Written by Ethan Sherwood Strauss at ESPN.com
All-Star forward Draymond Green apologized to his teammates Monday for his tirade at halftime of the Warriors’ overtime victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night and vowed it will never happen again.
In a long statement, he admitted he made a mistake and said he let his “emotions get the best of me.”
“As a leader of this team, I can’t do that because it sets a bad precedent for how everything is ran around here, for how everything should be ran, for how everything has been ran, and how everything will be ran going forward. It won’t happen again.
“You know, I made a mistake, I admitted my mistakes to my teammates, my coaching staff. I apologize to my teammates, my coaching staff, this organization. That wasn’t the right way to handle what needed to be handled.
“As a leader of this team, I can’t do that because it sets a bad precedent for how everything is ran around here, for how everything should be ran, for how everything has been ran, and how everything will be ran going forward. It won’t happen again.”
While he acknowledged his emotions “kind of got ahead of me,” he said any reports that he quit on his team are incorrect.
“I will never quit on my coaching staff, I will never quit on this organization. This organization has given me everything that I can ask for. So I support and represent this organization to the best of my ability. That’s not who I am. That’s not who I’ve been and not who I will become. ”
Stephen Curry said the Warriors know that Green would “never quit” on his teammates.
“He’s invested in what we’re doing. Obviously he’s an emotional guy, a fiery guy, that’s what we love about him, what he brings to the court. It spilled over to the locker room,” he said.
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