Green’s 'You can’t cry' Remarks on TNT

During TNT’s All-Star reserves reveal on February 4, 2022, Draymond Green referenced Rudy Gobert’s emotional 2019 response to being left off the All-Star team. On-air, Green said, "One thing I can assure you: If I didn’t make it this year, I wasn’t going to cry... It has to be Rudy... You can’t cry, Chuck..." punctuating the panel’s banter by naming Gobert as the imagined crier and restating the premise of his 2019 mockery in front of a national audience [7]. NBC Sports transcribed Green’s remarks from the broadcast, capturing both the phrasing and the context of the Inside the NBA exchange [7]. The moment functioned as a callback to February 1, 2019, when Green tweeted, "I guess I should cry too... no Charlotte?" after Gobert’s emotional media availability about missing the All-Star Game [4]. The TNT setting amplified the feud’s visibility; instead of an offhand tweet, Green used a primetime platform to reinforce his critique of Gobert’s demeanor. While Gobert did not respond on-air that night, the line became part of the searchable record of their back-and-forth, later resurfacing in rundowns of their history as the feud evolved across 2022 and 2023 [7][5]. Green’s TV jab fit an emerging pattern: discrete, timestamped incidents—tweets, broadcasts, and later postgame mics—building a narrative thread of public needling between two All-NBA defenders whose reputations are constantly debated in media spaces [7][4][5].

By restating his 2019 mockery on TNT, Green solidified a theme of the feud—attacking Gobert’s public demeanor—as part of mainstream NBA discourse, not just social media [7][4]. The national-TV echo ensured that when subsequent incidents occurred—Gobert’s "Insecurity is always loud" tweet in October 2022 and Green’s mirror-tweet in April 2023—observers could connect them to a longer-running storyline [6][5]. This segment also contributed to the perception that the issue was not a one-off joke but a standing critique, helping frame the November 2023 on-court confrontation as an escalation in a preexisting rivalry rather than a spontaneous, isolated clash [2][1].

Within eight months, the social-media portion of the feud swung back toward Green. On October 7, 2022, hours after video surfaced of Green punching teammate Jordan Poole at practice, Gobert posted, "Insecurity is always loud," a widely read subtweet aimed at Green [6][5]. Green responded in kind six months later: after Gobert struck teammate Kyle Anderson on April 9, 2023, Green tweeted the identical line—"Insecurity is always loud…"—completing a mirrored exchange [6][5]. The pattern of public jabs culminated on November 14, 2023, when Green wrapped his arm around Gobert’s neck during a Warriors–Timberwolves skirmish and was ejected; the NBA suspended Green five games two days later, citing both the act and his prior history [2][1].