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Knicks Players Are MAD At Mike Brown For Hugging Draymond Green Postgame... THAT'S SO SOFT

22 Jan 2026 · 2 min

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In a candid monologue, Draymond Green addresses the backlash surrounding a post‑game hug between himself and Knicks head coach Mike Brown after Green’s flagrant foul on Karl‑Anthony Towns. Green argues the foul was not severe, noting that Towns did not react because it wasn’t a hard foul, and emphasizes that fouls are a normal part of basketball. He recounts his long‑standing personal and professional relationship with Brown—multiple championships together, Brown’s presence at his wedding, and a shared history—explaining that the hug was a spontaneous response to Brown’s comment about Green not speaking to the referee. Green criticizes Knicks personnel and fans for fixating on the hug as a scapegoat for the team’s poor performance (2‑8 in January), urging them to confront deeper, systemic issues he has highlighted for years. He concludes that when the organization eventually contends for a championship, they will understand the value of those personal relationships.

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I see people like, "Oh man, the front office gonna have to fire him." If they're gonna have to fire him over that, everybody need to be wiped out because you'll never win like that. If this is the issue, if this is the issue, you'll never win like that. People within the Knicks aren't happy that Mike Brown hugged Draymond Green after a game in which Draymond committed a flagrant foul on Karl-Anthony Towns. Number one, this is basketball, you gonna get fouled. It wasn't a hard foul. And if it was a hard foul, Karl-Anthony Towns should have got up and defended himself. He didn't because it wasn't a hard foul. Or he didn't because maybe for other reasons. Nonetheless, he didn't. And for all the tough guys who wanna get mad at Mike, as they say, none of them did. Mike Brown and I won multiple championships together and we collaborated a lot. Mike Brown was at my wedding. Now granted, we had an all-Black policy and Mike Brown and his significant other came in and like, baby blue and orange. But that's my dog. If they're mad at the in-game hug, I was talking to the referee about the call. Mike said, "You ain't gonna speak?" It wasn't like a playful, like, "Oh, you ain't speakin'?" It was like, he literally was like, "Damn, man, you ain't gonna speak?" Which is why I turned around and hugged him. Like, I'm sorry, Mike B. He didn't hug me back. I hugged him. But if these guys are gonna try to point to that and say, "Man, that's why we were 2-8 in January," and not face the real issues, the real issues that I've been telling y'all, For years now. And if those guys ever have the opportunity to win a championship, they'll realize those relationships hit different.