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Draymond Green to Clippers: What Respect Have You Earned?

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Warriors Draymond Green has a lot of resentment toward the Los Angeles Clippers, and it appears to be stemming all the way back to last season’s playoffs. The Warriors were set to play the Clippers in the first round of the playoffs. Midway through the series, Jermaine O’Neal suggested that Green take his place as starter, and Green says that feeling was incredible for him.

“This guy I grew up watching — a 17-year vet — goes to the coaches and tells them to start me? Number one, we’re in the playoffs. We’re in a series with the Clippers — [who] I strongly dislike — and you go to the coach and tell him to start me over you? Dang, I got to play my best. I can’t let him down.”

Things were going the Warriors way until it surfaced that Clippers owner at the time, Donald Sterling, was allegedly a racist and making racist comments about minorities. The Clippers seem to rally around the negativity and ended up winning the series. However, that hasn’t stopped Green from questioning the Clippers.

“They have a cocky arrogance, like they’ve won something, and they haven’t done nothing,” Green said. “They pretty much been to the same spot in the playoffs we’ve been to. But they have this cockiness like you’re supposed to bow down to them. They ain’t proved nothing. They ain’t earned nothing. What respect have you earned?”

Maybe Green has a point. The Warriors are 10 games ahead of the Clippers in the standings and are coasting into the playoffs with home court advantage throughout. The playoffs are always a different story, so watching how it plays out for both teams will answer mean of the questions on both sides.

[h/t Bleacher Report]

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