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For Draymond Green, trash-talking is a family tradition

San Francisco Chronicle
Published April 22, 2015 at 5:45 PM
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For Draymond Green, trash-talking is a family traditionDraymond Green never had a choice when it comes to talking trash on the basketball court.What else would you expect from a player whose own mother was nicknamed "the Heckler?""Everyone wonders why I talk junk but I was doomed from the beginning," the Warriors forward said.Come on Dubs…go to HOLE AND DRAW SOME FOULS!"I love it," Babers-Green said by phone from her home in Saginaw, Mich.Babers-Green, 47, isn't watching her younger son play basketball because she has to be at work every day, as a campus supervisor at a middle school in Saginaw.Draymond goes by his stepfather's last name, not his biological father Wallace Davis.[...] she was a single mom, trying to keep her three children — Torrian, Draymond and LaToya — on the right path."They had curfew, stuff like that," she said."I had to stick to my guns," she said.If he struggled, it would come back on me.School was more important than basketball.[...] he's succeeding in the NBA, beyond all expectations.Babers-Green explains that trash talking is just a way of life in Saginaw, where she is from and where she raised her family."It's a little city where...

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