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Draymond Green Takes Another Shot at Knicks Star

Draymond Green can't stop invoking the name of a certain New York Knicks star.
Geoff Maggliocchetti|
Mar 15, 2025; San Francisco, California, USA; New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns (32) controls the basketball against Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) during the third quarter at Chase Center. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images
Mar 15, 2025; San Francisco, California, USA; New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns (32) controls the basketball against Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) during the third quarter at Chase Center. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images | Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images

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"The Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis" must go on, but not without Karl-Anthony Towns and the New York Knicks, apparently.

Green, the longtime Golden State Warriors agitator, once again took a jab at the Knicks' All-Star center. In the latest edition of the web series that set off a series of verbal confrontations, Green offered a not-so-flattering analysis of Towns' role in the upcoming playoff battle between the Knicks and Detroit Pistons.

"I think the Pistons can give the Knicks problems in this series. I don't think this is a cakewalk," Green said. "[Isaiah Stewart] and Jalen Duren, they're going to rough Karl-Anthony Towns up. Karl-Anthony Towns has got to bring his hard hat to this matchup, because those two guys, they're going to try to rough him up."

"[Towns] can draw fouls, but they're going to take those fouls and they're going to try and make him quit. That's going to be their mentality, is to try and make him quit."

From a Knicks perspective, Green's season is best-known for his confrontation with Towns during New York and Golden State's annual two-game get-together in March. Green baselessly claimed that Towns skipped the first meeting at Madison Square Garden to avoid an awkward reunion with former Minnesota Timberwolves teammate Jimmy Butler, the Warriors' high-profile in-season acquisition from the Miami Heat.

In reality, however, Towns was on bereavement leave after his longtime girlfriend Jordyn Woods lost a close friend to cancer. Green expressed condolences but never formally apologized for his accusation. Knicks players publicly backed Towns in the wake of the incident and praised his calm, calculated reaction to Green's tomfoolery.

Both Towns and Green are prepping for their respective playoff matchups: Towns and the Knicks face the Pistons while Golden State faces the second-ranked Houston Rockets after prevailing in the Western Conference Play-In Tournament.

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Geoff Magliocchetti
GEOFF MAGGLIOCCHETTI

Geoff Magliocchetti is a veteran sportswriter who contributes to a variety of sites on the "On SI" network. In addition to the Yankees/Mets, Geoff also covers the New York Knicks, New York Liberty, and New York Giants and has previously written about the New York Jets, Buffalo Bills, Staten Island Yankees, and NASCAR.

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