Cedric Maxwell fires back at Draymond Green for questioning his toughness during playing days: ‘Ask your daddy who I was’

The war of words between Draymond Green and Celtics radio analyst Cedric Maxwell continued ahead of Game 3.

Green called out Maxwell by name during his media availability on Tuesday after Maxwell claimed that Green would have gotten ‘knocked out’ in his era for some of his Game 2 antics against the Celtics.

“There were a few guys back then that would lay you out, that would knock you out, that would foul you and get thrown out the game, Bill Laimbeer. Rick Mahorn. But everybody running around acting like they were that. Everybody running around acting like they were that,” Green said. “Y’all were getting bullied. So it baffles me when every guy, just because they played in the ‘80s, just because they played in the ‘90s, is like, man, if you played in our day, you’d get knocked out. No, not really, because it wouldn’t be you.”

In an appearance on NBC Sports Boston on Tuesday night, Maxwell offered a rebuttal, noting he was involved in several physical altercations during his playing days in Boston and Los Angeles.

“I understand what Draymond’s saying,” Maxwell said. “But he keeps saying no one punched nobody. You ask Charles Barkley what happened when he and I got in a fight when I was in LA, with the Clippers.”

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Maxwell also pointed out that Green probably wasn’t familiar with much of his playing days given the fact he retired two years before Green was born in 1990.

“Draymond wasn’t even born when I was playing,” Maxwell said. “Let me do the math here. Draymond, ask your daddy who I was.”

Green will have plenty of eyes on him during Game 3 of the Celtics-Warriors matchup on Wednesday night at TD Garden but Jaylen Brown hopes the Celtics won’t try to play into his antics as they did during parts of Game 2.

“Don’t get caught up in that,” Brown said. “Just do what we do best. We ain’t got time for that. Just come out and play basketball, let everything else take care of itself.

“I’m going to come out, do my job. Everybody needs to come out and do their job. We’re here to play basketball, so don’t get caught up in all the antics and stuff like that. Just come out and play.”