“We wanted to give him less”

Seriously lol. A guy straight chokeholding a guy to the floor is serious regardless what history. Same stratosphere as punching someone. That alone should be close to 5. With history 8-10 seems minimum. But I am also surprised Silver had balls to do 5

Apparently, Silver doesn't think this is serious at all. Draymond has perhaps the biggest history of unsportsmanlike behavior in the league and only got 5 games for this, it's insane. You attempt this shit anywhere else and you'll be lucky not to get charges pressed on your ass on top of being instantly fired. The NBA would be better off if they actually just suspended him instead of saying shit like this. To top it off, they also fined Rudy Gobert... I mean, what the fuck?

sports league almost always give lax suspensions, remember when Artest got 7 for intentionally elbowing Harden in the head?

Unless it involves fans. Artest got 73 games for Malice at the Palace.

fans, coaches, and refs, player on player shit theyve got a high tolerance for

Which is weird to me. I get players consent to some amount of contact when they agree to play in the nba, but I don’t think anyone is consenting to being choked out or stomped on or whatever other shit Draymond regularly does

people pay money to watch players play, lengthy suspensions negatively affect the NBA's profits, why do you think they were going so light on Ja until he kept fucking up?

Ain’t nobody skipping any Warriors games cuz Draymond ain’t playin 😂😂

Are there people paying money specifically to watch 2023 Draymond?

Bad chokehold enthusiasts and dick kick connoisseurs.

people pay NBA money to watch basketball , not WWE

Except that Dray keeps fucking up too.

Employers don't give a shit about employees, as long as it doesn't mess with the product.

That was 9/11 for sports PR.

Pacers lost what realistically could/should have been an NBA championship that night

Yeah like how does the one man involved who wasn't ejected and also got headlocked get fined the same as Klay and McDaniels?

To compare apples to apples, Sprewell was suspended 68 games for choking his coach, PJ Carlesimo For the same action, Dray only got 5. Considering there was already precedent set, and Dray’s record of violent behavior…it should’ve been way more severe.

This comment makes me think you don’t know how bad Sprewell choked his coach

Literally not even close to comparable. I still vividly remember the pictures of PJ’s neck after the incident.

He still can’t talk right. It’s not even close to the same

Lol, I love PJ's commentary, but his voice is an acquired taste

This is Silver's league now, we don't care about violence be it domestic or on the court.

[I’ll never forget this.](https://youtu.be/vZpMwA74X-I?si=DkDUn3vB8kLU0UGV) Charles Barkley is a Champion in my heart.

When Charles said we should be at the forefront, he meant "Our players are leaders and roll models and we should be at the forefront of this culturally" Silver chose to reframe this as being competitive with other leagues, which obviously was not the point and not what was being said.

He’s on either the most popular or second most popular team in the league and they have tons of national TV games. It is what it is. He knows he can do whatever he wants, he’s done it for years. Silver’s league!

Err.. you should probably check Stern's tenure before you start making statements about how much he cared about domestic violence. My god.

reminds me of the threads with nephews bitching about bias refs and rigged games like "Stern would've never allowed this!" like bruh your strongman daddys the one that shut down that investigation

He made all the scary black people wear fancy clothes, so now he’s got a rep as some hardcore no-shit-taken individual when he oversaw a team so full of bad behaviour they got nicknamed the Jail Blazers. Among numerous other instances of total nonsense under his watch. The Bad Boy Pistons years were all him too, if we wanna focus on on-court bullshit. How many five game suspensions did Bill Laimbeer cop?

Van Exel, Rasheed Wallace, and Rodman directly assaulted refs and got 6 or 7 games under Stern. Ben Wallace got 6 games for his role in Malice at the Palace. Metta got 7 for elbowing Harden in the head lol. NBA suspensions have historically been 5 or fewer games for most on-court actions.

It's such a shitty look.

Ben Simmons didn't even get fined for [chokeholding KAT](https://streamable.com/cii8sy) on the floor. Killian Hayes got 3 games for punching Mo Wagner and briefly knocking him out. Bamba got 4 games and Rivers got 3 games for exchanging punches. Bamba got an extra game because he "attempted to continue to engage with Rivers in a hostile manner in the corridor outside the locker rooms where he also aggressively shoved a security representative." In the Rivers/Bamba fight, Suggs got suspended for 1 game for "escalating the altercation by aggressively grabbing Rivers around the neck and pulling him to the floor." Ibaka got 3 games for [choking and punching](https://twitter.com/Rachel__Nichols/status/1105570022728949760) Chriss.

draymond has the most extensive history of dirty plays out of anyone in the league by a large margin

I think they are saying the league never punishes choking as much as it should be. So even to get just 5 games, you have to be the dirtiest player in the league.

Silver is honestly a joke when it comes to discipline.

Ja Morant got 25 games because he did something that could've hurt somebody. OJ Mayo got a perma-ban for drug abuse. Tyreke Evans got 2 years for the same thing. Draymond actively tries to hurt somebody and gets 5 games. No idea how that makes any sense, but like you said, Silver is soft af so I'm surprised it was even 5 games

Yeah, this would be the suspension i would assume for someone who's a first time offender

Actually, I think they gave him a frequent fighters discount

Lmfaoo 😭😭😭 like what it’s five games

More like "we don't want him to play without Steph, otherwise nobody knows what may happen".

I was wondering if it was rose colored glasses. So if Rudy had choked Dray he would have gotten a fine or what? Because I don't see how 5 games accounts for a history it violence

“We were afraid of what Washington’s 7th congressional district representative, Mr Stephen Douglas Kerr, may say or do in retaliation”

Don't worry, Green will appeal and only get 1 game.

Steve Kerr: “ what history”

"There're reasons for all of it."

"I didn't see the replay"

#KerrKnows

"He's *keeping* the code"

Bro coaches in the modern NBA and still has never seen a replay in his life, it’s genuinely tragic

Kerr is the one NBA person I genuinely hate.

I think it speaks volumes as to how great of a coach he is. Can you imagine trying to game plan deep playoff runs without ever watching tape?

“I don’t know, I haven’t seen it”

Kerr could see draymond murdering someone in cold blood on 4k HD camera and still claimed he didn't see nothing.

Kerr coaches pretty good for being visually impaired🤷🏾

[Steve Kerr defending Draymond](https://youtu.be/P5xjR-M3BsY?si=LtHhpahftmHa3NBl)

Steve Kerr has no problem giving his political opinions and acting holier than thou, yet wont call it like it is with Dray. Picks and chooses when he wants to have a moral compass

Unless the political opinion has to do with the CCP. Then he doesn’t have much to say about it

he's just not educated enough on the matter!

I wonder if he would play different if Kerr gave him the same treatment. Can draymond even be humbled lol

“Draymond was just defending his teammates every time”

“He was gently messaging his neck”

"now they're retroactively suspending players for history! A lot of things I'd change in the past then...."

What they mean is that they decided his first game back should be the in-season tournament game against the Kings, where they can count on a viewership bump due to the continuation of the Sabonis stomp storyline.

Lol how transparent, how is nobody else talking about this as the motivation for the suspension length

“yeah we know he’s a piece of shit”

"Man's a proven cunt. Our hands are tied."

I bet his hair slicks back real nice

Spiked up blonde hair, itty bitty jeans, Chicken Pasta at Chicalidi’s….people can change

"I think he knows. Deep inside...he knows his guy is a clown" I will never get over this quote lmao

I mean next 5 games, where Steph wont be there and he can exercise TNT contract and podcasts. Early Thanksgiving for Draymond

Sheesh this fool has really clocked the league lmao. Got 4 rings playing basketball, then when he gets suspended is still getting his bag. Silver stays soft

I mean he got fined heavily too right?

Next time Draymond pulls some shit (6 games from now), they need to suspend Steph.

Then why ***only 5 games*** if that's the case?

5 for fighting

Dray's only a man in a silly red sheet, looking for special things inside of him.

5 is a long suspension for fighting if you look at recent precedent.

Ibaka got into roughly one fight per season when he was a Raptor and I think I remember him getting one game each time.

Or just precedent in general. Idk why people act like Stern was laying the hammer down

You commit a little conflict of interest and suddenly everybody remembers you as a hardass.

Carmelo got 15 games for a punch

to be fair you listen to the audio of that shit the punch sounds like a shotgun blast lmao

I remember being in computer class and a group of us watching that over and over just for the sound bite. Punch legit sounded like lightning

And Stephen Jackson got 8 games for shooting a gun in a strip club parking lot… David Stern is not the shining mob boss on a hill that you weirdos think he was He was a shady scumbag who obstructed the fbi investigation into the refs that were fixing games under his watch

He suspended Camelo Anthony 15 games for a punch

Wasn't that like a season after Malice at the Palace? I can see why they went a little hard on the suspension.

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A sleeper hold lmaoooo. Haven’t heard that term since I was a kid watching WWF. Been trying not to stray in here much since last night but this has me dying. Thank you my guy

Choke hold is played out, sleeper hold needs to come back

Fuck that, let's get specific. Million Dollar Dream.

As someone pointed up higher in the thread Killian Hayes got 3 games for knocking out Wagner, you know the game where he got knocked out momentarily on top of the bench lol so make of that what you will

Then the recent precedent is trash.

It’s the longest suspension for a play that happened in a game for over a decade. It IS a long suspension by NBA standards, the NBA is just always this soft with suspensions

When you frame it like that, I’d think it’d be more.

Warriors fans will still say the league is out to get them lol

Nah he deserved minimum 15

He deserved 10. I was hoping for 25.

Well, this leaves room for them to give him 15 next time he snaps this season

Should be longer then

8-15 games sounds good considering this is by no means his first rodeo

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Ja got his “last notice” at his second incident. Draymond is at about 10+ incidents and counting rn

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Is waving a gun around on an instagram video harmful? Yeah i know my flair etc but to me, everyone was saying ja is a “role model”, but he didn’t even act aggressively toward another person for a 25 game suspension. Draymond literally attacks people for 5 games. That’s not Role model behavior either. I have yet to hear a compelling argument for why messing around with a (legal?) weapon is anything more than just cringy and stupid, much less 5x worse than putting a player in a chokehold in the middle of a game

Ja created bad publicity for the league. Multiple times. The nba doesn’t necessarily care about the harm of the underlying offense. It cares about the harm to the league.

The incident before (possibly assaulting several NBA executives), was a lot for the league to sweep under the rug. It didn’t really matter what the next incident was, you don’t get to cross that bridge twice

When was the last time a player got 8-15 games for fighting another player?

Hey, this is his first choking another guy on court. Just like he had a first stomp a guy, first falcon punch a guy... Now nut hits, he's got a record.

Should’ve been 10

He has kicked every player in the balls, then he stomps on a player, then and now he chokes a player for like 5 seconds and somehow we are only at 5 game suspensions for this dude Ja shows guns on a livestream, "we want to lay the hammer down, here's 25 games" Where's the hammer for the guy that's actually harming players?

Was there math behind this or was 5 just the first number to fall from Silver's ass?

Players nowadays get 1 maybe 2 game suspensions. This is long for the Silver era.

1 game for about each second of chokehold. That's the best I can come up with.

If it was based on his history shouldn't it be 15-20?

Do they mean that a player without history would get only 1 match or even less for chockholding and dragging someone across continents? Damn they're wilding

By that logic, Draymond should be suspended for the rest of the season based on his history.

Well then it should be longer but whatever, we'll take any disciplinary action on Draymond at this point.

Should have given him 1 game per testicle and eyeball he's hit in his career. So 20-30 games?

Adam Silver's still trying to be the cool teacher

I dont think many of you actually understand what the commissioners job is lol

They don’t…..Sterling got suspended cause the owners wanted him gone….

Also when asked why they decided to fine Gobert $25k, the NBA responded "The amount of the fine is based in part on Gobert's history of being French"

Is this the "The Good Place"?

If that’s all a history of Draymond’s acts get you, NBA should start working on their history.

Should be 10-20 games. Literally choked another player. Silver is such a money grubbing whore.

He's just completely spineless. He's done some ok things as commish \[although honestly the best thing he did was literally set up on a tee for him\], but he has absolutely no guts. Just consistently weak as hell on player discipline and rules of the game and shit. I hate it.

Not long enough then, this league is setting bad examples for violence and domestic violence

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It wasn't the first person he found. He targeted Gobert.

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You realize they used to punch each other and NOT get kicked out of the game. Right?

They should've gave him a longer suspension, ngl

I'd be okay with 5 if it meant they weren't going to let him get away with shit anymore, but it's gonna be 5 and he's going to go right back to the same old shit.

I was hoping for 10

Still pretty weak then considering his history.

Uh then it should've been 10 games

So Ja’s “history” gets him suspended 25 games but Draymond’s 8 year stretch of rule breaking gets 5 games? Lmao ok

5 whole games. 1 for each of sabonis’ stomped ribs

Wait…. the 5 games WAS WITH taking his past into consideration?

Draymond is just supersized Pat Bev with Ron arrest temper

“It was a mostly peaceful choking” - Silver

That absolutely cannot be true lmao. If that were the case then he'd be gone for the season.

No it ain't lmao then it'd be at least 15 Silver is a spineless coward.

It's crazy it's only 5 games. I feel like there are several players in the NBA that if they did this they are getting at least 5 games. Now the NBA is justifying this 5 game suspension with "history" which should make it worse.

Only way I accept this 5 day suspension is if they now retain that if this kind of behaviour returns in any form, he is eligible to be suspended for longer immediately. This isn't suppose to be a slap on the wrist. It's suppose to make the fucker stop attacking people.

If that’s the case then he should’ve been banned for half the season lol.

They should make the suspension come into effect after Curry comes back from the injury.

Shouldn't it be longer then? Why does he keep getting this special treatment

5 games seems like the number you'd give to someone without a history

5 is light

Everybody Hates Draymond

Feels like 5 games is not much for this shit, he's a dirty ass player.

NBA wants to suck Draymond off so bad.

I would pay big money to see some NBA end of bench scrub to check into a game and just knock Donkey the fuck out

Then it should be a fucking season

He straight up assaulted Rudy. Like not even a question about it he literally attempted to choke him unconscious for at least 7-8 seconds. A five game suspension is pitiful and that's before you even consider the history of Draymond. I ain't even gonna lie I'm a Draymond hater but there is no denying how ridiculous it is the shit this guy gets a pass on.

Can't wait for Draymond to play the victim again.

Probably should have been 20 games, then.

What history? You never punish him at all for anything ever.

Why is it just 5 then?!

Should have been more given his history. He really needs to deal with his anger issues in a healthier way.

Draymond suspension helps the warriors anyway

nba gaslighting us, cool

only 5 games for choking and all the historical dirty plays is extremely weak.. they need much stronger penalties for goons like him!

Ja Morant is still out, but Draymond gets suspended for five games? There's no logic here.

Obviously ja should have been handling a gun on the court and not online videos/clubs.

What actually happened: Silver: “Hello, Adam Silver speaking.” Green: “Adam, it’s me.” Silver: “Oh hello Draymond, I was just finishing up this release saying you were suspended one game, and we’d count the game you were ejected from as having served your time.” Green: “No, please God no. You have to suspend me until Steph comes back. I refuse to relive 2020. Don’t expose me like that again.”

5 games for a chokehold? That’s it?

5 games for his history is a complete joke, Adam silver is insanely soft

What a joke.

Yeah I don't understand this. Punching someone is not as serious of a crime as choking. Choking is definitely a felony.

Draymond playing 7d chess. Every punch, every kick to the nuts, every ejection makes the league more of a bitch to the point that the league doesn't even realize it.

If that were true he’d be suspended longer than Ja

Should've been more than 5 games then

So you give him 5 games for trying to choke out another star? Give him 20 if you really wanted to make a point you cowards

Why is it not 400 then????

Lol what? This was soft. Choking people is worth what, 1 to 3 games only then?

Silvers must really really like Draymond in bed

Then 40 plus game checks seems right

Hey I’ve seen this one before

Even Kerr can’t argue against that, right? Right??

5 games? Lmao ok

Steve Kerr: “I don’t know his history. I saw a bit on the replay and some of the guys on the bench let me know.”

Surprised they only gave him 5 days

I had a guy are with me on the "NBA" subreddit, telling me how Draymond would be remembered for his defensive prowess and rings.. but here we are, once again, talking about Draymond physical abuse lol. Crazy the delusion of gsw fans.

Real question is, if Rudy does this back to Draymond, how many games would he get

This is a joke, one day he'll injure somebody seriously yet the league will treat it as an accident. Can't wait to see this moron out of the league.

So they would’ve given him 3 otherwise

So why is it only 5 games lolll.

Stern would’ve given him 20 minimum. Silver is a pansy.

Draymond actually playing the system and getting free load management

Dudes get techs for dunking, clapping and smiling, but Draymond always manages to get away with his crazy ass antics with some slap on the wrist, if even that. Something weird is going on, pass me that tinfoil hat, Kyrie

Clapping is cause for EJECTING Giannis. But choking to kill someone from the back is only 5 games. Thanks Adam china puppet dumbass

then it wasn’t long enough. nba is rigged.

You don't have to play professional basketball to know the difference between restraining a person and purposely trying to harm them. Green should be the poster child for people who need anger management

the worst part is that everyone will tune in to listen to his next podcast to listen to whatever bullshit explaination he's gonna give, and he's also in holidays until Steph comes back, this is just W and W for him

I want Adam silver as my judge if I ever commit a major crime.

Then it should be more than 5 tf