DRaymond Green has a new rival between his eyebrows. A well-known one, as he shared a locker room with him for 12 seasons and together they won four NBA rings. It is about Klay Thompsonwhich this summer came out of the Warriorsthe only team he had played for in the NBA, to enroll in the Mavericksrunners-up last season.
The first meeting between the two teams will be November 13 and Green is clear about what he will do if he meets his former teammate on the track: “I will pierce his chest. He is my brother, but he is not with us. He is with the rival”. Of course, he guaranteed that I would use ‘trash taking’ to try to decenter Thompson.
The phrase reminds what the late Kobe Bryant said about Pau Gasol before the 2008 Olympic final. In a ‘Netflix’ documentary about that United States team, He assured that on the first play he would pierce the chest of the Spanish player, at that time his teammate on the Lakers.. And so it was. The center put up a block and the guard collided with him with such force that sent him to the ground. They pointed out a foul, but a warning to his team about how he should approach that appointment.
They have played 796 games together
Now Green warns that he will do the same despite the friendship that unites him with Thompson. As teammates, they have played together in 796 regular season games with the Warriors over 12 seasons.. The power forward has only shared the court more times with Stephen Curry (843).
Draymond Green and Klay Thompson, in a Warriors game.
Green has a long history of altercations that have made him the terror of the referees for his protests – always among those who accumulate the most techniques – and of the rival players for his tricks and dirty play. James Harden, Steven Adams, Domantas Sabonis, Rudy Gobert and even his friend LeBron James are among his victims. Last season was suspended indefinitely by the NBA and ended up missing 12 games after slapping Jusuf NurkicSuns center.
