One more tech, and Green was gone. The officials went to the replay monitor, and came back with a strange ruling. Green was hit with a flagrant foul, but not a technical, for apparently using his left leg to "push Eason's face into the ground."

Draymond Green and Stephen Curry first got into an incident with Dillon Brooks, and then Green followed it up with an altercation with Tari Eason a few minutes later.

With the Warriors holding a one-point lead in the closing seconds of the fourth quarter, Green smothered Rockets big man Alperen Sengun's shot in the lane. The Warriors gathered the rebound and went on to win 109-106, though the game was not without controversy.