Gerald Green Hospitalized in Miami

JuanValdez · Nov 11, 2015

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It also takes out the mental breakdown hypothesis, since I doubt any team would dare to suspend a player because of phsychological issues. Same for the medical issue (hypglemic rage, meningitis etc).

Also one of the Heat journalists posted that it's not drug related because then the NBA would suspend him not the Heat. I don't buy that. The NBA would suspend him if he was caught in a test by them which he wasn't.
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This is all what I was thinking. Suspension means it's not medical or psychological. Probably drugs. But, without a drug test or a conviction, the league can't get him with a drug suspension. So, the team does something for conduct instead.

J.R. · Nov 11, 2015

When the Miami Heat announced Tuesday it was suspending sharpshooting guard Gerald Green for two games because of conduct detrimental to the team, team president Pat Riley didn’t exactly say why, calling it a “personal matter.”

But a Nov. 4 City of Miami police incident report shed more light. Green, 29, showed up at the front desk of his condo with bloody hands, asked a clerk to call paramedics, then walked outside into the valet area, where he collapsed.

Then Green recovered, walked back inside and punched someone in the eye who was trying to stop him from going back up to his apartment, the report says.

“Mr. Green tried to make his way up to his unit. When victim #1 tried to hold Mr. Green in the lobby area for fire rescue, Mr. Green punched the victim in the right eye,” Miami police officer John Collins wrote in his report.

Though the incident report lists Viannett Jusino Agosto as a victim and says she was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital, police said that was a mistake and that Agosto was merely a witness. The victim, who isn’t named, chose not to press charges, police said.

The eight-page report says police arrived at the condo at 1100 Biscayne Boulevard at 10:46 a.m. It appears to be written by supervising officer who arrived at the scene after the initial incident, then conducted interviews.

It says that when Collins arrived, Green was already restrained and in handcuffs, and that police escorted Miami Fire Rescue as they drove Green to Jackson Memorial. Police assisted fire rescue in placing Green on a stretcher and carried him to the ambulance.

“Fire rescue had the patient restrained due to the patient becoming very loud and verbally combative,” the report says. “Fire rescue requested that the Sgt. handcuff the patient.”

An assault unit was contacted, according to the report, but the victim did not want to press charges.

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nba/miami-heat/article44279211.html
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malakas · Nov 11, 2015

JuanValdez said: ↑

This is all what I was thinking. Suspension means it's not medical or psychological. Probably drugs. But, without a drug test or a conviction, the league can't get him with a drug suspension. So, the team does something for conduct instead.
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Yeah I mean in the last 5 years Sanders had been high all the time, but the NBA could only punish him for the tests he failed. Otherwise the NBPA would be all over this. But the team can suspend a player. And I bet a big number of NBA players are high all the time but the NBA can't punish them either if they are not caught by the official test.

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Not familiar with drugs at all, but this doesnt' sound to me like a hard drug. Sure he lost it and was aggresive and had blood in his hand, but he had the precense of mind to at first leave his apartment and go to the right place and ask for help. Doesn't seem to be hallucinating.
I really don't know much about drugs though.

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