Draymond Green isn’t buying the NBA’s latest officiating push, and he’s not pretending otherwise.
Draymond on NBA cracking down on 'Off-Arm Push Offs' this season
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As Golden State gets ready for the 2026-27 season, the Warriors veteran took aim at the league’s preseason emphasis on offensive players using an off-arm to create space. On the latest episode of The Draymond Green Show, he said defenders should not expect that crackdown to survive once games start counting.
“The NBA refs started to enforce the off-arm push-off rule in the preseason. Quite honestly, as a defensive player I would tell you all, don't bank on this, don't waste your time thinking like ‘oh man, like imma see them calling this now' like I'm telling you, these types of rules here that’s going against the offense, they call them in the preseason and then when the season starts, that sh*t just fade away.”
Green said he has seen this pattern too many times before. In his view, the league talks tough on rules that help defenders, then loosens up when elite scorers take the floor in the regular season.
“Great offensive players are going to come down, bam - get out of here, shoot they shot, get they basket, everything [is] going to go the other way. These types of rules here in my 15 years, they don’t stand.
Apparently there’s supposed to be a freedom of movement where you know how they just be grabbing Steph and hugging on him? That’s supposed to be a foul.
Guess what? Freedom of movement been a thing and we’ve seen Steph Curry not get those fouls.”
That part of his criticism was aimed squarely at Stephen Curry’s treatment. Green pointed to the contact his longtime teammate often absorbs, while noting that the NBA’s freedom-of-movement rules are supposed to stop defenders from holding, grabbing and otherwise restricting offensive players.
But Green’s point was that the rulebook and the reality on the floor are two very different things.
He said he’s not waiting around for officials to clean it up. Instead, he plans to adjust as a defender and absorb the contact on his own terms.
“So, guess what? I ain’t going to hold my breath on that one either.
So, me as a defender, I got to learn to time up when that guy is about to deliver that blow so I can lean my chest forward a little bit so when he deliver the off-arm I don’t go to far back. I may go from this lean back to my natural position and I can still climb up a little bit and contest the shot.
Ultimately, as a defender that’s my mindset because I’m not banking on them doing nothing against the offense. It ain’t just never been a thing.”
For Green, the message is simple: don’t count on the whistle to change. From his perspective, offensive players have long gotten the benefit of the doubt, and preseason enforcement is just that - preseason enforcement.
Whether that changes once the regular season begins is the real question.
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