Draymond Green has garnered a reputation as a player who could be known as a hothead. Passionate, competitive, and one of the best defense players ever played a game. However, his emotions can get the best of him. In 2015, during a confrontation with LeBron, his suspension proved costly for the team, impacting their chances in the championship.
This season, in the first quarter of the Golden State Warriors matchup against the Minnesota Timberwolves, while Klay Thompson and Jaden McDaniels got into a scuffle, Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert came in between the two players to defuse the situation. From the angle, Draymond saw that was not the case. Draymond beelined directly to the Timberwolves center and put him in a chokehold.
Nobody has ever seen an NBA player put another NBA player in a chokehold, let alone in the first quarter of the game. Tempers were not flaring, just Draymond’s temper.
Draymond’s passion for the game has analysts, journalists, and even other players rubbed the wrong way. Two-time NBA Champion Rasheed Wallace claims to have insights into the reasons behind Draymond’s demeanor.
The North Carolina great expounded on this telling revelation that most NBA fans had never heard before on Gilbert Arenas’s show, Gil’s Arena.
“That’s our fault… [Draymond Green] grew up in [the 2004 Pistons] locker room. One of his best friends was the son of the GM, so he was around us… That’s why he doing the bully sh*t he doing now,” Wallace said.
He talked about how much love he has for Dray and how he looks at him like a nephew.
