Draymond Green gets flagrant foul for ‘inadvertent’ contact with Tari Eason’s head in Warriors-Rockets NBA Playoffs series

Drayond Green avoided an automatic expulsion in the first half of game 4 between the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets in the first Round of the NBA playoffs of 2025. Green received a technical foul for a fight with Dillon Brooks in the second quarter. Minutes later, Green was involved in another controversial sequence with the striker of the Tari Eason rockets that led the Warriors star to be beaten with a flagrant-1, but avoiding an automatic expulsion that would have come with his second coach.

Eason stripped Green’s ball, and when the two players divered on the floor for the loose ball, Green rolled on Eason and dropped his leg on his head. Green then grabbed Eason’s shirt when the Rockets striker was getting up. The referees reviewed the work and determined that Green’s kick was unnoticed. He would have expelled from the game with a call Flagrant-2 or another technical foul, but the Flagrant-1 determination allowed him to continue playing.

Look Green’s flagrant failure here and decide for himself if it was an inadvertent contact.

Here is another look at the work from a different angle.

This is another classic dayand moment in the NBA playoffs. It seems that he has hundreds of similar plays over the years, but this time Green avoided expulsion.

Here is a look at the technical lack of before in the game that led Green and Brooks to receive technical offenses.

Not everyone was buying that green deserved to stay in the game as tensions increased. Here is a small sample of the reaction of social networks to Green’s last rumble.

The Warriors lead the 2-1 series entering the game 4.