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Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic and Golden State Warriors big man Draymond Green got into in the Warriors victory over the Suns on Saturday. Green and Nurkic exchanged several taunts back and forth throughout the game. The interactions left Nurkic feeling differently about Green than he previously did.

“It’s sad. He didn’t learn anything. Just a matter of time. He’s going to hit somebody else again. Take back everything I said. He don’t deserve a chance,” Nurkic said about Green.

Nurkic had previously defended Green after the play in mid-November where the Warriors star had hit him in the face. Nurkic said he didn’t think it was intentional and that Green deserved a chance to get back into the league’s good graces.

Stephen Curry said about Nurkic that “Draymond was in his head. Plain and simple.”

Green was a bit more pointed in his criticism of Nurkic.

“I knew his goal was to get me out of the game,” Green said in reference Nurkic. “No one wants to see in me in the game. That makes the game a lot tougher. But it’d take a pretty good ‘ish’ talker to get me to do that. That’s just too obvious. It’s OK. It was a fun game.”

It’s been speculated that San Antonio Spurs rookie big man Victor Wembanyama won’t be patient in waiting for the team to start winning. Wembanyama said he’s on the same page with the Spurs, to the point that he’ll be involved in offseason transaction conversations.

“It’s a lot of communication with the coaches and the front office, to know where we’re comfortable with each other in the game and where we’re not comfortable to know what kind of pieces we would need to add,” Wembanyama said when asked if he’ll have input into San Antonio’s offseason moves. “It’s a lot of discussion, because … the GM, the front office, they know their job. They can do almost anything with what we got today, but it’s a matter of how well they understand us — the players and the coaches about where we want to go and how we want to develop.”

Wembanyama also noted that he and the Spurs front office and coaches are all on the same page as far as moving forward.

“Oh yeah. Yeah. And this is the good thing. I feel like there’s no internal fights between us,” Wembanyama said. “So, it is good, it’s the right way for the future.”