“The cumulative points system is designed to deter flagrant fouls in our game” said Kiki VanDeWeghe, an NBA vice president who is in charge of discipline. If the Golden State Warriors are going to clinch the NBA championship Monday, they'll have to do it without their most versatile player, forward-center Draymond Green, who was suspended for Game 5 of the NBA Finals after striking Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James in the groin toward the end of Game 4. Green will not be permitted in Oracle Arena during the game because of the suspension. “I felt like that was disrespectful,” Green told the Undefeated after the game. Green was retroactively assessed a flagrant foul 1 by the NBA on Sunday, putting him over the limit for flagrant fouls in the playoffs and leading to an automatic one-game suspension.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 12, 2016 19:41 UTC