On Oct. 5, two Golden State Warriors teammates got into a scuffle that made national headlines and forever changed their relationship.
After exchanging words, Draymond Green got in Jordan Poole’s face, leading to Poole shoving Green. That prompted Green to punch Poole in fact, and the two were tangled up before it was broken up.
No one realized how bad the incident was until the video leaked – much to the dismay of everyone involved.
But perhaps nobody was more upset with its release than Green himself.
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Jordan Poole #3 of the Golden State Warriors high-fives Draymond Green #23 during the game against the Toronto Raptors on December 18, 2022, at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Green says that the leaking of the video was “100 percent calculated” to portray him negatively.
“As someone who is involved in the incident, I totally forgot in watching the video everything that went on. Because in the video, you watch and audio-less video, you watch a three-second clip of me walking up, and I swing. That’s what you see. That video was put out there like that to portray me the exact way it did,” Green said in a recent interview with Bleacher Report. “Does that mean that I was not wrong in what I did? No, that does not mean that. 100 percent was the wrong reaction. But in everything, there is also a full story. I don’t care to share my story. One day I will…
“But what I figured out in watching that video all day is like, damn, this actually was what this was meant to do,” he continued. “This was meant to form an opinion about me, and not give another side to it. Like, not even allow another opinion to be formed, This video was put out just like this. No audio. If we got this video, we got the whole practice, right? We got everything, right? All you see is five seconds. And so what I had to do is, number one, because once that released, I’m experiencing so…
