Kurtenbach: Death, taxes, and Draymond Green against the Rockets. But is there enough spite to go around?
It was a definitive Draymond Green on Thursday night in Houston: brilliant, exhausting, and fueled almost entirely by spite.
There was the defensive dominance, the offensive positivity, and, of course, some extracurricular activities. In the third quarter, after taking a tumble, Green reached out and grabbed the ankle of a retreating Jabari Smith Jr. Why? Who knows. Perhaps in a game the Warriors were controlling with far too much ease, despite being shorthanded to the point the Rockets played them with kid gloves...