“I’m a very successful, educated Black man with a great family,” Green said in a brief statement to reporters in the locker room. “And I’m great at basketball, I’m great at what I do. The agenda to try to keep making me look like an angry Black man is crazy. I’m sick of it. It’s ridiculous.”
Again, Draymond has every right to say and believe this. But he’s not in a court of law or writing an op-ed. He’s in the playoffs, playing under very prescribed rules, and he drew that technical foul because he hit Reid in the face. He could’ve avoided all of this by not hitting Reid in the face. That is not arguable.
The very last thing the Warriors can absorb right now, with Curry out, is for Draymond to accumulate two more technical fouls this postseason and draw a one-game suspension. Or two more flagrant foul points, which would also lead to a suspension.
“I think he knows,” Butler said. “We all know. I thought he got fouled and maybe he was trying to sell the call. Somebody got hit. But it’s just crazy, every time he does something, it’s always a review and it always ends up being something of that nature. He knows he’s got five. He knows how much we need him, now more than ever.”
They can’t lose him. Or they will lose the series. They won’t win enough for Curry to get back into the postseason. They will collapse. It’s happened before. This isn’t the formula. It’s never been the Warriors’ formula. But here they are, at 1-1, with Curry out indefinitely, with Draymond on the edge, and maybe needing a few minor miracles.
