The NBA has added insult to injury for Draymond Green.
After being thrown out of Sunday’s game in the third quarter, Green was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Tuesday for swearing at official Marat Kogut.
Here’s the play in question that set Green off:
Believing that he went straight up to contest Devin Vassell, Green got the first tech for arguing too demonstratively. That really set Green off, and he continued to talk to Kogut after play continued. He was eventually tossed after the next possession.
The Warriors have history with Kogut dating all the way back to 2019. Stephen Curry was so upset with a number of calls made by Kogut at the conclusion of a game vs. Minnesota, he sarcastically called Kogut “the MVP of the night.” Green, Curry and Kevin Durant were all fined for criticizing officials after that game.
Green was also upset with Kogut earlier this season after receiving a technical foul in a game vs. Dallas. Green believed that Kogut’s conduct was unprofessional.
“I got a technical for a referee walking away from me and then coming back to talk to me and I walk away,” Green said after the game. “That’s why I got a technical. I think I got eight or nine techs this year. Five or six of them are super questionable. And as I said to the ref, ‘It’s unbelievable that you’ll walk away from me, very disrespectful, mid-sentence when we’re having a normal conversation and if I walked away from you when you were talking to me, you’d give me a tech.’ He continued to walk away from me, then walked up to me and said ‘All right, what do you have to say?’ And I said ‘f–k it. It’s cool. I don’t even want to talk no more. It’s all right’ and walked away and got a tech. So, you tell me where the tech is at.”
