While Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green is undoubtedly a future Hall of Famer, he will also be remembered for his on-court antics, one of which was the infamous chokehold he put on longtime foe Rudy Gobert.
This incident attracted considerable attention at the time, and still does. But during a recent appearance on Houston Rockets guard Fred VanVleet's podcast, 'Unguarded,' Draymond Green admitted he didn't realize how long he had held Rudy Gobert in the moment.
"Even though I'm going to tell you this, I didn't realize I was strangling her for so long. I didn't realize I was strangling her for so long," Green said. "Look, when I came back in the locker room, I was looking at it and I said, 'Man, this is bad.' “I didn’t realize I had it for so long.”
"Once I saw how late it was I went inside the equipment room, I was talking to the equipment guys and I said, 'Hey man, what do you think is going to happen?'" Green said. "And they were like, 'Dre, you held him for so long.' "Brother, I guess I didn't think it would take this long."
Following the incident, Green was suspended for five games by the NBA. The other players involved in the controversy, Gobert, Klay Thompson and Jaden McDaniels, faced only fines and no suspensions. Part of the league's reasoning for Green's punishment was his past incidents.
Drafted 35th overall in the 2012 NBA Draft, Green is now in his 14th season in the NBA, all with the Warriors.
