Draymond Green couldn’t help but chuckle considering the situation he was thrust into Monday night in his first game in nearly a month. “Very interesting game to come back on,” Green mused, “having to guard Paolo Banchero.

And when Durant left the Warriors after the 2019 NBA Finals, one of the key players in pushing him to the exits was, again, Draymond Green. Durant was, in the end, a friend of Green's but did not care for Green's confrontational style of leadership.

The Warriors could be getting Draymond Green back from a seven game absence on Monday night against the Magic.