NBA Takes…with Teresa: Covid, Injuries and Draymond Green

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Feb 18, 2021
NBA
Draymond Green, Golden State Warriors.

This week in the NBA, Draymond Green admonishes the league for double standards. The San Antonio Spurs have four players with Covid, major injuries, and trade requests.

This week in the NBA, two teams sat players who had requested trades. Andre Drummond of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Blake Griffin of the Detroit Pistons asked to be traded from their teams and were sat down. Draymond Green felt it to be a double standard and said so, not so nice. See who agreed and disagreed with him.

Four members of the San Antonio Spurs tested positive for Covid-19, and a major star suffers an injury that could have been and still could be very devastating. Let’s go.

The San Antonio Spurs

After four San Antonio players tested positive for the coronavirus, the NBA had to postpone four San Antonio Spurs games this week and next. The games include Spurs vs.: Pistons, Cavaliers, Knicks, and Pacers. San Antonio played the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday, Valentine’s Day, so the league also postponed two Charlotte games for contact tracing. The two Charlotte games were against the Chicago Bulls and the Denver Nuggets.

Injuries

This week the New York Knicks suffered a devasting blow when their starting center, Mitchell Robinson, fractured his right hand during a game against the Houston Rockets. New York fans don’t start sending tweets to the Rockets’ players. Y’all saw just what I saw. Robinson hit his hand on All-Star Julius Randle. Don’t send Randle any tweets either; he’s an All-Star.

The Lakers also suffered a blow when Anthony Davis strained his calf this week. They think he will be out until after the All-Star break. Davis sat out two games last week with a sore Achilles. Now I don’t know if you remember the sequence of events with Kevin Durant some two years ago. Durant injured his calf, came back too early, then Achilles tear. The Lakers need to be smart and allow that man to sit out until the playoffs or close to the playoffs to heal his calf and Achilles.

Marcus Smart is a crucial piece of the Boston Celtic’s offense and defense. He will be out two to three weeks with a strained left calf. The Celtics can’t afford this right now.

I also saw that D’Angelo Russell would be out four to six weeks with a knee injury. I feel so bad for him and Karl Anthony Towns. They haven’t had a great season and only have played five games together, and they really wanted to be teammates.

Draymond Green and the double standard

This week the Cleveland Cavaliers decided they would not play Andre Drummond and find a trade that satisfies Drummond and the Cavaliers. Simultaneously, the Detroit Pistons decide not to play Blake Griffin and work with his representatives to find a satisfactory result for both parties.

Draymond Green took it upon himself to address the league’s double standard for its players. According to Green, the treatment of Drummond was “bull____.” He went further and said:

“Because when James Harden asked for a trade, and essentially dogged it, no one’s going to fight back that James was dogging it his last days in Houston, but he was castrated for wanting to go to a different team. Everybody destroyed that man. And yet a team can come out and say, ‘Oh, we want to trade a guy,’ and then that guy has to go sit, and if he doesn’t stay professional, then he’s a cancer. And he’s not good in someone’s locker room, and he’s the issue.”

LeBron James agreed, “he’s right there with Green,” and “We just want people to understand that there’s two sides of the coin. It’s not just one-sided.”

For me, these bazillionaires signed a collective bargaining agreement (CBA). I felt that the Houston Rockets should have sued the pants off of James Harden. They wanted money, they got the money, and the owners got the right to trade them, sit them on the bench or in the locker room.

This and that

  • Kevin Durant is out for a couple of games with a calf strain. If he remembers his last season with the Warriors, I remember he better let it heal. I’m just saying…
  • I have to say congrats on another great week to Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz. Lakers who?
  • Lastly, what’s up with the Milwaukee Bucks? Four straight losses? I’ll find out and let you know next week.

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Remember, you can always disagree with me. I’m a Knicks fan. I can take it! Until next week, stay warm and stay safe!

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