Draymond calls Knicks' game-ops embargo 'pathetic' and 'disrespectful'

Draymond Green always manages to find something to get worked up about, using any perceived slight as motivational fuel, no matter how seemingly small or petty. It's basically his brand, at this point.

Even so, his chip-on-the-shoulder nitpicking reached unthinkable new heights on Sunday, when he took issue with, of all things, the New York Knicks' decision to eschew all in-game music and entertainment during the first half at Madison Square Garden.

"That was pathetic," Green told reporters, when asked about the lack of game-ops interference. "It was ridiculous. It changed the flow of the game, it changed everything."

With Green and the two-time defending Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors apparently thrown off their rhythm by the lack of music and timeout tomfoolery, the Knicks were able to take a one-point lead into the break. When game ops returned to normal in the second half, the Warriors regained their composure and turned the game in their favor, eventually walking off with a 112-105 win.

But the result didn't assuage Green, who felt the Knicks had slighted everyone from superagent Michael Levine to Warriors president Rick Welts.

"You get so used to playing the game a certain way," he said. "To completely change that ... to me, I think it was disrespectful to everyone from Michael Levine to Rick Welts and all these people who've done these things to change the game from an entertainment perspective, and give the game a great vibe. That's complete disrespect.

"You advance things in the world to make it better, you don't go back to what was bad. It's like, computers can do anything for us, (and) this is like going back to paper. Why would you do that It was ridiculous."