Why leaked punch video was 'bulls--t' to remorseful Draymond originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea
Nobody within the Warriors organization is happy about the leaked Draymond Green-Jordan Poole video.
After the altercation between Green and Poole in practice Wednesday, someone sent video of the fight to TMZ, which published it Friday morning for the world to see.
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In speaking to reporters Saturday for the first time since he punched Poole, Green was asked what he thought about the video being public, and he explained his initial reactions after watching it over and over again.
"I thought it was bulls--t that the video leaked," Green said. "And saying that, what did I think of myself in the moment? I watched the video 15 times, maybe more. Because when I watched the video, I'm looking at the video and I'm like, 'Yo, this looks awful.' This looks even worse than I thought it was. It's pathetic. And then I had to take a step back too and realize that this video was actually released this way to look that way.
"For whoever leaked the video, it did the same thing for me that it is intended to do to the world. It's an audio-less video, it's a video that cuts to me walking right to him. So the video serves the purpose that it was supposed to serve."
Warriors coach Steve Kerr has seen just about everything on the basketball court, both publicly and privately, and explained why it's so important for altercations such as this one be dealt with internally.
"This is why it's so crucial to keep things in-house," Kerr explained. "I've been in this league for 30-plus years, I've seen all kinds of crazy stuff. When things are kept internally, it's really, almost easy, to handle them. It's just so much cleaner and smoother, and you can move forward. As soon as things are leaked, now all hell breaks loose. And that affects every single player, coach, but especially the players.
"It's like if you had a camera in your family and there was a family dispute. Would you really want to discuss it with the world? No, of course not. You'd want to handle it internally. So, that's always the goal."
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Kerr and the Warriors organization will get to the bottom of how the video was leaked and make sure something like this never happens again.
"In 32 years, I've probably seen 20-plus fist fights in practice," Kerr added. "That should not make it out beyond the walls of our practice facility. And it did, and that's a problem. We have to get better as an organization."
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The Warriors reportedly began investigating the source of the leak immediately and almost certainly will result in somebody being fired, if they're found. Until then, Kerr and Co. have plenty of work to do, both on and off the court, if they hope to move past the situation before their Oct. 18 season opener against the Los Angeles Lakers.
