The Golden State Warriors continue to scorch teams en route to winning 50 of their first 60 games. Obviously, their overwhelming amount of talent has them still pinned as the favorites to win the title this season, despite the injury to superstar Kevin Durant. Even though the sharpshooting backcourt tandem of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson spark absurd scoring runs nightly, forward Draymond Green continues to serve as the identity of this Warriors team.
Not only is he one of the most gifted defensive players the league has to offer, but he’s one of the last true trash talkers left as well. Just recently, we saw him and veteran Paul Pierce get into a verbal altercation in a recent matchup. Draymond Green recently spoke with Marcus Thompson II of the Mercury News on an episode of the podcast ‘Dray Day’ about what sparked the verbal exchange and said the trash talk wasn’t anything personal:
Green said Pierce called him a bum, said he would be nothing if he weren’t on a team full of All-Stars. Green has heard constantly through his rise to All-Star level that he isn’t good enough to carry a team, that he is a product of circumstance and not talent. So he fired back.
“It’s nothing personal,” Green said. “I don’t hate Paul Pierce. But if you gone talk junk, I don’t hold anything back when I’m talking junk. If I’ma talk, I’ma talk. And I’ma take it where it needs to go.”
The Michigan State product has never been one to hold his tongue and that’s what makes him so important to this Warriors team. Pierce has never been one to be disrespected without retaliation and he made sure to have the last word after the game on Twitter:
73 wins and u thought u was gonna win a title that yr ???3-1 pk-callout oops
— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) February 24, 2017
With some extra motivation to this matchup, hopefully Warriors vs. Clippers is an extended series fans get blessed with in the Western Conference playoffs.
