If you’ve ever watched the Golden State Warriors play basketball, you probably realized that Draymond Green is extremely dramatic.

That dramatic side has led to some issues for the Warriors over the years. If you recall, they arguably lost the momentum in the 2016 NBA Finals after he was suspended for an intentional kick to the groin of LeBron James.

The foul itself did not force the suspension. The fact that it was his fourth flagrant of the playoffs required it.

In the last two seasons alone, Green has been ejected four times and has been the source of 39 technicals. In his career, he owns 79 technical fouls. For reference, he has 104 double-doubles, which puts that into perspective.

While Green’s in-your-face attitude is present during games, the public doesn’t have much access to how he behaves on the practice court.

Stephen Curry provided an eyewitness account of Green and how he interacts with coach Steve Kerr during practice sessions.

“… The times him and Coach Kerr get into it, and you’re inside practice and you don’t know whose side to take because you’re like I guess they’re both right, but they’re both wrong,” Curry said on The Ringer podcast when asked about what makes practices challenging at times.

“They argue about a play call or maybe something Coach Kerr’s been thinking about for a couple games about a tendency that we’ve been shading to, and he’s like, ‘Don’t over coach. We know what we doing.’ And coach is like, ‘I know you know what you’re doing, but let me just help you along as I’m supposed to do, and that’s what my job is to do to point out things that could be important for us to win a championship,’” Curry continued.

Despite the back-and-forth between Green and Kerr, it’s clear that both men respect each other.

A mutual respect

“The respect level between them two is at an all-time high, but they have their moments, and it’s just amazing entertainment to watch in practice,” Curry admitted. “But that little stuff happens, but when him and Coach Kerr get into it, the whole practice stops because they’re two important voices when it comes to how practice is flowing, so we let them deal with their issues and we keep it moving. At the end of practice, it’s like nothing happened.”

Everyone is subject to Green’s verbal wrath, even the two-time NBA MVP.

“Coach’s first year, we were doing some five-on-five drill, and Draymond loves talking trash to the whole team. It doesn’t matter if it’s me. Shaun Livingston was posting me up on the block, and I had no chance to try to contest the shot. He did a little Shaun Livingston vintage turnaround. Draymond’s like, ‘He’s too small, Dot! He’s too small, Dot! Baby food!’ Like yelling all that stuff during the middle of practice, and he’s on my team. Like bro, come on,” Curry laughed.


Love him or hate him, Green has been a gigantic part of Golden State’s three recent championship teams. It was interesting to get an inside look by Curry, who probably has many more stories from his time with Draymond over the years.