Team Draymond or Team Poole? Warriors fight has MSU and Michigan fans taking sides

With the NBA regular season set to begin in less than two weeks, things have not been quite as rosy for the reigning NBA champions in the last 48 hours.

Despite looking like contenders once again, contention within the team boiled over into a physical fight between Draymond Green and Jordan Poole on Wednesday. Although Green issued an apology to his teammates on Thursday, a video published by TMZ on Friday morning has kept the fire burning around the situation

With Green being a Michigan State graduate and Poole being a University of Michigan graduate, the video has inadvertently spiced up chatter among the rival fan bases.

One Twitter user with the handle @trademarktaz wrote: “To understand the Jordan Poole and Draymond Green stuff first you must understand the everlasting feud between the Michigan Wolverines and their little brother.”

Rivals writer Josh Henschke weighed in by saying, “The Poole-Draymond discourse is what you expected it to be. Dumb as hell. Of course, it just so happened to be Michigan/MSU guys, too. Dumbest rivalry.”

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That is the tip of the iceberg. Here is how the Twitter world is reacting to the feud between the rival fan bases.

@daily_msu: “I can’t believe Poole would put his hands on Draymond like that. He honestly deserves that punch for instigating the entire thing”

@ITALO0821: “I have always hated Michigan State and now Draymond Green has thrown fuel on my fire of Hate. Jordan Poole will be avenged.”

@CoachJayUConn: “Draymond Green been wanting to Punch Jordan Poole for a long time. You can tell. That was him Finally getting his opportunity. Poole gotta be ready if you push someone man! Michigan vs Michigan State”

@500Indy1911: “Let’s just call this Draymond Green/Jordan Poole thing what it is. Poole went to Michigan, and Draymond went to Michigan St.”

@talk_michigan: “Cheap shot from Green. Jordan Poole would’ve never swung at his teammate like that. Just goes to show how sensitive Draymond Green is.”

@boilernick_: “Draymond Green punching Jordan Poole is just the classic Michigan vs. Michigan State rivalry”

@chopmanMSU: “can we get a draymond green v jordan poole pay-per-view?”

@gIowlo: “screaming because jordan poole was acting exactly like a umich man and draymond was responding exactly like a msu man would”

@HarrisonKuzma: “I already said Draymond shouldn’t have punched him but u guys acting like Poole was just standing there with a Bible not saying a word and got folded like a lawn chair. I’m not buying it. Both were wrong”

@1standTed: “Damn Draymond folded Poole up like a lawn chair. How does this affect the Mich vs MSU rivalry? Lol”

@MaizeBlueNation: “In the wake of this Draymond Green-Jordan Poole fracas…just throwing it out there that I think it’s a really, really bad idea to hold this season’s Michigan v Michigan State FB game at night.’

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