If it wasn’t clear before, it’s very clear now that Draymond Green and Jusuf Nurkic have bad blood. After the Warriors defeated the Phoenix Suns this past weekend, Nurkic held nothing back when it came to matching up against Draymond Green again.
After the game, Nurkic claimed that Green learned nothing and that he didn’t deserve a second chance in the NBA. It was an accusation that Green’s teammate Steph Curry didn’t take kindly to. In fact, Curry claims that Green was inside Nurkic’s head and that’s why Nurkic is reacting this way.
“It’s easy to throw stones across the way when you have no idea what you’re talking about,” Curry said. “Especially, when you’re on the wrong side of it tonight. You can tell when somebody is in your head when you go out of your way to celebrate. He did that little too small thing and smacked the floor. Funny how the refs didn’t see that one. Draymond comes back at him. So, all the talk, Draymond was in his head, plain and simple.”
Curry went even further defending Draymond Green, stating that he loved how Draymond played against Nurkic and that it was high-level basketball.
“Like I said, for Draymond to be able to knowing what happened last time we played him, give him all the credit,” Curry said. “Everyone talks how much Draymond needed to change, figure it out, what he was doing during the suspension and all that – tonight was exactly the playbook of how you play basketball at a high level. I loved it.”
There are moments when Draymond Green looks like he’s legitimately about to lose control, and Saturday night against the Phoenix Suns wasn’t quite it. That was a moment of two NBA players talking smack, having fun, and one not appreciating it when he lost.