Warriors’ Draymond Green levels accusation against Grizzlies’ Taylor Jenkins after incident

The Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green was back on his on-court antics

again, this time against his favorite team, the Memphis Grizzlies.

Early in the Warriors’ blowout win over the Grizzlies on Wednesday, Green

contested Santi Aldama’s layup attempt. Aldama wasn’t too pleased with Green’s

physicality and bumped into him, which led Green to retaliate. After some very

brief contact between them, Green grabbed Aldama’s jersey around the

chest area and warned him with a “Don’t do that” before pushing him away and

quickly returning to the other end of the court.

Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins spoke to the referees during the next

stoppage of play, appearing to urge them to penalize Green for the physical

altercation. Green stood nearby to eavesdrop on the conversation, then

Memphis star Desmond Bane came in to move him aside.

Amid the escalating situation, Green pushed Bane’s hands off him in self-

defense, which intensified the physical altercation and prompted both the

Warriors and Grizzlies to empty their benches. As tensions grew, Green was

pushed into Jenkins, causing the Grizzlies’ head coach to fall to the floor.

After video review, both Green and Bane were slapped with technical fouls for

their roles in the incident. The Warriors capitalized on this heated moment, using

it as motivation for a 17-0 scoring streak en route to a 137-116 win over Memphis.

Green contributed 10 points, 12 rebounds and seven assist, one of seven

Golden State players to score in double-figures.

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