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Draymond Green and Paul Pierce engaged in some trash talk last Thursday night at Oracle Arena.
On Saturday night, Pierce didn't give Draymond's words high marks.
"That's about a three," Pierce said on ABC. "I've been around for a long time -- the likes of Kevin Garnett, obviously. I grew up watching Gary Payton, hearing him, so that's light.
"I couldn't even hear him."
In the first minute of last Thursday's Warriors-Clippers game, Draymond said the following to Pierce:
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"Chasing that farewell tour -- they don't love you like that. You can't get no farewell tour, they don't love you like that ... you thought you was Kobe?"
Why did Draymond say that?
"This is how it all started: Blake Griffin posted him up, got a foul, and I was just pretty much like, 'You can't guard Blake. He gonna give it to you all night. You not that good. You only good because you got Steph Curry, KD and Klay Thompson around. That's the only reason you get recognition,'" Pierce explained. "And so I'm trying to spark my team with the trash talk -- go at their emotional leader and give my guys some confidence. And that's when you hear him say what he said...
"... When I got home, I see all of this on social media. I'm like, 'Ah, OK,' and that's when I went to my Twitter and said what I said."
Shortly after 2am PT on Thursday night/Friday morning, Pierce tweeted:
73 wins and u thought u was gonna win a title that yr 😂😂😂3-1 lead oops— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) February 24, 2017
