Michelle Beadle of SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Radio took aim at current Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green for his criticism of NBA All-Star Weekend during TNT’s broadcast this past weekend. During the telecast, Green was highly critical of the league’s new format, which replaced the traditional East vs. West matchup with a four-team, single-elimination tournament. Following the contest, he gave the new structure a zero rating out of ten.
On Monday’s edition of Beadle & Decker, co-hosted by Cody Decker, Beadle fired back at Green’s comments. She argued that players like Green are the very reason the NBA has been forced to make changes to the annual event in the first place.
“Draymond, why the hell is the league having to do somersaults to try and tweak, fix, and change anything at all?” Beadle questioned. “Oh, that’s right, because you and your colleagues, years ago, decided that you don’t really give two s***s about the All-Star Game. So, you don’t put any effort into it.”
During the TNT broadcast, Green acknowledged that the new format was introduced because, in recent years, players had not approached the All-Star Game with enough heart and effort, leading to a decline in competitiveness.
““You work all year to be an All-Star and you get to play up to 40 and then you’re done… Come on, what are we doing,” Green said on Sunday night’s broadcast. “This is ridiculous… A zero. Sucks. This ain’t basketball.”
Beadle had a direct response to that question on Monday.
“We are here because of y’all,” she said. “We are here because no one cared anymore, or had any pride in it, or wanted to be in the slam dunk contest, or any of those things. That’s why we’re here. So, you don’t get to wreck the car and then b***h about the car being in bad shape. You did this.”
As of posting, TNT Sports nor the NBA have yet to release official viewership numbers for the weekend’s telecasts.
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