Draymond Green is a very good defensive player (in fact, he may be the best defensive player in the league) who rarely looks silly on that side of the ball. But on Monday, Green got clowned by an unlikely player: Sixers center Richaun Holmes.
Well, Green didn’t get clowned by Holmes as much as he got clowned on a play where Holmes finished an alley-oop. Holmes set a screen on Steph Curry, which gave Sergio Rodriguez a path into the lane. Green decided to try and stop Rodriguez from getting a layup, which freed up Holmes and led to Rodriguez throwing a lob.
To Holmes’ credit, this is a pretty sweet dunk – he climbed the ladder and grabbed the pass from Rodriguez with one hand, only to finish with authority. But the best part came after the dunk, when the ball went through the rim and bounced right off of Green’s face.
Levitation (Richaun) Holmes! pic.twitter.com/G18sZGuObX
— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) February 28, 2017
Holmes isn’t exactly a slouch – the big man is averaging 15.1 points and 9.7 rebounds per 36 minutes this season and has the opportunity to show what he can do now that Nerlens Noel is in Dallas and Joel Embiid is out indefinitely due to knee swelling. Still, he’s not exactly well-known to the masses, and this is a nice way to announce himself to everyone. Well, unless you’re Draymond Green, then it probably hurts.
