Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green lost control of his limbs again on Thursday and accidentally kicked Houston’s James Harden in the head, and his defense this time is that people just don’t understand how his limbs operate.
On Saturday, Green questioned the NBA’s increased emphasis on “unnatural acts” such as his kicking, even trying to link them to a tactic Harden uses to score buckets and draw fouls.
“I just laugh at it,” Green said, via Anthony Slater of the San Jose Mercury News. “It’s funny how you can tell me how I get hit and how my body is supposed to react. I didn’t know people in the league office was that smart when it came to your body movements. I’m not sure if they took kinesiology and all this stuff for their positions to kind of tell you how your boy is going to react when you get hit in a certain position. Or, you know, you go up and you got guys that jump to the ceiling. I’m sure a lot of these people that make these rules can’t touch the rim, yet they tell you how you’re way up there in the air, which way your body… I don’t really understand that. That’s like me going in there and telling them hey, you did something on this paperwork.
“If you’re gonna say it’s an unnatural thing, it’s an unnatural act, no offense to James Harden, but I’ve never seen nobody up until really James started doing it in my life that shoots a layup like this under the arm,” Green continued, mimicking Harden’s unique underhanded two-handed layup technique. “That’s really not a natural act, either. That’s not a natural basketball play, either. So, if you’re gonna make a rule, make a rule, but if you’re gonna take unnatural acts out of the game, let’s lock in on all these unnatural acts and take them out of the game.”
Green has a lengthy history of flailing limbs that he has often struggled to explain. This is yet another example of that, particularly the attempt at equating kicking someone to going for a layup.
