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Following a technical-foul marred game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the ire and rift between Draymond Green and the referees didn't cease during Thursday night's game against the Dallas Mavericks.
Green picked up his 14th technical foul with 8:12 left in the second quarter after pushing the ball out of bounds following a layup make, as he yelled his raspy infamous “and-one!” after the ball had gone through the hoop.
The ball bounced off Green's shoulder after he came down from the shooting motion and he was quickly hit with a delay of game and an ensuing tech from the sideline official after he raised his hands in the air, complaining about the call.
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“I don’t know what to do at this point,” Green said about his relationship with the officiating, according to Mark Medina of the San Jose Mercury News. “When you lay up the ball and you’re standing under the rim, it’s probably going to hit you. It’s just like physics.”
“My body is solid. Nothing is going to go through me like a video game. It might be like that in [NBA] 2K where the ball may slide through my body, but not in real life. So it’s probably going to hit me.”
Green argued that he didn't slap the ball away to merit the delay of game warning, but that it had rather bounced from his shoulder as he came down from the shooting motion.
“Maybe I should’ve missed the layup like I missed the rest of them,” said Green, who scored 12 points albeit on 4-of-17 shooting. “Then it wouldn’t have hit me and then I wouldn’t have gotten a delay of game. Then I wouldn’t have been told I threw an air punch. I’ll try to miss more layups. I missed a bunch of them tonight. It worked. I didn’t get another tech. That’s the goal: miss more layups and don’t let the ball hit me. Then don’t throw air punches.”
Green is two technicals away from a one-game suspension, a milestone he avoided last season, where he kept at 15. With 28 games to play, it seems unlikely at this point that the energetic leader of the Golden State Warriors could keep himself from the inevitable.
