Recently, Kevin Durant raised eyebrows when he claimed that offense is more important than defense in today's NBA, with many pointing to last year's Oklahoma City Thunder as direct evidence to the contrary. Golden State Warriors power forward Draymond Green has since fired back at those claims.

“Those who don’t believe defense is as valuable as it is, they simply just don’t win. I don’t think anyone’s ever really been hell-bent on caring about the opinion of those that don’t win, because your opinion equals zero,” said Green, per Sam Amick of The Athletic.

Green also called the Warriors' defense when he and Durant were teammates “incredible.”

Durant took issue with that last remark, quote tweeting a post from NBACentral on X, formerly Twitter.

“And the offense was????” wondered D

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