Steve Kerr on Draymond Green’s ejection: A mistake

Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green was ejected in the second quarter of game’s loss to the New York Knicks after yelling at teammate James Wiseman.

As reported by ESPN: «Warriors coach Steve Kerr said after the game that Ben Taylor — the game’s crew chief — admitted at halftime that second-year official John Butler thought Green was yelling at him and made a mistake by giving the forward his second technical foul».

“I’m just a bit confused,” Green told Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated. “Officials can meet and make a decision on any call throughout the game, but when it comes to a technical that was clearly the wrong call, due to an official assuming I was talking to him when in fact I wasn’t, that can’t be overturned? Maybe it’s time to take a look at that rule. I would love clarity on why that’s the rule, if in fact it is a rule.”

"It’s pretty self-explanatory,” Curry said of the questionable second technical. “He’s been very vocal with James. I know he had already gotten a tech early in the game and obviously mindful of that, he was just talking to his teammate. The refs got confused. And I don’t know what the rules are in that situation when it’s pretty clear who he was talking to, and I don’t know if you can take it back in the moment, but it was pretty glaring that he was talking to his own teammate and kind of unfortunate that it got confused, so move on.”

After the game, Steve Kerr said: «Obviously, Draymond is one of our best and most impactful players, so it hurt us. But we were playing very poorly to that point anyway, so I’m not going to talk about the officiating, I’m going to talk about our poor play. … We’re undisciplined, and we got to find a way to defend without fouling, obviously».