NBA upgrade Draymond Green's foul against Zach Edey to flagrant 1

The NBA on Saturday raised Draymond Green's foul on Memphis Grizzlies center Zach Edey to a flagrant-1 rating. During Friday night's Golden State Warriors 123-118 victory over the Grizzlies, Green went down and flipped the ball before seemingly hooking Edey's right leg with his arm and sending the center down in the third quarter.

Memphis was awarded one free throw and possession after Draymond Green was penalized for a transition take foul during the play. Nevertheless, the league declared on Saturday that they were upping Green's infraction after examining the event. Green was given a Flagrant 1 penalty rather than a common foul retrospectively, according to the NBA release. 

Originally called a transition take foul, the play was changed to a flagrant penalty on Saturday. Zach Edey's performance impressed Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins, who also expressed surprise that officials didn't examine the play right away.

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Draymond Green trips Zach Edey: pic.twitter.com/f8CowE4RFh

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Edey just needed to come off the bench for 23 minutes to score 14 points and grab 9 rebounds. He shot 5-8 from the field, made two of his three-point tries, and got a block and a steal. Green shot 5-11 from the field and made three of his seven shots from beyond the arc to finish with 13 points, 8 rebounds, and 7 assists. With around 30 seconds remaining in regulation, he received his second technical penalty and was removed, thus he didn't finish the game. 

Stephen Curry had poor game

After a poor start, Stephen Curry finished with 13 points, 8 rebounds, and 5 assists. Moses Moody and Buddy Hield both scored 14 points. In a showdown between teams with extensive rotations that rely largely on their reserves, Memphis' Jaren Jackson Jr. scored 32 points. Curry was 4 for 9 with three 3-pointers, and he had scored 36 and 37 points in the previous two games, respectively. 

To start his 2024–25 season, the former Defensive Player of the Year has accrued four technical fouls, which ties him for the most in the NBA with Houston Rockets wing Dillon Brooks and Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum.