"How about stop punching your teammate?": Shannon Sharpe pulls no punches to hand blunt advice to Draymond Green
NFL legend turned-analyst Shannon Sharpe sent a strong message for Draymond Green on Saturday night. The three-time Super Bowl champion took exception to Green's recent comments about fines and how the career of an NBA player isn't set up to keep them wealthy after retirement.
During Saturday's edition of his Nightcap Show, Sharpe responded to Green's claims, calling him out for not taking responsibility for his acts and blaming others for his fines.
"How about stop kicking people in their privates? How about stop punching your teammates?" Sharpe sarcastically asked co-host Chad Johnson. "You got to have rules and regulations. It's the reason why we have speed limits. ...
"If there were no rules in the NBA, how hard you think somebody would foul? What do you think people would do? You've got to have rules."
Sharpe has a valid point there, as Green has been fined and suspended for things that could have been easily avoided. The Golden State Warriors star has a long history of questionable behavior in the league, which has cost him a lot of money.
Fans were quick to call him out when he claimed the fines wouldn't allow players to be wealthy after their active days end.
"The fines to me don't make sense. As hard as we work to accumulate wealth, coming from situations that most people never make it out and then you get fined the way we get fined, it’s actually not set up for us to be wealthy after we’re done playing," Green said on Shaquille O'Neal's podcast this week.
Now a legend has clapped back at those comments, asking for accountability from Draymond Green. He was suspended twice this season within a month after two situations that escalated because of him.
Eddie Johnson calls out Draymond Green over Rudy Gobert criticism
Green has been on the receiving end of criticism all week long, as former player Eddie Johnson took to social media to call out the four-time NBA champion for the constant criticism of Rudy Gobert.
"You cannot let your jealousy of a man who has 4 DPOY to your 1, cloud your professionalism on national TV as an employed analyst ! A current player ripping another for personal reasons who is in a conference final and you are hired to talk about the game is wrong!" Johnson wrote on Friday.
The Warriors might be out of the competition right now, but Draymond Green remains active and is getting a lot of criticism for his comments.