The Draymond Green post-championship media tour rolls on.
Green joined a live episode The Old Man & the Three hosted by J.J. Redick and dove into just about every topic they had time to cover.
One particularly interesting one was when Green pulled on Jaylen Brown’s shorts in Game 2 of the Finals and Redick wanted to know why.
Green said Brown was standing over him and he couldn’t abide by that. He also joked that his core isn’t all that strong, so pulling himself up by Brown’s shorts was the most logical way to get up quickly and stop Brown standing over him.
That moment and what followed after the game, was when Green said he knew he’d taken Brown’s heart.
“When Jaylen Brown went in the media and said, ‘He tried and pulled my shorts down,’ I knew I took his heart,” Green said. “I knew I took his heart. And not that I’ll have it next year. I gotta regain it next year and the next time we play them, but I knew for the rest of that series, I had him. Because you know you’re standing over me and you gotta go to the media and say, ‘He was trying to pull my shorts down.’ Like come on, bro, you’re standing over me.”
There was one other moment of Brown talking to the media that Green said he latched onto.
Before Game 6, Brown said, “We do not fear the Golden State Warriors.”
Green, understandably, disagreed with that.
“Another thing he said and I sent it to our team, he said, ‘We are not afraid of the Golden State Warriors.’ I sent it to our team in the group chat and said, ‘We ARE afraid of the Golden State Warriors,’” Green said.
“Because nobody asked you are y’all afraid of us? Why the fuck are you talking about that? He’s like, ‘We are not afraid of them. We will do this and we’ll do that.’ I knew at that point. I’m like, yup, this is baby food and this is over and we’re gonna walk on out of here with a championship.”
Green did warn folks not to let the Warriors win another championship because he would never let anyone hear the end of it. And here we are.
