NBA – Drafted before Draymond Green in 2012, Andrew Nicholson was badly attacked by the Warriors player and he responded with class, without going into his game.
Since re-signing with the Warriors, Draymond Green lets go by multiplying the sometimes polemical declarations. Besides Jordan Poole’s father, one of his latest “victims” is named Andrew Nicholson.
His name may not mean anything to you, but beyond being one of those players still paid ($ 2.8 million in 2023/24) by a franchise (the Blazers), several years after their last appearance in the NBA (2017), the 33-year-old Canadian is particularly known for having worn the colors of the Magic (2012-16) and for having been selected in 19th position in the 2012 Draft.
It is precisely this place in the Draft that made Draymond Green react two weeks ago, in Paul George’s podcastwhen talking about the player the most ridiculous of this cuvée, among all those drafted before the inside of the Warriors. Names he obviously never forgot…
« When it comes to winning, half the battle is already looking like a basketball player. But when you’re on a team and you look across the camp and you see guys who don’t look like basketball players, then respect [que tu éprouves pour eux] gets lost automatically and when you lose that respect you do things to them in game that you wouldn’t have done if you respected them “, first explained the 35th choice of this same Draft 2012.
Then Draymond Green to attack more directly, and more bizarrely, Andrew Nicholson, therefore: ” In fact, this guy doesn’t really look like a basketball player. His body type is weird. Sure, I don’t have Adonis’ body, but with the way he walked and talked, there was no way this guy was a better basketball player than me. So yeah, seeing him get drafted before me, that’s what really, really pissed me off. »
« Honestly, I see it as a form of complex, lack of self-confidence »
Inevitably, the words of the quadruple NBA champion reached the ears of the Canadian, who answered him this week
without wanting to play his game.
« Honestly, it’s a bit unfortunate to come to this and I see it as a form of complex, lack of self-confidence he said, also mocking Draymond Green’s difficulty pronouncing the name of his St. Bonaventure college correctly. ” In fact, I didn’t know he had been thinking about me for 11 years because I didn’t think about him at all to be honest. »
Unlike his comrade from the 2012 Draft, Andrew Nicholson claims to have no problem with him.
« The most unfortunate thing about this story is that I’ve always been happy to see guys in my Draft class do well, like [Anthony] Davis, [Damian] Lillard and obviously Draymond “, adds the one who left to discover Asia at the end of his adventure in the United States. “ Maybe it’s just an upbringing thing, but I love seeing other people succeed, whether they’re drafted before me or after me. It’s just my personality. But it’s a bit disappointing to see someone feel a form of complex and lack of self-confidence, to the point of not wanting to see another succeed and wondering 11 years later why we were drafted before him. »
2023-07-22 13:14:08
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