The Golden State Warriors caught a break when the National Basketball Association decided not to suspend Draymond Green for his now-infamous crotch kick of Steven Adams during Game 3 of the NBA’s Western Conference finals.
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Green was initially given a Flagrant 1 foul for flailing and kicking Adams in the crotch, and allowed to remain in the game.
Game 4 will be on Tuesday night in Oklahoma City, a game that Durant classifies as the “most important game of the season”. According to reports, another flagrant foul at that level against Green would result in an automatic suspension. Now finally the decision has been made, Golden State now knows his status for the fourth game of the series.
During the second quarter of the Warriors’ 133-105 loss Sunday, Green was fouled by Adams and proceeded to kick the Thunder big man in the midsection.
“I didn’t see the Dahntay Jones incident, but from what I heard, is he punched him”, Green said. If I can’t do it as well as I think, I’m going to go out there and try.
“I’ve never been fined for one flop since I’ve been playing in the NBA”, Westbrook said. That don’t make sense. The league is pro-business, so I get it.
On Monday night, the National Basketball Association fined Green $25,000 and upgraded the flagrant foul called on him in the second quarter of Game 3 to a Flagrant Foul 2. When you go up for a shot and a guy’s challenging, that happens all the time. “Watching the replay, I think that’s clear”. If you watch my reaction, I walk back to the three-point line, clap everybodys hands, turn around and look like, Whats the dude on the floor for?.
“Russell Westbrook kicked me at the end of the half”, Green said.
“I don’t know about no flopping or nothing”, Westbrook said. I brought the ball over the top this way [makes motion], he fouled me, and I brought my leg up.
“Stuff like that happens all the time”, Kerr said. I mean, that’s just part of the game. I think it matters to him a lot to have an impact on the game. Luckily for the Warriors, the league declared that there was no malice intent on Green’s part and therefore didn’t warrant a suspension.
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Most of Spartan Nation can pretty much agree that this looked intentional and likely was, but Green said that he was just trying to sell the foul and it happened on accident.
