Draymond Green vs. LeBron James is, as expected, the gift that just keeps on giving.

The images of both players have both been–possibly permanently–been changed by these NBA Playoffs. Specifically, the Finals.

During the regular season, Draymond Green was celebrated. He was passed over by several NBA teams (including the Warriors) and fell to the 2nd round of the 2012 NBA Draft, but he showed and proved as soon as he was given the chance in Golden State. Green has improved and expanded his game every year since, signed a monstrous contract extension with the Warriors last summer, and was named to the NBA All-Star game this year, all huge accomplishments for a guy whose ability was relentlessly questioned as a rookie.

However, Draymond’s questionable and brow-raising actions and comments during this year’s playoffs have unfortunately painted him as a dirty player in the eyes of many. Scores of people called for him to be suspended during the Conference Finals series, and the league finally took action last weekend, when they suspended Green for Game 5 of the Finals, which the Warriors lost at home.

LeBron on the other hand has always heard whispers that he’s not the close-out, clutch killer that his team needs him to be, but it became glaringly evident during a Game 4 loss to Golden State. LeBron looked passive down the stretch, and appeared to be publicly campaigning for Green to be suspended, something sports analysts and writers far and wide found to be behavior unbecoming of someone of LeBron’s stature.

When these two very complicated trajectories butted heads during Game 4, Draymond said something to LeBron that incensed him enough to get in Green’s face and ignore refs that wanted him to calm down. LeBron later revealed that Green said something that didn’t sit right with him as a “family man,” and many speculated that the Warriors forward had called LeBron a b*tch.

However, HBO’s Bill Simmons believes Green’s insult went a little deeper than the b-word cheap shot. On the latest edition of The Bill Simmons Podcast, Simmons claimed he’d heard differently, and that Green instead said something that “began with an F” and “ended with boy.”

Sounds like “f*ck boy” to us.

I heard he didn’t say the B-word. I heard it began with an F and ended with boy. That was what I heard…That’s why I think LeBron took it so personally. I’m sure LeBron has been called the B-word before. He really got upset. I don’t know if you saw. His feelings got hurt. It’s really hard to hurt LeBron’s feelings. He’s one of the strongest people in the United States.

No wonder LBJ took Green’s comments so seriously. No one likes to be called something like that, regardless of your insult threshold. Green’s suspension was just one game, so he’ll be on the court tonight when LeBron and company try to hold court in Cleveland and force a Game 7.

What a night this will be.