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Draymond Green DDT'd himself in another tangle with Steven Adams

After a series full of static, it just wouldn't have been right for Game 7 of the 2016 Western Conference finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Golden State Warriors to go down without featuring an incident involving Thunder center Steven Adams and Warriors power forward Draymond Green.

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With just under three minutes remaining in the second quarter on Monday night and the Thunder holding a 42-33 lead, Green and Adams once again tangled in the paint, this time fighting for rebounding position as a jumper by Oklahoma City superstar Kevin Durant traveled toward the basket. The shot splashed through, extending the Thunder lead to 11, but not before the two series-long combatants wound up on the deck, with Green seeming to take the worst of it:

At first blush, it looked like the bruising Kiwi had somehow put the All-NBA Second Teamer in a headlock and dropped him to the hardwood with a maneuver that another long-haired, mustachioed, throwback-style prizefighter might have appreciated. Upon closer inspection, though, it appeared that Green — whose methods have come in for questioning at multiple points during this series — incited the incident by hooking Adams' arm before running afoul of DJ Khaled's golden rule:

After reviewing the play, referee Danny Crawford decided the most reasonable and fair resolution was to slap both Adams and Green with personal fouls, which seems a bit unfair to Adams (what was he supposed to do once Draymond hooked his arm?) and added a bit of insult to Green's self-inflicted injury of getting dumped on his head for trying to trap Adams' arm.

After the game, Joe Borgia, the NBA's senior vice president of replay and referee operations, joining Matt Winer and NBA TV's "Game Time" crew to discuss the play, detail why the officials went to video review in the first place, and what prompted the double-foul call:

Despite trailing by as many as 13 points in the first half, the Warriors surged past the Thunder after intermission and held off a late Oklahoma City charge for a 96-88 win that completed their comeback from a 3-1 series deficit, earned them a 4-3 win in the Western Conference finals, and sent them on to the NBA Finals for a highly anticipated rematch with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. That series will begin Thursday night at Oracle Arena.

When Game 1 gets going, through, it remains to be seen whether Green will be in a Golden State uniform. The NBA reportedly plans to review the latest Green/Adams incident. If the league's disciplinarians determine that Green's hook of Adams' arm constituted unnecessary and/or excessive contact, Green could receive a retroactive flagrant foul. Given the rap sheet he's racked up through the first three rounds of the postseason, that would be a very costly bit of after-the-fact justice for the Warriors forward:

Something to keep an eye on, certainly, over the next two days as we get set for Thursday's tipoff.

With the Warriors moving on and the Thunder heading home, all that was left for the two series-long adversaries was one last encounter after the game:

Thankfully, the embrace reportedly concluded without any low blows or head-spikings, in a gesture of true sportsmanship.

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