The man curled right to the corner, caught it, shot a 3, game over. The Golden State Warriors’ do-everything forward already was considered one of the best smack-talkers in today’s NBA before his verbal swipe at Cleveland Cavalier LeBron James (plus an ill-placed arm flail) knocked the Finals off course. “They take the ball out, I think it was either Danny or the late great Dennis Johnson. Draymond Green, welcome to the Basketball Trash Talk Hall of Fame. For instance, the Paul Pierce thing that got a lot of pub, when I told him, 'You aint Kobe. He said I’m going, I’m catching it and I’mma shoot it at and I’m going to tie the game or win it, whatever the case may be.'”Īlso Read – “Kobe Bryant was on my team, I felt confident”: How Kevin Durant felt while facing LeBron James in Team USA exhibition game even as an 18-year-old Per ESPN: 'I am the best trash-talker in the game, but its spur of the moment. “He’s telling us the play before they even take it out. “So we played them, and the last play, he says to James Worthy ‘You guys don’t have to worry about it, I’m going right over there in that corner.’ He said ‘They’re going to set a screen for me. In his first season with the Lakers, Ron Artest tried to earn Kobe Bryant’s respect by talking trash to him. And he would just tell me ‘Scott, you moved too late.'” He loved to chirp Michael Jordan when the. Even when he was a rising star in the league, Bryant didn’t back down to anyone. Almost every player who faced off against Kobe Bryant has a story to tell about his ruthless trash talking. The last time I was intimidated was when I was 6 years old in karate class. RELATED: Why Rip Hamilton Was as Scared of Kobe Bryant as Michael Jordan. Trash-talking still happens, but not many players today can trash talk like the way Kevin Garnett, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and etc. You shake the tree, a leopards gonna fall out. So he shot one and I mean, I’m trying to block the shot. Trash talking is somewhat a lost art in this generation of basketball. All rotations we double-teamed and Kevin McHale always had to rotate to the corner and Larry Bird was the one shooting it, you know. Larry Bird talked more trash on the basketball court than anybody I’ve ever played against.” “Larry Bird is one of the biggest trash talkers in basketball. Bird’s name obviously came up, and Scott had quite the tale for us: Scott was on the Dan Patrick Show a few years ago talking about the biggest trash talkers in basketball.
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