It is without question that the Golden State Warriors are currently having a historically terrible start to the new season, which is something rather new for Draymond Green after so many years of success.
According to Green himself, the last time he suffered this kind of losing was back when he was a kid, when his brother would mercilessly beat him badly in Madden.
“Like, I could compete with my brother in [NBA] ‘Live’. Sometimes I’d win every now and then,” Green says, via Anthony Slater of The Athletic. “But in ‘Madden,’ I could never win. Like I’d never win in ‘Madden.’ He’d beat me every time.”
Green went on to share the exact moment when he finally put an end to his budding gaming career:
“I used to get so angry and my mom would tell me: If you can’t play the game without throwing a fit, you can’t play,” Green says.
“Then one day I lost it and threw the controller and it broke. Once she found out, she told me I was done. That’s when I stopped playing video games. Because I just couldn’t handle losing.”
As it turns out, it was sort of a forced retirement mandated by none other than Green's own mother.
Such is the atrociousness of Golden State's current season that Draymond Green had to dig back to this childhood memory to try to describe what he's going through right now. It hasn't been pretty, and the Warriors won't be winning many games the rest of the season due to all the injuries.
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