There was no shortage of physicality in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday night between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers.
To no one's surprise, one of the players at the center of it all was Warriors All-Star forward Draymond Green, who got involved in a couple of intense moments that all came to a head in the third quarter when he picked a technical foul that was believed to be his second technical foul resulting in being thrown out of the game.
Things were quickly cleared up as the referee's mistake of not identifying that the first technical foul was on head coach Steve Kerr and second one was on the 27-year-old forward. During that moment, Green's mother, Mary Babers-Green, didn't hold back her feelings about the officiating through a series of tweets.
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It was quite an intense sequence of events that saw Green go from being thrown out of the game to staying in with one technical to his name. It was created a large range of emotions from veteran forward.
Despite her over-the-top reaction via social media, the refs did make numerous questionable calls that led to the chippiness in the second half. It all made quite a strangely entertaining game even though the Cavaliers held firm control throughout the contest.
If things head down this path once again at any point moving forward in the series, there could much more to come from Green's passionate mother.
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