Draymond Green isn’t backing off after Josh Hart took issue with his old comments about Jalen Brunson’s $113 million sacrifice.
Green fired back on Threads after Hart revisited the clip from Green’s appearance on the Club 520 podcast with Jeff Teague, where the Warriors veteran questioned Brunson’s decision to leave that much money on the table.
“Dude waited two years to respond to that video from 520? Why not say it then?
Let’s normalize not front-running and talking while you up. Be on the same type of time AT ALL TIMES!”
wrote Green on Threads.
The clip Hart saw had resurfaced from nearly two years ago, and it centered on Green’s view that Brunson’s situation was different from his own. Green said the Knicks had enough financial flexibility to pay their stars without asking them to take discounts, while he expected to be the one making the sacrifice as the fourth option on the Warriors.
He pointed to Golden State’s huge commitments to Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson as the reason he accepted less money, saying someone had to give up something. Green also argued that a team’s top player should not be expected to take a pay cut, noting that Curry and Thompson never did.
Even while saying he was happy for Brunson, Green made it clear he didn’t understand the choice, saying it meant turning away from roughly $113 million.
The whole exchange is a reminder of how quickly old clips can resurface and change the timing of a conversation. Hart may simply have just seen the video now, long after Green originally said it.
Hart’s point, at its core, is straightforward: people should stop judging what others choose to do with their money or future earnings. Those decisions, in his view, ought to stay private.
But for a player like Brunson, that kind of privacy is hard to come by. He is now in line for a potential extension in 2027 worth more than $300 million, and any move he makes will have real consequences for the defending champions’ salary cap flexibility.
So even if the money is Brunson’s business, it’s never going to stay out of the spotlight for long. It will be interesting to see whether Hart answers Green again from here.
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