A year ago, the Warriors were one of the most popular teams, if not the most popular team, in the NBA. Thanks to the exciting brand of basketball that they used to win a championship in 2015, many casual NBA fans jumped on the Golden State bandwagon and started to cheer for Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, and the rest of the Warriors’ young stars. But that bandwagon might not be as full this year as it was last season.
Sure, there are still going to be plenty of casual fans who cheer for the Warriors now that they have Kevin Durant in the mix. But as KD discovered this summer, there are also going to be plenty of opposing fans who boo the Warriors as they travel around the country. And on Wednesday afternoon, Green was asked about how he plans to handle the Warriors’ transition into being one of the league’s newest villains.
Green, not surprisingly, said that he won’t mind hearing people boo the Warriors throughout the 2016-17 NBA season. In fact, he kind of sounds like he’s looking forward to it. "They’re gonna boo us anyway everywhere we go," he told reporters after practice on Wednesday, "so that’s fine. The most fun I have in this game is going on another team’s floor and quieting their crowd anyway. So boo. Then eventually you’ll shut up. And I’ll laugh. We’ll laugh. And we’ll keep it moving."
Statements like that are only going to make opposing fans boo Green & Co. more. But something tells us they won’t mind one bit.
