Warriors vs. Rockets: Green–Brooks On-Court Exchange (April 6, 2025)

During an April 6, 2025 regular-season game between the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets, Draymond Green and Dillon Brooks were involved in an on-court confrontation. The game included a play in which Green fouled Brooks and the two engaged in a direct, face-to-face exchange, prompting reporting that the adversarial dynamic between the players persisted even after Brooks left the Memphis Grizzlies [7]. Coverage of the matchup described "a little bit of everything" in the prior meeting between the teams and noted that Green had previously referred to Brooks as "an idiot" in public comments, linking the on-court confrontation to the history of public back-and-forths between the players [7][4]. The April 6, 2025 exchange did not generate a league suspension in the public record summarized here, but it provided fresh evidence to reporters that the dispute continued into the 2024–25 season when Brooks was on a new team [7].

This April 6, 2025 exchange matters because it shows the Green–Brooks rivalry outlasted Brooks' tenure in Memphis: after Brooks joined the Houston Rockets, the on-court confrontation with Green indicated the antagonism was personal or professional enough to survive a team change, and that prior incidents and media exchanges continued to inform player interactions [7]. The incident reinforced that past events (notably May 3, 2022) remained a reference point in later matchups [1][7].

Reporting on the April 6, 2025 game treated the exchange as part of an ongoing pattern rather than a discrete resolution; subsequent coverage has continued to reference the May 2022 Flagrant and the March 2023 media exchanges when placing this on-court confrontation in context, and there is no public record of a private reconciliation between Green and Brooks as of the latest search [1][3][4][7].