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Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green made more controversial comments this week, this time with an awkward exchange with Charles Barkley.

Draymond Green pushed back when Charles Barkley said the Golden State Warriors’ championship window had closed. The problem for Green was not just the tone of his response, it was the target.

During an “Inside the NBA” discussion about Golden State’s future, Barkley argued that age catches every great team eventually. Green answered by taking aim at Barkley’s late-career run with the Houston Rockets, saying the goal was “just to not look like you in the Houston Rockets uniform.”

That line quickly became the story because Barkley’s Houston years were not the punchline Green made them sound like. Barkley was past his MVP peak by then, but he was still a productive, high-rebounding forward on veteran Rockets teams. The clip also landed during a week in which Green was already in another public back-and-forth, this one with former NBA guard Austin Rivers.