Draymond Green doesn’t want to say that he gets targeted by referees. That doesn’t necessarily mean he doesn’t believe it’s not happening to him.
The Golden State Warriors forward has solidified himself as one of the top defensive players in the NBA. At the same time, he’s been one of the more demonstrative players.
That’s part of what has made Green such an important piece on the Warriors, but it’s also the reason he tends to rack up so many technical fouls every season.
Green insists that he makes an effort to acknowledge when he crosses the line and when he thinks an official got something wrong. And in a scorched earth rant on his podcast “The Draymond Green Show” he called out the state of officiating in the NBA and the appeals process, and in doing so suggested that he does, in fact, get targeted.
“I try not to say I’m targeted because I don’t have that victim mindset. I’m not a loser. I win. So just to have a victim mindset, I’m not that type of person,” Green said. “So I try not to make it like ‘Oh I’m being targeted, but I’m not a f-----g idiot, either. I know two plus two equals four, like I’m not dumb. You start talking about how there’s human emotion involved in this, it’s not like there's some exact science that says ‘You said X, Y and Z, you get a tech.’ Like, there’s human emotion involved in this.
“And that’s one of the things that kind of bothers me in the appeal process. There’s no way possible I win one of every 30 appeals, there’s no way possible when there’s a human being deciding this and there’s no criteria really set for it. There’s no way possible I lose every single appeal because, again, these are totally different human beings deciding the criteria of this. It has to be shifting one way or the other depending on who the human being is. And yet you never win? It’s impossible, and that’s why I don’t appeal them anymore.”
Green actually is in a share of fourth for most techs in the NBA this season with 14, trailing Luka Doncic (16), Russell Westbrook (15) and Karl-Anthony Towns (15).
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