HALL OF ENFORCEMENT! Did Warriors Get Special Treatment Game 2?| Is Draymond Green HOF Worthy?
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Just before halftime of last night’s Game 2 of the NBA Finals, Draymond Green and Jaylen Brown had a little dust-up that had some pushing and shoving (and shorts grabbing) before teammates were able to separate them and calm things down a bit.
Once things got settled, the refs went to review the play to see what type of punishments should be handed out. To just about anyone watching it seemed like a perfect spot for a double technical. There was one very big issue with that, though – Green already had a technical called on him earlier in the game so this could have been a game-changing moment if he got a second and was sent to the locker room for the rest of the night.
While the ref’s were rewatching the play on the monitor, ESPN had their rules expert, former NBA ref Steve Javie, on the broadcast to break down what happened. And that’s when he said something pretty damning about NBA refs and how they work a game.
Check out his take on what he’d be thinking about as a ref in that situation:
“You have to consider one player definitely has a (previous) technical foul – is this enough to call a double T and eject the one player? Personally I would say nothing and I would let it just defuse as that – that’s just my opinion.”
That’s a wild mindset for a ref. But then he was asked by Mark Jackson – if he was making the call would he be thinking about the fact that Green had one technical already and would that play into his ruling?
“Absolutely. I think that’s part of good officiating – is the fact that you have to know who has the technical fouls and in this situation one of the players does. Is this enough to warrant an ejection is what you have to think about.”
Draymond Green is an amazing defensive player with a resume that a lot of his peers could only dream of. But is he a Hall of Fame player?
That's the question many NBA fans found themselves asking on social media Friday after one Facebook post listed out all his credentials.
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