{"id":572745,"date":"2026-01-31T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/572745\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:41:13","slug":"warriors-draymond-green-rips-referee-jt-orr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/572745\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors\u2019 Draymond Green rips referee JT Orr"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Standing a few feet from his locker and speaking an hour before midnight after the Warriors\u2019 loss to the Pistons at Chase Center on Friday<\/a>, Draymond Green did not sugarcoat his words.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He vehemently disagreed with JT Orr\u2019s officiating on inbounds plays, and described Orr\u2019s decision to give Green a technical foul with 8:44 left in the second quarter as insulting for reasons that went beyond basketball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI find it very ironic that I got a technical foul for telling a Caucasian referee not to put his hand in my face,\u201d Green said. \u201cAs a Black man in America, don\u2019t put your hand in my face. I said \u201cHey, don\u2019t put your hand in my face\u201d and I got a tech, so I thought that was the most interesting part of the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green and Orr had engaged in a minutes-long dialogue throughout the quarter, and Green continued the conversation even as Orr went to the scorers\u2019 table to begin a replay review on a missed Pistons foul on Green.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDraymond, this is your chance to stop talking to me,\u201d is what Green recalled Orr telling him, with Green responding, \u201cBro, don\u2019t put your hand in my face.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green then said Orr told him, \u201cOh, tech.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was Green\u2019s 10th technical foul of the season. If he accumulates 16 during the regular season, Green will have to serve a mandatory one-game suspension, something he most recently did during the 2022-23 season when he received 17<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The NBA did not respond immediately to a request for comment by the Bay Area News Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody wants to talk about holding the line of respect, but that line needs to be held both ways,\u201d Green said. \u201cIf the line won\u2019t be held both ways, it won\u2019t be held from my way, because we\u2019re all men and we can all make decisions and choices. So let that be the last time that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

One point of contention between Green and Orr was how the official allowed Piston Ausar Thompson to handle the ball after made Detroit baskets.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me that Ausar Thompson can hold the ball, and look to see who to give the ball to after a made basket, and he said that\u2019s not a delay of game,\u201d Green claimed, noting that the decision allowed Detroit to slow down Golden State\u2019s ability to get the ball inbounds quickly.<\/p>\n

Green also said that Steph Curry, who left the game in th third quarter with a sore knee, was called for a delay of game for doing exactly what Thompson did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When Green brought up the difference in how the same situation was officiated, he said Orr had a sheepish response.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSame referee though, JT Orr. then, he\u2019s like \u2018Oh maybe you have a point,\u2019\u201d Green said. \u201cNo (expletive), you can\u2019t change the rules in the middle of the game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Warriors will play their next game at home on Tuesday against Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Standing a few feet from his locker and speaking an hour before midnight after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,159,160,200,479,164,4025,4024,155,165,6,161,162,163,66,255,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-572745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-draymond-green","12":"tag-golden-state","13":"tag-golden-state-warriors","14":"tag-goldenstate","15":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","16":"tag-inside-sports","17":"tag-latest-headlines","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-peninsula","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-san-francisco-county","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-warriors","24":"tag-warriors-hq"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115989294933059073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}