If Austin Rivers and Draymond Green did not have beef before, they certainly do now.
Rivers drew the ire of Green by saying he was “bewildered” by Green’s complaints that the Warriors did not have any plays in their playbook where he was the primary option on offense. Green responded by taking a shot at Rivers, essentially claiming that Rivers peaked in high school and that Green had the same amount of points as him anyway.
Rivers fired back on Tuesday.
“You don’t have the wherewithal to do your due diligence and actually understand I was being highly complimentary to you on ‘The Dan Patrick Show,'” Rivers said. “It’s you, and I shouldn’t be surprised. You always act irrationally and emotionally immature, and your anger always puts you in hot water, so here I am having to address a video of you belittling my career.
“We weren’t the same players in high school. I don’t care about our numbers being similar. I did it at the national level, the top level, hence why I got the Naismith Award and I got pretty much every award you could think of in high school. I was ranked No. 1. You were ranked I don’t know. Cut it out.”
Rivers doubled down by saying Green is a future Hall-of-Famer, but not because of his offense.
“You were the luckiest basketball player I think I’ve ever seen,” Rivers said. “You were drafted to a franchise with a Hall of Fame front office, Hall of Fame coach, the greatest shooter of all-time and perhaps a top-five player of all time … not to mention one of the most lethal scorers of all time and arguably a top-10 player of all time, Kevin Durant, the same guy you chased off because you talk too much.
“There are clips of you getting a rebound and driving in a straight line and getting a wide-open layup because everyone’s fanning out to guard the actual talent on the team. Steve Kerr made your career. How dare you? Coming at me, ‘Oh, I wish I could give my son $200 million if I was a coach.’ Yeah, the NBA doesn’t give coaching jobs to guys who may or may not sucker punch one of the players and staff.”
Austin Rivers responds to Draymond Green for his, “disrespectful,” comments yesterday: pic.twitter.com/7ZV2fJg2Ts
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Rivers makes a lot of good points, but if anything, Green will be delighted that he got this much of a rise out of him. His response probably felt good, but the appropriate response to Green complaining that he was not developed enough on offense is basically to chuckle and move on.
For whatever it’s worth, Rivers shot 34.9 percent from three during his NBA career, while Green maintains a 32.1 percent mark. Rivers at least has that to fall back on.
