Draymond Green Responds to Childish Bump from Dahntay Jones

After leading the Golden State Warriors to a solid 106-98 win over the rival Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday afternoon, Draymond Green was selected for the postgame interview with ABC’s Lisa Salters. Green finished the game with 23 points, three rebounds, and six assists on 8-for-15 shooting.

As Green spoke about the team’s performance with Salters, he was raymistracted by an irritant.

Instead of holding his head high and moving on from the loss, Clippers guard Dahntay Jones, who didn’t play in Sunday’s game, decided to resort to acting like a child. While Salters was interviewing Green, Jones walked by, rather closely to Green and outside of the path of the other players, and appeared to purposefully bump Green on the arm.

In the locker room after this happened, Green was asked about Jones’ not-so-subtle push. Here’s how he responded to this question when speaking with the media:

"-Q: What did you make of Dahntay Jones bumping you during your TV interview after the game?-GREEN: It caught me by surprise. Got bumped and looked… and then I looked again… just curious, did he do it on purpose or not? And then I saw the replay, where he looks at me.Started by talking then he looked at me again from the corner of his eye and then walked right into me.Think he wanted a reaction from me. But he don’t play. So… me getting suspended and him getting suspended, it’s different. When you don’t play, that’s probably his role on that team.I’ve had that role once in my career, a couple years ago. But I can’t afford to feed into that where I get into it in after a game, where I get fined, get suspended and hurt my team. When… if he gets suspended, they may not even notice.Guess I got bumped by him.But I definitely expect that to be reviewed by the NBA. For him to look at me and look at me again and bump me while I’m doing the post-game interview.That’s really smart, too. You know, when it’s on ABC and obviously the post-game interview is the highlight of that segment. And you bump somebody.He got some camera time, which he needed, because there wasn’t much celebration from their bench today so you didn’t see him much. So he got the camera time he was looking for. Just expect it to be reviewed and see what happens.But he served his purpose in today’s game."

Green has a fiery, passionate personality on and off the court, so this type of sassy response is to be expected. Not only is this expected, but this type of response is also totally warranted.

Jones’ push was clearly intentional and was completely unnecessary. The game had already been decided, and most of the players had already cleared the court. Since Jones received no playing time, this was the only way and the only time that he could throw a tantrum, off the court and after the game.

The post-game push was Jones’ childish way to “punish” Green, who was clearly the player of the game. Green is right that Jones served his sole purpose in the game, which is funny and satisfying for Warriors fans.

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