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Champs deny punch-up was over 'who's getting paid'

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Golden State Warriors prima Draymond Green apologised to the squad a time aft fighting with teammate Jordan Poole during practice, wide manager Bob Myers said.

Poole practiced this greeting portion Green didn't, and Myers said immoderate imaginable subject would beryllium handled internally. Warriors manager Steve Kerr said Green volition beryllium distant from the squad again connected Saturday and expects him to instrumentality Sunday.

NBA Finals MVP Stephen Curry said helium didn't cognize what triggered the contented betwixt Green and Poole and noted “it is imaginable to get done things similar this,” and called it his occupation not to fto it interruption the team.

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Kerr praised Poole’s attack during camp.

“Jordan has been fantastic passim camp," Kerr said. “Someone enactment retired determination that Jordan had an cognition successful camp, thing tin beryllium further from the truth. He's been fantastic.

"Disappointing to spot misinformation retired determination but I wanted to marque definite I acceptable the grounds consecutive connected that. Everything other we volition grip internally and spell from there.”

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Myers said helium doesn’t expect Green missing immoderate games for the altercation.

“Everybody's fine,” Myers said, saying the squad is fortunate cipher got hurt. “Look, it's the NBA, nonrecreational sports, these things happen. Nobody likes it. We don't condone it, but it happened.

"Draymond apologised to the squad this morning, Jordan was determination successful the room, I was determination successful the country with the team, the coaches, the players and we heard that.”

The Athletic archetypal reported the scuffle, saying Green struck Poole. Myers said “space is good” regarding Green not practising and going location aft helium addressed the team.

Curry said “JP's been large and there's thing that warranted the concern yesterday.”

Curry added 1 of Green's “superpowers is bringing his fire, competitiveness and voice." Regarding the apology, “it's indispensable but you'd person to inquire each feline individually however they received it, JP especially,” Curry said.

Draymond Green and Jordan Poole person been known to get into heated confrontations (Getty)

“The vibe contiguous successful signifier was great, trying to instrumentality vantage of this week and marque it astir hoops and our mentation for the season,” Curry said.

“It's evidently an unfortunate concern getting asked astir it and a concern that could person been avoided but there's a batch of spot successful the cloth of our team, who we are, who we cognize those 2 guys to beryllium and however we'll get done it and effort to proceed to marque it astir playing large basketball.

"The idiosyncratic dynamics and worldly volition enactment themselves out. That's portion of the civilization that we've built here. I similar however we responded today, we had a large practice, bully energy. Try to support that arsenic the absorption arsenic we determination forward.”

The fiery Green, a four-time NBA champion and four-time All-Star, has agelong been considered the affectional person of the Warriors. He's been consenting to get into it with his teammates erstwhile helium feels it's appropriate. There is simply a “tough love” constituent to each team, Myers said, noting “Draymond is perfectly a person connected this team."

Green regularly pushes the league bounds for method fouls. He was suspended 1 crippled without wage successful November 2018 for behaviour detrimental to the squad pursuing an altercation with Kevin Durant. Green besides sat retired crippled 5 of the 2016 NBA Finals for an accumulation of flagrant fouls.

Green has played a cardinal relation successful Golden State's 4 NBA titles since 2015 (Getty)

“It's unfortunate, I'm not going to contradict it," Myers said astir the latest incident. “It'll instrumentality immoderate clip to determination through, but we'll determination done it and determination guardant and I'm assured that we will. We've got a bully team, we've got bully leadership, we've got immoderate guys that person been present a agelong time.”

Poole’s representatives are successful discussions with Myers astir a declaration hold up of the October 17 deadline, 1 time earlier the defending NBA champions unfastened the play astatine location against the Lakers.

Both Poole and Andrew Wiggins insisted connected media time their unsettled declaration situations were not the apical happening connected their caput going into the pre-season. Myers said helium didn't see this dust-up arsenic thing that was astir “who's getting paid and who isn't.” Curry agreed.

Golden State is backmost successful the Bay Area this week and connected the signifier level successful San Francisco aft a brace of pre-season wins successful Japan against the Wizards.

Myers doesn't expect the incidental to person a lingering effect.

“First, similar thing you privation to marque definite everybody's OK, that's the No.1 thing,” Myers said. “After that, cipher likes these things, truthful however bash you determination forward? There’s a process to these things, there's apologies, there's time.”

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