Denny Hamlin Defends Stephen A. Smith Amidst Draymond Green Fiasco as Fans Call

NASCAR’s newfound villain and controversialist veteran sensation, Denny Hamlin is picking and poking, creating a new hot debate in the NBA community. Yes, you heard that right, the recent Draymond Green fiasco and the following events got the JGR driver’s attention to the point that the veteran walked himself into the fire after an “X” post went horribly wrong.

The whole sporting world was rocked when the Golden State Warriors veteran forward took a giant swing, putting Phoenix Suns Jusuf Nurkic to the ground in pain. Quickly, the authorities intervened, getting back at Green with a stiff suspension but the fire he fanned got things out of hand as popular analyst, Stephen A. Smith called out the Golden State Warriors’ head coach on TV.

Seeing the controversy, Hamlin couldn’t help himself but jump in with his take. Though the 43-year-old came out in favor of the analyst his carelessness caused another debate instead of settling it.

Hamlin backs the SAS against the Golden State Warriors head coach as the Draymond Green punch-gate rocks the NBA world

JGR veteran, Hamlin was quite confident that he could help the situation and ease the tension following Golden State Warriors coach, Stephen Kerr indirectly throwing in a stiff one at popular basketball analyst Stephen A. Smith. Kerr just couldn’t help himself but defend his player when A. Smith questioned Stephen Curry’s leadership amidst the whole Green-Nurkic kerfuffle.

While the head coach did not directly name the ESPN analyst on TV, he did say he was ‘disgusted’ with the way the analyst handled the situation, Smith couldn’t care less when he came out swinging against Kerr on live TV. He said, “Steve Kerr didn’t mention me by name. I’ll mention Steve Kerr by name. I’m disgusted with him [Steve Kerr].”

With tensions flaring high, Hamlin being Hamlin gave his take with a brief tweet. The “X” post read, “@Stephen is one of the highest paid, most watched, highly intelligent, most respected analysts in sports. This was him defending his comments on the Draymond situation. Doing what he gets paid to do. Analyzing a situation and giving his opinion on it. Hopefully this helps.” 

But it did not in any way as the NASCAR driver and Michael Jordan’s business partner literally dragged the wrong person into the fray, tagging Stephen, a security researcher instead of the ESPN analyst. While the JGR veteran did not notice his mistake, fans identified the blaring error and jumped him on “X.”

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