Golden State Warriors Draymond Green handles teammate Jordan Ball during a training session.
Now the star is apologizing and taking some time off from the team after the leaked video.
– He says it looks worse than I thought, according to ESPN.
Already before NBAThe season started shaking the title holder Golden State Warriors A major scandal.
On Friday, a video was leaked of Draymond Green, 32, getting into a fight with teammate Jordan Paul, 23. Green runs up to Paul and hits him in the chest, causing him to lose him completely and knock his teammate down halfway. Practice in front of the rest of the team.
Now Green has apologized and announced that he will be leaving the team temporarily.
– I made a mistake and apologized to the team and apologized to Jordan. It was so embarrassing when the video leaked yesterday, not just me. He said in a press conference that there will also be an upset that Jordan and his family will have to deal with, and continues:
I am a person with many flaws. I know my shortcomings more than anyone and the work I’ve done is tremendous, but there’s still a long way to go. The day it happened, I was in a very bad position mentally, dealing with things in my own life.
“It’s pathetic”
Green hopes to play the opening game against the Los Angeles Lakers on October 18, but says it’s not up to him. The star also says that the video looks worse than it was.
– I’ve watched the video 15 times, maybe more. When I watch the video I think “this is awful”. It looks even worse than I thought it was. It’s pathetic. But then I had to take a step back and realize the video was made that way to look exactly like that, says Green, adding.
– But what I did was wrong.
According to ESPN, Golden State will take “all possible legal measures” to find who leaked the video.