The Warriors' Draymond Green said he 'deserved to be kicked out' of Wednesday's game against Orlando for yelling at the referee and that 'it just can't happen.'
"It just can't happen," Green said on"The Draymond Green Show" podcast on Thursday."I said what I said. I deserved to be kicked out at that point. If I'm all the way honest with y'all, kind of was trying to turn my body and angle it to go to the bench, but I said what I said a little too soon before angling my body. ... But, yeah, it just can't happen."Green had been chirping at official Ray Acosta after being called for his first personal foul.
It was Green's career-high fourth ejection of the season -- and second in the first quarter. He is the first player to be ejected at least four times in a season sinceIt was also Green's 19th career regular-season ejection, the second most in NBA history over the past 25 seasons behind Rasheed Wallace .
"I'm not going to overreact, like 'Oh man!' Green said on his podcast."Stuff is never as good as it seems; it's never as bad as it seems. I know where I am. I understand what I'm doing moving forward. And my position is just make sure that's the exception and not the rule." Crew chief Mitchell Ervin told a pool reporter after the game that Green was given the second technical foul because"after a prolonged diatribe, Green directed egregious profane vanguard towards a game official." Ervin said Green's history"absolutely" did not have an impact on the decision to hand out two technical fouls.
Stephen Curry said Draymond Green's ejection, which came at the 8:24 mark of the first quarter,"was a tough way to start the game." in the head in December -- as well as several other incidents last season were taken into account for the two suspensions Green served this campaign.
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