Draymond Green gets ejected in what could be final game with Warriors

That was Wednesday. On Friday, Green scored five point  and committed five turnovers. He got into it with Phoenix's Haywood Highsmith at the end of the third quarter, which appeared to result in double technicals but ended up as foul calls on each player.

Later, with the game out of reach, Green fouled out, then got ejected, taking Booker with him and exiting like a professional wrestling heel.

Trading Draymond Green might be Warriors' best hope of rebuilding

The Warriors are going into next season with a number of questions, primarily based on the health of injured starters Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody. Butler tore his ACL in January and Moody tore his patella tendon in March. They are likely to re-sign deadline acquisition Kristaps Porzingis, and will have a lottery pick in June's draft.

Green represents the Warriors' biggest tradable salary at $27.7M for next season. His defense remains elite, though less consistent than when the 36-year-old was younger, but Green's shooting has declined while his turnovers have increased. He might make more sense on a team that needs one more player to take the next step, rather than an old and injury-prone Warriors team simply trying to play meaningful games with a core of over-30 players.

If this truly was the last week of Green as a Warrior, fans got to see all sides of him — the elite defender and the irritant who can't stop getting technical fouls and ejections. It's the perfect sendoff for a player who was hugely responsible for four Warriors championships and also cost them a title by getting suspended in the 2016 Finals. Green derailed the 2022 team's title defense by punching teammate Jordan Poole in a preseason practice.

With all the ups and downs of Green's Warriors career, the only appropriate way for it to end would be an ejection. It remains to be seen if the last glimpse of Green in a Warriors uniform is him being defiantly exiled to the locker room.