SAN FRANCISCO — Draymond Green did not sugarcoat his words, standing a few feet from his locker and speaking an hour before midnight after the Warriors’ loss to the Detroit Pistons at Chase Center on Friday.

He disagreed with JT Orr’s officiating on inbounds plays, and described Orr’s decision to give Green a technical foul with 8:44 left in the first half as insulting for reasons that went beyond basketball.

“I find it very ironic that I got a technical foul for telling a Caucasian referee not to put his hand in my face,” Green said. “As a Black man in America, don’t put your hand in my face. I said, “Hey, don’t put your hand in my face” and I got a tech, so I thought that was the most interesting part of the night.”

Green and Orr had engaged in a minutes-long dialogue throughout the quarter, and Green continued the conversation even as Orr went to the scorers’ table to begin a replay review on a missed Pistons foul on Green.

“Draymond, this is your chance to stop talking to me,” is what Green recalled Orr telling him, with Green responding, “Bro, don’t put your hand in my face.”

Green then said Orr told him, “Oh, tech.”

It was Green’s 10th technical foul of the season. If he accumulates 16 in the regular season, Green will have to serve a mandatory one-game suspension, something he did during the 2022-23 season when he received 17.

“Everybody wants to talk about holding the line of respect, but that line needs to be held both ways,” Green said. “If the line won’t be held both ways, it won’t be held from my way because we’re all men and we can all make decisions and choices. So let that be the last time that happens.”

One point of contention between Green and Orr was how the official allowed the Pistons’ Ausar Thompson to handle the ball after made Detroit baskets.

“He told me that Ausar Thompson can hold the ball, and look to see who to give the ball to after a made basket, and he said that’s not a delay of game,” Green claimed, noting that the decision allowed Detroit to slow down Golden State’s ability to get the ball inbounds quickly.

Green also said that Steph Curry, who left the game in the third quarter with a sore knee, was called for a delay of game for doing exactly what Thompson did.

Kerr says he ‘misspoke’ during ICE criticism

Warriors coach Steve Kerr apologized for spreading what he called “misinformation” during a recent news conference in Minneapolis.

“Being in Minneapolis for those four days was incredibly emotional and powerful, and it was difficult time for all of us,” Kerr said Friday. “At the end of those four days, a pretty emotional time, I misspoke, and so I apologize for the misinformation.”

When given a microphone after losing to the Wolves on Monday, Kerr blasted Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for their actions in Minneapolis, which included taking 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos into custody.

“It’s not like we’re rooting out violent criminals. They’re taking 5-year-old kindergartners and U.S. citizens and detaining people.” Kerr said in part.

“I definitely misspoke, and I knew that ICE was arresting some criminals, and I immediately regretted it, because I knew that to be the case,” Kerr said.