Being a superstar in the NBA comes with a certain level of responsibility and prestige. It can also put a target on your back. 

Victor Wembanyama, the San Antonio Spurs superstar, is certainly aware of that. Standing at 7'5 and possessing a skillset that has truly never been seen before in the game of basketball, conventional defense is simply not built for someone like Wembanyama and there's not a lot that most players can do to stop him. 

In situations like that against players like him, sometimes teams will resort to alternative tactics to try and at least slow him down. The Oklahoma City Thunder have embraced that quickly in the Western Conference Finals, grabbing at Wembanyama's arms and jersey to try and trip him up or keep him from jumping at rebounds. 

Isaiah Hartenstein has taken the lead as the Thunder's lead enforcer against Wembanyama and it's gotten to a point where Wembanyama has even started training for it, instructing the practice squad to pull and tug at him before games to get him acclimated to the contact. 

Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors has seen this kind of thing before. It might not have happened to him, but he saw firsthand how teams resorted to try and stop his teammate Steph Curry at the peak of his powers, grabbing at him to try and disrupt Curry's notorious shooting abilities. 

"OKC is teaching a valuable lesson. One that teams started doing against us many years ago. They can only call so many jersey grabs when Steph run. So people just started grabbing him," Green wrote in a post on Threads. He learned how to play through it... Wemby has to learn how to play through it."

Curry and Wembanyama couldn't be more different when it comes to body types, positions or play styles, but what they do have in common is being unprecedented figures in the NBA at what they respectively do. 

When a player emerges that's so outside the beyond the standard in a particular area, shooting and movement for Curry and size and presence for Wembanyama, Green is saying that teams resort to somewhat underhanded tactics to stop them.

Green's larger point boils down to officiating and how, if teams commit what would be a jersey-pulling foul on every play, eventually every would-be violation fades into the chaos of the and referees either stop calling it every time or stop seeing it every time. 

There's no wider solution to the issue in Green's statement, at least not a solution that would be in Wembanyama's control. Green's encouragement is simply that Wembanyama learn to adapt and overcome the tactics, as Green said Curry did.