The league also fined the Indiana Pacers $100,000<\/a> for violating the Player Participation Policy in a game against the Jazz on Feb. 3. Green believes the league should do a better job of fining teams when tanking appears.<\/p>\n\u201cIf it was players (the league) would have snatched that money in a heartbeat,\u201d Green continued. \u201cWhy isn\u2019t it the same? Everybody love money. The punishment for players is always, let\u2019s take the money. Well, now it becomes time to punish teams and all of a sudden nobody don\u2019t know what to do. Why not? We know exactly what to do when somebody gets a technical foul. Or suspended for a game. We know exactly what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The subject of tanking has dominated the second half of the season, especially as teams prepare to make selections from a much lauded class of 2026 prospects. Green\u2019s answer on the issue continued as he thought more about his idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of a sudden we got team issues, we don\u2019t know what to do,\u201d Green said. \u201cWhat happened to the whole take the money stuff? Everybody else trying to reach a quota too. But when it comes to player discipline, we want to snatch the money as fast as we can. When it comes to team discipline and we see 12 teams tanking, we\u2019ve seen two fines. If my math serves me correctly, that\u2019s ten that ain\u2019t been fined. Just some quick math. It could be wrong so don\u2019t judge me if it\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we don\u2019t keep that same energy when it comes to teams, when it comes to officials, when it comes to everybody but players, we don\u2019t keep that same energy. But this is a players\u2019 league.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green\u2019s comments came after he\u2019d offered a strong opinion about the Play-In Tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it worked initially, and now to have a team stuck in 10th, it ain\u2019t working,\u201d Green said. \u201cSo we could have lost our last 15 games and been stuck in 10th, it ain\u2019t working. It worked for a little bit, but if you can be stuck in 10th and lose the last 15 games of your season, and you can be stuck in 10th, it ain\u2019t working.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Warriors, who are 10th in the Western Conference with a 37-42 record, have known they are headed to the Play-In for weeks. All of the teams behind them in the Western Conference standings are either bad or have been tanking, and in some cases, both.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the Play-In was made for teams to not tank,\u201d Green said. \u201cI think that\u2019s the part that everyone forgets. The Play-In came about to make teams like maybe through 12 or 13th keep going. They ain\u2019t keep going. They kinda slowed down, and then they hit the brakes.\u201d<\/p>\n
To emphasize his point, Green recalled a sequence late in Tuesday\u2019s win over the Kings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw a team tonight foul Seth Curry with three minutes to go in a game for no reason,\u201d Green said. \u201cIn the penalty. (The Play-In) ain\u2019t working. But we\u2019re gonna make the (postseason) so it works, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green and the Warriors have been resigned to their basketball fate for some time, which Green acknowledged doesn\u2019t excite him much given their continued appearances in the Play-In games.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not exciting,\u201d Green said. \u201cIt\u2019s not. But I\u2019m a competitor, so going into the game I\u2019m going to do all I can to win, but it\u2019s not that exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
After winning four NBA championships during his career, Green said the idea of getting revved up for a Play-In game just doesn\u2019t have the same appeal \u2014 even if winning two would earn the Warriors another entrance into the playoffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou go on the road in a game that you need to win I think, as a competitor, you\u2019re going to rise to the challenge,\u201d Green said. \u201cBut I\u2019m not going to sleep (Wednesday) night like, man, we got this Play-In next week, I got to get my rest. Nah, it ain\u2019t that exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green has an idea as to how fix the tanking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,479,164,4025,4024,6,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-705109","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-golden-state","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-goldenstate","12":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116368897946866635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705109","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=705109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}