“Draymond Green, ask your daddy who I was”: Cedric Maxwell fires back at Warriors star in heated debate over physicality and skill in different eras of the NBA

Draymond Green

Draymond Green has never been shy about expressing his opinions, and lately that’s gotten him into a spat with Celtics legend Cedric Maxwell.

The Warriors and Celtics are locked in a tight battle for the NBA Finals right now, with the series notched up at one game a piece heading into game three.

After a rather uneventful game one, tensions flared in game two with Draymond Green and Grant Williams mixing it up, technicals being assessed on both sides, and a whole lot more that was discovered after the game.

Draymond’s style of play has always been more aggressive and physical, but as some NBA fans pointed out, he may definitely have been flirting the lines between what’s legal and what isn’t.

After the game, Celtics legend made some comments about Green’s style of play, and that didn’t fly over too well with the Warriors star. Now, the two are locked in a battle of words.

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Cedric Maxwell fires back at Draymond Green in Twitter battle

After game two, Cetlics legend Cedric Maxwell took issue with the way Draymond was playing and noted that the Warriors star would’ve received a punch or two back in the day.

Of course, Draymond doesn’t back down from anyone, and so he had his own reply ready. Green directly took a shot at Maxwell’s basketball abilities, explaining how today’s NBA requires a higher level of skill than it did when Maxwell played.

Maxwell, however, had another response ready. He defended himself by claiming that the league was incredibly tough during his playing days and that Draymond wasn’t even around to see it.

Maxwell, of course, does have legs to stand on in this battle. He played 11 seasons in the league, and he was a key component of the Celtics teams that won titles in 1981 and 1984. In fact, Maxwell was Finals MVP in the 1981 Finals, playing alongside Hall of Famers Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Robert Parish.

It’ll be interesting to see if Draymond has another reply. The two have taken a number of shots at each other, and the battle is only getting feistier as it goes on. Your turn, Draymond.

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Post Edited By: Ashish Priyadarshi
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Ashish Priyadarshi is The SportsRush's content manager and editor. Ashish freelanced for 1 year in the NFL division before taking on an editorial role in the company. He then tacked on managing content while adding on a writing role in the NBA division. Ashish has been closely following the NFL and NBA since the 2012 season when the Patriots lost the Super Bowl and Derrick Rose was at the height of his powers. Since then, Ashish has focused on honing his knowledge for both leagues in, even writing crossover pieces. In his free time, Ashish is an avid basketball player, he loves to watch movies and TV shows, immersing himself in the cinematic world. Ashish studies computer science and data science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and would love to mesh his love for sports with his technical skills.

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