After shootaround Friday at the team’s downtown Oakland practice facility, Klay Thompson took issue with a quote published in a recent ESPN article about Draymond Green. The excerpt in question, which came in the story’s second paragraph, was of an unnamed team official discussing how Golden State players view Green: “The guys might be frustrated by his antics, but they had an opportunity to prove themselves without him in Game 5 (of the finals) and they played like a bunch of (cowards).”
“That article pissed me off for this reason: If you’re going to call someone a coward, how are you not going to put your name to that quote?” Thompson said Friday. “Like, it’s easy to point at someone and call them a coward behind a shield. Why don’t you put your name to it, then you can call us cowards? That’s fine. You can tell us that. But to say that we play like cowards, and you’re not going to quote the guy who said it? That’s weak to me, man.
“That made me mad. We played our hearts out the whole playoffs, the whole season, then you call us cowards and not put your name on it? ... Get out of here.”
