Cavs wanted Draymond suspended for two games

FreddyCalhoun

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Report: Cavaliers wanted Draymond Green suspended two games
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The Cavaliers reportedly pushed hard to get Draymond Greensuspended for smacking at LeBron James‘ groin.
Lo and behold, Green was suspended for Game 5 of the NBA Finals.
So, Cleveland go its way?

Zach Lowe of ESPN:

The Cavs wanted him suspended for two games. I can tell you that. They wanted it to be a flagrant 2 and to have him suspended for Game 5 and Game 6.
The league got it right. The retroactively assigned flagrant 1 triggered a one-game suspension due to Green’s prior playoff flagrants. A flagrant 2, which would’ve triggered a two-game suspension, would’ve been too harsh for Green’s retaliation.
I also suspect the Cavaliers probably knew that. But by pushing for a flagrant 2, they framed a flagrant 1 as a compromise outcome – much the same way Green and Steve Kerr said Green’s flagrant 1 for kicking Steven Adams‘ groin should have been rescinded. The NBA upgraded it to a flagrant 2 – another compromise decision when a straight suspension appeared to be on the table.

Lobbying the NBA on these decisions has become part of a championship pursuit. The Cavs had the advantage of facts on their side, but by aiming high, they successfully framed the argument in their favor – and it paid off in Game 5.
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Zach Lowe hates Lebron and slurps Draymond and the GSW on a regular basis...Wack reporting
 

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They didn't suspend him for that. They suspend him for punching Lebron's nuts and being over the technical foul limit. I don't give a fukk what the damn media and former player has to say when they didn't say shyt about Klay's hypocrisy except Barkley.
Smh, I know what they suspended him for, you're crying over nonsense at this point.
 

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Exactly...

After Kobe gets clotheslined by Raja Bell in 2006:



Bell suspended one game for takedown of Bryant


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Remember that time Kobe elbowed Artest, they called Artest for the foul, and ejected Artest for confronting Kobe about it? Did you see how Kobe chased after Joey Crawford and explained how he saw it all wrong and that Artest needed to stay in the game so the highest level of conpetition could be achieved? Yeah I don't remember that shyt either.
 

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Remember that time Kobe elbowed Artest, they called Artest for the foul, and ejected Artest for confronting Kobe about it? Did you see how Kobe chased after Joey Crawford and explained how he saw it all wrong and that Artest needed to stay in the game so the highest level of conpetition could be achieved? Yeah I don't remember that shyt either.

Special kind of stupid :mjlol:
 
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