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NBA Referees Appear To Skirt The Rules To Avoid A Draymond Green Ejection

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Draymond Green is seemingly always in trouble on the basketball court. The Warriors legend seems to always be getting in altercations, and it’s been that way for over a decade.

Green was at it once again on Monday night during Golden State’s huge win over the Rockets to take a 3-1 lead, 109-106. And, he was lucky, as the refs may have bailed him out of being ejected after calling a flagrant foul instead of a second technical foul that would have removed him from the game.

Draymond, who has had a bit of a career resurgence this year in a season that nearly earned him NBA Defensive Player of the Year, got his first technical foul in this altercation.

Green got hit for a technical for that, and then this happened later on.

To me, that’s after the play, and could’ve clearly been a second technical foul! Instead, they gave it a flagrant foul, which meant that Draymond got to stay in the game. By the way, that loophole needs to be fixed. One technical and one flagrant should eject a player just like two flagrants or two technicals does. They’re unsportsmanlike acts, to even tolerate one is too many. I think we can draw the line at two of either kind.

Nevertheless, he was allowed to continue, and Draymond ended up being at the center of a big defensive stop to win the game.

Draymond Green gets the best whistle in the league. This is just another example of that.

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Garrett Carr is an editor at BroBible with an expertise in NFL and other major professional sports. He is a graduate of Penn State University and resides in Pennsylvania. Garrett is a diehard Penn State, New York Mets, and New York Knicks fan.
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