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Kerr on Green groin kick: ‘Happens all the time’
- Updated: May 23, 2016
1:26 AM ET
OKLAHOMA CITY — Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr says he believes Draymond Green’s assertion that his kick to the groin of Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams during Sunday’s Game 3 was an accident.
Kerr, in fact, says the flagrant foul 1 the All-Star power forward received after the first-half play should be reversed by the NBA.
“Stuff like that happens all the time,” Kerr said. “There’s contact, people’s arms, legs flailing. If they think it’s on purpose, play the game, you know. This stuff happens all the time. [Russell] Westbrook kicks his feet out on every 3 and there is contact. I mean, that’s just part of the game. So I don’t understand how that can be deemed a flagrant 1. I think it should be rescinded.”
But Adams has a hard time believing it was a coincidence he was hit hard in the same spot by Green in two consecutive games during the Western Conference finals.
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“I mean, it happened before, mate,” said Adams, who was kneed in the groin area while Green was shooting a transition layup during Game 2. “He’s pretty accurate, that guy.”
The kick occurred with 5:57 remaining in the second quarter of Oklahoma City’s 133-105 rout, which gave the Thunder a 2-1 series lead.
Green said he intends to contact Adams and apologize, though he said that in the direct aftermath of the play — and the game — he was reluctant to do so and ultimately didn’t because he knows “what type of guy” …
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