b'BODY OF CHRIST NEWS MAGAZINEDraymond Green: EMOTIONAL RIGHTS ORDISORDER?Randall Craven, LPC, CAC IIIM ostpeopleintheBlackCommunityorinnineteen ejections and lost salaries not paid during theSportsworldknowaboutthelatestfour suspensions. In essence, Draymond has forfeited disruptivenesssurroundingDraymondmore money for mental and emotional unruliness than Green.Butifyoudontknow,Draymondmost people will make in a lifetime. Now, Draymond GreenisanNBAbasketballplayerfortheGoldenis being required to seriously look at getting some State Warriors. He is an aggressive, gritty, and mostcounseling to fix himself and return to the Court. often angry Power Forward/Center who these daysA sanAfricanAmericanmalepsychotherapist, ismostknownforhistoughrebounding,harsh defense,technicalfouls,andgameejections. IwishIwasthetherapistprovidingthe been disrespected, wronged, etc. Ephesians 4:2627treatmentforDraymond.Iwishthisbecause may not consider anger to be a sin but it doesnt saythisisahigh-profilecasewhereyoung anger is healthy either. All emotional states other thanpeopleandolderpeoplealikeseetheseplayers peace or joy indicate in imbalance or disharmoniousasrolemodelsandexamplesofsuccess.So,our conditioninourenergy.Allstatesofenergythatcommunity could stand to benefit from seeing the reflect disharmony cause harm to self and createrestoration of health as the real standard of success. potential harm to others. Nobody has the right toTothisend,wehaveanexcellentopportunityfor be emotionally disturbed.If thats not true, thenacriticalmasstoseethevalueofworking-on-who gave us the right to do harm to self or others? yourselfsothatourmentalandemotionalhealth is viewed as just as important as fame and fortune.Recently,onDecember13,2023,Draymondwas suspendedindefinitelyfromtheNBAafterhittingRarely do we seize these opportunities to give our the Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the facecultureandourcommunitiesanantidotetothe during a game on December 12th. The NBA decidedtoxicbehaviorthattoomanyofourhigh-profile onthemagnitudeofthesuspensionstatingthatpersonalitiesdisplay.Itnormallygetsover-soldin itwastakingintoaccountGreensrepeatedthe media and becomes a steady diet of how Black historyofunsportsmanlikeacts.Asitstands,peopledolife.Andnoneofitistrue.So,now,we DraymondhasbeenejectedfromNBAgameshaveanopportunitytosellchange.Igetit,some morethananyotheractiveplayerintheleague.ofthisisaWesternculturesociopoliticalagenda, andtoomanyofusfeedintotheindoctrination. SinceDraymondwasdraftedbytheGoldenStateSo, it may be the case that God selected Draymond Warriorsbackin2012,accordingtoSpotrac,thetobemorethanjustabasketballplayer. largest online sports financial information system,Hereismyargument.Draymondisangryand hehasforfeitedmorethantwomilliondollarsinapparently, he believes that violence is a justifiable fines and lost salary due to suspensions. Specifically,formofrespondingwhenhegetstriggeredor this amount includes fines from 171 technical fouls,provoked. I know this is true because there are too BOCNEWS.COM7'