CLEVELAND -- Draymond Green gets to play in this Game 5. Draymond Green needs to play in this Game 5. Just play basketball. No nonsense, no extracurricular activities. He needs to give the Warriors the versatile All-Star who is their defensive anchor. In the two games in Cleveland they've had the provocateur, the wrestling villain. It didn't bring them a championship.
Green spent last year's Game 5 in a suite at the Oakland Athletics game, after an accumulation of playoff flagrant fouls that culminated in a punch to LeBron James' groin. He had been on better behavior in these playoffs, actually trailing LeBron in the leg-kick category in Game 3.