Person Who Leaked Draymond & Poole Video Sold It To TMZ For $50K – $100K

Person Who Leaked Video Of Draymond Green Punching Jordan Poole At Warriors’ Practice Sold It To TMZ For $50 – $100

According to ESPN, the Warriors are “aggressively investigating” who leaked the video of Draymond Green punching Jordan Poole at a team practice Wednesday. They are taking “every legal course of action” to find the source.

Fights at NBA practices are not horribly uncommon, but the recent incident in which Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green punched teammate Jordan Poole is unique in the fact that a video of the incident was released to the entire world by TMZ on Friday morning.

According to reports reaching us at Dreddsworld, the person who leaked the video of Draymond punching Jordan Poole at the Warriors’ practice sold it to TMZ for $50K – $100K.

 

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It’s easy to entertain conspiracy theories regarding who might have leaked the video and why (does Warriors ownership not want to give Green a contract extension, so they’re using this to prime the public for a divorce? Does the practice videographer have a personal vendetta against Green for some reason? Did Green himself want the world to know that his right hook could kill a small animal?).

A New Yorker article from 2016 explored how TMZ usually obtains these videos, and also revealed how much the site paid for some of its most high-profile stories.

According to the New Yorker, TMZ paid roughly $90,000 for the video of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee Janay Palmer inside of an elevator, and $80,000 for a video of a 14-year-old Justin Bieber using the N-word.

TMZ is not subtle about soliciting tips: The tip line is printed right at the top of the website with a big red banner asking if a reader has “Got a tip?”