Draymond Green received another technical foul Thursday night and after the Warriors’ loss to the Timberwolves evened their Western Conference semifinals series at a game apiece suggested there was a smear campaign against him.
“The agenda to continue to keep making me look like an angry black man is crazy. I’m sick of it. It’s ridiculous,” Green told reporters in the locker room in his only comments following the Game 2 loss that featured him picking up his fifth tech of the postseason.
Two more earns Green a one-game suspension. He also has two flagrant fouls and is two away from those resulting in the same punishment.
“He’s gonna have to be careful now,” coach Steve Kerr said. “He’s gonna have to stay composed. Obviously we need him. I’m confident that he will because he knows the circumstances.”
A potent mix of athleticism, basketball IQ and emotion, Green has proudly described himself as a “habitual line stepper,” and Kerr acknowledged after the latest incident, “That’s part of Draymond.” He runs their offense and their defense and sometimes runs a little hot, too.
“Same thing that makes him such a competitor and a winner puts him over the top sometimes. We know that,” Kerr said. “It’s our job to try to help him stay poised, stay composed. But it’s a competition, and it’s so meaningful to him that occasionally he goes over the line.”
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Reid was whistled for a common foul when he reached around with his right arm, attempting to steal the ball. Green then flailed his arms upward — a similar motion to the one that earned him another technical in the first round against the Rockets and that he has displayed in the past.
“It’s just a habit he has,” Kerr said. “When somebody fouls him, he’s smart. I think Reid reached, and on the reach Draymond kind of swiped through and drew the foul. But he does have a habit of sort of flailing his arm to try to make sure the ref sees it. He made contact and that’s what led to the tech.”
Green spent the next six minutes on the bench and eventually finished with nine points, five assists and three rebounds in 29 minutes.
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