Watch: Draymond Green puts Rudy Gobert in a sleeper hold

Lower than two minutes into the in-season match recreation between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors, Jaden McDaniels and Klay Thompson obtained right into a fracas, seemingly brought on by jersey-pulling. 

When Rudy Gobert bumped into the fray, Inexperienced pulled him away with what gave the impression to be a sleeper maintain.

Gobert could have been performing as a peacemaker, however when Inexperienced noticed the Frenchman grabbing his teammate, he forcibly eliminated him from the state of affairs. 

When the mud cleared, the gamers had been separated and the stretched-out jerseys had been smoothed out, the officers ejected Thompson, McDaniels and Inexperienced — all earlier than a single level had been scored.

It’s Inexperienced’s second ejection in three video games. Whereas he could have been defending his teammate, Inexperienced’s fame for tough play mixed with the efficacy of his choke maintain means the Warriors ahead is probably going taking a look at a suspension.

Inexperienced and Gobert are rivals, each due to their fixed presence on the prime of Defensive Participant of the Yr voting and their playoff conferences when Gobert was on the Utah Jazz. 

With out two starters and Stephen Curry, the Warriors saved it surprisingly shut earlier than falling 104-101, due to rookie Brandon Podziemski’s career-high 23 factors.

Nevertheless it’s very doubtless that they’ll should play short-handed once more as soon as the NBA’s proclaims its punishment for Inexperienced.