In the match between the Warriors and the Suns, Dream Green, who suddenly fell ill, knocked out Nurkic with a very bad lethal iron fist, knocked out the Warriors' victory, and finally knocked himself out.
The NBA's punishment for Green is an indefinite ban, when will he return? Some conditions need to be met by the league and the team, what conditions are not explicitly stated, but should include community labor, the psychiatrist's diagnosis to Green, Green's inner repentance, or the Warriors' declining record, they can't wait for Green to be lifted, and so on.
Green was banned indefinitely, which also puzzled some fans, there were clear bans for playing people in the past, why was Green indefinitely this time?
Here's how I see it.
Now it is a legal society, and if you beat someone on the street, you will be invited to the police station for tea, mediation, and even jail, let alone in the NBA arena with such a high level of attention.
Green's beating is bad, and the motive behind it is not pure.
Green once again affected the reputation of the NBA, and this is not WWE, but even WWE, they do not allow players to really fight, wrestling is generally fought with elbows, palms, and punches are point-to-point, and even fists can be used without touching the opponent's head, whoever really hits people with fists will be ostracized by the industry and even expelled from the league.
So judging from the matter of beating people, Green's nature is quite serious even if it is placed in WWE, even in the UFC, they are not allowed to hit the back of the head, temples and other vital parts, Green specializes in hitting vital parts, no matter what league it is in, it must be dealt with harshly.
Compared with the previous NBA fighting process, in the past, everyone had half of the fierce game, the intensity was very high, the defensive action was getting bigger and bigger, the players began to be dissatisfied with each other, or the unfair referee scale caused a certain side to suffer, and the psychology fluctuated.
As the game progresses, players begin to talk to each other, first spraying a few trash words to warm up, and then in a certain round of the game, the defensive action becomes bigger, pauses the game, sprays each other, starts pushing, and if the teammates are not in place in time, then they will officially start to move.
The process is probably like this, basically there are not many cases of fighting, and there are not many cases of mutual assault over the years, most of the cases are mutual pushing, surrounding each other, and everyone calms down after a few minutes, and when the referee reviews the video to add technical offenses or something, the league will not punish too seriously after the game, or even not punish at all.
Green's approach is to skip the process directly, omit the prelude to pushing and scolding each other, and directly do it, hitting the other party's vital points, like Nurkic's temple, Gobert's throat, Poole's head, Adams's little Adams, James, Harden, Jokic's eyes, etc., etc., only those who have studied martial arts or criminals will have such a calm and decisive reflection to the point.
Before Green's suspension, Green said he usually doesn't apologize for what he set out to do. But this time he apologized to Nurkic because he didn't intend to hit Nurkic in the face, which is interesting to see.
From a psychological point of view, Green may be different from others, he may not really do these outrageous things with anger, many of them are actually premeditated, such as inserting eyes, kicking the crotch, sealing the throat, hitting the head, the average player may have one or two times in his life, Green is often used, and this year is even worse, this is the third time to hurt people, the fourth time he was banned, and it is difficult to guarantee when the fifth time will be.
The league should be afraid this time, afraid that next time Green will deliberately hit people, and really beat people up, the damage behind it is something that the NBA can't afford now, so it is necessary to set an indefinite ban first, how many games are banned, and it is not good to announce the number of games in a short time, but you can first appease the injured players and fans, and convey the NBA's importance to this matter, which should be used as an image crisis public relations.
The four suspensions were: in March, Green accumulated 16 technical fouls and was suspended;
In the playoffs in April, he trampled and injured Sabonis with war and was banned for one game;
In November, he choked Gobert with a destruction lock and was banned for five matches;
In December, he hit Nurkic in the head with a lethal iron fist and was banned indefinitely.
When will Greene lift the ban?
Referring to the NBA all-time ban list, the player who has been banned the most games is OJ Mayo, reaching 164 games, but Mayo is not a villain like Green, and he basically doesn't fight much, the reason for the ban is that in 2016, Mayo admitted to smoking marijuana and abusing painkillers, which is the most strictly forbidden thing in the NBA, and after that ban, Mayo also left the NBA, and his state plummeted.
In the list of bans, Artest was banned for 73 games because of fights, 73 games, which has to mention the infamous Auburn Palace brawl that year, because of the violent beating of fans (and it was the wrong person), Artest was banned for 73 games, and Jackson, O'Neal Jr. and others, who helped Artai beat people, were banned for 30 and 15 games respectively.
So Green's worst ban can refer to Mayo and Artest, but the matter of these two is more extreme and bad, Green is not to this extent, but it is certain that he will not be able to play this year, at least 10-20 games will be banned before the possibility of lifting the ban can be discussed.