Tom Izzo and Draymond Green Cussed Each Other While Izzo was Offering Green a Scholarship

The San Francisco Chronicle this morning brings us the delightful tale of the time Tom Izzo found out Draymond Green de-committed from Kentucky, and called him to see what the deal was.

"“I don’t even know how I heard it because I was sleeping,” Green said. “It’s Coach Izzo and he says, ‘What the (bleep) happened?’ And I said, ‘You never (bleeping) offered me.’ And he said, ‘What the (bleep)? You’re full of (bleep). All right, now you have a (bleeping) offer.’” “I might be the only recruit in history who got cussed out before he signed,” Green said. “But that’s the way our relationship started. He could say anything to me and I could say anything to him.”"

Green says he knows players who hate their college coach, but he considers Izzo one of his best friends.

"… when you realize someone wants you to be successful even more than you want to be successful, it’s a shocker. When you do comprehend it, it builds a love and a bond that’s unbreakable. And that’s where we are.”"

The coach Green was committing to at Kentucky, by the way, was Tubby Smith. When Smith left Kentucky for Minnesota, Green re-opened his recruitment.