The Green File
- Four-time NBA champion, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022
- Four NBA All-Star selections, 2016-2018, 2022
- One NBA Defensive Player of the Year award, 2017
- Four NBA All-Defensive First Team selections, 2015-2017, 2021
- Three NBA All-Defensive Second Team selections, 2018, 2019, 2022
- Led the NBA in steals, 2017
- Two Olympic Gold Medals, 2016, 2020
Poor Steven Adams
Draymond Green has a nut-kicking problem. The main victim? Steven Adams.
Adams was Green first below the belt target, and felt his wrath twice during the legendary 2016 Western Conference Finals.
Green hit the center from down under, down under with varying degrees of intentionality. There were questions about the legitimacy of the subsequent Flagrant 1 call (on the second kick) and if a suspension was necessary. Of course, Green and co. felt the foul call was trouble enough. Adams, on the other hand, felt differently, as a man who had been kicked in the groin should expect.
"It happened before, mate" started Adams. "He's pretty accurate."
Green's below-the-belt violence had became what he was known for. In the NEXT SERIES, Green was suspended for yet another flagrant, received after swiping at LeBron James' jewels.
Green's feisty nature had rendered him the enforcer for a smaller Golden State Warriors team, but it has become clear in recent years only so much can be tolerated.