In a bizarre scene Friday night, Charlotte Hornets forward Grant Williams, a friend and former teammate of Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum, lunged at Tatum, who was bringing the ball up the court after off a defensive rebound, and tackled the Celtics star. field during Boston’s 124-209 victory at Spectrum Center.

Williams received a flagrant 2 rating and was ejected. of the game, despite the fact that there were just over two minutes left in the game. After the game, Tatum’s teammate Jaylen Brown was offended by Williams’ foulcomparing it to a Ray Lewis entry and even questioning Williams’ supposed friendship with Tatum. Williams told reporters the play was “definitely not intentional.”

But Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green, who competed and defeated the likes of Tatum, Williams and Brown in the 2022 NBA Finals, didn’t believe Williams’ explanation. The Warriors star took to X (formerly Twitter) after the Celtics-Hornets game and called out Williams.

Green then called Williams “a fool” for smiling during his availability to reporters after the game.

But perhaps his most interesting tweet in the series of four he sent was one in which he posed a theory about why Williams would do such a thing to Tatum, whom he called “one of my closest friends in the league.”

“He got mad at JT for something hahaha…” green wrote. “I was supposed to keep him in Boston lol. JT got a ring and the guy let out his frustrations about it.”

Basically, Green suggests that Williams, who was traded to the Dallas Mavericks in a sign-and-trade in July 2023, could be harboring resentment toward Tatum, whose Celtics won a championship ring without Williams last season. There has been no report indicating that Tatum pressured (or didn’t pressure) the Celtics to keep Williams. And Green is just spitting here.

But it is certainly an interesting theory.

The defending champion Celtics improved to 5-1 with Friday’s win, while the Hornets fell to 2-3.