Draymond Green Responds to Cedric Maxwell Saying He’d Get ‘Knocked The F*ck Out’ Back in the Day

Draymond Green loves to hear the sound of his own voice.

This week reporters asked the Golden State Warriors defensive player about Celtics player Cedric Maxwell, who recently said Draymond Green would’ve “got knocked the fuck out” back in the day. Green responded by tearing into Maxwell and other guys like him from that era, basically saying they weren’t very tough at all.

“There were a few guys back then that would lay you out, that would knock you out, that would foul you and get thrown out the game,” Green said. “Bill Laimbeer. Rick Mahorn. But everybody running around acting like they were that.

“Y’all were getting bullied. So it, baffles me when every guy – just because they played in the ’80s, just because they played in the ’90s – is like, ‘Man, if you played in our day, you’d get knocked out.’

“Okay, so you’re saying Rick Mahorn would have knocked me out? Rick Mahorn probably knocks you out. Bill Laimbeer probably lays you out.”

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“Y’all were getting bullied”

Draymond has a message for those who glorify the physicality of basketball in the 1980s and ‘90s 😂 pic.twitter.com/BRxU5Z0SS9

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An absolute masterclass by Draymond Green on players from the 80's and 90's talking trash about much more physical their eras of the NBA were 🤣 pic.twitter.com/ReW8etXS71

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) June 7, 2022

“Their fine was also two dollars,” Green said. “It’s just not the same day and age. If I go knock somebody out, I probably get fined a million dollars.”

Green also thinks today’s players are more skilled, which means they don’t have to rely on their physicality.

“Comparing the physicality of the game and everybody acting like they were just the most physical and brutal enforcers,” Green said, “it’s like everybody acting like they shoot the ball like Steph Curry today.”

There’s no doubt basketball evolves, and this generation of basketball is a lot less physical.

Just like the eras past were much different.

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