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Draymond Green has more words for Jusuf Nurkić

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Draymond Green and Jusuf Nurkić’s never-ending saga has continued, as Green took more shots at the Phoenix Suns center this week.

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Green called Nurkić “the biggest hater inside the NBA” on Shaquille O’Neal’s “The Big Podcast.”

“‘That brother still need help.’ Like no, you need help. Big softie,” Green said.

Last week on an appearance on TNT’s Inside the NBA, Green said that the “the Suns have no big man … KD (Kevin Durant) is the Suns’ big man. They got no big man.” Green said this in response to Charles Barkley talking about the Minnesota Timberwolves big men and how they played in their first-round sweep over Phoenix.

The 7-foot, 290-pound Nurkić, who started all four games at center in the playoffs and 76 in the regular season for Phoenix, took offense to this comment, posting on X (formerly Twitter) that “I see that brother still needs help. STILL (crying emoji) ABOUT KD, he don’t like #drayover (laughing emoji)”

Green next referenced some tweets that Nurkić fired off when the Warriors were eliminated from the play-in on April 16 on O’Neal’s Podcast.

After Nurkić tweeted this, Green did not let him live it down when the Suns were swept in the first round by the Minnesota Timberwolves.

On The Draymond Green Show, Green called Nurkić a “big softie” and believed he didn’t make a substantial impact in the first round. Nurkić fell on the wrong side of NBA history with the sweep, as his career playoff record dropped to 3-17, the worst of any player with 20 or more games of playoff experience.

“Unfortunately, that is all folks,” Green said. “The tweet may have spoiled even faster from the big softie. Yeah, that is all folks. So you know, you got to be really careful when you’re not that successful and you try to take jabs at people. When you don’t play a large enough role in your team’s success. When you can’t really affect the outcome of the game like you can have 20 rebounds and lose a game… The big softie bowed out.”

Here’s what Green said on Shaq’s Podcast in reference to this:

“How you gonna tweet at us, ‘That’s all folks,’ and you got the worst playoff record in NBA history?” Green said. “Man, I can go to sleep for five years and wake up, you still won’t have half the playoff wins we’ve accumulated. How you gonna tweet that? But ‘I need help?’ Who needs help here?

“You set yourself up for failure because it’s a guaranteed, proven fact that you’re gonna lose. It’s actually not a proven fact that when we’re in the playoffs,  we’re gonna lose, because four times, we’ve won. It is a proven fact that even if you get there … you’re going to struggle to get a win in the series.

“When you’re just sitting at home watching like, ‘That’s all folks.’ Like, bro, by the way, we the 10 seed, my man. Think about that. You’re sitting at home tweeting that the 10 seed is done. Brother, we were actually supposed to lose. We the 10 seed. We barely skated into the play-in. ‘That’s all folks,’ that’s hate.”

To say the least, Nurkić has had his fair share back-and-forth moments with Green this season after Green was ejected for striking him with a blow to the face on Dec. 12.

After this, Nurkić infamously said “that brother needs help” in reference to Green. A few days later, Green was issued an indefinite suspension.

The next Suns vs. Warriors matchup on Feb. 12, the two shared some intense moments with each other.

After the game, Nurkić had some choice words for Green.

“It’s sad,” Nurkić said. “He didn’t learn anything. Just a matter of time, he’s going to hit somebody else again. Take back everything I said. He don’t deserve a chance.”

Nurkić followed up with what he thought Green was doing.

“Just antics,” Nurkić said. “Trying to hit people, the stuff he shouldn’t do. But I don’t care, at the end of the day he can try to play that way, but (I) don’t worry about that.”

In response to the in-game incidents and Nurkić’s postgame comments, Green called Nurkić a “nothing defender” and a “dummy.” He added that “quiet guys don’t win.”

Then, their beef carried over to social media the next day. During this part of the feud, Green also made some comments about what Durant said about Green’s original dust-up with Nurkić.

“You go and question somebody’s character in front of the whole word?” Green said. “That’s whack. I think they’re all whack, both of them (Durant and Nurkić).”

At this point, there is sure to be more and more to come to this feud, as these two aren’t even playing each other but have plenty to say.

Draymond Green clowns Jusuf Nurkić following Suns’ first round exit

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Brendan Mau is a senior writer covering the Phoenix Suns and more for Burn City Sports. You can follow him on X via @Brendan_Mau

 

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