“First black man with white privilege” – Draymond Green’s LIGHT punishment for repeated despicable acts leaves fan fuming

Draymond Green has been suspended and panelized. However, not everyone agree with the amount of games suspended.

Draymond Green and Rudy Gobert fight leads to suspension for Green (Credits: Masslive.com, Basketnews.com and SLC Dunk)

The Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green received his fifth NBA suspension on Wednesday. The suspension pertains to raising an on-court fight and forcibly grabbing Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert near the neck in an unsportsmanlike and hazardous manner.

Joe Dumars, executive vice president of basketball operations, released a statement announcing the penalty on behalf of the league. Green’s “history of unsportsmanlike acts” was cited by the statement as justification for the punishment. Gobert, Klay Thompson, and Jaden McDaniels also received fines of $25,000 from the NBA.

However, the punishment for Draymond seemed much less, according to the NBA fans. Green’s act remains quite dangerous, and everyone felt Green deserved more than a game suspension. Many people thought Gobert receiving the fine seemed unfair. NBA fans felt Gobert tried to de-escalate the situation and had the best of intentions. Nevertheless, he received a fine.

A Draymond Green hoop mixtape of just dirty plays over the years is GOLD pic.twitter.com/zx0IP7tAwe
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) November 15, 2023

Green will miss his first two games against the Oklahoma City Thunder, followed by games against the San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets, and Phoenix Suns. On November 28th, against the Sacramento Kings, he can make a comeback. However, in terms of missed games and lost revenue, Green will suffer the most. He will lose out on $769,704 in pay due to the suspension.

Fans furious about the five-game suspension of Draymond Green

Before giving you what fans think, let’s have a recap of how the incident took place. The incident happened not long after tipoff. Warriors guard Klay Thompson and Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels got caught up as Golden State advanced the ball in transition with less than two minutes remaining into a scoreless game. Klay stretched Jaden’s jersey there because both players were vying for the ball after a rebound.

It didn’t take seconds before they started pushing each other to the floor, and everyone came to separate them. But no one knew Draymond would come as thinking of choking Rudy around the neck. It may be the heat of the moment, but was not the right decision to make. Now, fans thought that Draymond should be punished with greater punishment, and fans tagged Draymond as the first black person to have white privilege, which is a lot to take.

Draymond Green got suspended a total of 6 games for knocking out Jordan Poole, choking Rudy Gobert and stomping on Sabonis chest. Bro the first black man with white privilege
— The Hood Therapist (@OhhMar24) November 16, 2023

And Ja got 25 games for flexing a toy gun ?
— Treybana (@Treybana) November 16, 2023

LOL we cleared him. He showed Luka love on that podcast.

He’s in.
— Benjamin Way (@BWay124) November 16, 2023

If you can’t laugh at this then you’re the problem. Bravo Hood ?
— ShayneO (@MatyjasShayne) November 16, 2023

Golden State is very liberal lol
— AD (@goodlife_al) November 16, 2023

They know he's trying to do everything to not play.
— God of Capitalism. ®️ ™️ (@Leg5C) November 16, 2023

Don't forget these attempted vasectomies pic.twitter.com/sfJT8h8wYL
— J.R. (@caox98) November 16, 2023

You can even add in the punch for real. He was only sitting out preseason games because they didn’t want him to miss the ring ceremony ? so it doesn’t count.
— Katie ✨ (@ciaokatie) November 16, 2023

Fans expressed their anger about the four-time NBA champion receiving a favorable suspension. Green has a history of such conduct but this time he took it to a new level. Fans wanted Green to receive a longer suspension.