Draymond Green was ejected from yet another game on Tuesday night after smacking Jusuf Nurkic of the Phoenix Suns in the face.
He will likely receive another suspension, and there is now a revived conversation about Green, his on-court antics, and what should be done about them.
Charles Barkley sat down on The Dan Patrick Show and said that the team has to be the ones to step up and enforce a major punishment this time.
He claimed that it “doesn’t matter” what Adam Silver and the NBA do because “you just lose money when the league suspends you.”
“I think you need to be embarrassed when your boss says, ‘Hey, you’re hurting the team, I’m going to do something to you,'” Barkley said.
"You just lose money when the league suspends you. I think you need to be embarrassed when your boss says hey you're hurting the team, I'm going to do something to you."
-Charles Barkley thinks the #Warriors should step-in and discipline Draymond pic.twitter.com/Ia54TPJ7jX
— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) December 13, 2023
In Barkley’s opinion, Steve Kerr and Golden State’s front office need to handle things differently this time.
If they sit Green down and tell him he is embarrassing the team and not worth the headaches he is creating, perhaps that will have an impact.
Dan Patrick pushed back on that assertion, claiming that he doesn’t think Green can be embarrassed, but Barkley believes it’s the right approach.
He mentioned that Green has been acting wildly lately because he is frustrated that he can’t play as he used to.
Barkley can relate and said that in the final years of his career, he was being much more physical and outlandish with his behavior on the court.
The league will likely announce a ruling on Green very soon and once again, the team will have to answer for his actions.
But will they do more than that this time?
Will the Warriors actually force Green to change his ways?
NEXT: NBA Insider Shares Alarming Klay Thompson Contract Update
