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Watch: Draymond Green's 2016 postseason infractions

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Draymond Green's suspension for Game 5 of the NBA Finals was not the result of a single misdeed, but of a series of tosses, punches, and kicks during the course of the 2016 postseason.

Per league rules, a player exceeding three flagrant foul points during the playoffs receives an automatic suspension. For Green, the straw that broke the camel's back was his shot to LeBron James' nether region during Game 4 at Quicken Loans Arena. Intentional or not, the low blow fit a clear pattern, the accumulated evidence too great to be swept under the rug.

Here are all Green's questionable postseason plays that ultimately culminated in his suspension.

Green flings Beasley to the floor

The amazing thing about Green is how often he manages to escape punishment for his misconduct in the moment.

As has been the case with all his playoff flagrants, Green's first (a flagrant 1) was assessed retroactively, after the refs missed his suplex of Rockets forward Michael Beasley on the final play in Game 3 of the first round.

Green knees Adams in the groin

Before the kick that really got the league's attention, Green delivered a more subtle shot to Steven Adams' jewels, catching him with a knee on a drive to the hoop in Game 2 of the conference finals. This one really did look inadvertent, and league officials appeared to agree. No discipline was handed down, at the time or afterward.

Green karate-kicks Adams between the legs

Just a game after absorbing that knee, Adams again found himself on the wrong end of a Green groin shot, this one far more egregious than the last.

And Green did not escape justice a second time. The kick felt 'round the world got him retroactively slapped with a flagrant 2, pushing his playoff flagrant-point total to the brink. Many were disappointed he wasn't suspended right then and there, but the chickens eventually came home to roost.

Green swings boot into Irving's chest

Green seemed to simultaneously flop and get in a shot on Kyrie Irving during Game 1 of the Finals.

Irving did give Green a bit of a yank as he tried to track Steph Curry around Green's cunningly slipped screen, but Green appeared to exaggerate the contact, flailing as he fell to the ground and kicking Irving in the chest in the process.

Green seals his fate in brush with LeBron

Green said he felt disrespected by James stepping over him. Charles Barkley said Green had a "moral obligation" to respond to such disrespect in kind. Nevertheless, when his retaliatory forearm caught James in the wrong spot, Green's fate was sealed.

It was far from his most galling offense, and, again, there's no clear sign of intent, but at a certain point it becomes difficult to chalk all these plays up to coincidence. Much as the Warriors can take issue with the act that got him suspended, Green is reaping what he has sown.

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