Draymond urges ex-Warriors teammate Poole to ‘move on’ from punch

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Draymond Green would like to move on from one unfortunate incident that took place two-plus years ago.

The Warriors’ veteran forward, in response to former teammate Jordan Poole seemingly throwing shade his way after Golden State’s 122-114 win over the Washington Wizards on Saturday at Chase Center, apologized to Poole in a viral social media post on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying he was “sorry” for punching the young guard in a practice before the 2022-23 NBA season.

Green, on the latest episode of his podcast, “The Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis,” explained why he chose to respond to Poole’s comments with the apology.

“I responded because, you know, like it’s been three years,” Green told Davis. “Like, let’s move on. We moved on. We’re supposed to move on. And I really am sorry. That statement was kind of like it was looking for some sympathy. They keep wanting to make me out to be the bad guy, move on, bro. It is what it is. I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have punched him. But it happened, let’s move on.

“I even apologized to his parents. His dad popped off one time on the internet and I went back at him because it was like, ‘bro, why are you popping off?’ And I actually didn’t like myself for it because I wasn’t even on that. I kind of let him get me off my square a little bit. Because I’ve said what I’ve said about it.”

Green recalls what Poole said and did to him on the court during the practice that preceded the punch and how he could have handled it differently.

“I kind of be going back and forth on this, like, I be kind of in between on certain days like ‘Yo, I know I was wrong, but you can’t call a man a b-word and push him and not get hit either,’” Green shared. “I kind of sit in both of those spaces sometimes. And the answer is probably somewhere in the middle, like I shouldn’t have knocked him out like that, if anything I should have hemmed him up, it kind of was just a natural reaction. So the reality is I probably should have…

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Publish date : 2025-01-22 12:02:00

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