You're a locked-on warriors, your daily Golden State Warriors podcast. I am Danny Lur, your host,

and so happy to bring you your team every day. With the Warriors having an off day before their game

in Charlotte after the lost the Miami Heat, I wanted to do an email bag to catch up on some of the

questions that had been asked at various points. If you want to ask more questions, you can reach out to me,

Danny Leroo, NBA, at gmail.com. And I will not include the questioners because I did not ask for

their permission in terms of that. So if somebody, if you want me to read your name, then just give me

permission explicitly in the email. I'm a lawyer, so I'm very anal about this sort of thing. And the questions are from all over time periods.

I just keep a Google doc of various things that I've been asked. Some of them end up getting answered by

context, but I, of course, will not do those on this show. The first question is about flagrant fouls

and protecting Stefan Curry, and I'm always going to shorten the questions because emails are a little

bit longer.

We've seen a lot of flagrants called lately to protect stars, but Steph Curry gets whacked after shots all the time, and they included various examples. And the rule for a flagrant foul is,

I'll read it verbatim. If contact committed against a player with or without the ball is interpreted

to be unnecessary, a flagrant will be

assessed. And that's a flagrant one. It's unnecessary and excessive for a flagrant too. They're not

explicitly in the rule, in that part of the rule, but generally speaking, there's also the idea

of potential for injury. And many will hear that and say, well, yeah, going into a guy, especially after he

shoots, is that potential. And it can be at moments, but really it's hard to say that from a ref's

perspective when you're thinking about it in the heat of the moment, that that wasn't in the,

like, in the scope of trying to get a block or something like that. Most players are at least competent enough if they're going to give a player a hit in that context to do it in the scope of trying to get a block or something like that. Most players are at least

competent enough if they're going to give a player a hit in that context to do it in the form of

something that at least ostensibly looks like a contest. When they don't even have that,

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