We've Officially Left Planet Earth After Stephen A Smith Suggests That Steph Curry's Lack Of Leadership Plays A Role In Draymond Green's Actions

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After we learned that the NBA was suspending Draymond Green "indefinitely" last night, everyone has been trying to guess what that actually means. Does that mean a 10 game suspension? A 25 game suspension? Rest of the season suspension? Who knows. The league went the Ja Morant route with this open-ended "indefinitely" decision on his second suspension and that ended up being 25 games, so just keep that in mind.

This morning, Joe Dumars went on First Take and elaborated on that, despite not even really saying anything

Even though he wouldn't put a total on it, I think it's fair to suggest that this isn't going to be another 5 game absence. If I had to guess, I'm going to put it at the 15-20 game mark. I don't buy the internet rumors that the league is considering a season long suspension, but honestly, who knows. They may finally be tired of Draymond's shit and decide enough is enough.

With all of these instances continuing to happen, everyone's trying to figure out why that is. Personally, I think the answer is pretty simple, Draymond is a dirty player who thinks he's above the rules in the NBA because the league and the team have enabled this type of behavior for nearly a decade. Sadly, for some out there, it's not that simple. For some, like Stephen A, it's actually Steph Curry's fault

Now I do agree with Stephen A in the sense that LeBron gets blamed for everything. That's not crazy. It might not always be fair, but at the same time, he does essentially run every team he's on. All roads usually do point back to LeBron when discussing things about his teams. 

But guess what? If Draymond was a Laker and he punched Jusuf Nurkic in the face a month after choking Rudy Gobert, it would not be a reflection of LeBron's leadership. Anyone who tried to do that is just being weird. Draymond is a grown ass man! He is old enough to be held responsible for his own actions! It wouldn't be LeBron's fault as a leader that Draymond can't stop doing this shit the same way it is certainly not Steph's fault. Put aside the fact that we have no idea what Steph is telling Draymond behind the scenes, I just don't get this logic.

THIS is the problem with the Draymond stuff. When he does this shit, everyone immediately jumps to all these other reasons as to why it happened instead of you know, holding the actual player accountable. Is the argument here that if Steph Curry was a better leader then Draymond wouldn't commit dirty plays? If so, that is extremely embarrassing. 

Not only that, we also can't keep talking about how Draymond is the leader of the Warriors and that's why his role is so important and then when he fucks up switch things to now Steph is the leader. I'd say Steph is the best player, but that's not always the same thing. The best player isn't always the leader, every team has a different dynamic. For years Draymond was talked about as the vocal leader, the heart of the Warriors etc. It's not Steph's responsibility as the best player to babysit Draymond Green. He should know that as the leader of the team, his actions are completely unacceptable. Was it Steph's fault as a leader when Draymond punched Jordan Poole too? Was it Steph's fault as a leader when Draymond stomped on Sabonis' chest? 

I'm going to go ahead and say no, no it's not. It is Draymond's fault. Why people continue to pass the blame for him is beyond comprehension. To then try and make it seem like this is a Steph leadership issue? Yikes.