Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green is confident his team would've already closed out the 2016 NBA Finals if he had been on the floor Monday night.
"I have strong belief that if I play Game 5, we win Game 5," Green said Wednesday, per CSN Bay Area's Monte Poole.
The NBA suspended the 2016 All-Star for one game based on flagrant-foul accumulation. The league retroactively gave Green a flagrant-1 foul for his swing at LeBron James' groin in Game 4:
Without their versatile forward, the Warriors fell 112-97 to the Cleveland Cavaliers, though they still lead the series 3-2.
"Me not being on the floor to battle with my guys is being a bad teammate," Green said, per The Undefeated's Marc J. Spears.
Green wasn't allowed to be in Oracle Arena during the game, so he headed next door to the Oakland Coliseum, where he saw the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers 14-5:
He described having to watch the NBA Finals on television at the baseball stadium as "brutal" and "one of the weirdest things ever," per Poole.
"When you say, 'I want to ...
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