And yet, longtime assistant coach Ron Adams pointed to Green’s intelligence as perhaps his greatest strength and the biggest reason he – along with Cleveland’s Evan Mobley and Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels – is a finalist for the Defensive Player of the Year award.

In big moments, athletes often say they zone out the crowd noise and focus on the task at hand. That wasn't the case for the Golden State Warriors late in the Houston Rockets' 109-94 Game 2 victory that evened the two teams' first-round playoff series.

T he Golden State Warriors' core of Draymond Green and Steph Curry won their first NBA Championship back in 2015, and now, a decade later, are in search of their fifth title as th