Warriors suspend Green one game without pay

Draymond Green received a onegame suspension without pay from the Golden State Warriors for “conduct detrimental to the team” in the fallout from Monday night’s explosive exchange with All-Star teammate Kevin Durant.

Green will serve his suspension during Tuesday night’s home game against the Atlanta Hawks and reportedly sacrifice more than $120,000 in the process.

“We just felt like this rose to the level of acting the way that we did,” Warriors general manager Bob Myers told reporters in comments published by ESPN. “That’s a decision that we have to make. I’m certainly involved in it, so is Steve (Kerr) . ... This was something that required the action that we decided upon.”

Some teammates loudly confronted Green in the locker room for his decisionmaking on the final play of regulation of the 121-116 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, league sources told ESPN.

The intensity in the locker room was heightened because the matter of Durant’s impending free agency reportedly was raised.

The organization spent Tuesday dealing with the aftershocks of Monday night’s confrontation while working through the issues involving the team’s dynamic, according to league sources.

“Knowing (Green) for however many years I’ve known him, if caring too much is something that he struggles with, well, that’s who he is,” Myers said. “We felt that this action merited the decision we made, but I have every confidence that he can move forward with it, our team can move forward with it, our organization, our players.”