Draymond Green made it clear he doesn’t file things away and forget them - he keeps score.
That came through during a recent appearance by NBA All-Star Deni Avdija on Draymond Green’s Show, where the two revisited an old on-court moment that clearly stuck with both of them. Avdija brought up the play, recalling the exchange that followed after he said he hit Green pretty hard during a game.
“Do you remember? Well, I told this story, but do you remember?
I think it was last year or two years ago. I hit you pretty hard or something.
I forgot, and then you came up to me. You were like, “Oh, watch.
Next time you go to the rim, watch what happens,” Avdija asked Green.
He said he spent the rest of the game waiting for Green to respond physically.
“But then, every time I drove, I was waiting for that elbow, punch, shove, or something. At the end of the game, I came up to you and was like, ‘Hey, Dray, man, I was waiting for you the whole game.
I thought you were gonna get me back, man. What are you doing?”
he added.
Green’s answer explained a lot about how he operates.
“I just loved your response to it. I was a little pissed off at the way you hit me, but when I said it to you, you were just like, ‘Yeah, all right.
What’s up? All right.’
I possibly did go on and forget, but I can always respect somebody who’s willing to take it there, you know?” Draymond Green responded.
Then came the part that really laid out his mentality. Green said some matchups stick with him for years.
“Now, I will tell you, Deni, some guys I don’t get back for a couple of years. Some guys, you know, I have the brain of an elephant, so I never forget.
Sometimes it takes me a couple of years to get you back. But you’re hard, right, Deni?
So I’m still going to get you because you laid me out.”
He also brought up another grievance, this one involving Xavier Tillman.
“It’s one thing I’m mad about: I didn’t get to get my young fella from Michigan State, Xavier Tillman. We were playing against the Grizzlies, and he laid me out. I told him, ‘I’mma get you, X,’ and he just went overseas, so I can’t get him.
“So, I’m gonna have to get him. One year, when he comes back to Michigan State at Grind Week.
But I got the mind of an elephant, and I don’t forget. I just sometimes let it go on,” Draymond Green concluded.
For Green, the message was as blunt as it gets: he remembers the collisions, he remembers the words, and he’s willing to wait.
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