Austin Rivers Fires Back at Draymond Green’s ‘Disrespectful’ Comments

TL;DR

Austin Rivers responded to Draymond Green's 'disrespectful' comments about him on Instagram, clarifying their differences as players. Rivers emphasized his achievements, including the Naismith Prep Player of the Year Award.

Key points

Austin Rivers responded to Draymond Green's comments on Instagram.
Rivers felt Green's remarks were disrespectful.
He highlighted his high school achievements, including the Naismith Award.
Rivers asserted they were not the same players in high school.

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Split image of Austin Rivers and Draymond Green.

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Austin Rivers took to Instagram on Tuesday (May 5) to settle his back-and-forth with Draymond Green once and for all.

Rivers started off the three-minute video by explaining that he felt compelled to respond after hearing Green’s “disrespectful” remarks about him and his basketball career.

“First off, Draymond, we weren’t the same players in high school,” Rivers said. “I don’t care about our numbers being similar. I did it at the national level, the top level. Hence why I got the Naismith [Prep Player of the Year] Award, and I got pretty much every award you can think of in high school.”

On an episode of The Draymond Green Show earlier this week, the Golden State Warriors star chose to compare their high school basketball resumes because he believes that was when Rivers was “at [his] best.”

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Green claimed he and Rivers averaged the same amount of points in high school. According to his Michigan State Spartans profile, Green averaged 20 points per game as a senior at Saginaw High School, whereas Rivers averaged 29.2 points per game in his senior year at Winter Park High School, per Duke.

“I was ranked No. 1, you were ranked, I don’t know,” Rivers said of Green, who was ranked No. 36 by ESPN.