Draymond Green is not letting Josh Hart get the last word.
The Golden State Warriors forward and podcast host has spent his summer trading shots with the New York Knicks wing, and the latest round on Thursday saw Draymond fire back on Threads. The beef started when a two-year-old video of Green questioning why Jalen Brunson took a pay cut resurfaced on social media.
In that clip, Green wondered why the “top guy” like Brunson would be the one accepting a discount while role players like Hart never seemed asked to do the same. Hart caught wind of the resurfaced comments and told Green to stop counting other people’s pockets.
That was never going to slide with Draymond. On Thursday, he took to Threads to make sure Hart knew he did not appreciate the timing of the response.
“Dude waited 2 years to respond to that video from 520?” Green wrote. “Why not say it then? Let us normalize not front runnin and talking while you up. Be on the same type of time AT ALL TIMES!”
Draymond has a point about the timing, sort of. Hart did not fire back when the comments happened. He only responded after the Knicks won a title, which does make it easier for Hart to feel bulletproof enough to punch back.
But there is a simpler explanation. Hart probably had never seen the original clip. Video from 2024 does not really live in most players’ brains, and the resurfacing was completely random. Hart got asked about it and reacted. That is not front-running. That is a guy who saw a shot fired at him for the first time.
The larger context here is what makes this fun. Brunson’s pay cut, however you feel about it in the abstract, worked. The Knicks used the cap flexibility, kept their core together, and won a title. Now other stars like Victor Wembanyama are exploring the same approach in extension talks. The “team-first” contract restructure is having a moment.
That trend directly undermines what Draymond was arguing two years ago. He suggested it was foolish for the best player to be the one taking less. Reality has made a pretty convincing case that it can actually work if the roster around that star is talented enough.
Draymond will never admit he was wrong, of course. That is not his style. He would rather keep the argument moving by attacking Hart’s timing than acknowledge that the Knicks proved him wrong. That is fine. It makes for entertaining offseason content.
Josh Hart is not going to let it die either. He seems to actually enjoy going back and forth with Draymond on social media, and neither of these guys has a filter. Expect more chapters before the season starts.
The one thing that would end this quickly is a Warriors versus Knicks matchup in the finals. That would put actual stakes on the beef instead of just internet noise. Given how both rosters look right now, that is not the most likely scenario, but it would be must-watch television if it happened.
Until then, we get to enjoy two guys yelling at each other on apps for the next couple months. Nothing changed.
A longtime sports reporter, Carlos Garcia has written about some of the biggest and most notable athletic events of the last 5 years. He has been credentialed to cover MLS, NBA and MLB games all over the United States. His work has been published on Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, AOL and the Washington Post.
