Draymond Green insinuates Knicks star missed game due to rivalry with teammate, not family friend's death

Karl-Anthony Towns missed a crippled this week, and it was initially revealed helium missed the crippled for "personal reasons."

After rumors circulated, it turned retired a adjacent person of Towns' girlfriend, Jordyn Woods, died of bosom cancer.

Towns returned to the squad 2 days aboriginal aft ceremonial services, but Draymond Green seemingly had heard a antithetic communicative astir wherefore Towns was absent.

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Draymond Green, Jimmy Butler and Karl-Anthony Towns (Imagn)

The Knicks were hosting the Golden State Warriors, who see Jimmy Butler, Towns' erstwhile teammate.

Green said helium had heard Towns did not privation to spell up against Butler.

"Some would accidental helium didn’t play due to the fact that Jimmy was successful the building. I don’t known," Green said connected his podcast. "They accidental KAT didn’t play due to the fact that Jimmy came into town. You cognize him and Jimmy had the infamous signifier successful Minnesota."

Towns played against Butler earlier this year, erstwhile Butler was with the Miami Heat, and dropped 44 points.

New York Knicks halfway Karl-Anthony Towns (32) drives to the handbasket against Miami Heat guardant Jimmy Butler (22) during the 4th fourth astatine Kaseya Center.  (Sam Navarro/Imagn Images)

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Towns said it was "one of those moments wherever I had to beryllium determination for my family." Green was not alert of that until aft the Warriors’ 121-119 triumph implicit Brooklyn Thursday.

"That’s unfortunate, I’m atrocious to perceive that. That sucks," Green said. "But my comments that I made were what I heard was this. That’s what I heard. So I bash nonstop my good wishes to him and his family."

"But," helium added, "the ‘Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis’ indispensable spell on."

Golden State Warriors guardant Draymond Green drives to the handbasket against Sacramento Kings defender Malik Monk during the 3rd 4th astatine Golden 1 Center.  (Sergio Estrada/Imagn Images)

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Towns struggled successful his instrumentality to the lineup, going 3-for-13 from the level successful Los Angeles with conscionable 12 points. He's averaging treble that this season.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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