Celtics great Maxwell continues feud with Draymond Green


Boston Celtics great Cedric Maxwell mostly put a two-day war of words with Golden State Warriors big Draymond Green to bed on Tuesday evening — but not before getting in a couple final goodnight zingers.

The pair squabbled this week after a video surfaced Sunday of Maxwell, WBZ-FM’s color analyst for Celtics games for the past two decades, gave a profanity-laced assessment of Green’s antics in the Warriors’ Game 2 blowout that included this gem: “That s—t Draymond Green was doing? During the ’80s he would’ve got knocked the f—k out.”

The video, shot by Boston podcast network CLNS Media, has since been made private on YouTube, and a story about the video on CLNSMedia.com has been removed.

Green responded during his Tuesday media availability calling into question the perceived toughness of the NBA in the 1980s, saying there were only a “few guys” — he specifically noted Rick Mahorn and Bill Laimbeer — who did any actual enforcing, which Maxwell took issue with on Wednesday.

“Didn’t we see Bill Laimbeer get beat down in front of us in the Garden with Robert Parish out there?” Maxwell said during NBC Boston’s “Boston Sports Tonight” roundtable with Chase Center-hating Mike Felger and Michael Holley.

“A lot of the shenanigans going on in the game right now with Draymond, that wouldn’t have been tolerated in the ’80s,” Maxwell said. “… That’s the toughness of the game, it’s completely different.”

Maxwell went on to acknowledge Green’s point has some merit — fines weren’t the same, suspensions weren’t the same, heck, Maxwell wasn’t even ejected after attacking a Sixers fan during a game.

“I understand what Draymond is saying, but he keeps saying about nobody punching nobody, you ask Charles Barkley what happened when he and I got in a fight when I was in LA with the Clippers,” he said, referencing the time he reportedly roundhouse punched Barkley. “… I’ve been in enough of those. Draymond wasn’t even born when I was around playing, was he? Let’s see, let me do the math here. Draymond, ask your daddy who I was, OK? That’s how that goes.”


The NBA Finals shift to Boston on Wednesday night, with the Warriors looking to retake home-court advantage at the Garden. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m.



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