Draymond Green claps back at ‘petty’ Stephen A. Smith after hypocritical punching claims

Stephen A. Smith had slammed Draymond Green for suggesting that Smith would get beaten up for questioning LeBron James' ability as a father.

Draymond Green claps back at ‘petty’ Stephen A. Smith after hypocritical punching claims

Draymond Green and Stephen A. Smith

Stephen A. Smith‘s recent tirade against LeBron James has stunned everybody associated with the sporting world. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar though, has tried to keep his sanity when responding to the ESPN analyst. His close friend Draymond Green though, does not seem to care.

The Golden State Warriors superstar first came out to say that Smith calling James ‘weak’ would usually get ‘hands put on him’. Green believed the ESPN analyst was taking it too far especially after questioning James’ ability to be a father.

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After the Lakers star trolled Smith on The Pat McAfee Show, the 57-year-old suggested that he would have landed a punch if it came to it. Now Draymond Green had the ammunition to go back at the ESPN executive producer.

I was a little baffled by Stephen A. saying that he would’ve swung on Bron after he just kind of questioned me. To come out and do the very thing you tried to use against me, I thought was a little, not only petty, but contradictory to what you just did.

Draymond Green said

The four-time champion added that Stephen A. Smith, with his reputation, should not use words such as ‘punching’. Instead, he was hypocritical when he slammed Green for using the same rhetoric. Green believes Smith was using his past to paint a narrative and win the discourse.

Former NBA star questions Stephen A. Smith’s stand towards LeBron James

In between all of this, the primary question everyone had was why Stephen A. Smith went on a tirade after initially accepting that LeBron James confronted him as a father. Former player Raymond Felton believes Smith did not stand on how he feels about the Lakers superstar.

Stephen A. Smith talking about something like, ‘I never liked him’. If somebody is approaching me that I don’t like, I’m already on the fence.

Raymond Felton said

He believes if somebody is being approached by a person they do not like, there is no way they will be at ease. After that to first accept why the Los Angeles Lakers superstar confronted him. Then to go on a run of appearances calling the Lakers star out was Smith not standing on business.

That is, Felton believes the ESPN analyst did not double down on how he feels about LeBron James. Only when the Lakers superstar went out trolling and taunting Smith did he come out and say that he did not like the all-time leading scorer. That is what surprised everyone.

Draymond Green believes his character is always under attack

The 35-year-old continued to talk about how his character has been under attack. The choking incident with Rudy Gobert has gone on to paint a picture that he is abusive at home. While speaking on his podcast, he talked about some of those rumors.

By the way, ‘He’s beating his wife at home. He’s beating his kids because look what he does on a basketball court.’ That’s crazy … to have to live through that. That was kind of rock bottom for me. Like my wife opening her Instagram and [seeing] ‘I’m so sorry’ [comments]. ‘I know you’re getting beaten at home.’ Beaten?… It’s not even in my demeanor.

Draymond Green said

The Chicago native said this on the debut episode of the NBC Sports Bay Area’s “Dubs Talk” podcast. He believes the narrative post the Gobert incident was the ‘rock bottom’ of his life. It was too much for him to digest the narratives fans and media were painting.