Draymond Green Spoiled His Image Rehab Piece By Hitting a Guy Before ESPN Could Hit Publish

data-mm-id=”_a5bpwvu0u”>Draymond Green has been suspended indefinitely by the NBA after he hit Jusuf Nurkić with a spinning backfist during the Golden State Warriors' game against the Phoenix Suns. Green's latest incident occurred just six games after he returned from his last suspension for doing something violent on a basketball court. It also happened right before ESPN was set to publish a story by Ramona Shelburne about how Green wasn't going to hurt his team again. Updated to mention the newer, longer suspension, ESPN published the piece on Thursday and boy are there some great quotes in there from Green.Had Green not punched an opponent this week, Shelburne's piece would have been your standard image rehab story. Shelburne spoke with Green as he returned to t…

Man City FFP result ‘might never be public’ as champions ‘fear significant defeat’ in APT case

According to a report, Manchester City fear a substantial loss in their associated party transactions (APT) case against the Premier League.

are embroiled in a legal battle with the Premier League as they challenge the APT rules in place, claiming the current regulations are unlawful .

APT rules are designed to ensure any commercial deal or player transfer between a club and entities with links to that club’s ownership are conducted at fair market value, so that club revenues are not artificially inflated.

If an arbitration panel declares the APT rules invalid, then clubs would effectively be free to do any commercial deals they wished without any independent judgement being made on whether those deals were for fair market value.

The case began in …