The Los Angeles Clippers’ Austin Rivers, left, drives to the basket against the Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green during the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, March 23, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. Golden State won 114-98.

The Warriors have been out of the postseason for just under four weeks, and Draymond Green is still finding ways to get into basketball-related altercations. This time, however, it’s with someone who hasn’t seen the floor in three years: Austin Rivers.

For the past week, these current and former NBA veterans have been engaged in a war of words online that has truly seen no winner, and has instead produced two losers, with each side firing weirdly personal barbs based on comments cherry-picked out of context.

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This all began with an interview in the New Yorker with the Warriors’ possibly-soon-to-be-former head coach Steve Kerr. The wide-ranging discussion included a lot on Green — so much so that he was mentioned by name in the subheading. Within a string of high compliments, Kerr told interviewer Charles Bethea that there are some things that Green has done “that I can never forgive him for, and yet I will do anything for him.”

Green responded to the entirety of Kerr’s answer on his podcast, and while there was plenty of reverence for his longtime coach — the 36-year-old not only says he has no interest in playing for another coach, but also that he’d give his right arm for him — he made one comment that caught the eye of many in the NBA media landscape.

“As much as he’s done for me in basketball, a part of me think he’s hindered me in my career and what I could have become,” Green said in an episode of “The Draymond Green Show” published April 29. After more positive remarks, he went on to say, “You know, when [Kevin Durant] came from 2016 on, I have not had a play in our playbook. Not a single play that we run for me in our playbook since 2016. You think that would hinder someone as an offensive player? Of course.”

It didn’t matter that within these comments he said........

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