NBA: Green In Virtual Meetings To Chart Return

Beyond individual counseling sessions, suspended Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green is participating in periodic virtual meetings that include team, league and union officials designed to chart his progress toward reinstatement, sources have revealed.

The zoom meetings are playing a role in how the NBA, National Basketball Players Association and the Warriors measure Green’s progress toward working through whatever issues might have contributed to repeated violent episodes with opponents and a former teammate, sources said. Green — a four-time champion and two-time All-NBA player – has been described as open and engaged in the aftermath of the league-imposed indefinite suspension on December 13.

Green’s agent, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul, Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr., team trainer Rick Celebrini, NBPA and NBA officials are part of these ongoing sessions, sources said.

These meetings are a part of what the NBA described as “certain league and team conditions” that Green must fulfill before his suspension is lifted for throwing a punch at Phoenix’s Jusuf Nurkic on December 12. The NBA, NBPA, the Warriors and Green played roles in curating this unique, open-ended suspension, but the NBA has the final say on Green’s eventual return. The league proposed this idea after successive violent encounters in November against Minnesota’s Rudy Gobert, and more recently, against Nurkic in mid-December.