“He’s celebrating getting thrown out? Is it Draymond Green or Antonio Brown”: NBA fans and players have mixed reactions to Warriors forward’s unjust ejection against Grizzlies

Akash Murty | 02/05/2022
"He’s celebrating getting thrown out? Is it Draymond Green or Antonio Brown": NBA fans and players have mixed reactions to Warriors forward's unjust ejection against Grizzlies

Draymond Green getting a Flagrant 2 for his foul on Brandon Clarke could have resulted in the Warriors losing, as they narrowly escaped with a 117-116 victory.

Officiating in the NBA has taken the worst of turns this year. While the new rules against flopping made watching the game much more fun at the start of the season, the quality of officiating otherwise have let most people down.

It didn’t come to much notice in the regular season, but since the Playoffs started, it’s been magnified. Small-ball playing teams literally bullying the opposition’s big man was a common scene, with Nikola Jokic getting tortured physically throughout the regular season.

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But with the Golden State Warriors doing that in the First Round of the Playoffs, it looked pretty bizarre watching that kind of physicality in this era. But then that very team in the 1st match of the Western Conference semi-finals came close to losing a match just because the era we are in sees this as Flagrant 2.

NBA players went ballistic on refs.

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The Warriors trailing 54-53 with just over one minute remaining in the second quarter at FedExForum, Draymond Green issued a hard foul on Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke.

The foul was totally foolishness at Green’s end, undoubtedly. Did it deserve Flagrant 1? Maybe, even if it doesn’t endanger Clarke in any way, it still is ugly to watch.

But a Flagrant 2? That’s absurd. And although most fans also found it wrong some were intrigued by Draymond’s antics, as soon as the forward came to he’s going to receive a Flagrant 2 and going to be ejected out of the game. Some compared him to the NFL star Antonio Brown.

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It all ended well for the Warriors, as this absurdity didn’t cost them the match, which might turn out to be the game that decided the series. That said, Green will have to be cautious from the next game on until the Finals, he’d not want to be out of a game that would haunt both him and the Warriors like the 2016 Finals.

 

 

 

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Akash Murty

An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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