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Draymond Green Had NBA Fans in Tears With His Weird Move Against Two Lakers Players

It felt like a play only Green could be involved in.

Josh Wilson

Green pulls Hachimura and Knecht down during a free-throw rebound exchange
Green pulls Hachimura and Knecht down during a free-throw rebound exchange / Screengrab, BulletClubIta on X

Draymond Green had quite the gift for social media on Christmas Day: A foul that certainly only he could pull off.

The enigmatic forward, during a free-throw from his teammate Jonathan Kuminga, attempted to carve out positioning in the paint for a rebound against Los Angeles Lakers players Rui Hachimura and Dalton Knecht. He got creative, wrapping his arms around the left arm of Knecht and right arm of Hachimura, dropping his entire weight as he hooked his arms.

He essentially hip-dropped, pulling himself and the two Lakers down, nearly knocking their heads together in an exchange that looks more like the Three Stooges than a professional basketball game.

There was a discussion on the broadcast about the fact that the Lakers players are not allowed to lock arms in this scenario. Well, Green tried to lock their arms for them. He didn't get away with it, with a foul rightly called by Scott Foster.

Fans thought the moment was rather hilarious, cracking multiple jokes about the play gesturing toward an inevitable WWE cameo in a few years:

The Lakers outlasted the Warriors 115–113 on Christmas. Green closed with three points, 10 rebounds, and six assists.

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Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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