But here's what happened.
"The procedure is to advise the table who the technical foul is on and with the player we give a number", Callahan told the pool reporter.
If there are things the Warriors can draw to this other than reminding themselves that closing is hard work and that the Finals are typically about testiness, it's that Green didn't get tossed due to some legerdesifflet (whistle magic) that changed a first half technical credited to Green was assigned to head coach Steve Kerr, thus making Green's second-half technical a relative insignificance.
Green was thought to have been handed a technical foul in the first quarter, but it was actually Warriors coach Steve Kerr who was hit with it.
This is eerily familiar territory.
Game 4 of the NBA Finals was loaded with storylines. Draymond Green needs to play in this Game 5.
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Draymond: "Absolutely not. Because everything I say, I know what I'm saying". Goble indicated that he "failed to properly communicate" that Kerr was the recipient of the technical and not Green. Most in attendance seemed to think Quicken Loans Arena thought Green got it, including everyone working at the scorer's table. "Let me get my money's worth if I'm going to get some techs". That cut Golden State's lead to 3-1, but as usual Green's stats were only a small chapter of his story.
Green said he knew all along the first one wasn't on him. "Don't seem to be the sharpest people around". "It's insane to think that he thought that was my second technical foul and I would get a technical foul for that, but whatever". "So then I thought the second one Draymond was going to get kicked out, but they explained that the first one was on me".
Draymond: "I didn't bash them".
"When the technical foul was called on Draymond Green, we reported it to the table". Green told reporters after the game.
"I don't pay much attention to anybody in Cleveland, honestly", he said. "I'm sure that's just the world we live in". True, the Cavaliers still have a long way to go to become the 1951 New York Knicks, let alone the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs, but at least we have the germ of a series now, at the relatively low-priced costs of a record that can not be, and the momentary deferral of years of dynasty talk.
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