“I am Dumb enough to think that it would not even be a Flagrant 1”: Draymond Green has his say on his ejection in Game 1 against the Grizzlies, calls it a reputation thing

Akash Murty | 02/05/2022
"I am Dumb enough to think that it would not even be a Flagrant 1": Draymond Green has his say on his ejection in Game 1 against the Grizzlies, calls it a reputation thing

Draymond Green getting a Flagrant 2 in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semi-finals was bad referring at its peak

The Conference Semi-finals couldn’t have started any better with both Milwaukee Bucks from the East and Golden State Warriors from the West winning the first game, that too, on the road.

The latter match though was much more entertaining and enthralling. As #3 seeded Warriors took on the #2 seed Memphis Grizzlies at FedExForum on Sunday, the game gave us the idea of how exciting the series would be with the starting whistle.

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At a point in the game, with the Warriors trailing 54-53 with just over a minute remaining in the second quarter, Draymond Green committed a hard foul on Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke.

No doubt, that foul was dirty, and it deserved punishment, maybe a flagrant 1, even if it doesn’t even qualify for any Flagrant criteria. But Flagrant 2 certainly made no sense, perhaps except for Clarke.

Draymond Green has his say on his ejection, calls it a reputation call

The statement from the Grizzlies forward is a testament to the fact this call was just a reputation foul that Green got just because of his aura of playing dirty and doing things out of the way without any kind of provocation from the opposition.

The Warriors point-forward didn’t take much time to get on his podcast, The Draymond Green Show, after the narrow Game 1 victory (117-116), which could easily have been a loss because of his ejection.

 

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Green is totally right in saying that this foul doesn’t even qualify for the criteria of any Flagrant foul. And even if it was a Flagrant 1 for the dirtiness of it, that also could have been waved off because of his active thinking in bringing down Clarke softly.

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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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