Draymond Green vents about being stereotyped after another technical foul

Draymond Green received another technical foul Thursday night and after the Warriors - loss to the Timberwolves evened their Western Conference semifinals series at a tournament apiece suggested there was a smear campaign against him The agenda to continue to keep making me look like an angry black man is crazy I m sick of it It s ridiculous Green advised reporters in the locker room in his only comments following the Competition loss that featured him picking up his fifth tech of the postseason Two more earns Green a one-game suspension He also has two flagrant fouls and is two away from those resulting in the same punishment He s gonna have to be careful now coach Steve Kerr reported He s gonna have to stay composed Obviously we need him I m confident that he will because he knows the circumstances A potent mix of athleticism basketball IQ and emotion Green has proudly described himself as a habitual line stepper and Kerr acknowledged after the latest occurrence That s part of Draymond He runs their offense and their defense and sometimes runs a little hot too Same thing that makes him such a competitor and a winner puts him over the top sometimes We know that Kerr explained It s our job to try to help him stay poised stay composed But it s a competition and it s so meaningful to him that occasionally he goes over the line So incensed was Green midway through the second quarter Thursday that Kerr commented he felt the need to sub him out and let him cool down At one point the injured Stephen Curry appeared to try to calm him But it wasn t his temper that Tony Brothers teed him up for Green fumed and continued to plead his situation after Brothers communicated the outcome of the video review that determined he committed a hostile act when he swung his arms and hit Naz Reid after being fouled on the perimeter Reid was whistled for a common foul when he reached around with his right arm attempting to steal the ball Green then flailed his arms upward a similar motion to the one that earned him another technical in the first round against the Rockets and that he has displayed in the past and Reid fell to the floor holding his face It s just a habit he has Kerr mentioned When somebody fouls him he s smart I think Reid reached and on the reach Draymond kind of swiped through and drew the foul But he does have a habit of sort of flailing his arm to try to make sure the ref sees it He made contact and that s what led to the tech Related Articles Kurtenbach The Warriors were awful in their Match loss That could help them in a big way Warriors sputter without Steph Curry drop Challenge vs Timberwolves Anthony Edwards returns to Warriors-Timberwolves Tournament after ankle injury Warriors Steph Curry shares details about hamstring injury I ve never dealt with this before Steph Curry injury history How the Warriors have fared in the playoffs without their MVP Green spent the next six minutes on the bench and eventually finished with nine points five assists and three rebounds in minutes Jimmy Butler III heard what Green noted in the locker room and was urged if he also presumed Green s reputation was playing a role I m in agreeance Butler explained It s not like he s doing it on purpose He s trying to sell a call or something like that Somebody just got hit It s crazy Every time he does something it ends up being a review Green proved his ability to control his emotions in Championship against the Rockets holding himself accountable for their Battle loss and he will have to show similar restraint the rest of the Warriors playoff run however far they go He knows he got five He knows how much we need him now more than ever Butler reported So I don t think he gets to seven