Victor Wembanyama didn’t spend much time dwelling on Draymond Green’s latest run-in with him.
After the San Antonio Spurs rolled past the Golden State Warriors 123-85 in Friday’s NBA Cup game, the French center kept his reaction to Green’s flagrant foul short and sharp. Asked about the shove, Wembanyama said, “Not much. I mean, it’s not surprising,”
The contact came with 6:47 left in the second quarter, when Green pushed Wembanyama from behind under the basket and sent him sliding along the baseline. Officials took a look at the play and came back with a flagrant 1, which kept Green eligible to stay in the game.
It was the latest chapter in the back-and-forth between the two. Wembanyama and Green had already exchanged words during an NBA Cup matchup in November 2025.
San Antonio, though, had already taken control long before the foul became a talking point. The Spurs jumped out to a 38-14 lead after the first quarter and never gave Golden State any real opening to make it a game.
Stephon Castle powered the offense with a season-high 32 points, while Wembanyama finished with 12 points and 12 rebounds in only 21 minutes for another double-double. The win pushed San Antonio’s streak to 11 straight and kept the Spurs unbeaten in NBA Cup group play.
Even with injury concerns hanging over the team before tipoff, San Antonio delivered another emphatic performance. And for Wembanyama, the loudest answer came on the scoreboard, not in the postgame quote.
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