Draymond Green seemingly absorbed several verbal jabs from Paul Pierce before taking a shot at the NBA veteran during a game last season, as explained in depth recently by the Warriors star.
Green went into detail about his smack-talking session last February with the now-retired Pierce in a new Champ Sports advertisement.
“That was the most fun I had this year in talking trash,” Green told a classroom full of students in the ad. “That one was good. And it just so happened the microphone under the rim happened to catch it, so the whole world heard it. But I didn’t know that. I’m just talking. It was fun though.”
A bit of a hubbub was made about Green’s apparent shot at Pierce, which was captured by TNT. But Pierce, a former Celtics star then playing for the Clippers, quickly shut down talk of an actual rivalry between them.
Green previously revealed that Pierce’s trash talk during that February game was Clipppers star Blake Griffin’s ability to outplay Green, and he shared the specifics in the Champ Sports ad.
Apparently the exchange started with Pierce telling Blake, “Go at him — He too little.”
Green did not take that lightly, though he didn’t yet talk strong smack back.
“Too little? What?” Green said he thought. “So now I’m in my stance, and I’m like, ‘Ya I’m too little, what’s up?’ He tried backing me down, he couldn’t back me down. He threw the ball back out, got it back, faced me up. I’m in it. (Pierce was) like, ‘Go at it, go at it, he can’t stop you.’ (Griffin) hit me with the step-back and I jumped, and I’m so excited to try and block the shot, he pump-faked me (and) I foul. Aw!”
With Griffin at the foul stripe, Pierce doubled down.
“We go to the free throw line and he’s like, ‘Ya he can’t stop you BG,'” Green recalled. “And I’m like, ‘Can’t stop?’ and I’m like, “You know I can stop him — you stop.'”
That didn’t shut Pierce up, who allegedly replied ‘You can’t stop him. You know what’s up.”
“I said, ‘Bro shut up,'” Green recalled. “You on the sideline, shut up.”
However, Pierce continued.
“Nah, you know what’s up,” Pierce allegedly said.
That set off Green — who threw out a few lines that TNT picked up and NBA fans ran with afterward.
“I said, ‘Bro you still chasing that farewell tour?” Green remembered. “‘You still chasing that farewell tour? They don’t love you like that. You’re not Kobe. They don’t love you like Kobe — stop chasing that.
“You had a great career, but not everybody got Kobe love. That’s a different thing.”
Thus went the now-famous exchange, according to Green, and many would agree he won the interaction.
