Good sense and its obverse do not always appear on opposite sides of a verbal dispute.
In fact, sometimes foolishness manifests on all sides.
At a news conference on Monday, four-time NBA champion forward Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors bristled at a reporter’s silly line of questioning and then gave a string of even sillier answers, prompting some fine-sounding-yet-still-silly responses on the social media platform X.

“People worry about you,” a male reporter said to Green at the beginning of the exchange. “Fans, many of your teammates — “
“Why they worry about me?” Green asked, interrupting the reporter. “I …