Draymond Green’s five craziest flagrant fouls
By Casey Knipl
3. 6/10/2016 vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (Game 4 of NBA Finals)
This foul is extremely tricky, mostly because in live time, it looked like James was the player being dirty here, by stepping over Green mid-play. The NBA missed this during the game, but James reportedly complained to the NBA after the game about what they missed, which was Green taking a swipe at a certain body part of Lebron’s. “I don’t know what should happen, it’s not my call. That’s the league office, they’ll take a look at it. We all saw it in the locker room,” said James, via ESPN, on the incident. He later added “As a competitor I love going against Draymond and I’m all about going out there and leaving it on the floor. But when it gets a little bit more than it should be, that’s what caused me to have words with him.”
Green defended his swipe at Lebron by saying he felt “disrespected” when Lebron stepped over him. The league saw what Lebron was talking about in the video, and ended up suspending Green for Game 5 in the finals, which was a huge blow to the Warriors team and definitely played a big role in the series overall.