"You Gotta Get Him Back…Why Is He Holding Onto My Ankle?" - Finally, Draymond Green Has Come Clean About Stomping On Domantas Sabonis Back In 2023

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It's been a few years, but you may remember back in April of 2023 during the GS/Kings first round series, Draymond Green and Domantas Sabonis found themselves in a bit of a tussle at around the 7 minute mark of the 4th quarter with the Kings holding on to a small 91-87 lead

It wasn't the first time we'd seen Draymond do something pretty fucked up on a basketball court, and it certainly wasn't the last (see: choking out Rudy Gobert the next season). The Kings won that Game 2 to go up 2-0, but eventually lost the series once Steph went nuclear with what was at the time, a Game 7 scoring record of 50 points (Jayson Tatum immediately beat it with a 51 bomb of his own vs PHI nbd).

After the game, when asked about the stomp heard around the world, Draymond did what Draymond always does. He deflected. He tried to spin it like things weren't on purpose, and that's just where he foot landed after being grabbed. You see, it was all just a coincidence and totally not deliberate!

That's right out of the Draymond playbook. You see, he tries to walk the line of plausible deniability whenever something like this comes up. Where logically we all know it was deliberate and intentional, but there's a 0.0000001% chance that's just how his body reacted. Sometimes it's elbows flying, sometimes it's his foot kicking people in the face, that's basically his calling card. So it wasn't a surprise that he went back to the well when talking about that play. Despite what we were all seeing with our own eyes, you just don't get it. Draymond had no choice! That wasn't intentional, it was just his only option because he foot was grabbed!

 Forget the fact that this "ankle grab" was really just Sabonis mostly protecting himself as Draymond was falling, don't let the semantics get in the way of a good spinzone. That was Draymond's story and he was sticking to it…….until now

Well, now wait a damn minute! What happened to having no other choice of where to land, that it wasn't intentional at all, and that landing on Sabonis in that manner was your only option? That you would never do something like that intentionally, you just had to land somewhere?

Call me crazy, but years later, suggesting that you "gotta get him back" paints a wildly different picture. If anything, it confirms what we all knew in April 2023, and really, any time Draymond does something like this.

Of course it was on purpose! Of course he knew what he was doing! 

This is exactly why Draymond no longer has the benefit of the doubt when it comes to these types of interactions, and why as a repeat offender, he has been ruled differently than other players when it comes to suspensions and punishment. When you have a list of incidents like Draymond does, and we get more and more evidence of all of them actually being on purpose, what the hell do you think is going to happen? 

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And to any Warriors fan that may want to spinzone this clip as well into some sort of bit for the stream rather than him being honest and telling the truth about what happened and what he was thinking in that moment, I dunno what to tell you. There's no saving you at this point. The video was enough, and now we have Draymond himself basically admitting it was on purpose. If that's not enough for you to actually admit that maybe all his fucked up acts are actually intentional, you just don't want to accept it or something, because I'm not sure how much clearer it could be at this point.