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The Warriors’ frustrations seemingly boiled over tonight in the second quarter as Draymond Green pushed Victor Wembanyama in the back on a questionable play while tracking back on defense. The veteran was instantly assessed a flagrant foul one for unnecessarily pushing the Spurs’ big man.
This sequence came soon after the Warriors’ 0-18 start against the Spurs tonight, which dug them into a major hole they needed to climb out of. And it was right after a play where Victor Wembanyama dunked over Draymond Green.
Draymond Green TACKLED Wemby after Wemby dunked on him 💀
— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) November 14, 2026
NBA fans saw this incident and flooded social media with the Warriors veteran’s criticism.
“I like Draymond, but this s–t is dirty. Running in from behind and shoving Wemby in the back is not defense. Flagrant 1 was the least they could do.”
“He knows he can’t guard Wemby, so he’s resorting to injuring him.”
“He has been trying to injure Wemby all game.”
“The league needs to do something about him.”
“And somehow, the Warriors are not a dirty team, but the Rockets are?”
“So unnecessary and unprofessional from Green.”
The relevant context here isn’t just Draymond Green’s infamous reputation for being overtly physical on defense, but also what he said recently about commanding respect under the basket when he justified shoving Khaman Maluach last week.
For some reason, Green doesn’t think that behavior is questionable and believes the game warrants that kind of physicality, especially from a small-ball center.
This incident was one of several in the game and in the past where Green used questionable methods to try to stop Victor Wembanyama.
“Don’t be surprised if the Spurs front office is already on the phone with the league office about Draymond Green clearly targeting Victor Wembanyama tonight. The shove in the back under the basket that drew a Flagrant 1 was just the culmination of multiple cheap, overly physical plays aimed squarely at the face of the league,” NBA writer Dusty Garza wrote on X.
It’s hard to say for sure whether it was a team strategy for the Warriors to be overtly physical on Victor Wembanyama. Still, Yaxel Lendeborg’s pregame comments certainly suggest that they knew one of the only ways they could stop the 7’4″ big man was to ‘rough him up.’
“I’m gonna try to shoot as many 3s as I can tonight, try to bait him into helping out… Oh, and try to rough him up as much as we can,” Lendeborg said about how he planned to approach his matchup with Victor Wembanyama tonight.
Green’s on-court physicality has once again come under scrutiny following his most recent incident against Wembanyama. The veteran’s strategy has drawn heavy criticism, even though the Warriors clearly needed to find a way to contain the Spurs superstar.
If similar incidents persist, Green may face additional repercussions because fans doubt his intentions and the league may scrutinize him. It remains to be seen what either side says about this incident after the game, in what looks like a night when the Spurs will hand the Warriors a blowout loss.
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/draymond-green-shoves-victor-wembanyama-043518361.html
