Golden State Warriors power forward Draymond Green is notorious for trash talk and he has been known to go toe to toe with the best of them. Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant are two guys though early in his career that he learned he couldn't talk trash to.
Green opened up in an interview with ESPN and said he learned early on that talking trash to Duncan wouldn't do him much good and actually would be the first to help him up after the incident.
The guy I'd never waste my breath on? Tim Duncan. As a rookie, I tried talking junk to Tim, and he was like a tree staring back at me. [Laughs] No expression. I said, “All right. It's over.” Never talked junk to him again. After that, anytime he fell, I'd be the first person to help him up, like I was his teammate.
The Warriors star also learned to respect Bryant, an all-time legend during his second year in the league where he contested a game-winning attempt by the former Los Angeles Lakers star.
On a potential game winner, Mark Jackson put me in to guard him, and I got the stop. I said, “Yeah, I'm locking that s— up!” He looked at me like I was crazy and said, “That miss ain't got nothing to do with you. Sit down.” I said, “Oh, s—! All right, I'm out.”
It makes sense to not talk trash to Bryant, but not talking trash to Duncan is funny because did people actually talk trash to him?
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