Los Angeles Clippers and the Golden State Warriors don’t like each other. Bottomline they have an issue and it’s apparent for every fan to see.
As of late, the intensity has turned up between the 2 teams. The newest chapter started after their last game in Golden State when the postgame interview was Draymond Green and Clippers bench guard Dahntay Jones decided to ‘bump’ into Green sparking a controversy between the 2 teams.
Jones was fined by the NBA, Doc questioned Draymond’s toughness and then, Green hit Doc with the ‘Cool Story’.
Draymond Green called out Doc saying ‘cool story, Glenn’ and then the shirts started to sell but quickly, Green stopped selling the shirts. Maybe due to the fact Doc wanted a cut of the shirts but the official word isn’t out.
Again, Draymond Green was caught in the middle of the drama even though he wasn’t even playing in the game last night between the 2 teams. He wasn’t even involved, it was the 2 coaches, Steve Kerr and Doc Rivers.
From J.A. Adande and Arash Markazi of ESPN.com.
The latest bit of verbal jousting came before the Clippers fell to the Warriors 110-106 on Tuesday night at Staples Center. Rivers, the second-year coach of the Clippers, said he could understand why Draymond Green, who has inflammation in his shins, wasn’t playing in the fourth and final meeting of the season between the two teams.
“That was pretty predictable; they didn’t want to take the risk of going 2-2 [in the season series] with their regular guys,” Rivers said. “You could pretty much predict they weren’t going to play everybody.”
“Oh, is that right?” Kerr, in his first year as Warriors coach, said with a chuckle when Rivers’ quote was relayed to him. “Either that or we have a nine-game lead and a couple guys banged up. Somewhere in there.”
The saga continues between the 2 Western Conference teams that may or may not actually hate each other. I don’t know if they do hate each other but they do have immense bad blood and now it’s spilled on to the coaches.
Draymond Green, rightfully so, has his coach Steve Kerr defending him so you can’t blame Kerr for this at all. Doc on the other hand doesn’t mind saying what is on his mind all the time.
Can’t wait to see if they can match up in the playoffs.
