Clippers and Warriors continue to exchange barbs over Green not playing
The Clippers-Warriors rivalry of words continued on Tuesday before the game at Staples Center.
Draymond Green was ruled out of the game, for the second consecutive game, with sore shins. Of course, Green and Dahntay Jones and Doc Rivers have exchanged bumps and words and T-shirt sales over the last few weeks.
Steve Kerr told reporters at the Warriors shootaround: "If this meant anything, we would play (Green)."
Golden State is the top seed in the Western Conference and already has clinched.
"That's pretty predictable," Rivers said. "We assumed they didn't want to take the risk of going 2-2 with their regular guys."
Told about Rivers' line, Kerr laughed and had another one.
"Either that or we have a nine-game lead with a couple guys banged up," Kerr said. "It's somewhere in there."
After bump, fine & war of words, Clippers-Warriors should be real treat at Staples Center
Jones and Green had the infamous bumpgate, in which Jones bumped into Green while Green was giving a nationally-televised interview. Green then stopped and stared down Jones. Jones got fined by the NBA for it.
Rivers said he thought Green was "tougher", Green started selling "Cool story Glenn" T-shirts and on and on and on.
Before the game, Jones was asked if he would talk to Green tonight. He said he'd never talked to him before.
"No, I don't plan to," Jones said. "You can't fight ignorance with ignorance."
