Draymond Green doesn’t think Kevin Hart is very good at basketball. Yes, Hart has been named the MVP of the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game four times now, and yes, he nearly beat Green in a three-point contest during the NBA All-Star festivities in Toronto back in February. But the Warriors star made an appearance on Conan on Tuesday night and was asked by Conan O’Brien what he thinks about Hart’s skills on the basketball court. And, well, let’s just say he’s not a fan.
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"He suck!" Green said. "You know, the thing that make Kevin a great comedian is that he believes the stuff he say. Once again, thinking he’s good at basketball, he believe it."
Conan laughed at Green’s response—and then played a clip of a recent appearance that Hart made on ESPN, which featured him taking shots at Green. "I got thoughts on Draymond Green," Hart said in the clip. "And for the record, he does not wash the back of his knees. That’s truth. And I beat him in a three-point competition. If you don’t believe me, roll the tape. Why is it so hard to get the tape?!"
Green responded to it by reiterating his original point about Hart being bad at basketball. He said in no uncertain terms that Hart isn’t any good. "No!" he yelled at Conan. "I mean, he hit a couple spots where he shot well [during the three-point contest], and I was shocked. But no!"
Elsewhere in his interview with Conan, Green also talked about the role he played in recruiting Kevin Durant to the Warriors this summer. He said that he went hard—maybe a little too hard—during his recruitment of KD.
"I recruited KD really hard," he said. "It was like the equivalent of a college coach trying to get a top-five recruit, though I would have broke every NCAA rule there was. I called him a million times. I texted him a million and one times. And I tried to show up wherever he was, every chance I got. And you know what? When he decided, when I found out he was coming, I came back to my senses, and I said, 'I wonder if he respect me as a man now.' The way I just blew his phone up, he had to have a girlfriend who got on his nerves worse than that before. So it was...I questioned myself."
Green touched on his Olympic experience this summer as well and said that, despite the close friendships he formed by playing alongside guys like Kyrie Irving, DeMarcus Cousins, and others, it won’t have any impact on his competitiveness once the 2016-17 NBA season starts.
"Our entire team was super tight," he said. "A lot of people, if they knew that we still text today in our group chat everyday, they would be mad like, 'Oh, you guys are supposed to hate each other.' And I feel the complete opposite about it. Like, if I’m friends with you, I want to beat you even worse than if we weren’t friends. We’re going to talk junk out there [during NBA games]. We’re probably going to go to dinner after the game. And dinner will be a lot better if I can tell you that dinner is on you because I beat you as opposed to dinner being on me because we lost."
And at the end of the interview, Green talked about how much trash his own mom Mary Babers-Green used to talk to him back when he was in high school.
"It was bad," he said. "Growing up, in high school, the arena, the gym is way smaller and my mom voice is loud. I would hear her [and be like], 'Mom, be quiet.' Then, she wouldn’t talk to me for three days like, 'You disrespected me.' 'No, I just didn’t want to hear you.'…She was rough. But, you know, it helped, I guess."
