Draymond Green didn’t want to go on a Sherlock Holmes voyage to figure out who leaked video of him punching teammate Jordan Poole in practice.
Green, 33, appeared on “#thisleague UNCUT with Chris Haynes and Marc Stein,” a podcast on iHeart, and revealed that he never got clear communication about who leaked the clip — and why he never wanted to receive it.
“I was never really given a concrete answer on how it came about but anything else that gets investigated, you get to concrete things, right?” Green asked.
“I didn’t want to get to the bottom of it. I didn’t want to chase ‘oh man, who leaked this? Is there a way for me to find out where this leak came from?’ If I do find out what I’m going to do? Am I going to sue someone?”
The punch happened in October, during the preseason, and Green stepped away from the team for several days in the immediate wake.
He wound up being fined, but not suspended, by the Warriors, and suited up for the team on the opening night of the regular season.
Green has played his entire 11-year NBA career with Golden State, made four All-Star teams and won four championships.
On the podcast, he said that he heard from a lot of people that the video had to be leaked from someone inside the Warriors’ front office, but that ultimately he had to take accountability for the incident and move forward.
“A lot of people said, man, that that leak came from the organization. All right. So if I found out the organization leaked it, am I going to sue the Golden State Warriors? Of course not,” Green said.
“The reality is I did it and you have to face the music, man. I’m not about to get so deep into trying to find out who leaked it that it almost appears as I’m not willing to face the music or something.”