Draymond Green seems pretty confident that the Warriors are going to pull out a W at home in Oakland for Game 5. Why? Because he’s been talking some next-level shit about Cleveland fans—to the point that he might not return from Cleveland in once piece if it goes to Game 6.
Last night after one of the most incredible performances in NBA Finals history—where the Cavs, down 3-0, did the only thing they could to combat an unfairly stacked Warriors: score a record-breaking 86 points in a half for a final win at 137-116—Draymond had some words about the city where he was playing:
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I saw this isolated quote floating around the internet this morning—maybe you did too—but the craziest part to this is seeing the whole transcript of the interview, made available by the Bay Area’s Mercury News. You see, Draymond wasn’t even answering a question about Cleveland’s fans. He was responding to the question, “Did you notice that the scorer’s table didn’t announce that the technical wasn’t on you?”
The long story is: this question pertains to the crazy moment in the third quarter when Draymond was ejected and then un-ejected for what appeared to be a ghost technical foul. (The first was on Kerr, apparently?) Things were confusing, and Draymond never heard a tech not being called on him, so he didn’t seem too keen on the intelligence of whoever was manning the score table—wherever they were from.
But the short story is: Draymond went out of his way to talk shit on the whole city of Cleveland when the question wasn’t even about them. These are some fired-ass shots.
Draymond later went on to say, “I can’t foresee [the Cavs] coming to Oracle and hitting 24 threes,” basically saying that he thinks Warriors will clinch Game 5 at home in Oakland. He better hope so. But even if they do, he’ll have to show up in Cleveland next season—and that’ll be enough time for some bad blood to stew.
