Adam Silver talked Warriors’ Draymond Green out of retirement during indefinite suspension
NY Post
Adam Silver wouldn’t let Draymond Green’s career end with a punch to the face.
Green, whom the NBA reinstated Saturday from an indefinite suspension that lasted 12 games, said on Monday’s episode of “The Draymond Green Show” that the NBA commissioner talked him out of retiring.
“I told him, ‘Adam this is too much for me. … This is too much. It’s all becoming too much for me — and I’m going to retire,’” the Warriors star said, as transcribed by ESPN. “And Adam said, ‘You’re making a very rash decision and I won’t let you do that.’
“We had a long, great conversation — very helpful to me. Very thankful to play in a league with a commissioner like Adam who’s more about helping you than hurting you; helping you than punishing you. He’s more about the players.”
Green is currently working his way back from the suspension he received after hitting Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the face on Dec. 12.
An absence Wednesday at home against New Orleans will mark his 14th straight missed game; he did not play in Sunday’s loss to the Raptors after being reinstated.
Run 3 Space | Play Space Running Game
Traffic Jam 3D | Online Racing Game
Duck Hunt | Play Old Classic Game
For all the layers to this peculiar Rangers season, which has them looking from the outside in on the playoff picture with 32 games to go, the cascading effect of Mika Zibanejad’s dropoff has been at the forefront.
Last January, Marcus Stroman represented the Yankees’ biggest free-agent signing of the month.
Nearly two decades before he coached alongside Aaron Glenn, Tanner Engstrand teamed up with Darren Mougey.
LeBron James always has referred to Madison Square Garden as his favorite road venue, but any visit to New York — now that he’s in his 40s — could be the four-time MVP’s final time in uniform at the World’s Most Famous Arena.