Draymond decries Drummond's benching: I'm tired of double standard

Draymond Green used his postgame media availability Monday night to sound off on what he sees as a double-standard regarding how NBA teams treat players who request trades.

"I would like to talk about something that's really bothering me," Green said after the Golden State Warriors' win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, according to KBNR. "And it's the treatment of players in this league. To watch Andre Drummond, before the game, sit on the sidelines, then go to the back, and to come out in street clothes because a team is going to trade him, it's bullshit."

The Cavs announced Monday that Drummond would sit out upcoming games as they worked to trade the veteran center. Drummond was spotted chatting with Green prior to the contest.

Green maintains players are routinely criticized for trade demands, but teams get a free pass.

"When James Harden asked for a trade, and essentially dogged it ... no one's going to fight back that James was dogging it his last days in Houston, but he was castrated for wanting to go to a different team," Green said.

"And everybody destroyed that man. And yet a team can come out and say, 'Oh, we want to trade a guy,' and then that guy has to go sit, and if he doesn't stay professional, then he's a cancer. And he's not good in someone's locker room, and he's the issue."

"Anthony Davis got fined $100,000 or something like that for demanding a trade publicly," Green said, referring to the $50,000 fine that Davis received as a member of the New Orleans Pelicans in 2019. "But you can say Andre Drummond is getting traded publicly ... and he's to stay professional and just deal with it?

"But then when Kyrie Irving says, 'My mental health is off,' everybody go crazy about that too. Do you not think that affects somebody mentally? ... At some point, the players must be respected in these situations. And it's ridiculous and I'm sick of seeing it."