OAKLAND >> In the same building where his Warriors won three NBA championships in the 2010s, Draymond Green pined for the officiating and play-style of those days during Saturday afternoon’s press availability at Oakland Arena.

“I think the physicality has been taken out of the game, and it’s boring,” Green said during NBA All-Star game media day.

Green is perennially among the NBA’s leaders in technical fouls and ejections, and is once again near the top of the list during the 2024-25 season.

His 11 technicals are third in the league, and Green was ejected against Memphis early in the season after receiving two technicals.

Green, in his 13th season in the NBA, says veteran players should “get a better whistle” while adding that rookies and younger players need to “earn stripes.”

“The human element has been taken out of it, and I don’t think that makes for a great product,” Green said. “It’s never been an equal opportunity thing. When everything is equal opportunity, it slows things down from a foul perspective. It junks the game up because you have too many people getting calls, and it shouldn’t be that way.”

Green later added: “In any world you go to, you start Year 1 and don’t get something the people in Year 10 get. It’s spread a lot of entitlement, and with that, a lot of disdain from the fans.”