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It has barely been a week since the NBA world was rocked by the vicious footage of Draymond Green sucker-punching teammate Jordan Poole at a Golden State Warriors practice. After everyone in the sports world seemed to give their two cents on the altercation, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr announced Draymond Green would soon be returning to practice and wouldn’t face a suspension.
Despite millions of people seeing the footage of Draymond Green sucker-punching his teammate, the question still remains of who leaked the video. Plenty of people have theories on it. I’ve heard many suggest it was a Warriors employee who stood to make 3x their annual salary for the footage (here’s how much TMZ likely paid for it). But we still don’t know.
Dwight Howard joined Jake Paul this week on the BS w/ Jake Paul podcast. Dwight revealed that he’s worn his famous red Superman cape to do very private things… But he also revealed who he believes leaked the footage of Draymond Green sucker-punching Jordan Poole. That conversation comes around the 16-minute mark in the video below.
Dwight Howard Reveals Who He Thinks Leaked Draymond’s Punch Video
Dwight said ‘it was like, damn, now everybody knows what’s going on in the house’ and added ‘I don’t think that part is cool that it got out there… whoever leaked it, that’s really messed up.’
Jake Paul chimed in with ‘isn’t there like some sort of intern that films every practice so that they can watch it back? It was definitely the intern, right?’ And that’s where Dwight Howard agreed saying ‘yeah, that’s true. But a lot of times you might not know who that intern is. I think they paid the intern a lot of money to get the video tape.’
So they’re in agreement that it was ‘the intern’ who leaked the video but they have to suss out who that intern was and how much they sold it for…
Dwight and Jake then discuss how much they think the video was sold for. Jake Paul heard it was sold for $50,000 and Dwight said he heard it was more than that. A former TMZ employee estimated they would’ve paid somewhere between $50K-$100K for it and ‘upwards of $150K’ based on how the company has operated in the past.
Howard makes a valid point that it would be wild for someone to give up their job in the NBA with the Golden State Warriors, the league’s premier team right now, for only $50,000 when it’s likely the person’s compensation is higher than that given wages in the Bay Area.
Draymond Green returns to practice on Thursday so I’m sure we’ll keep hearing about the video for another week now that he’s back…