Draymond Green Punching Jordan Poole

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Draymond Green Punching Jordan Poole is a viral video released by TMZ in October 2022 showing NBA player Draymond Green punching his Golden State Warriors teammate Jordan Poole in the face during practice. After the video landed on Twitter, basketball and sports circles began posting memes about it and speculated as to what angered Green to the point of punching the much younger Poole. Memes also surfaced about the NBA staffer who leaked the video, wondering what their motive was.

Origin

On the morning of October 7th, 2022, TMZ^[1] published an article that included a video showing Draymond Green "violently" punching Jordan Poole in the face during a practice held in an Oakland facility. The punch occurred two days prior, on October 5th, 2022, when TMZ^[2] reported that the two had been in a "shoving match," which Green had to later apologize for in the locker room. The Golden State Warriors GM Bob Myers even weighed in on the altercation before October 7th, stating, "These things happen. Nobody likes it. We don't condone it, but it happens." ^[1]

At around 9:40 a.m. on October 7th, 2022, Twitter^[3] user and senior editor for the HuffPost Phil Lewis tweeted the video, linking TMZ in the text. In less than a day, Lewis' video received roughly 16.4 million views and 88,900 likes (shown below).

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As the video racked up engagement going into the next day, Twitter users levied their humorous reactions to the video, either taking Poole's side or Green's side. For instance, on October 7th, 2022, Twitter^[4] user MettaWorld_Mack proposed what Poole had said to Green to make him so angry, imagining, "if you can make 10 jumpers in a row nigga I’ll donate 120k to whatever charitable organization," in reference to Green's notoriously low field-goal percentage. The tweet received roughly 49,500 likes in less than a day (shown below, left). Around the same time, Twitter^[5] user JWepp tweeted a TikTok screenshot showing Green with a graph reading, "Fuck around / Find out," gaining roughly 58,900 likes in less than a day (shown below, right).

Others online made jokes about the NBA intern or Warriors staffer who leaked the footage to TMZ, hypothesizing the anonymous person's motive. For instance, on October 7th, Twitter^[6] user NBA_University captioned the photo of Huell Rolling In Money with, "The intern that sold the Draymond video to TMZ," gaining roughly 49,500 likes in less than a day (shown below).

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