Draymond Green and Rudy Gobert owned NBA Twitter a few days ago after their altercation in the game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Golden State Warriors.
Draymond choked the Wolves star in the second minute of the game with the score still at 0-0. Gobert did not have the chance to retaliate, but after the game, he called out the Warriors forward for his "clown behavior."
One can easily deduce that Green's choke on the French player, which lasted longer than usual if it was just meant to pacify him, was not out of good faith, while Gobert's choice of words - calling Green clown - what they have does not stay on the court.
That is because their beef goes way back. Their hate for each other is not something they are not afraid to express.
They have had encounters on the court, media interviews, and social media.
Here are some of Daymong Green-Rudy Gobert encounters:
1. Gobert probably started it in 2017.
Green is not likable to opponents with all his antics and unapologetic attitude whenever he hurts someone on the court.
Gobert felt he was snubbed as the Defensive Player of the Year in 2017. He referenced Draymond's type of defense to explain how his version is better and deserves recognition. He sang praises, though, for the Warriors forward.
That same year, they had an in-game incident when Gobert pushed Green during the dying seconds of a blowout match won by the Dubs.
2. Two years of silence, things got more personal in 2019.
The 2017-2018 season went without much issue between the two, but by 2019, the beef got elevated.
Gobert cried after learning he did not make his first-ever All-Star game as part of his first team, the Utah Jazz, and Green did not take time to dunk on him for that.
"I guess I should cry too... no Charlotte? ," he wrote on Twitter (now X).
The towering center did not directly reply to the knock from Green, but he liked a reply to the latter's tweet about how Green pleaded to KD to join them in 2017.
Like u cried in the parking lot for KD?
— ³DMO⭐️ (@1D1MO) February 1, 2019
3. Green continued making fun of Gobert in 2022.
Draymond got used to using Gobert's tears as a punchline. By 2021, Gobert already has three Defensive Player of the Year, while Green only has two.
He brought that up again during an appearance on TNT for the 2022 All-Star Game.
"One thing I can assure you: If I didn't make it this year, I wasn't going to cry," he said.
"I can 100 percent assure you that. I mean, the man cried on national television when he didn't make the All-Star team."
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4. Rudy took the high road but not without parting words.
Gobert tried to take the high road after shots from Green. He also insisted that there was no beef between them.
Still, he knows that he is being disrespected by the talk and words from the Warriors star.
"I've, once again every time I talked about Draymond, anybody else, I show respect/ So these guys want to disrespect me, it's their choice, you know, and I take that as respect because I know that's, you know, its competitiveness and knowing I'm a quiet person, but some guys are different personalities."
5. Gobert shades Green over Jordan Poole punching (2023).
A video leaked showing Green sucker-punching then teammate Jordan Poole. Gobert sent out a tweet which many deduced was for his Dubs nemesis.
Insecurity is always loud.
— Rudy Gobert (@rudygobert27) October 7, 2022
Gobert had the same incident with Kyle Anderson, and Green, always the petty one, used the French player's exact words to chime in.
6. Things got physical (2023).
A new chapter of their beef opened, and this time, it is outside of social media, outside of a legit basketball play, too.
Will this be the last?
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