence level’s High you know why because I’m watching Klay Thompson Klay Thompson has reemerged I’m seeing on

This five game winning streak big perk don’t you fix your face that way I’m seeing doing this five game winning streak Klay Thompson is averaging 24.8 points per game he is shooting 46% from three-point range Steph Curry is shooting 47% from three-point range what is the ultimate we can talk about

Draymond we can talk about Looney we can talk about the coach Steve Kerr we can talk about the environment we can talk about the whole of the former home crowd at the Oracle that’s now going over to the Bay across the river to San Francisco we talk about all of that but

What is the consistent ingredient to this success it is shooting from the Splash Brothers and that is what I’m seeing what was I on the air crying about a few weeks ago I said Klay Thompson what’s up what’s going on you want your money don’t you you want a new

Contract extension don’t you let’s make sure now athleticism is what dissipates it’s what diminishes over time God we just don’t run we don’t have the same spring in our step but the one thing that’s the last to go is the stroke baby and that’s what Klay Thompson is brought

Back the fact that he has returned to relevancy and it is co-signed with Steph Curry shooting the ball as long as those two brothers can shoot shoot that way they are a threat to anybody but you got to ask yourself why has it changed for Klay Thompson okay because Steve Curry

Is finally coaching his behind off the mixture of old with new well he starts in the past no no no I’ve been begging more kaminga I agree right you look at Jackson Davis but let me explain why the the league is is full of athleticism now they can match athleticism when you have

Kaminga and you have Jackson Davis that are live threats at the basket guess what now those guys roll into the paint it opens up three-point shooting you put those guys in pick and roll action with Steph Curry it’s a difference see Draymond is allergic to the basket let’s

Be real he’s not that score no more but he these two guys are offensive threats they’re not afraid and what’s happening is that Steve Curry is letting those guys play through their mistakes and play meaningful minutes let’s see let’s let’s see if they can play through those

Those mistakes and Stephen A I love the fact that you were this excited on Christmas morning that’s right absolutely who of the war who of the Warriors beating in that no signature that is the point sign theel the Celtics win and what what were you de crying about that the number of

Threes the Celtics put up and missed let’s see this against the Champs the rigning Champs today listen listen I’m going to get you I love I love that Clay is doing this first of all I’ve been the one saying wait a minute when you have the kind of injuries that Klay Thompson

Has yeah it takes much longer than you wanted to allow him last he wanted to where is Klay Thompson he’s behind those injured legs which at this point listen Stephen A we’ve seen those kind of injuries end effectively careers of Hall of Famers and would be Hall of Famers

We’ve seen those kind of injuries Derrick Rose’s career was permanently derailed Amari st’s career was ended prematurely we’ve seen truly great players not recover from this so Klay Thompson the fact that he’s taking longer than you want excuse me is just a little too bad couple things one number

One first I know you’re the ultimate Insider but you didn’t know what I’m about to drop on this man right here okay okay W let me tell you something right now for the first time in my 30 plus years of knowing Mike wil I am accusing him of being unfair to me

Unfair unfair to me to let me let me tell you something first of all what I said about Klay Thompson was this of course it’s going to take a long rooll but you don’t win the championship against Boston without Klay Thompson showing up so if you can do it then then

What the hell was the problem now more than a year and a half later that’s number one number two I when it comes to shooters shooters the bottom line is that ain’t about the competition that’s about you making shots Klay Thompson wasn’t making shots now some of them

Were contested but some of them were wide open he just wasn’t draining them and I’m seeing him drain them now and as long as that’s happening that’s a different Warrior Squad yeah they didn’t have great spacing early in this season and I as as other players start to shoot

Better Wiggins plays better Steph Curry playing P up at an MVP level psky you see Klay Thompson you know he can’t go get his shot the way Steph Curry can obviously one more thing on Draymond Green he’s allowed to work out with the team practice with the team that hasn’t

Happened yet he has stayed away working on these things I’m told to not expect him back in the gym with this team perhaps until after uh January 1 well they are facing the defending champs in this the Denver Nuggets who have won seven of eight games here behind Nicol

Yic who has established himself once again as a leading MVP candidate in all of This

Woj’s update on the Draymond Green suspension & path to returning for the Warriors | NBA Countdown
Adrian Wojnarowski details the steps Draymond Green is taking to return to play, then the NBA Countdown crew discusses the outlook for the Golden State Warriors.
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