Draymond shuts up Wizards fan, locks in for Warriors win originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea
Along with being a four-time All-Star and four-time champion, Draymond Green is the host of his own podcast, is under a multi-year contract with Turner Sports where he joins Inside The NBA and is seen on the company’s other platforms, was just chopping it up with Stephen A. Smith and on Thursday he received his 13th technical foul of the season while sitting on the bench.
The man can talk. He knows how to get a response, and he knows how to respond back. Challenge him if you will, pray that he doesn’t embarrass you.
In the Warriors’ 127-118 win over the Washington Wizards at the Capital One Arena on Monday, one unlucky fan effed around and found out.
“He just was talking from the start of the game, until I shut him up,” Green said to reporters in Washington, D.C. “He stopped, obviously. But he had just been talking the entire time.
“I appreciate it, because I had nothing. I had nothing going, I couldn’t find it, wasn’t about to find it and then shout out to them — there were two of them. He got me going, so I appreciate those guys.”
The start of Monday’s game was a competition of Steph Curry and Jordan Poole trying to keep up with Kristaps Porzingis, the Wizards’ big man who stands 7-foot-3. Curry scored 17 points in the first quarter and Poole topped him with 23 in the second. The Warriors led by two points after the first quarter and five at halftime. That’s due in large part to Porzingis doing whatever he wanted.
Porzingis scored 15 points in the first quarter while going 6-for-9 from the field, and then added another 10 in the second as he went 7-for-8 at the free-throw line. He scored 23 points in the last game he played, and had 25 by halftime against the Warriors. Green had seen enough.
Having someone in the stands chirping only added fuel to the fire.
“He kept being like, ‘You think you’re a Hall of Famer? I better never hear you say that again,'” Green explained when asked about what specifically inspired him. “I’m like that, bro. Live like that.”
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