Mom of Warriors’ Draymond Green jokes he’s been replaced by ‘clone’ after dismal outing in Game 4 win

Just two days removed from an NBA Finals outing where Draymond Green played, as he put it, “like s—t,” the Warriors forward somehow put up an even more dismal performance in the 107-97 Game 4 win over the Celtics. It’s a string of bad performances that has even his own mother perplexed.

Mary Babers-Green, the mother of the Dubs star, tweeted out early in the fourth quarter a request for people to stop asking her what’s wrong with her son.

“I DONT KNOW! Maybe this is a CLONE! Lmbo WHERE IS THE Draymond that helped get us here!! Hmmmm I have never seen this either!” she tweeted.

Green looked really, really, REALLY bad on Friday for most of the game. He looked as though he had the yips on open shot opportunities, made multiple questionable decisions and even got his lunch stolen by Marcus Smart. He didn’t score at all in the first half — his first points didn’t come until the third quarter — and the Warriors were statistically better with him on the bench.

It got to the point where coach Steve Kerr benched Green for a few minutes in the fourth quarter. When he got sat down, the Warriors were down 91-86. The team was then able to reach a 97-94 lead, and eventually build off of that to win the game. 

Of course, it’s worth noting he did have a couple defensive bright spots towards the end of the game when he came back onto the floor which served as flashes as the old Green fans have come to love, but those only came after Kerr benched him.

But back to mama. Despite her request, she still offered an explanation for why her son played the way he did, and she made one thing clear: It’s not the podcast’s fault.

“His podcast has nothing to do with it! He has let GSW and the Boston fans get to far in his thoughts,” she wrote. “No one was saying he was washed against, Denver, Dallas or Memphis!

Babers-Green doesn’t have all the answers — she tweeted as much later in the game — but if there’s any bright spot she can take away from this bad game, it’s that Green’s teammates still believe in him.

“Championship grit. He knows he can still play better but to turn the page, get rid of that first half, make winning plays, just show his presence and determination,” teammate Steph Curry told ABC after he bailed out Green with a spectacular performance in the win. “We do this together, it’s not an individual thing, it’s not just a stat sheet.”