Draymond Green Reflects on His Suspension | Inside the NBA

Draymond Green Reflects on His Suspension | Inside the NBA

Max speaking of Draymond Green great to see you again man thank you thanks for having being here man I appreciate it certainly um hey your team’s playing better we are playing better playing six your last seven out of 10 100 now N Out

Of 11 9 out of 11 yeah it’s a good run I played a few games yeah you have what’s the uh I know it had to be difficult watching what was going on with this team um but now that you’ve come back back the scoring is up Clay’s scoring 35

Off the Bench Steph’s been doing his thing so what are you thinking about your Bunch ah man it’s great you know the C clay uh come off the bench and have a game like that he told me before the game he said Dre I got the clip

Loaded I’m letting you know now and to see him go out and play like that was huge Steph is obviously um I say there’s two guys in the NBA who doesn’t have anything left to prove and that’s Stephan LeBron in another category but Jonathan kaminga has been the key to Our

Success uh seeing how that young man has taken that next step and like he he threw himself into the number two option and our offense is starting to be built around him Andrew wiggin is playing better so it’s going good for us can you explain how difficult is for being the

Team for past 10 years going to the finals four five six years in a row can you explain how difficult cuz I know how difficult it is to just want to be on top want to be on top some people blame it on age but can you explain the

Difficulty of of how to keep that Championship focused it’s hard cuz you know every year you got to start back from scratch and you’re teaching helps side defense again you’re teaching all these things again and everybody’s coming after you so every game that we go out even though we’re not that good

Teams are more excited to play us now than they are to play the number one seed number two seed they’re still more excited to play us and then it’s the same band you’ve been on tour for 10 years now same band it it just gets hard to

Nagging it h it starts to happen and trying to keep all that together is tough you know I I was thinking about you when you were serving your suspension as a team was struggling I’ve never served a suspension all that long I don’t know if these guys have what do

You do what your daily day in a suspension when you can’t go to the gym with the team I couldn’t even imagine that during the season you know what I did I I Incorporated myself in my home like more than I ever have I think people don’t realize man when I’m

Married you know you’re married you’re on the road you don’t necessarily run that household you don’t know the daily operations of that household and so I Incorporated myself into my household like like all the way there I wasn’t answering text messages I wasn’t on the phone I wasn’t doing work for 10 days

Straight I didn’t go to the gym I was just there and for me it opened my eyes to a lot it opened my eyes to the way I need to look at life the way I need to look at all my responsibilities and so I

Think for me it was more that was more therapeutic than anything because it I learned a lot through that process I learned a lot appreciation for your wife absolutely 100% 100% so I think for me that was good like I didn’t I didn’t do anything with basketball and so I it

Didn’t it didn’t allow me to miss it for a while okay you know I’ve never been in a situation where somebody passed away during the season on my my team I can’t imagine what it’s like cuz you know when you’re on a team you’re part of a

Family what has it been like trying to get back to some silly as basketball when you lose a coach in the middle of a season you know what it’s um it’s tough because we live that every day you know you y’all guys know you see these people

More than you see anybody and I know where you stand in the meeting you know I know when you’re going to come in and have your part of practice I know who’s down there working out and you’re usually on that Rim working out with them and now there’s somebody else

Working out down there you know you feel that every single day and um I think also when when talking about our team that’s that’s also brought us tighter together cuz that was traumatic man a lot of guys Trace Jackson Davis BP them young guys they were sitting there you

Know Chris DeMarco he was sitting there and and so that brought us to together um and it it just gave you a perspective of like basketball is important yeah but this is life man and don’t get so caught up in the negative like appreciate the positive because the one thing we all

Miss now is decky smile every single day and the energy that he bought you know so it’s tough hey so you getting back to to the suspension and getting back to what counseling or whatever you are mean you tell me what kind of a what are these counseling sessions like who are

You sitting down with and what are you are you are you trying to change the way you approach the game or just the way you act on the floor um I I don’t change how I approach the game at all because how I approach the game has allowed me

To have the success that I’ve had exactly you know and sometimes you got to take the good with the bad and that’s not me asking anybody else to take my bad sometimes I have to be able to live with with the bad as well because understanding what’s prepar me

Now I think for me number one I didn’t just start counseling like that was kind of this whole thing like oh he just started C like i’ I’ve done therapy for years once I figured out how good it was for me and so there was the whole

Narrative of like oh he’s going through this this counseling and he’s this changed guy like no what I’ve done is I’ve had a chance to sit back I’ve had a chance to identify things that I want to change which is great um I had a chance to have great conversations with Adam

Silver Kathy baren jod D um everybody else in the league office Rich paw and understand what what is it that I want from this you know kind of changed my relationship with the game of basketball and I think for me that was great understanding and and and being at peace

With where I am in my career knowing that I’m still trying to accomplish something but also like don’t like I’m not getting into that like I can I can play the game the same way and not get into that

Draymond Green joined Inside the NBA for All-Star Saturday to talk his suspension, Klay Thompson and the Warriors season, and how the team has was affected after the death of coach Dejan Milojević.

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