{"id":705999,"date":"2026-04-08T22:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/705999\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:17:18","slug":"nba-reportedly-looking-into-kings-intentional-foul-after-draymond-green-rips-them-for-apparent-tanking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/705999\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA reportedly looking into Kings’ intentional foul after Draymond Green rips them for apparent tanking"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Sacramento Kings ahead by one point and time winding down in the fourth quarter, the team decided to do something unexpected. Kings forward Doug McDermott intentionally fouled Seth Curry, sending the Golden State Warriors\u2019 guard to the free-throw line.<\/p>\n

One player on the court couldn\u2019t believe the sequence. Following the contest \u2014 which the Warriors won 110-105<\/a> \u2014 Draymond Green ripped the Kings for what he described as blatantly tanking.<\/p>\n

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A day later, the NBA is looking into the matter, according to ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/a>. Charania also relayed a defense from the Kings, with sources claiming Christie wanted to use a timeout before automatically losing it with three minutes to go and didn\u2019t realize the Warriors were already in the bonus.<\/p>\n

Adding to that defense is the fact that Curry, an 86.4% career free throw shooter, was the player fouled.<\/p>\n

Draymond Green not happy with Kings<\/p>\n

When asked about the play-in tournament, Green brought up the issue of tanking, calling out the Kings for their late foul on Curry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw a team tonight foul Seth Curry with three minutes to go in a game for no reason. In the penalty,\u201d Green said.<\/p>\n

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Green was then asked a follow-up about teams tanking. He took a second to think about the question before offering up an answer<\/a> with a solution to NBA commissioner Adam Silver.<\/p>\n

His response read:<\/p>\n

\u201cI get fined when I do wrong. Just fine the hell out of people. We love taking money from players. Keep fining the teams. I\u2019ve seen two fines. And we all know everybody tanking. But you\u2019ve seen two fines. If it was players, snatch that money in a heartbeat. Why isn\u2019t it the same? Everybody love money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe punishment for players is always \u2018let\u2019s take the money.\u2019 Well, now it becomes time to punish teams and all of the sudden nobody 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, all of the sudden, we\u2019ve got team issues and we don\u2019t know what to do. What happened to the whole take-the-money stuff? Everybody else trying to reach a quote 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 10 that ain\u2019t been fined.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe 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 it\u2019s a players\u2019 league.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two fines Green referenced in his answer were given to the Utah Jazz and Indiana Pacers. Both teams were fined in February for \u201covert\u201d tanking behavior.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Jazz were hit with a $500,000 fine after removing Lauri Markkanen and Jaren Jackson Jr. from two games early. Neither player was announced with an injury. The Jazz led both games when Markkanen and Jackson were taken out. The team lost one of those contests, though managed to win the second.<\/p>\n

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The Pacers received a $100,000 fine for violating the NBA’s Player Participation Policy. The team held out forward Pascal Siakam and two other starters from a Feb. 3 game, but an independent doctor claimed those players were capable of participating in the contest.<\/p>\n

With just a few games left in the regular season, seven NBA teams have 25 wins or fewer. The 2026 NBA Draft promises an immensely talented freshman class to teams bad enough to secure a top selection, giving those teams motivation to tank down the stretch.<\/p>\n

That hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed by Green, who wants to see teams punished more harshly for engaging in the tactic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Sacramento Kings ahead by one point and time winding down in the fourth quarter, the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6891,200,164,126,496,976,6,279,477,10133,567,7048,3207,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-705999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-doug-mcdermott","10":"tag-draymond-green","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-indiana-pacers","13":"tag-jaren-jackson-jr","14":"tag-lauri-markkanen","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-pascal-siakam","17":"tag-sacramento-kings","18":"tag-seth-curry","19":"tag-shams-charania","20":"tag-tanking","21":"tag-the-kings","22":"tag-utah-jazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116371406516084782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705999","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=705999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}