Draymond Green is a noted conversationalist, and his in-game dialogues with opposing players can sometimes go a little overboard. At least that was the argument among many critics after he unleashed a hot verbal torrent on Paul Pierce in a game against the Clippers last week.
First, Pierce wasn’t even in the game, and second, some found of the nature of his insults to be beyond the pale of normal trash talk. In the video, you can hear Green taunting Pierce for not getting treated to a Kobe-style retirement tour as his career comes to a close. Pierce – also a notorious motormouth – plucked the low-hanging fruit and fired back at Green via Twitter later with a fail-safe 3-1 lead taunt.
Things had been relatively quiet on that front for the past few days, but we should’ve known Green wasn’t about to let it die. In his Uninterrupted podcast “Dray Day with Draymond Green and Marcus Thornton III,” the Warriors All-Star finally revealed what Pierce said initially to set him off, then proceeded to rail on him some more.
WarriorsWorld transcribed the quotes:
Dray with the 🔥🔥🔥🔥 for Paul Pierce pic.twitter.com/eoBM730w4x
— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) February 28, 2017
The most interesting one is this, as it apparently comes in direct response to something he claims Pierce said that set the whole thing off:
“I hate when guys come up to me and say, ‘you can’t carry a team, you can’t do this, you can’t do that. But how good were you at carrying a team. And by the way, it hasn’t really been proven that I can, or that I don’t. It hasn’t been proven. But it’s proven with you, because you couldn’t win. Just because you’re scoring points that doesn’t mean you were carrying the team. If you couldn’t get anywhere, if you couldn’t do nothing, where were you carrying them.”
“Pierce had an amazing career. He was a beast. But how far was he carrying those teams? If you weren’t carrying them that far, I guess we’re in the same boat. People tend to forget that he was struggling to get to the playoffs, was on the trade block every year, then all of a sudden Ray Allen and KG showed up. Let’s not forget that.”
You can listen to the entire podcast here.
