Warriors’ Draymond Green rejects ‘dirty’ label, points to Victor Wembanyama, European players instead

Golden State Warriors veteran Draymond Green is questioning San Antonio Spurs All-Star Victor Wembanyama’s questionable screen in Game 4 of the New York Knicks’ improbable 29-point comeback win to take a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals. As the entertaining Finals series continues, Green continues to comment on the Knicks-Spurs series, including controversial moments involving Wembanyama.

Green took it a step further. Not by calling Wembanyama a dirty player, but by explaining a specific aggressive approach that all European players take on, he said, per the Draymond Green Show.

“Victor Wembanyama’s a great player. Victor Wembanyama’s a European player. And I’ve been on record saying European players are dirty, and everybody’s like “Draymond shouldn’t say that,” no, Draymond will f*** you up,” Green said. “I’m not dirty. It’s a completely different thing, and I don’t think anyone that I played against would tell you, man, he’s dirty.”

Still, Green believes it’s a European trait that fans are seeing in real time from Wembanyama in the NBA Finals.

“Victor Wembanyama is a European player; they are a bit dirty. It’s why beating France in France was such a big deal,” Green added. “Europeans want to earn our game, and they are a bit dirty. I’ve said this before.”

While Green couldn’t say with certainty that Wembanyama’s questionable screen on Anunoby was with the intention to hurt the starting forward, he is accusing Wembanyama of making dirty plays in the past.

Draymond Green compares De’Aaron Fox to JR Smith for Finals error

Warriors veteran Draymond Green didn’t hold back on Spurs’ De’Aaron Fox, who unintentionally handed the Knicks a critical possession after missing a contested layup instead of dribbling out the game clock as the Spurs had a one-point lead. Fox’s error set the stage for Knicks forward OG Anunoby, who blocked De’Aaron at the rim before converting the game-winning put-back off of Jalen Brunson’s missed three.

Afterward, Green compared Fox’s mistake to when Cavs guard JR Smith famously dribbled the ball out toward the end of Game 1 of the 2018 NBA Finals with 4.7 seconds left, thinking the Cavs were ahead, but were actually trailing the Warriors. Green asked which mistake was worse, per ESPN’s Inside The NBA.

“In the spirit of dumbness… what was the dumber play? De’Aaron Fox laying that ball up or JR Smith vs. us in Game 1 of those finals?” Green asked the Inside the NBA crew.

Shaquille O’Neal immediately called Fox’s blunder the worst, given the Spurs had coughed up a 29-point lead and were on the verge of tying the series, 2-2.

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