Golden State Warriors player Draymond Green was ejected from Saturday's game against the Utah Jazz, marking his 24th career ejection and 22nd regular season ejection. It was also his second in the past eight games. 

The penalty was dealt after Green played defense on Utah's Kyle Filipowski, who gestured to a nearby referee asking for a three-second violation to be called against Green. Green then let out an angry shout after the Jazz scored, prompting a technical foul. 

After the whistle, Green approached referee Kevin Cutler and appeared to loudly berate the official. A second technical foul was assessed shortly after that antic, and Green was out of the game. 

Green's teammates and coach Steve Kerr defended the oft-ejected player after the game. 

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"I didn’t hear what he said, but it was a quick one," Kerr told reporters. "I know he got the T right away and then Kevin (Cutler) tossed him almost immediately. So I don’t know what he said, but I assume it was something that Kevin just wasn’t going to listen to. So I don’t know anything more about it than that."

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Kerr added that the team "needs" Green on the court. 

"We need Draymond and I want him out there," Kerr said. "So I think he might be up to about nine techs. We’re not halfway through the season yet, so a long way to go and we need him."

Warriors superstar Steph Curry suggested Green's actions did not warrant the ejection. 

"I don’t know what he said to the ref," Curry said. "But I didn’t think it was — the consensus in the locker room was there wasn’t enough to get thrown out."

The Warriors won the game 123-114 to improve to 19-17. 

Green and Kerr previously got into a heated incident on the bench during their game against the Orlando Magic in December.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy weighed in Saturday on the U.S. capture of former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, telling reporters that Washington "knows what to do next."

Zelenskyy was speaking to reporters in Kyiv after meeting with national security advisors from member states of the Coalition of the Willing when he was asked about the stunning U.S. military operation that unfolded in the early morning hours in Caracas.

"Regarding Venezuela? How should we respond to this?" Zelenskyy asked in Ukrainian. "Well, what can I say is, if you can do that with dictators, then the United States knows what to do next," he said with a smile.

U.S. forces took Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their compound, where they were boarded onto the USS Iwo Jima and flown to New York to face federal charges.

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Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced the capture of Maduro and his wife, urging the Trump administration to release the "legitimately elected president of a sovereign country and his spouse."

In a superseding indictment released Saturday by Attorney General Pam Bondi, Maduro is charged with leading a narco-terrorism conspiracy tied to large-scale cocaine trafficking into the United States, along with related drug importation and weapons offenses.

Flores is also charged in the same indictment with participating in a decades-long cocaine trafficking conspiracy and related firearms offenses.

The charges build on prior indictments from 2020.

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine said the mission, dubbed "Operation Absolute Resolve," involved more than 150 aircraft and a coordinated effort by the U.S. military, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement to apprehend the duo.

"This operation is a testament to the dedication and unwavering commitment to justice and our resolve to hold accountable those who threaten peace and stability," he said at a Mar-a-Lago press conference alongside President Donald Trump and other Cabinet officials.

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Trump told reporters he never spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Maduro. 

"I'm not thrilled with Putin. He's killing too many people," the president said when asked whether he was upset at the Russian leader.

Moscow has continued pounding Kyiv with large-scale drone and missile attacks as the Trump administration works to secure a potential peace agreement to end the nearly four-year war.

"Russia has not shown a genuine willingness to pursue peace. Instead, it continues its aggressive war, violence, and destabilization, using negotiations as a tactic to buy time,"  Zelenskyy said during the Coalition of the Willing meeting, according to a statement from his office. "It employs provocations and manipulations to derail progress in the peace process,"

The Associated Press contributed to this report.