The NBA executive vice president and head of basketball operations, Joe Dumars, said Draymond Green's "excessive and over-the-top actions" and his history as a "repeat offender" were instrumental in the league's decision to suspend him for Game 3 of the Golden State Warriors' Western Conference first-round series against the Sacramento Kings.
"Here's what it came down to: excessive and over-the-top actions, conduct detrimental and a repeat offender," Dumars told ESPN in a phone interview Wednesday morning. "That's what separates this where you end up with a suspension."
The NBA suspended Green after he stepped down hard on Domantas Sabonis' chest in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game, an act that earned him an ejection from the Warriors' Game 2 loss.