Draymond Green and Dillon Brooks were each assessed Flagrant 2 fouls over the first two games of the Warriors’ series with the Grizzlies.
Anyone watching the NBA playoffs would agree that an inordinate amount of the referees’ time has been spent at the sideline replay monitor.
The physicality of the playoffs has necessitated a great number of reviews, slowing the pace of games to a crawl. But they are not without reason considering that the stakes of a single possession are much higher in May than they were in December. One call can swing a quarter, game and series.
Brooks was assessed a Flagrant 2 foul, disqualifying him, and Payton fractured his elbow on a play that Steve Kerr said “broke the code” of acceptable physicality in the NBA playoffs. “The line is pretty clear,” Kerr said after the game. “You don’t hit a guy when he’s in midair, club him and break his elbow. That’s where the line is.”
So, we know where Kerr’s line is, but how is that line defined in the rulebook? Straight from the NBA’s officiating
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