Draymond Green says talking trash to Tim Duncan is pointless
After doing it once, Draymond Green learned that he should never talk trash to Tim Duncan
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After winning five NBA championships, two MVPs and becoming an All-Star 15 times, there's not much that can rattle San Antonio Spurs big man Tim Duncan. The nineteen-year veteran has seen it all and according to Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors, there is nothing you can say that will have an affect on Duncan.
Green found this out the hard way as he recounts in his running diary for The Undefeated:
"I do have a Tim Duncan story. My rookie year I kind of talked junk to everybody. In the middle of the game I started talking to Tim, and I had already got into it with somebody on their team. I don't remember who it was. But I started talking to Tim and he kind of just stared at me. I just kept talking junk to him and he kept staring at me.
"At that point I realized during the rest of my career that I might as well not talk to him. Either, one, he is not going to talk back because he has no respect for me. Or, two, he is not going to talk back because that is who he is. Or, three, both. I figured then that was the last time I would talk junk to Tim. And that was the last time."
Green may be the best trash talker in the league yet even he felt bad for trying to get under Duncan's skin with his words. The Spurs big man just has that kind of impact on people, as similar to Green, Thunder big man Steven Adams found out in his rookie season.
Duncan is truly a living legend.
