Draymond Green is betting on himself … to stop whining so much.
On a recent episode of his self-titled podcast for The Volume, the Golden State Warriors veteran Green revealed his unusual goal for the 2024-25 season. Green said that he wants to have less than 10 technical fouls.
“I’m gonna have less than 10 technical fouls this year,” said Green. “I might even make a decision to keep it less than eight.”
You can watch the full clip here (but beware of the bad language).
The four-time All-Star Green, who is now 34, has long been known as one of the NBA’s serial complainers. As a result, he is regularly among the league’s leaders in technical fouls, peaking in 2018-19 with an NBA-high 23 technical fouls. In fact, if you throw out last year (when Green had exactly 10 technical fouls but only that few because he was suspended for a good chunk of time due to separate incidents with Rudy Gobert and Jusuf Nurkic), Green has had a streak of nine straight seasons with 14 T’s or more. His low of 14 came in the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season, so you would have to go all the way back to 2013-14 (before Green was a full-time starter) for the last time that he had less than 10 technical fouls (picking up seven that season).
It is definitely laughable that getting under 10 technicals in a season would be considered an achievement for Green. But at this point, the Warriors will take any sort of improvement they can get out of Green, especially with the former Defensive Player of the Year recently hinting that retirement might be just around the corner.
