Green uses his podcast as a safe haven from aggregators, but they still pounced on a relatively benign quote.
His statement sure reads like a rather sudden swipe at not only the Memphis Grizzlies, but also the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Though spicy, there’s some reasonable context that softens Green's assessment. He was actually referencing the Warriors’ dominant performance in Game 3 of their series against the Grizzlies, a 142-112 blowout, in contrast to how they played in Game 4, a 101-98 nail-biter. What stood out the most to Green during Game 3 was how Golden State maintained its lead even after Ja Morant got hot. “Ja started to go on his rampage scoring every play, and I think he looked up like, ‘Wow, I’m starting to crazy.' He had a couple of those Ja layups that only Ja makes. And he looked up and they were down 25.” Green said.
From there, the Warriors star continued into the aforementioned"championship-level basketball" quote that a famous NBA aggregation account clipped into a punchy social media graphic. Except even the final part of Green's quote is less controversial than it reads on the graphic: “That was big for us because that was to show them this isn’t the Minnesota Timberwolves, you’re no longer playing that team; this is championship-level basketball, this is how we do it.
To be clear, Green's assessment isn't exactly a compliment, even with the right context around it. The Timberwolves still come off as the team that gets insulted. But this wasn’t as much a swipe at Memphis as it was a way of talking up how the Warriors play with their actual championship pedigree -- something Minnesota objectively lacks in comparison.
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