{"id":101823,"date":"2025-09-19T08:40:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=101823"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:42:23","slug":"2016-cavs-champ-reacts-to-draymonds-shot-at-matthew-dellavedova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=101823","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 CAVS CHAMP FIRES BACK: A 2016 Cavaliers champion reacts to Draymond Green\u2019s shot at Matthew Dellavedova, sparking heated debates among fans, reigniting old Finals memories, and fueling speculation about whether lingering rivalries between Golden State and Cleveland stars are truly buried\u2014or ready to explode again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cavaliersnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/USATSI_26163404_168403910_lowres-860x573.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Draymond Green\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Golden State Warriors defensive star Draymond Green recently made some disrespectful comments regarding former Cleveland Cavaliers guard Matthew Dellavedova that caused a stir. Green said that he has plenty of respect for the Australian, but also claimed that he \u201cstinks\u201d as a basketball player.<\/p>\n<p>Former NBA forward Richard Jefferson, who was a member of the 2016 Cavaliers title team with Dellavedova, has since responded to what Green had to say and came to his former teammate\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhy is Delly catching strays?\u201d Jefferson asked. \u201cFirst of all, if people knew how good at basketball you had to be to suck in the NBA. If you knew how good you had to be, right? Delly could go.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fellow 2016 Cavs champion Channing Frye mentioned that Dellavedova started in the 2015 NBA Finals, and Jefferson responded.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYes, and win a game,\u201d he said. \u201cAre we being real right now? Come on. Come on, people. Hey, look, was Delly the ultimate underdog? Yes. Delly battled his way. \u2026 Delly would literally die for you. Give me that man in battle any single day \u2014 in a game, not practice, in a game. Delly had \u2014 let\u2019s put it this way: Delly had some dog in him where he was D\u2019ing up Kyrie [Irving] so hard it didn\u2019t go well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dellavedova is far from the most athletic or talented player ever to suit up in the NBA, but he should have earned Green\u2019s respect with how hard he played for the Cavs against his Warriors in the 2015 NBA Finals. With Irving down for the count for a majority of that year\u2019s championship series, Dellavedova was called on to start five out of the six games in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, he was tasked with slowing down superstar Stephen Curry and guarded him about as well as one possibly can. Curry was still the Warriors\u2019 leading scorer in the series, but he turned the ball over a bit and was held to a very poor shooting performance in Game 2.<\/p>\n<p>It was on the less glamorous end of the floor where Dellavedova made his biggest impact in the 2015 NBA Finals, but he sprinkled in one big scoring performance during that best-of-seven series as well. In a Game 3 that the Cavaliers won to take a 2-1 series lead against Golden State, Dellavedova scored 20 points (the second-most on the team) while shooting 7-of-17 from the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Although Cleveland came up short in 2015, Dellavedova ended up getting a ring with the team the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, Green will eventually change his mind about Dellavedova, but it\u2019s possible he said what he said because he\u2019s still got sour grapes about how the 35-year-old locked up Curry at points in the NBA Finals 10 years ago. At the very least, it\u2019s evident that those who played with Dellavedova at the highest level have a lot of respect for what he brought to the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden State Warriors defensive star Draymond Green recently made some disrespectful comments regarding former Cleveland Cavaliers guard Matthew Dellavedova that caused a stir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":101824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 CAVS CHAMP FIRES BACK: A 2016 Cavaliers champion reacts to Draymond Green\u2019s shot at Matthew Dellavedova, sparking heated debates among fans, reigniting old Finals memories, and fueling speculation about whether lingering rivalries between Golden State and Cleveland stars are truly buried\u2014or ready to explode again. - 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