“It was a calculated thing,” Draymond Green alleged Warriors to leak video of him knocking out Jordan Poole to portray him as a dirty guy
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Draymond Green and Jordan Poole
The Golden State Warriors look to defend their title this season once again with their star roster back to being completely healthy. They’ve had quite a rollercoaster of a season as they didn’t exactly have the best start to the season with their star players Jordan Poole and Draymond Green getting into an altercation with each other. They dropped continuous games but as they started winning they lost Stephen Curry to an injury who is since back. They now are leaving no stone unturned to keep their title hopes alive.
Draymond Green recently opened up to Taylor Rooks about the infamous incident involving him and Jordan Poole. Speaking on the matter he said, “That video was put out there like that to portray me the exact way it did.” To which Rooks asked, “You feel like it was a calculated thing for the video to come out?” Green responded by saying “100%,” he responded. “You’ve never seen another video from our practices. … Who was it calculated by? I don’t know. I would still love to know the answer.”
In October, four days after the video was made public, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr declared that Green had received a fine but not a suspension. For “the shame” the altercation had caused Poole, his family, and the Warriors, Green said he had apologized to them.
Green claimed that he continuously watched the tape till he had a terrible opinion of himself in his conversation with Rooks. Although he acknowledged that what people say, counts, he stated he was “going through hell, dealing with the court of opinion” before adding that he doesn’t care.
Draymond Green on his changed bond with Jordan Poole since the incident
The defensive big man for the Golden State Warriors also discussed how his relationship with Jordan Poole has evolved as a result of the altercation. “We go to work every day together, Our lockers are right next to each other. That never changed. We ride the same buses together. We change in the same locker room on the road together. None of that has changed. Did it change our relationship? Of course. Absolutely. That’s still a work in progress.”
He further added, “I see improvements. Day by day, week by week, month by month, I see the improvements. And that’s all you can ask for. I don’t expect him to come out and be like, ‘Man, I wanna come out and hang with you off the court.’ I don’t expect that I’m not a fool. … It’s very important to the makeup of our team, to the success of our team.”
Green says that his focus right now is on the team’s performance, as the Warriors sit at .500 and seventh place in the Western Conference after their latest victory against the Spurs.
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Abhivyakt Sharma
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