2. The Dahntay Jones incident
This was absolutely fantastic. This one made a case to be number one. The Warriors had just finished picking apart the Clippers on national television when LA reserve Dahntay Jones wanted to express his frustration.
As Green did his post game for ABC, Jones walked past him and bumped him. He made contact with Green and kept walking. Green stopped mid-sentence and looked up to see who it was. Then he just stared.
The Warriors’ forward was asked about it after the game and he gave possibly the greatest response you could ever imagine (via USA Today):
"“If [Dahntay Jones] gets suspended, they may not even notice. So I guess good bump-by, but I definitely expect to be reviewed by the NBA. You know, for him to look at me and look at me again, and bump me, when I’m doing a postgame interview, that’s really smart too, when it’s on ABC. And obviously the postgame interview is the highlight of that segment, and you bump somebody? He got some camera time, which he needed because there wasn’t much celebration from their bench today, so you didn’t see him much. So he got the camera time that he was looking for…He served his purpose in today’s game.”"
Draymond really just said that no one would notice if a certain NBA player got suspended. Jones had plenty of room to go around him and, while he denied it, it looked to be pretty intentional. He was either looking for a certain type of reaction or he didn’t want to handle the loss like an adult. Either way, he got owned.
Green’s post game reaction was incredible. It was the right level of arrogant, the right level of petty, the right level of degrading. It was glorious.