That proved to be crucial early in the fourth, when Griffin and Warriors center Andrew Bogut locked up underneath the Clippers’ basket, touching off a mild skirmish in which Bogut received a flagrant foul but Griffin picked up his second technical and was ejected with 10:42 left in the game. Green was ejected for a Flagrant 2 foul after officials reviewed the film, and Griffin was also assessed a technical. Clearly, these teams don’t seem to like each other much, and that was reinforced once again at the end of the third quarter, when the Warriors’ Draymond Green and Clippers’ Blake Griffin had to be restrained from one another. It was an electric finish for a game that was highly charged in other ways in the late third quarter and early fourth. Clippers star guard Chris Paul missed two layups inside the final minute, then Klay Thompson blocked a Paul runner with one second left and followed up by defending Jamal Crawford’s 3-point desperation try as the buzzer sounded. The Warriors clung to that two-point lead for the final 1:09 after Harrison Barnes made two free throws to put them ahead. After an offensive free-for-all in their first meeting in October, Wednesday night’s Christmas meeting was a tight, edgy, physical affair the Warriors ultimately won 105-103 at Oracle Arena. OAKLAND - Mark Jackson and Doc Rivers both insist that the Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers don’t really have a rivalry just yet.īut the players clearly don’t buy into their coaches’ dialogue, and their meetings are sure starting to feel special.
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