The Golden State Warriors are taking “every legal course of action” to learn the way footage of Draymond Green punching Jordan Poole during practice was leaked to TMZ, in accordance with ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne and Adrian Wojnarowski.
Green apologized to the team and Poole on Thursday, and Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, common supervisor Bob Myers, and star level guard Steph Curry addressed the media concerning the incident.
Friday morning, TMZ launched the footage of the follow, which had been closed to the media. Sources instructed ESPN that the Warriors are “aggressively investigating” each the follow incident and the way the footage was leaked.
The incident between Inexperienced and Poole on the Warriors’ follow started with the 2 gamers yelling at one another earlier than they obtained in one another’s faces and Inexperienced threw a punch at Poole.
It’s unclear what began the verbal jousting between the 2 that ultimately led to bodily violence, however Myers mentioned he doesn’t imagine the combat was about who could or could not receives a commission forward of the October seventeenth contract extension deadline.
Myers added that he’s grateful everybody is ok and mentioned these items occur within the NBA.
“It’ll take a while to maneuver via, however we’ll transfer via it and transfer ahead, and I’m assured that we’ll,” Myers mentioned. “We’ve obtained a very good staff, we’ve obtained good management, we’ve obtained some guys which have been right here a very long time.”
The Warriors will open their season on Oct. 18 with a championship banner elevating ceremony earlier than going through off towards Lebron James and the Los Angeles Lakers.
