In the age of misinformation, everything must be double and triple checked. Draymond Green learned the hard way Wednesday when he fell for a fake quote from Kevin Garnett.
The fake quote, offered up from a parody account, claimed Garnett said this about last summer’s incident in which Green punched Jordan Poole during practice: “Draymond punching JP is like a senior punching a freshman who’s half his size and than walks around talking himself up as if he’s like that. Come try me Dray.”
Green got defensive, retweeting the parody account and tagging Garnett in his response: “I tried you when I was a rookie KG, and you started talking to yourself like I wasn’t talking to you. What’s that like? The freshman picking on a senior citizen that’s double his size?”
Garnett’s response to Green: “That’s a fake tweet,” he wrote. “[Elon Musk] see [what the (expletive)] is happening. Fix it.”
Green has since deleted his response, but not before it was saved for eternity through the power of a screen shot.
Garnett has commented about the Green-Poole incident in the past, having done so last summer in a very professional manner.
“I get it. You have to be a little more patient. You have to be the big homie,” Garnett said shortly after the incident. “You have to pull a dude to the side and have a one on one and get a lot more from that versus doing it in front of everybody.”
