Barkley: Green had 'moral obligation' to retaliate when James stepped over him

Before he got word that he'll be suspended for Game 5 of the NBA Finals, Draymond Green received a vote of solidarity from Charles Barkley.

Green's confrontation with LeBron James during Game 4 - in which James made a point of stepping over a fallen Green, who appeared to retaliate by whacking James in the crotch - may well earn Green a retroactive flagrant foul, and a consequent Game 5 suspension. Barkley, though, doesn't think Green had any choice in the matter.

"When somebody steps over you, they're doing that intentionally to rub your face in it," the Hall of Famer told Bleacher Report's Howard Beck and Noah Coslov on Sunday. "When a guy steps over you, you have a moral obligation to punch him in the balls."

Green, for his part, did say he felt disrespected by James' ostentatious step-over. But that didn't prevent him being the one who ended up on the wrong side of the NBA's decision, after the Cavs reportedly pressured the league to punish him.