MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Draymond Green didn’t believe he did anything wrong when his hand got caught up in a Grizzlies player’s jersey during Sunday’s game which resulted in him being ejected. But the league sided with the referees anyway.
The NBA will not reduce or rescind the Flagrant 2 foul assessed to Green in the first half of Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals, league sources confirmed Monday morning.
Green was called for a Flagrant 2 foul and ejected late in the second quarter after it appeared he pulled on the collar of Brandon Clarke as he went for a basket, dragging the Grizzlies forward to the ground. In a pool report after the game, crew chief Kane Fitzgerald told Damichael Cole of The Commercial Appeal that the contact “was considered unnecessary and excessive,” adding that Green made “significant contact” to Clarke’s face.
