Two days after losing Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors are approaching the point where they could also be without Draymond Green.
The big veteran man took his fifth technical fault in nine playoffs in the playoff series Thursday, leaving him two technicians from an automatic suspension of a match. Green received a suspension of a match in the 2016 NBA final – which Golden State lost after spending a 3-1 lead to LeBron James riders – after having accumulated four flagrant points during the qualifiers for this season.
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The fault took place in match 2 of the western semi-finals against the Minnesota Timberwolves, when the great man of T-Wolves Naz Reid committed it in the second quarter. Green responded to Reid's contact by jumping and beating his arms, grabbing his opponent at the back of the head and sending him to the ground.
The officials examined the room and considered as a common fault on Reid and a technical fault on Green.
Green was heated after the announcement of the decision, to the point that the Warriors head coach Steve Kerr had to get him out of the game for fear of continuing to reprimand the officials and taking another technology, which would have ejected him from the game.
Not only is Green two technical faults of a suspension, but there are also two blatant faults to have to miss a match.
Overall, not what the Warriors need while trying to survive a series without their superstar against a minnesota team which has just dropped the Los Angeles Lakers. But it never really stopped green before.
