Back when the brutal news broke in early October that Draymond Green had punched Jordan Poole at a Golden State Warriors training camp practice, no one knew how much it would impact the team. We would later learn that Green would not be suspended or fined, that Poole had been a part of that decision, and that Dray had apologized to both Poole and the team.
Green, for his part, never deflected the blame.
We didn’t know if or when the Warriors would fully recover. And even though the tension around the team clearly lightened as the season went on, it turns out that the damage done by Green’s decision to solve a problem with violence could not be undone in just one season.