San Francisco – After two highly physical games and Chippy, the Warriors tension with the Rockets completed in match 4 of their series of qualifying series in the first round.
With seven minutes to play in the second quarter, Draymond Green set a hard screen on Amen Thompson, throwing a elbow.
Steph Curry, the ballhandler, was then struck on the ground by Brooks, and Brooks proceeded to try to grasp the Curry ball while Green tried to help his teammate.
A melee ensued.
Curry, Green and Brooks have all been evaluated technical faults.
The fireworks were far from over.
With 2:44 to do in the second quarter and the Rockets leading 47-46, Draymond Green fell on Tari Eason, putting his legs on the head / back of Eason.
Eason offended himself, standing above the green. The warriors in front then seized Eason while he was trying to get up. Another melee followed, which earned Green a blatant – not an ejection – and Eason a technical fault.
Animosity has been built on both sides for some time.
During the last regular season match between the teams, Green was called to technical and blatant faults for hitting Alperen Sengun twice, and the Rockets coach Ime Udoka was seen screaming in Curry while the teams left the field at halftime.
After a victory by Golden State in Houston, the second game was much more controversial.
There were three technical faults given to each team, plus a blatant fault on Jalen Green when he struck Draymond Green in the face, during match 2. There was also a scuffle in Midcourt during the fourth quarter, who saw the striker of the Rockets Tari Eason launching a towel at Warriors Reserve Patncer.
The star of the Warriors, Jimmy Butler, was eliminated from the match with a pelvic bruise after being put in the underside in the air by the defender of the Rockets Amen Thompson while entering a rebound.
Thompson came across the fray after tightening between Draymond Green and the Rockets center Steven Adams under the rim, and after the match, the Warriors coach Steve Kerr, said that he did not believe that there was a malicious intention behind the game.
This did not prevent Brooks from weighing on the online speech that Thompson’s game was dirty, off Green a dirty player on Friday.
Green was showered by three -words obscene songs in match 2.
Green and Brooks have reasons to be hated by the other team. As a member of the Grizzlies, Brooks fractured the elbow of Gary Payton II during the 2022 elimination series. And Green launched Adams in the groin during the Western 2016 conference final, one of the several post-season incidents that obtained suspensions and green fines.
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California Daily Newspapers
