Draymond Green wants to meet Tristan Thompson in the streets

As per usual, Draymond Green hasn’t been silent about his feud with Tristan Thompson.

It’s not difficult to see why Draymond Green is one of the most disliked players in the NBA. No matter the situation, he’s always ready to further stir up the drama pot.

But on the plus side, Green keeps the NBA playoffs entertaining to a point where we aren’t just strictly watching a basketball game. When he’s involved, there is real friction between him and whatever player(s) from the opposing team that he’s feuding with. It can be reminiscent of some of the great NBA rivalries from the 1980s and 1990s, such as Detroit’s Bill Laimbeer and Boston’s Larry Bird. Those players couldn’t stand each other (for the record, nobody could stand Laimbeer), and sometimes, the emotions really just boiled over.

Some of those emotions were brought back to life during the closing seconds of Game 1 of the 2018 NBA Finals at Oracle Arena. Tristan Thompson was ejected from the game, and Green, just being himself, couldn’t resist getting in his face and jarring at him a bit. Thompson then escalated the situation by shoving the basketball in Green’s face, and a minor scuffle immediately followed before Thompson made his exit for the locker room.

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But the drama didn’t end there though. During interviews, Green wasn’t short on words about Thompson — he never is when he doesn’t like someone. He said he’s pretty much ready to meet Thompson “in the streets.” He would prefer to meet in the streets, because he wouldn’t want to get fined for fighting in the arena.

“In the summers, you can meet anybody anywhere,” Green said, according to a USA Today article. “So all that ‘Meet me outside, meet me at the bus,’ like I ain’t interested in giving up no money for that. But if you want to see me somewhere else, that’s fine — anytime.”

Green isn’t one to just let things go, and Thompson most likely isn’t either. As the series goes on, we might end up seeing some more heated exchanges between the two.

But these are the things that can make the NBA great: When you have players who don’t like each other, fighting for a championship, and they aren’t afraid to show their disdain for each other. For a fan, nothing makes sports better than watching a heated rivalry.