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Charles Barkley on Draymond Green: 'I want to punch him in the face'

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After a clip of Draymond Green and Rajon Rondo jawing at one another during Tuesday night's Game 2 between Golden State and New Orleans played on the halftime segment of TNT's Inside the NBA, Charles Barkley did as he so often does: Spoke his mind.

"I just want somebody to punch him in the face," Barkley said.

"Why, you don't like Draymond?" co-analyst Kenny Smith asked.

"I want to punch him in the face so bad," the Hall of Famer said. "I'm just telling you. I want to punch his ass in the face. I do."

"Why, what makes you upset?" asked Smith.

"You asked me a question, I gave you an answer," Barkley responded. 

After the game, which the Warriors won to take a 2-0 series lead, Green responded to Barkley's comments.

"He's seen me a million times," Green said. "If he feels that strongly about it, then punch me in my face when you see me. If you're not going to punch me in my face when you see me, then shut up. It's no different than somebody sitting behind a computer screen tweeting. ... You're old, and it is what it is." 

The irony here? Green is a scrappy, undersized forward known for his trash talking, just like Barkley was, and their games have long been compared.

When asked last year if he would consider himself the "modern-day Charles Barkley," Green shot down the comparisons.

"Hell no," he said. "I'm the modern-day Draymond Green. ... I wasn't a Charles Barkley fan growing up. No disrespect to Chuck, either. He's a great player. As I got older I watched his game because I knew that he was undersized and the things that he could do, I could try to add some of that stuff to my game, but, nah, he didn't influence me at all."

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