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Big Hearts and Short Fuses: Draymond Green Doesn't Believe in Switch-Flipping

From Charles Barkley to Rajon Rondo, Steph Curry to Kevin Durant, the executive in Houston planning for his comeuppance to the comedian in New Orleans pleading for his demise, Draymond Green can't seem to get through a playoff news cycle without someone threatening to push him off his square. That's the term he uses, a reference to the imaginary low block upon which he lives, wrestling the world for inside position.

The square was a rhetorical gift from Warriors general manager Bob Myers, who drafted Green with the 35th pick in 2012, a brick-house power forward impossible to budge but easy to provoke.