SAN FRANCISCO >> The clock might have been stopped with a minute left in the second quarter on Sunday evening, but Draymond Green and visiting Rockets center Alperen Sengun were going at full speed before an inbounds play on the Chase Center floor during Golden State’s 106-96 loss.

Green leaned into Sengun, the Turkish All-Star reciprocated by pushing into the Warriors center with his chest, and then Green responded by shooting an elbow into Sengun’s upper body. After officials told Green to lay off the physicality — and the veteran vociferously argued — the two went right back to jostling.

“I’m not going to stop because the referee says stop, and give up position,” Green said. “I already give up 6 inches and 50 pounds.”

Sengun was not going to back down, either.

“I think that was the moment we won the game,” Sengun told reporters. “I think they were trying to scare us to play softer, but even that, you just play harder after that.”

Green threw another left elbow at Sengun’s neck and a referee handed the Warriors veteran his 13th technical foul of the season. Warriors coach Steve Kerr had zero issue with what happened after the Warriors (46-32) fell to sixth in the Western Conference standings.

“I love Draymond’s fire,” Kerr said. “That’s a reason we have four banners up there, and we wouldn’t have any without Draymond. So I love his fire and he was fighting out there and it just didn’t go our way.”

Green has a long history of physical play and fouls of all kinds.

The future Hall of Famer and current defensive player of the year candidate has accrued 163 technical fouls, 18 flagrants and 20 ejections during his career, as well as two suspensions last season.

Green was called for a flagrant foul early in the third quarter when he went up for a baseline layup, smacked Sengun with that same left elbow and sent him crashing to the floor.

“With the flagrant foul, I don’t know what to do,” Green said. “Don’t go up for a layup?”

Jimmy Butler agreed with his teammate’s assessment.

“I saw a good bucket in my eyes. It just (stinks) to be Draymond sometimes,” Butler said. “Because it’s him, he gets a flagrant or attacked or whatever the case may be. That’s 23 for you.”

Buddy Hield, who scored a team-high 20 for Golden State, saw Green’s actions — which included mocking histrionics after missed Rockets free throws — as a positive.

“Draymond is one of the game’s ultimate all-time competitors,” Hield said. “He’s going to bring it every night, and that’s his job, to get us going.”

Golden State will try to get going again tonight, when the Warriors play at Phoenix.

Warriors not happy with Steph-related officiating

Green wasn’t the only Warrior who the team believed got the short end of the stick on Sunday night. Butler was incredulous that Curry — harassed by Houston’s long defenders such as Amen Thompson during a three-point, 1-of-10 shooting night — did not get more foul calls.

“I’m pretty sure it’s been happening for 16 years,” Butler said. “I get to see it and it really angers me that he’s on my team and he gets hacked like that.”

Curry did not criticize the officiating, telling media postgame, “I’ve been around 16 years, you’ve seen it all. I don’t ever expect to get calls, and I don’t ever go in looking for it. I try to play basketball and do every night, and battle through physicality. If I need to say something, I’ll say something.”

Green added, “Referees, you know my view (on that).”

Making sense of West standings

With Golden State’s loss, the No. 5 through No. 8 seeds — the Los Angeles Clippers, the Warriors, the Timberwolves and the Grizzlies, in that order — are all 46-32.

Because none of those teams are in first place in their division, the next tiebreaker goes by order of what each team’s cumulative record is against the other three teams, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

In those games, the Clippers have a record of 6-3, Golden State is 6-4, Minnesota is 4-5 and Memphis is 3-6. Golden State hosts the Clippers in the season finale on Sunday.

Curry passes Miller, Barry

Curry made only one basket during the Warriors’ loss to the Rockets, but it was a spectacular bucket for more than one reason.

The fadeaway jumper, taken and made 30 feet from the basket with one second left in the first half, was the kind of jaw-dropping shooting display that has helped Curry score 25,281 points in his illustrious career.

That basket also helped him surpass a pair of basketball icons on the all-time scoring list.

Reggie Miller, arguably the original 3-point marksman and whose off-ball shooting wizardry created the modern blueprint for Curry’s style, scored all 25,279 of his points in the NBA for the Indiana Pacers in a career that spanned from 1987 until 2005.

“Congratulations, unbelievable,” Miller said in a prerecorded statement that played after the basket. “Keep moving, my friend.”

Curry also moved past Rick Barry, who scored 25,279 in a career that saw him play in both the American Basketball Association in a stint that included a year with the Oakland Oaks, and the NBA.

Barry, who sat in the Chase Center crowd on Sunday night, led the franchise to its first NBA championship in 1975. Barry’s career lasted from 1965 until 1980.