Draymond Green discusses origins of Trae Young’s villain role, calls Knicks fans ‘f—— delusional’

Atlanta Hawks level guard Trae Young turned the newest participant to have an adversarial relationship with New York Knicks followers when Atlanta defeated the Knicks throughout the 2020-21 NBA Playoffs.

Younger’s stardom elevated throughout the sequence as he led Atlanta to a five-game victory over New York, and Knicks followers let him have it at Madison Sq. Backyard.

The sequence led to the notion that Younger performs the function of the villain within the NBA, a subject Golden State Warriors ahead Draymond Green dove into with Younger on the newest episode of “The Draymond Inexperienced Present.”

“New York Knicks followers are f—— delusional and depressing,” Inexperienced informed Younger. “And I like New York, so don’t ban me from y’all metropolis. However they’re arduous. They’re a tough fan base.

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“You go into The Backyard, you hitting the pictures, you bowing. Each well timed shot you have to make, you make. You’re making each play. And what I truly assume now, and persevering with to look at and persevering with to concentrate to it, is you’re very a lot so a showman. However but that’s been flipped. And once more, speaking agendas, into being this villain. And I’ll be the primary to say it, being the villain sucks. It’s no enjoyable.

“However when it is up towards you, you both fold otherwise you stand as much as it, you go into it. I’ve stepped proper into it. And other people have now made you out to be this villain, when the truth is, the best way you shoot the ball, the best way you play the sport, they do not vilify guys that try this. However they’ve performed that to you.”

Draymond Inexperienced of the Golden State Warriors throughout a sport towards the Houston Rockets at Toyota Heart March 20, 2023, in Houston. (Alex Bierens de Haan/Getty Photographs)

Whereas it has appeared that Younger enjoys taking part in the function of villain, the two-time All-Star informed Inexperienced he “does not actually like being that approach.”

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“Such as you mentioned, s— ain’t actually enjoyable being a villain,” Younger mentioned when requested if he embraces the function of villain at instances.

“I actually simply feed off the group. I actually don’t like being that approach. But it surely’s been that approach from high school once I was averaging 40 my senior yr in highschool. That’s form of what it was. I used to be going into different arenas, and so they have been chanting ‘overrated’ if I wasn’t scoring.

Draymond Inexperienced of the Golden State Warriors fouls Trae Younger (11) of the Atlanta Hawks throughout a sport March 25, 2022, at State Farm Area in Atlanta. (Adam Hagy/NBAE through Getty Photographs)

“I’m not like that sort of individual,” Younger added. “I’d relatively simply go on the market, placed on a present, have enjoyable, smile and get the win. But when it occurs that approach, such as you mentioned, I ain’t about to show down from something.”

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There won’t be a participant higher suited to sympathize with Younger on the difficulty of filling the function of a villain than Inexperienced.

Through the 2021-2022 NBA Finals, Inexperienced heard quite a few “f— you, Draymond” chants from the Boston Celtics crowd, and he drew the ire of the Sacramento Kings fan base after stomping on the chest of Domantas Sabonis throughout Golden State’s playoff sequence in April.