Draymond Green knows a thing or two about locker-room blowups, so when word surfaced that Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro reportedly got physical in Vegas, he didn’t exactly hold back.
The Warriors star jumped on his podcast and called the alleged Adebayo-Herro clash “amusing,” but he spent most of his time zeroing in on Heat vice president of basketball development Udonis Haslem and wondering how he would handle the fallout. Green’s point was simple: if Haslem had plenty to say when Green punched Jordan Poole in 2022, would he keep that same energy now?
Green drew a line between the two situations, but he also kept circling back to Haslem’s role in both. He said, “I wonder, you know the one thing that I really started to wonder about was, I remember when I got into it with Jordan Poole, a little different situation I guess because these guys aren’t teammates anymore. But similar in the fact that Tyler Herro came up under Bam, he’s younger than Bam in the league, Bam has been in interviews speaking with Tyler Herro about how, ‘Yo, he got my back I got his back.’”
He also brought up Haslem’s reaction to the Poole incident and said it stuck with him. Green said Haslem had been “really, really, really outspoken” then, and added, “What is it, ‘Heat Culture or Heat way?’
Maybe they don’t have fights. It really threw me for a loop.”
Green kept pressing the same theme: if Haslem helped shape both players, would he treat Adebayo the same way he treated Green? “When I first saw this, I was like damn.
This is two young guys Udonis Haslem raised,” said Green. “...
If you raised this young guy in the light of what you was saying about me, and now he punches this other young guy, that y’all kind of co-raised, are you gon’ to have that same energy?”
Then came the personal edge. Green made it clear he wasn’t rooting against Adebayo, saying, “And the reality is I don’t want him to have that same energy because I love Bam.
That’s my brother, my dog. ... Tyler Herro, who’s from Milwaukee like Jordan Poole, who has a lot of bravado as a young guy, probably said some very disrespectful things like Jordan Poole.
I just wonder like man, I wonder if he gon’ have that same energy.”
Haslem answered quickly and fired back on social media, blasting Green and rejecting the comparison. “I see some things just don’t change. lol.
You was on sucka s--- four years ago when you swung on Jordan Poole and you on sucka s--- now. I usually don’t engage but since you went so far left to get my attention here it is!!!,” Haslem wrote on X.
He added, “If you think your big 32 year old, 3 or 4 rings at the time having ass swinging on a 23 year old Jordan Poole at the time is the same then you are even more delusional that I thought.
“... Call it heat culture or what ever you want but before I let one player disrespect Spo in front of the squad, cut his legs out and disrupt what 15 other guys tryin to get accomplished, I’ll kick his ass. I owe that to ZO and Tim and Glen and the rest of my OGs.”
The source of the original Adebayo-Herro report said the two ex-Heat teammates allegedly got into a physical altercation last week at a practice court in Vegas, with Adebayo striking Herro after Herro supposedly initiated the conflict by saying something to him. The Athletic reported that Adebayo punched Herro “without hesitation” in front of Herro’s AAU team. The Heat and the Bucks both declined to comment.
There’s still no video of the Adebayo-Herro incident, and the full story hasn’t been laid out yet. But Green’s comments made one thing clear: he wasn’t going to let Haslem’s old criticism of him go unanswered, and Haslem clearly wasn’t interested in letting that slide either.
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