Golden State’s Draymond Green in another playoff fracas

“I didn’t think there was an adjustment they can make other than to play harder than us. Ain’t no X or no O going to win this series for either team, I can assure you that”.

So whatever it was that Draymond Green said to James that incited last night’s near-fisticuffs during Game 4 of the NBA Finals had to be pretty harsh, right? Golden State defeated Cleveland 108-97.

James compiled 25 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists in 46 minutes but still found himself one defeat away from his third consecutive Finals series loss. The four-time NBA MVP always has critics due to his underwhelming 2-4 mark in the NBA Finals, which is close to falling to 2-5.

No, Draymond Green does not look up to LeBron James.

Green hit the deck and then as James stepped over him, the Warriors forward in apparent retaliation twice flung his arm toward his counterpart, including once toward the groin area. James had to be momentarily restrained by teammates. James implied Green made a disrespectful comment, which some outlets reported was the word “b–“.

“And everybody in that locker room knew we got punked”.

LeBron James probably doesn’t frequent the visitors’ locker room at Quicken Loans Arena all that often, but the two-time National Basketball Association champion is fully aware of what happens inside those walls when a team wins a title.

“But when it gets a little bit more than it should be, that’s what caused me to have words with him”.

James was then bothered by whatever Green said to him.

Knicks president Phil Jackson wasn’t overly critical of James, but he said he has to change his game for the Cavaliers to claw out of their NBA Finals hole. “I’m all cool with the competition. And being a guy with pride, a guy with three kids and a family… some things just go overboard and that’s where he took it”.

“I didn’t see it, no”, Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said.

The clash of two proud competitors was destined to happen.

LeBron James has been called a lot of things by a lot of people, both supporters and naysayers alike. But no matter what you do, he’s going to have a huge stat line.

The Kerr-Green emphasis is directed, with respect, at the best player in Warriors history, who can handle this and has handled it for a while now. But after the Warriors lost by 30 points in Game 3, Green came forward to say that the team was “extremely soft” in that game and had gotten “bullied”. Forget about it, not these guys and not in this situation, with the Warriors still up 2-1 over Cleveland and a fairly large Game 4 coming Friday.