Skip Bayless tells Draymond Green to his face that he's the dirtiest player in NBA history, citing kicking, stomping, and elbowing. Green watches footage of a controversial incident with Jusuf Nurkic and calls the moments bad, caught between defending himself and acknowledging his on-court intensity.
Draymond is not angry, just crazy. And by far the dirtiest player in NBA history. Do you double down, do you modify, or do you apologize?
I double down. Wow! Wow! You have baffled me and astonished me because you battle so tenaciously that you push it right to the edge, and then every once in a while, you just go completely over the edge trying to get an edge. Yes, absolutely.
And if you really understand— I do.
I do. And sometimes if you're going to kick somebody in the nuts or pop them in the nuts or elbow or a stomp or a flying— the Nurkic thing was pretty crazy. It's nuts.
I went back and watched the video like, whoo, whoo, that was bad because Jesus Christ.
I thought you were gonna kick him and then you open hand, you didn't close your fist. No. But you got him with the side of your hand in the face. It's a cheap shot artistry, you know, where you have a repertoire of little cheap shots that back in the day, back in the '70s and '80s, would've all been considered dirty.