Warriors Star Draymond Green Finally Reveals What Caused His Pre-Season Fight With Jordan Poole

As a 4x All-Star, 2x All-NBA player, and 4x NBA Champion, Warriors star Draymond Green has proven his worth in the NBA. He may not give you 20 points every night, but what he does on the defensive end and as a playmaker on offense more than makes up for it.

Occasionally, Dray does have a tendency to get carried away and his actions can be detrimental at times. Sadly, Draymond had one of those moments leading up to opening night.

Due to some kind of altercation between Draymond and his young teammate Jordan Poole, Dray punched Jordan and apparently knocked him out cold during the middle of a practice.

When a heated interaction with guard Jordan Poole escalated, Green forcefully struck Poole and needed to be separated swiftly, sources said. Green and Poole came chest-to-chest, with both players pushing and shoving each other prior to Green’s escalation of the physical altercation, those sources said.

The Warriors stopped practice and tried to settle nerves in the team’s locker room area, but it appears that internal discipline is imminent.

Poole and Green are known to regularly get into verbal arguments, but the team’s management and leadership believe a line was crossed. (h/t The Athletic)

It was a wild scene at the time, and nobody was sure how it would impact the Warriors. Now, months later, it's hard not to think that the whole ordeal played a hand in their current situation.

Draymond Green Explains What Led To Jordan Poole Altercation

Draymond has been open and up-front about the ordeal since it happened, and he has owned up to it as a mistake on his part. In a chat with Stephen A. Smith, however, Dray went into detail about his mindset at the time that it all went down.

"There are times where you enter the basketball gym and it's a sanctuary for a lot of us. You walk on that court and you lose yourself in the game you lose yourself and for that hour, hour and a half you lose yourself in the game. And there are times on the court where it just don't do that. That day, that week, I was dealing with something in my life so heavy. I don't wanna share exactly what that is, but that day I wasn't able to lose myself in that practice. And so because I was not able to lose myself in that practice, everything that was going on in camp, I'm already on ten."

We will never know what Draymond was going through that week, but it must have been something nasty for him to unleash that kind of rage on his own teammate.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem like the punch did as much damage as some suspected, but it's pretty clear that Dray and Poole's relationship may never be the same again.

Perhaps winning another championship is the only way to cure that divide...