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Paul Pierce had the last laugh in his trash-talk battle with Draymond Green

They don’t call him “The Truth” for nothing.

Clippers' Paul Pierce walks on the court with Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca following a February 5 game in Boston. Steven Senne / AP

By John Waller

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Less than a minute into the Clippers-Warriors game Thursday night, Draymond Green went at Paul Pierce with some vicious trash talk.

“Chasing that farewell tour, they don’t love you like that,” the Warriors forward could be heard yelling at the retiring Pierce on the television broadcast. “You can’t get no farewell tour, they don’t love you like that. … You thought you was Kobe?”

Footage of Green’s barb went viral. But hours after the game, Pierce fired back on Twitter.

Pierce’s brutal response referencing last year’s Warriors season has been retweeted more than 100,000 times.

Then again, fueled by a 50-point third quarter, the Warriors did beat Pierce’s Clippers 123-113.