Draymond Green reportedly called LeBron James a "bitch" to trigger their scuffle in the second half of Game 4, according to a source.

Green set a hard screen on James who proceed to throw him to the ground with a clothesline and then stepped over Green demonstratively as he tried to get back into a normal defensive position. As Green was getting up he flailed his arm two times at James, once appearing to make contact with James' groin area.

As Green gets up fully, he appears to say something at James that makes him turn around immediately to confront him. As the play continues, Green and James move towards the basket to fight for a rebound.

"Draymond just said something that I don't agree with. I'm all cool with the competition. I'm all fine with that, but some of the words that came out of his mouth were a little bit overboard," James said after the game. "Being a guy with pride, a guy with three kids and a family, things of that nature, some things just go overboard, and that's where he took it, and that was it."

"We got tangled up. It is what it is," Green said in an interview with ESPN Radio. "I've got mad respect for LeBron and what he's done. He's a competitor; I'm a competitor. It's Game 4 of the Finals. I don't think anyone expects anything less. And if they do, they're expecting the wrong thing."

James and Green are known to be friends off the court.

"I don't know what should happen. It's not my call. That's the league office. They'll take a look at it," James said. "We all saw it in the locker room. You know, like I said, as a competitor, I love going against Draymond, and I'm all about going out there and leaving it out on the floor. But when it gets a little bit more than what it should be, that's what caused me to have words with him."