Paul Pierce has playfully confronted Draymond Green over his famous trash talk during a Warriors-Clippers game in 2017.
“Chasing that farewell tour, they don’t love you like that!” Green yelled at Pierce at the time. “They ain’t giving you no farewell tour, they don’t love you like that … you thought you was Kobe [Bryant]!”
Footage of Green’s comments quickly went viral, and the pair finally had the chance to discuss the incident on The Draymond Green Show this week.
Here’s Pierce’s take on everything that went down, including the leadup to the moment Green started mouthing off.
“I gotta address your viral s–t talking, first off,” Pierce said. “Because you said your side of it and I hadn’t had a chance to say my side of it yet. We go into the game and I’m just seeing how you’re grabbing Blake [Griffin] and I’m like ‘Damn, he be hella physical and he pushing on him,’ and I’m like ‘what the f–k going on, man? Hold on, Blake, bust his ass, man. Hell no you can’t let him do that!’ Because everybody knows you’re the head of the snake and if you go at the head of the snake you got a shot.
“And I’m wolfin’ at you like ‘nah, f–k that, man. F–k him.’ I’m shooting, I want everybody to know this is what we on this year. Damn, come on. This is the class of the league right here. You said what you said, right? And the camera is on me. And to be honest, I didn’t hear what you said. People don’t know this, but the microphone underneath the basket picks up everything. It made it look like you shot sometime to me, but honestly I didn’t even hear what you said until after the game I’m looking at my Twitter like ‘Oh damn, he went back at me.’ Because I couldn’t really see, I’m on the bench, you’re on the other side.”
So there you have it, the full story behind Draymond’s famous trash talk moment. Pierce and Green are clearly on good terms now. After all, even some of the most savage trash talk is usually just players competing, rather than it being anything personal.
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