Draymond Green REACTS to Warriors NBA playoffs loss to Wolves, Steph injury, Minnesota fan incident

Draymond Green REACTS to Warriors NBA playoffs loss to Wolves, Steph injury, Minnesota fan incident

Houston’s like beating the drum, whereas this is like on the piano. This is, you know, like on the guitar. This is this was like fine, high level, high skill movement. What’s up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show with my brother BD. What’s happening, bro? How you feeling? What’s up, my guy? Uh, damn. Damn, damn. Damn. Had a good run, man. It’s off season. Oh, welcome to the off season. My mom text me after the game. We get to hang out more, bro. My mom text me after the game. I still ain’t text her back and I know she think I’m mad. I actually thought it was hilarious. Well, I hope you went to you got your official stuff out of storage. It’s time for you to go fishing. And then she And then she sent me this. emotion. Come on. Come on, man. Let’s go fishing. Yeah. Hey, I got to give a shout out to the Minnesota Timberwolves. You ain’t got to give them no shout out. Just shout out to the city. Shout out enough. They won. Like, they don’t need no shout out. They doing it. We need a shout out. We down. First, I want to give a shout out to the Warriors. Great. They don’t need no shout out. They They still compete for a championship. You I want to shout them out. They still going. They don’t need no shout out yet. They be my dogs. They don’t need no shout out. Dogs in the fight. I had dogs in the fight. They proved me wrong, man. They proved me wrong. You know, it was a interesting series. You know, Minnesota is sneaky because they got size, they got speed, um they got offensive, they got a lot of dudes that can do a lot of different things and they can play different styles. I think seeing Minnesota playing against the Lakers, LeBron, Luca, Lakers are small, they bullied them up then came back with you guys and you know game one was different. Steph goes out, you guys are still small and so they have every advantage. They play big small ball which is interesting in you know in this type of NBA because now you know you looking at 68 69 68 67 uh and then maybe if Connley’s out there you know six feet and so I think in this series it was just a matter of speed. They were quicker they were quicker to the ball you know they just had more weapons. When you’re playing against a team like this, it’s hard to focus on one particular thing when they have so many different players that can beat you. And it wasn’t just Anthony Edwards. It’s never just been all Anthony Edwards. It’s been Julius Randle. It’s been McDaniels. It’s been Mike Conley, Nas Reed, Rudy, the Nas Reed, Rudy Goar, you know them interchanging in and out the game. that that that [ __ ] a lot of teams up. Mhm. You fought you had a couple games. If you would have made the games murky, if you would have made the games under 100, I think, you know, I tried to be under 100, under 100, fun, slow the pace down, then it would have worked in your favor. But at the end of the day, they just wore y’all down. Um, and then without having Steph Curry, it was tough because they have the physical pre presence and athletic talent to match up well against pretty much any team in the West. The way I’m looking at Minnesota, this is my first time really, really, really seeing it. Uh, when I look at this series, it reminds me a lot of the Toronto series. And what I mean by that is matchups are extremely important. You know, offensively and defensively, the matchups are extremely important to the outcome of that game. Like there’s some series that you can you can lose a guy, you can be without a guy, you can win still and like be fine based upon the matchup. with those teams when when we when we lost to Toronto, it’s like one injury changes all of the matchups. So, right, so like say for instance, Jaden McDaniels will be glued to Steph Curry the entire series. No question, right? Like that will be their guy who they go to for Jaden McD uh for Steph. If Jaden McDaniels is struggling or in foul trouble, the next guy they’d actually probably go to would be Ant, who I think they’d put on Steph, right? Like if he gets in foul trouble, trace Steph around. All right. So then what that does to the rest rest of the matchups is vitally important to how these games play out. Now with no Steph and Jayen McDaniels don’t have to chase Steph around. Now Jaden McDaniels is on me or Jimmy or there’s times where Ant was on me, right? They’re moving pieces around that you can’t necessarily move around. So for instance, when we played Toronto and why why this series reminded me so much of that Toronto had all of those same things. They had point guard play. They had great wing play. They had good wing play off the bench with Norman Pal coming off the bench. Oiana Noi coming off the bench, right? They had a really good power for playing at an elite level in Pascal Siako. Minnesota has a really good power for playing at an elite level in Julius Randall, right? But some games it was Mark Gassaw that hurt us, right? Rudy Gobear obviously not the same style game. I’m just saying as far as pick just a position. Just Yes, just position. But some games Sergy Baka heard us. Nas Reed. You see what I’m saying? So that’s why that’s why the series reminded me so much of that from a matchup perspective. It ends up then changing all of the matchups. It changes the lineup. So where you whereas you may go a certain lineup to cover this, you don’t necessarily go that lineup because you’re missing such a big piece. And so like when when I get into these series, I’ve been through so many of them that you can always immediately like, oh, this is that. And what I mean by that is like you can you can you can draw from your file cabinet. Exactly. This Houston series is um Memphis 2015 all over again, right? Like so you go back to like all of these series like this and and the Toronto series is what this Minnesota series was to me. And saying that um man really really good ball club when I take a step back and obviously remove myself from just playing in the series and and it just look at the series from a basketball fan perspective or a basketball analysis perspective. What I love most is it wasn’t all Ant. Like it wasn’t like Ant just had to dominate the ball or dominate the game. Like he made his he had his imprint on every game, but it wasn’t just like Ant big scoring nice and go for 45 and they win. Like it was kind of all over the place. Julius played great. Julius is incredible. Another reason why I said this series is like Toronto to me is because for this reason I’ve been through I think that was my 34th playoff series, but I could be off by one or two give or take each way. Could be 36. I don’t know. Something of that nature. Call it for the sake of doing numbers. Call it my 33rd playoff series. The only other playoff series where I felt like I lost my matchup like that. I didn’t completely dominate my matchup, take over my matchup. The only other series really in my career where I feel like I lost my matchup was Toronto. I felt like I lost my matchup to Pascal Seako. Game one, he crushed me. Game two, I stifled him. like maybe game four game game three he was on game four I had a better game but I felt like I lost my matchup in that series and this series also reminds me of that series because it’s also a series where I don’t feel like I lost my matchup I lost my matchup like Julius was incredible and he played great basketball and honestly like some of the shots he was taking was shots that you want him to take and he made them. You know what I’m saying? And like he made the shots. Like at the end of the day, the game often times come down to shot making and he made the shots. And so got to give Drew a lot of credit, man. I’ve been playing against Julius. I remember going back to the first preseason game of playing against him in San Diego, California. We was playing in this game and like the court like we end I I think we end up stopping the game like right after halftime or something because the court was slippery. If I’m not mistaken, it’s the same game that if you remember the clip, Kobe’s picking up Steph full court, picking up Steph full court and Steph hits a three and tap him and and either Steph tapped him or he taped Steph or something like that. Uh but if I’m not mistaken, it was that same game. That was my first time ever playing against Drew. And at that time, Drew had this move where he come down, he got the ball in his right hand, he throw the ball to his right, his left hand, and he stutter step. And I had never really faced a guy like that yet in the league. He was young coming in. So I struggled guarding that move. So when we played them the next preseason game, I watched a ton of clips that move and I’m like, “Oh, I know what I need to do to that move now.” And we played the next preseason game and I shut the move down. We’ve been kind of having these little battles since Drew came into the league. And obviously this is the first one on a playoff level, but I got to give it to him, man. He got the better of me. He got to he got he got the better of me. And with with with all respect, you know, I’m never a guy who’s going to hide from the truth. He was a tough cover. One of the tougher covers I’ve had in the playoff series. And it was very interesting because it did not feel like that series was as physical as the Houston series. No, it was more physical. It just wasn’t all the [ __ ] shenanigans. Like they got a greater level of respect for y’all. Fact, even when Steph went on, right, that like I I will say this, you have to watch Minnesota play in order to appreciate. You said something about Ant gets his money. Yeah. And he gets his money with everybody else getting their money, too. And I didn’t know that they can beat you in so many different ways. And not only like the three is not they live or die because Ant go to the home and Daniel go to the home. Naz Reed go to the home you know uh Kylie still can penetrate you know pull up run pick and roll. So they got a couple different styles. And then adding Julius Randall who’s my boy that’s my young dog. Great offense beat great defense all the time. Well, I disagree, but it did that time. All the time. Great. Like it did. If you you played a great That is a cliche saying that I disagree with it. Definitely did this time. Man, I I as a defender, there’s been times where I’ve played probably the I played the best defensive possession on Alec Iverson and he made the shot. No, that’s great. But then but but then there’s times where you played the best defensive possession and shut guys down. So I just disagree with the statement. It’s a very cliche statement that I understand what people saying but I disagree with but this time no question. No no question. Well, yeah. And you know, a lot of those shots is is his talent and Minnesota when they when I see Ed and I see Julius play like that and I see what MCO can do with a little bit of freedom, what he did in the Lakers series coming off of that. And you got Dvenenzo who’s a dog, right? You got Nas Reed who’s a a matchup problem, right? because he he moves like a guard and so it’s just a lot of and then Rudy Goar if you get two three good games out of Rudy Gobear where he got a double double man then it’s like god damn it it they hard to stop but I thought y’all play hard I thought y’all gave it y’all I I do think that I don’t know if y’all was expecting another version of the Houston series but like they they weren’t into none of the [ __ ] They just was hooping. It was just hard basketball. Yes. Super hard. They played y’all tough. It wasn’t no bullying. We ain’t gonna be staring them down. We going is is is hit or be hit, right? And I think as a whole you guys weren’t prepared for that cuz they just hit a little bit harder than Houston and they got on with their business, right? Where Houston man hit you could have been tricky. Merk up the game and now it’s a thing. They was just Oh, my bad. I’m going tell you this though, B they’re more like they were physical for sure, but I’ll tell you in playing in the game, that game wasn’t as physical as as Houston. It wasn’t as physical because that’s what Houston have to do in order to stay in the game like right. And so when I tell you it wasn’t as physical, I’m telling you for I’ve been in a million of these things as you know, it was not as physical. It was a level of physicality obviously a high level of playoff physicality for sure, but the skill level was so much higher than Houston that the game was never even allowed to get to that level of physicality because it’s moving. So you it’s like it’s more this than playing a drum, you know, like if you want to equate it to a a a musical instrument, Houston’s like beating a drum, whereas this is like on the piano. This is, you know, like on the guitar. This is this was like fine, high level, high skill movement with obviously playoff physicality for sure. you’re in playoff series, but it it couldn’t even reach that level of physicality because it’s too much motion. You know what I’m saying? It’s too much. Exactly. And and so that’s kind of my my take away from it. It’s not like Yeah, they were physical for sure. like it’s a level of playoff physicality that is going to be met anyway, but it was so much higher level skill that I don’t even think the game could reach that level because you can’t even chuck somebody or grab somebody like because the game is moving at such a different tune. You know what I’m saying? So, that was kind of my my takeaway. I think something I noticed defensively with them too is like and obviously with Steph on the floor, defensive game plans can change, but I felt like they did a good job of moving Rudy Goar around and taking advantage of his strengths. So oftent times you get in these playoff series and and this could be Finch, you know, they had a year with Rudy last year, right? So, you get an opportunity to go through it, then you see it, you get an opportunity to study it over the course of the summer, see what you can do, and and and obviously last year when they were in the Western Conference Finals, I did the games with uh with TNT. And so, I I saw all the games, I saw how Dallas was able to exploit Rudy Gobear. And in playing them this year, I felt like they did a really good job of putting Rudy Goar in positions to take advantage of his strengths because it does come fall upon coaching where for instance if Steph Curry is a knockdown three-point shooter but can’t get to the hole, right? Like he does. I’m just saying hypothetically. If he’s the three-point shooter that he is, but he cannot get to the hole. So, if they take the three away, he’s done. Well, guess what that coach job is to do. You better find a way to get him some threes up because that’s your job. That’s what he specializes in, right? Some, for some reason, defensively, it’s never viewed that way. And so, Rudy Gobear clearly has a toolkit of strengths in his defensive repertoire. And it is the opposing coach’s job to put him in positions to be unsuccessful, to put him in positions to make him uncomfortable. Right? That is the opposing coach’s job. Well, guess what his coach job is? Continue to find ways to put him in positions to use his strengths to be successful. And I thought they did an incredible job this series of putting him in the positions to be successful, shifting their defenses around, like shifting schemes mid play to kind of drop him to the paint. Like I thought they did a really good job of that this series. And there were some plays where we drove to the hole and Rudy Goar didn’t even step over to help which you which I knew in their series and that’s their game plan. Their game plan was to press out and take the three out of the game. Obviously, as a big man, your your tendency for a big like that is you see the ball go to the rim, you fun in. And that’s how you could take advantage of Rudy at times because he funnel in, you hit the three toast. Did an incredible job, man, of not funneling in, sticking to the game plan. They put him in positions to play to his strengths. So, I I thought that was really good. I think as they move forward in this next series, whether that’s Denver or OKC, that will be vital again because the reality is can they go Nas Reed and Julius Randle? Yes. Could that possibly win them a series? Yes. But when you got all three of them working and you can go to what Rudy brings because he brings a totally different thing to from those two guys. So when you can have that strength of yours working as well, it makes them a much dangerous team. I think they had all three of them working against us, which made them a much more dangerous team than they would be if they just got two of them working. So, I thought that was um something that I noticed in playing, but also watching the films, it’s like, man, they did a much better job of putting Rudy in positions defensively to where he can take advantage of his strengths and not just be exposed and where he may have some weaknesses as everyone does. They had time to watch our series against Houston. And like I was saying, I I think what they caught on to was when you guys penetrate, you don’t penetrate to score. And so that’s why they stayed home. They were like, “Yo, we cannot we don’t want the Warriors to shoot a high volume of threes whether stuff is on the floor or not. We want them to drive.” And and a lot of times I seen I call it purgatory. you get stuck in purgatory where it’s like, “Oh, I got the ball. Damn, I don’t had a three. Nobody is else open. I’m in the middle of the court, right, with a stamp or a move to the basket, but I’m looking out. I’m looking for, you know, my spots.” And when Rudy didn’t challenge at the basket and they were able to stay home, especially when how they how he was rotating him in and out, rotating them in with Looney, rotating them out, putting Nas Reed kind of, you know, confusing, I would say, the offense and the defense. But I think they did a good job of taking away the three and making you guys make twos. You guys did a good job. I want to say it was game three. I thought that game was had cuz you murky the game. You went to the hole, you got steals, you you know, you weren’t looking for the three. You was taking the three when it was opportune time. But like I think this era of basketball like there it it’s like crazy, bro. Like you can get to the front of the rim and like nobody’s there. And then if Rudy goar is there, like no disrespect to him or big dudes like I don’t know in our era we kind of like getting to the challenging the big dude. I don’t see that as much in in this era but I thought game three was probably our best game. Yeah had to win game two. I just I don’t know what the [ __ ] was happening around game two, but game two I felt like I felt like we went into game two and we didn’t think we could win. Like that that was the feeling that was the feeling that I had on the court was like game two we didn’t feel like we can win. Game three we could have won, we should have won. And I played [ __ ] awful. I was terrible. Your last five minutes was Oh gosh. I say that at the house yellow. I I never found the rhythm of the game. I played terrible. So that’s why we lost game three. And I thought that’s a game that we could have won, but I played terrible in a situation like that, right? You’re never going to get the benefit of the doubt for sure. So the little fouls and [ __ ] like that that was that that kind of really hurt because you know on the dunk you didn’t even foul them but they gonna f you know I didn’t foul you know it was interesting though I got fined for that and then you don’t get the challenge so you lose a timeout. Mhm. So then we Yeah. And then they called the offensive foul on you uh with the Kaminga thing which I thought I think the replay [ __ ] is stupid as hell. They can call a foul before like man you supposed to be judging. Was it a foul on Kaminga? Exactly. Not who grabs somebody. That’s the whole man that’s the whole point of sports. Exactly. You got to be able to get away with little [ __ ] Yeah. That’s stupid. Bro, I used to shoot jumpers and Earl Watson used to always do this after I see he would always do like just and you know Shane Badier would do this to come put his hand right there like man we we going to go to the replay right and we going we gonna penalize the person who tripped Shane Badier so he got right here and you know what I mean they looking I thought I thought that hurt but man I think gang two, y’all didn’t think that y’all could win or think that y’all could compete. Game three, it was like, “Oh [ __ ] it’s still 1-1. We can actually compete.” And then I think it was just more I don’t know if it was fatigue or just not having that to get over the hump. And then from there, it was just like, “All right, uphill battle from that point. We’re going to fight.” But this series, yeah, we going to fight. But yeah, but these dudes can fight, too. Yeah. Yeah. Like ain’t it ain’t just like we going to fight and we gonna win cuz they don’t fight. Like no, they they still good and they fight. So that’s kind of what it boiled down to. Y’all going to wear down cuz now it’s like you fighting and you like damn man. Where our knockout puncher at? It’s like damn he’s still over there sitting. And it’s like if we could have stole another one and and and people was asking me about Steph the injury like somebody was like man wouldn’t you just play if you like of course he would play if he could play but if you can’t play in the playoffs you can’t play it ain’t nothing you can do and coming back you got to be all the way right because you’re literally a half a quarter like I remember I pulled my hamstring in the Dallas series and if it wasn’t for just the momentum like my hamstring was torn. I was just like [ __ ] it. We going we going to ride it till the wheels fall off. Right. But you know a step situation is different. He can’t play. He can’t move. So it’s no reason to get out there and now you’re looking at your big puncher, your knockout puncher like damn dude. All right we going to keep boxing and squabbbing with these dudes. But like, damn, our head. Oh, if we had our if we had our knockout guy over here, it’d be a different story. And so when you play like that, you really just, like you said, uphill battle playing a salon. But yeah, man. We’ve seen Steph play through a million injuries. Uh, hamstrings, quads, calves, muscles. If he could have gave us 60%, I say no. If he could have gave us 70%. I still say no. That’s not the answer. So, moving on. It was great to, you know, uh, bounce back this year throughout the course of the year and not see a whole year just go to by the wayside. actually, you know, make, you know, give ourselves a chance. But y’all had a chance to win it, too. Y y’all had a strong chance. Y had a strong belief. And man, the way y’all bounce back and and put your name in the hat. You put your name back on the board outside of like, damn, we about to be mediocre and get and be, you know, mid. You’re not mad no more. You back to being a league. Yeah. And I think we got a chance now where you like, “All right.” So, one of the toughest things, as you know, to do in this league is like it’s hard to fill the top of a roster, meaning you got staff to then plug a Jimmy Butler in. Like, that’s a very hard thing to do in the NBA with how people work, with how franchises work. It’s a very tough thing to do. I think we’ve done the tough part now. like we added a Jimmy Butler. So now you can now look at your roster and say, “Okay, we want to improve here. We want to add this thing because we now know, okay, this is the style of that game that Jimmy plays. We need to add X.” Right? Like now you’re accounting for different things and you’re able to really build this team the way it should be built. And so that’s that that to me headed into the off seasonason is the exciting part, you know, um of where it’s like, yo, we we got a chance to finetune this thing and put it together and give it another go or two or three, you know, so I think we all can still compete at that level. We’ve shown that. We know that regardless of what people may feel was shown, we know we can still compete at that level, which is huge. moving forward to the um on to the to the offseason. I think we move forward in a much better position this year than we were in last year. So, I’m excited about that. Obviously, you know, this this league is is very unforgiving. You know, got to survive the offseason, but we’ll see what happens. Yeah, man. You know, off seasonason gonna be tough, but I think for getting Jimmy mid season, well, you told me mid-season was not the All-Star game, didn’t you say? Yes. Okay. So like getting him towards the tail end this season uh and working that chemistry but also I think it was a learning and discovery thing for Steve Kerr as well because you had Jonathan Kaminga, you had y had a y had a I like to say like you had a competitive team and young talent was emerging. Now you look at you know Kamingas playing in the playoffs in Houston uh also in the Minnesota series. you know, the young guys being able to with Steph coming uh with Steph not being able to close out that last series, with the young guys being able to assume all them all all those minutes, it’s going to breed a lot of maturity for them, right? Talking about the Warriors future, looking at next season, like what do you think is going to be the focus? Most importantly, you know, going into the summer that you got to improve. can’t come back looking the exact same. You going into the summer, you got to improve. So, that’s number one. And I think everyone will have that mindset. I think as far as the young guys go, when you get those opportunities, that can be a gift and a curse, right? Like you can get those opportunities sometimes before you may be ready for it, you know? But I think we all believe a as NBA players that we’re always ready for it, right? the delusion in our minds as athletes, which is which is what allows us to make it to this point because you have to have some sort of delusion in your mind and believing that you’re one of the 300 or 400 best players in the world to play in this league. You have to have a little delusion in your mind to believe that. So, we all have that thing. You know, in this league, young guys will come in, including all of us that came in, and think you’re ready for something before you are. That can be a gift and a curse in this league because you could have the potential to do something and not quite be ready in that moment, but you will then be judged off the moment as opposed to the potential. as opposed to if people never see you do it, then they’ll just continue to say it’s potential, but the potential could still be there even if you struggle in that moment. So, for instance, I think Brandon Pipsky struggled a bit in this series right now. I feel like his best game was probably the last game of the series because he struggled right now today and at in year two a little bit in the series against some guys who’s been through it now and because he’s struggled a bit in this moment or after year two and having that moment does he now say, “Oh, okay. They did X, Y, and Z to me in this series that made me struggle. Now I know that. Now I can go get better and improve upon that thing.” That’s the summer for. Yeah. And then what an organization has to decide is, do I believe that that guy is going to do that work? Right. I’ve been playing with him for two years now. I know he’s one of the guys that will do that work. I actually got a text from him earlier today asking me, “What do you think I need to improve upon this summer, right?” Like that is the type of kid that he is and young man. I’m not going to call him a kid. He’s a young man. But that’s the type of young man he is. He works. He And so his thing like what what do I need to do? What do you see that I need to be better at that I could do to improve upon myself next year? Right? And so when I look at our young guys, they all show promise. They all grew from where they were last year. And so will every single one of them be back on this team next year, just offshore numbers in the way this business work? Probably not. That’s with every team in the NBA. That’s just what it is. But I do think all of our young guys from BP, Moses, JK, Trace, Ge Santos, um, Quinn Post, the list goes on and on. I think all of them showed that they improved. They show promise and and in order to do that, they’ve shown work ethic. Where does it all shake out going into next year? Who knows, man? This business, you can just you can never be so sure, right? Like you’re going to have to evaluate Jonathan Kaminga, right? Like we all know his talent. We all know what we believe. We all believe he could be. But now you have to make a huge financial commitment. Like it won’t be JK at whatever his number is now. Like it’s a huge financial. So that has to look different for everybody, right? That has to look different for JK first and foremost. He’s the athlete, right? Like he’s the one that got to do the work. he the one that got to sign the contract. So, it has to look different for him first and foremost, right? From an organizational standpoint. All of that stuff has to come together. And I love JK’s answer in this press conference. He said, “Listen, we all got to sit down. We got to figure it out. It’s going to take a while to figure it out. Free agency does take a while. It’s going to take a while to figure this out.” He said, “But I appreciate Coach Kirk because he’s helped me get here where I am at.” And man, that was such a responsible, great, wellthought answer because it’s true. Personal answer because it’s it’s true. Like, has it always gone the way you want it to go? No. But that’s probably with 99% of basketball players in the NBA. If you talk to a guy, most guys are going to tell you, “Uh, I could do more of this. They don’t let me.” Like, that’s just the nature of what we do, right? So we all have our trials and tribulation, our peaks and our valleys, right? His his his valley was more on front street for everybody. Yes. But we all have our peaks and our valleys. And the reality is what he said is correct. I love the way he handled it. One thing’s for certain. I said this in my ex interview. Whether it’s here or somewhere else, he going to get paid and he going to have a very bright future. So, I don’t think he has anything to worry about. He everybody know what he’s capable of. He will get paid here or he will get paid somewhere else. That’s it. And that’s all. And so, I think the future for him is as bright as it’s ever been. Earlier this season, you talked about guaranteeing the championship. You know, you guys, I believe, uh, and I’m not making excuses. I think, you know, with Steph, you had a good chance. So, you know, you put yourself in an elite category earlier this season as well. Steph mentioned about the last ride, right? And then he recently mentioned that he wants the ride to last as long as possible, right? So, now with Jimmy, right now headed into the off season, are you back in this championship pedigree or championship guaranteed pedigree? cuz it it it wasn’t cat right now. That was speaking from what you guys felt and earlier in the season. It was more so we just want to have an opportunity and then now it’s different, right? Uh yeah, I think it’s definitely different. I think um you know our mindset going into next year will be that going into every year. I think every team say, “Yo, we want to compete for a championship.” And you know when that [ __ ] real and when it’s not. For real. And the reality is for most people is very fake and not real. For real, dude. [Music] I personally believe wholeheartedly and we all do that we will be right there next year giving oursel a shot at it. Just like we was giving oursel a shot at, we gave our shot ourself a shot at it this year. And I think we will retool and make the roster make even more sense and come back. And also, I think another thing that I’m looking forward to is we get to play a whole year. So, we come out, we can take care of business and we ain’t got to play catchup all year, you know, like for the we’ve been in the playoffs since February. like every game mattering. Yeah. Intensity level. Like we’ve been in the playoffs since February just to get to the moment. And so I think for us now being able to go through a full season and obviously you need to stay healthy and all of those things like we can put oursel in better position to be successful. And I think you know that’s that that’ll be big for us. Um but the goals will be the goals which is going coming out competing trying to win a championship. Uh that will be our goal 1,000%. I do believe we are capable of that. I I stand on that 100%. So you know Jimmy, Steph, myself, we’ll all be in the weeds, you know, trying to make it all make sense, you know, for what we believe we need, what it needs to look like. We’ll be in the weeds. Go. Yeah. Right back at brother, man. And if y’all want to include me, I’m up uh, you know, for assistant to the assistant GM. And if I would to put my GM hat on, just see what y’all need. I would say you just need dynamic athleticism and you need somebody with some game. like somebody like you need somebody that’s you know you need that that wildcard score that threat that whether he’s 68 and get to the hole just somebody who’s just a scoring machine to the basket catch three just somebody who just hey man if this dude get hot we definitely win it right and then I would say dynamic athleticism right 610 versatility 7 foot shot blocker that can run to the rim and dump. Just a few little pieces like that. Cuz when you think about now the way the league is transitioning is getting back to the bigs is getting back to the dominant power force. It’s getting back to second chance shots are the shots that are going to beat you. So long threes, you know, a lot of threes, long rebounds, but second chance points, rebounds, that’s that’s always going to be the the deciding factor. has this thing for the Warriors. A little small, little slow, right? Uh but elite talent and if you can mix some of that with, you know, some hyperactivity and some strong athleticism uh and people that can get to the rim, y’all be unstoppable. You talked about getting in the weeds, right? You Steph and Jimmy getting in the weeds. You don’t do that usually or ever outside of the KD. You got the weeds, got KD. So when you say, “I’m getting in the weeds.” Uh yeah. You just got to be involved. Somebody got to be involved. You got to have You just got to have a conversation, man. You got to, you know, cuz at the end of the day, when you’re trying to compete for a championship, the front office may think they need to bring in a guy that, you know, like, yo, I play against this guy. Like, he ain’t it. You know what I’m saying? And so that’s when I say like you got to get in the weeds, like there’s just some because again, like I said, I think, you know, we filled out the roster at the top. And so with that being one of the toughest things like now you need guys you know like yo man when we play against this guy I love when when they bring that when that team bring that guy on the quarter now we going to go sign him like nah you you don’t want that guy you know and so when I say get in the weeds like that’s what I mean like you got to give some input at times because what can be seen from the stands or what can be seen from some numbers And it ain’t always what it seems when you’re trying to compete for a championship. And sometimes the dude that ain’t, you know, that plays great against you. And you know, maybe the the dude y’all looking for is sitting on somebody bench that’s super talented and playing behind one of these one or two scorers. The league is full of scores and the league is full of versatile scores. And I think the ability to bring someone into the game that can get their own money and get money for other people just by default, right, is going to be a game changer for you guys because you already have highly talented, skilled guys that can catch and shoot, penetrate and shoot. You know, y’all learning how to make plays for each other, but you meet that one dude that’s like, man, if he pump fake and get to the middle of the paint, he gonna try and dunk or finish or do something different, right? You need you need kind of like a counter. So, the attack is not the same diet every time. And that’s why that’s where I’m thinking like someone 68 69 that can really get out here and put some points on the board. And that’s all who’s a comp or somebody because to me it sound like you’re explaining like a superstar. So who who is a comp or someone you’re speaking of? Um, like if I were to comp like on the guard side, I say like someone like a Lou Will, like a Lou Williams, like somebody who can just is just dynamic at getting their own money, give him the ball, get out the way. If he cooks, we win every Todd cuz he know how to hoop. And then I say on the on the other side like who who is the next Pascal Seakum or who is the next kind of uh uh Pascal Seaka make $45 million. No, no, no. I’m saying that that there’s a young dude that plays like that on one of these teams, right? Uh some of these young dudes on Portland, right? Charlotte got a couple well you know young dudes that I’d say on the guard side like Trey man if y’all got him from Charlotte that’s somebody like that from the guard perspective on the big guy side even a Sims uh Sims or Mitchell Robinson somebody that’s just got some the dude the Lakers uh didn’t want the Charlotte kid like Mark yeah somebody big just you need a big athletic person that can come in and play a lot of the a lot of junk minutes, right? And a lot of glue minutes because they’ll be able to get a dunk. You know, they have a big game, 18 rebounds, 14 rebounds, then it kind of take a lot of pressure off of the impact that you’re going to have on your body next year. So, I would bring in a bunch of young athletic dudes on top of the young dudes I got, but just kind of like dynamic talent that can just be the force y’all need to get through the season so you’re not banged up by the playoffs. No doubt. And then in the playoffs now you now you got the hype. You used to have the hype when y’all was winning the championships. Y had the height, the size, and then when y’all go small it was a wrap. Now you got to kind of get your hype athleticism back uh in that front court. Hey, so we all make mistakes, but owning up is the right thing to do. You know, Degree Cool Rush deodorant. Well, last year they changed the formula and it did not go well with their fans. Degree’s whole thing is it turns up the sweat and odor protection when you turn up the effort. And good thing it does because Cool Rush fans really turned up the effort to bring back the original formula. One guy even started an online petition and Degree. Listen, they admitted they effed up and are bringing the original Cool Rush scent back and it’s exactly how you remember it. Cool, crisp, and fresh. It’s back in Walmart, Target, and other stores now for under $4. There’s a reason why it’s been the number one men’s Annie purse print for the last decade. It’s the same reason why people were not happy when it changed. So, if you never tried it, it might be a good time to see what the fuss is about. Head to your local Walmart or Target to try the OG Degree Cool Rush for yourself. You know, it’s been some Draymond news, bro. I’ve been they’ve been firing at us, man. You know, Kendrick Perkins is taking shots. Uh, you got the media taking shots. And we never discussed the angry black man moment. I don’t mean to laugh at you though. Well, you know, I don’t mean to laugh at you. You know, listen, one thing’s for certain. You are funny though. One thing’s for certain is I know the name Draymond affects TV ratings. That I am certain of. Yes. Another thing’s for certain is I’ve been doing it at an elite level for a very long time. And guys like that perk UD they’ve been waiting to shoot for a very long time. So in saying that I don’t really get bothered by them shooting like it don’t that was that they don’t it don’t it don’t really move me as far as them shooting. Now, I briefly just saw two seconds of what Perk was saying cuz I started watching it and then y’all said I already said something about it. And so, in saying that, I’m not actually sure what they said because I didn’t hear it. But if they said what I think they said, they were right. How they said it, you know, these guys sometimes they go about a way of saying things where they make it personal. And I don’t know that they did that. I would hope that they didn’t do that because I could go in on that. But if they simply said that I didn’t play well. Yeah. You did UD said, “Man, you got your ass kicked.” Oh, for sure. You know, Perk just kind of do it his his little ESPN way, but he kind he to Dennis Robin and said Julius Randall wouldn’t have scored four. That’s the only thing I didn’t like. Julius Randle went to score 40 on on on Dennis Robin. It’s like, man, you don’t know if Julius Randle is feeling like he was feeling in that series, ain’t nobody going to stop him. You know what I mean? Ain’t nobody like he ain’t thinking about nobody stopping him, bro. For sure. I’m also certain I can go find a playoff series where Dennis Rodman got dropped off. when you win at the levels of me and Dennis Rodman, like when when you win at the level that me and Dennis Rodman play and and have won at and you play the amount of series that we’ve played in meaningful series, somebody coming along some you going to get you going to lose like so yeah, I don’t take that personal at all. Like I I definitely lost that battle. But as far as the uh the fan goes, listen, I don’t give too much thought. I I deal with fans a lot. That’s just the nature of being who I am. I don’t get off into it. There were some racist things said in Minnesota. I also don’t like giving these nobodies like moments to feel like they somebody. You know what I’m saying? So, there were some racist things said, it ain’t the first time you get in these these environments and racist things are said. Um, and because I’mma tell you what it is. Fans are privileged. They are privileged. And what I say when I say they are privileged, they can pretty much say whatever they want. No boundaries. And if we say something back, we get in trouble. We lose money. We get fined with all all like all the punishment comes to us. And so I don’t really get off into it like the fans going to say what they’re going to say. Yes, they were racist. Am I surprised in that place? No. I was very appreciative. Uh Tim Connelly reached out to me the I woke up to a text from Tim Connelly. Um the next morning the who’s the president of the Timberwolves. Reached out immediately. Draymond, I’m sorry this happened to you. I saw uh Finch’s comments. I was appreciative of that. The way their organization handled it. Bless. Thank you. Um I appreciated that. I saw A-Rod on the sideline. He said something about it. Listen, the way their organization responded, I’m very appreciative of. I’m not one to give uh a nobody a moment to be somebody. You didn’t you didn’t your life’s work didn’t leave you lead you to having that moment to be somebody. So, it won’t be given to you by me. Uh the reason I made the angry black man statement was actually stemming from that. Whereas when we started that series in game one and even since post Rudy Gobear uh incident that happened which by the way I was happy to play against Rudy Gobar in a series because respect is gained and earn or lost in a playoff series and um we’ve had our instances and I was happy to stand face to face with the man and gain respect um where respect was where there was an opportunity for respect to be earned because I I am a firm believer in respect is earned during playoff series and he earned it and so I was happy to have that moment. But in saying that post Rudy Goar uh incident the reception I’ve gotten in Minnesota has not been that bad and as not near as bad as I actually thought it would be. So game one happens and nothing right like the reception and they boot a little bit. Not really like it. Nah, like it wasn’t hardly anything. And then we go into game two and I get the [ __ ] tech and number one, my shoulder hit Nas Reed face, but if I’m bent down trying to make a pass and you’re hovered above me and I lift up, my shoulder’s going to hit you in the face. Um that is just impossible not to unless he is like translucent and my shoulder just like skims through his face without the physical presence. It is not. So I get the [ __ ] tech and the reason I was upset is because I’ve gotten the same [ __ ] tech from Tony Brothers before and Tony Brothers is the worst bro. And and to me, the reason I was so upset and why I said the angry black man is because from me getting that tech, which by the way, Rudy Gobear elbow Brandon Pazimski in his eye, he finished the season with a black eye and they wouldn’t review it. But then I get reviewed on this little thing and and it’s a tech and so and then the and then the reception in Minnesota it goes through the roof and that’s when then the racist stuff happened. And so my thing is you’re gaslighting them. It’s to make Draymond look like the angry black man and gaslight them. That’s why I was so upset is because it’s like oh here’s the gaslighting, right? like they ain’t on me like they could be or you may want them to be, which brings excitement to series when we involve Draymond in these things. And so that’s where the angry black man statement came from. And that’s why I went on the tangent I went on. I was pissed off because it’s like, yo, I haven’t been dealing with this here, but you’re going to gaslight this situation to make me look like the angry out of control black man. And quite frankly, they just took that clip. Is that what they did? The angry black man. I’m sorry. It it just really it don’t it don’t work. And you and then you get like people on TV that want to break it down with no context, right? So for all the idiots that tried to break it down and had no context, you stupid again. That’s where it all stemmed from though. It’s like, yo, you’re gaslighting them because nothing’s going on with me, so let’s gaslight them and make this a bigger deal than what it is. That’s why I was pissed off about it. That’s where the statement came from. And I still stand by that. Like, don’t try to make me out to be the angry black man. I’m not. And by the way, don’t gaslight them to then the things that I have to deal with. The things that I have to deal with like from the gaslighting, it becomes way bigger than basketball by the way, right? Because if I deal with those, like I deal with those racing comments and I jump over that rail, then everybody got then everything is you know what I’m saying? And and so just don’t gaslight. That was my whole point. That’s where I stand. I still stand on those same 10. Don’t nothing change for me. That’s what it is. You’re not an angry black man. I I know that. You’re actually a really nice guy, D. You’re thoughtful. You were raised right. You know what I mean? You humble. Like, I don’t think people really like know the true you. But on the court, you are you are kind of a [ __ ] crazy, which I have to explain. I have to explain to people. You come into the league to adapt a persona and part of that persona is how you gain an advantage on how you play. Mhm. Right. And a lot of times some some guys fall into certain personas that they can’t get out of being soft, being lazy. Oh, he don’t care. Oh, he’s quiet. Like, how many how many quiet dudes be like, “Oh, man. He’s soft. He don’t care.” And then they snap out. him like, “Oh, I didn’t know he was crazy.” Like, I know he was tough. So, you have to have like Dennis Robin had a persona and that persona worked for him. Mhm. But you’re not an angry black man. No, I’m not. And and and here’s the thing, D. It’s funny because people will say he is an angry black man and then they show everything on the basketball court. And to be quite honest with you, I don’t really give a damn whether they call it passion or not. I can care less what they call it, right? Uh, but I’ll be honest with you, I find it hilarious when I see somebody go on a tangent like he is an angry black man cuz look, and then they show [ __ ] on the basketball court and I’m like, hm, okay, you just showed me [ __ ] someone up on a basketball court. Great. Guess what? That’s what I like to do. Great. I have never in my life told y’all that I will not [ __ ] someone up on a basketball. I absolutely will. That’s the first thing I’mma tell somebody. I will absolutely do that. We are competing for something. You’re trying to take something from me that I’m trying to get. I want that thing at all cost. Yes. I will go to lengths and being the winner that I am that you probably won’t go which is why you don’t win like I win in life and whatever it is that you do. That is who I am. So yes, 1,000%. But I find it very stupid when I see some media personalities go on a tangent and then they try to back up. He’s an angry black man by stuff that goes on on a basketball court in a job that’s also entertainment. When I see people do that, I’m like, “Oh, yeah. You’re an idiot.” Because you took something that you saw on TV, that you saw in a game, and you thought, “Oh, I can tell you who this guy is. You’re just as dumb as anyone else.” And so, yes, for the dummy that tries to say he is an angry black man. Look, he did this on a basketball and then and then show the highlight tape like on a basketball court. I’m sorry. That don’t back up your claim. It just don’t. You try to take that and make it out to be who Draymond Green is. That is who that basketball player is. You can’t make that be me sitting right here. It don’t work. It just don’t work. You can try. You can continue, but it just doesn’t work. It only proves that you are fooled by WWE. It only proves that you believe every rap lyric you hear. It only proves that you believe everything you see on the on the 10:00 news. You’re you’re naive. You’re too smart for your own good. That’s your falls down to you. That’s your [ __ ] problem. The only problem is naive. Raress is the nicest person ever. That is my guy. That is my buddy. Right. Hey, dude. Person, bro. It’s like night and day. It’s almost catch you off guard like night and day. Night and day. Ben Wallace. Night and day. Ben Wallace will man he will [ __ ] body slam you on the court. nicest guy and like you know it’s like it it when you on that court it’s war it’s battle it’s like people don’t understand that like the game is physical you getting hit you getting hit by mistake it’s a lot of organic clumsiness and you jock in for for three or four inches of space right so you can have an advantage to make a shot get a rebound get a loose ball set a And so all that clumsiness, you need to be frustrated to play basketball. You need to have like a sense of frustration, a sense of anger, little sense of hate, right? A little sense of like uh you feel like they did something to you. All that got to be bottled up in order for you to go out there and play at an elite level. You got to have an agenda, right? That agenda has to be so real. And sometimes you gotta make [ __ ] up. Absolutely. You gotta you gotta make up a reason why you hate a dude. 100%. You gotta Right. And so we was playing against Houston and they got one of their security guys. Now don’t get me wrong, in a moment I was pissed off because when the thing happened with Fred Van Vleet, Houston, one of their security guys, he grabbed my arms. So when that whole thing was going on, who I was who I was yelling at when I was yelling in that was him. Was that Yeah. Like bro, I was telling, bro, I grab my arms, bro. Like I like grab your guys. Don’t grab my arms. Cuz by the way, my thing on that is you grab my arms and one of y’all guys start swinging on me. You ain’t going to then let me go to swing back. Like, so I’m just at a disadvantage, bro. That is That is elementary. Like, don’t grab me. Don’t if you grab me and you on Nate’s side. Oh, that you jumping me. I’m going to automatically soon I’m getting jumped, man. Absolutely. So, so it come back through Big John uh our security team like, “Yo, you know, the security guy, he y they saying something that he wanted to talk of and I was like, no, [ __ ] that. I don’t want to talk to him. Like, don’t grab me.” By the way, I held on to that until after game seven and then I saw him after game seven and he was like, Dre, I was every game I ran right past him. M cuz when you’re in a play, it’s mental warfare, man. Like everything, everybody. Nah. So, I’m like straight face pass him. I don’t see you. Don’t want to talk. none of that whole series. I see him right out the gang. He like I’m like, “Man, what’s what’s up?” And he like he like, “Man, you know what I mean?” I’m like, “Yeah, that’s all I love.” I was like, “But you know, I wasn’t about to say a word to you during that series.” No, I was on that now. Like, and that’s what it was. That’s what I’m saying. That you’re a nice guy. That’s what it is. Like that. That is an example of a nice guy. What do you think I would have did that game? You still would have been trying to fight. I would have been on him. I’d have been on him. Hey, bro. you the still fight. I will I will catch you in the summer. Don’t you ever put your hands on me, bro. Don’t you ever grab it. When I see you in the summer during security, I’mma I’mma arrest you. I’mma pin you up. I’m I’m make a citizen’s arrest. [ __ ] around. Touch me. I can’t get like That’s what I’m saying. You’re a good guy, bro. Like some dudes don’t let [ __ ] go. Like I’m not gonna let things go. Stephen Jackson is not gonna let [ __ ] go. Well, he’s a good dude. But being angry, [ __ ] you got to be angry out there on the floor. You have to be angry. You have it’s it’s an energy charge. It’s a it’s a it’s almost like an advantage, right? And the more that you can start to wind that into like this peaceful moment of being like a true assassin where it matches your skill, it matches your basketball intellect, then you got a brand that part cuz like Kobe Bryant hate everybody, bro. Mhm. Kobe Bryant was angry if you scored, if he didn’t get the ball, if he didn’t score. You know, it’s like you get to that level of a mamba or Steph, right? These people like they’re just as crazy and and and insane because all they’re thinking about is cancellation and they have the ability and the skill and the talent to annihilate you. So, you have to be thinking like that to to have all those things charge you up. What’s up, R fans? We got some great news. We’re thrilled to announce that the new show merchandise is available. The site is now live, so you can check it out and grab your favorites. Go to the dgbdshow.com. That’s the dgbdshow.com. If you’re watching on YouTube, there’s a QR code on the screen that you can scan. 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Yeah, role players do play better at home. So, game seven, Joker versus Shay. Who you got? And why? [ __ ] You know what? I’mma go with OKC. Yeah, I think Jamal Murray had a really good game, game six. And I look at Denver and I look at Jamal Murray like he’s going to have a 40 30 point game in the series. If he can get two, you know, Denver got a chance. I don’t think this game seven, I don’t think this is a Jamal Murray game seven. I think it’s going to be tight, right? people are going to be, you know, really having to work for shots. And at the end of the day, like you said, role players play better at home. Game seven, I think OKC wins a close one, but it’s just hard to go against Joker because if Denver can keep it close and you know, anything is possible with that dude because he’s getting double tipped. I agree with you and role players do play better at home except this is game seven and anything goes and I think the role players for the away team in game seven ain’t got nothing to lose because it’s just game seven it’s game seven like so you got to shoot that shot whereas opposed to I think it actually flips a bit the home role players in game seven gets a little tighter because you’re supposed to make the shot. You at home, y’all supposed to win game seven. And so I think OKC needed to win game six. Um after they went and took game five cuz they stole game five. They shouldn’t have won game five in my opinion. I thought, okay, down the stretch last four minutes, four or five minutes, Shay Shay downhill like seven, eight minute mark, but then down the stretch, Lor hit them big threes like they stole one. Yeah. Yeah, and Denver have been winning the game the whole game, right? So, I think OKC stole game five. You needed to come and capitalize on game six after you just stole one. I think now going into game seven, it flips. The pressure is all on OKC. And not only is the pressure on OKC because they’re the one seed, A, they’ve been this great all year, B, but there’s also no pressure less pressure on Denver because they’ve done it before. Like if they lose, they just go home. But guess what? Joker goes back to Serbia as an NBA champion still. Jamal goes back to Toronto as an NBA champion still, right? Like so Aaron Gordon goes back to what? California. He’s from here, but I don’t know if he lives here, but as an NBA champion still. Christian Braun goes back to Lawrence school as an NBA champion still. So they don’t have the pressure of we got to do it, man. And everybody thought we’d do it. Whereas OKC actually have that pressure as well. So I just think all the pressure flips to OKC. And on top of all the pressure flipping to OKC, I think when it all boils down to it, even outside of the pressure, Denver know how they’ve been in these moments. They’ve been in these game sevens. Joker’s been in these game sevens. Jamal, Aaron Gordon, Russ, they’ve been in these game sevens, man, and they got the knowhow. And so I just think with the pressure flipping to OKC, Denver going to come in cool as a fan, that rim get a little smaller. You know what I’m saying? And so I’mma roll with Denver on this one. Yeah, if it’s close, Denver, OKC got to blow them out. But I think OKC got that talent, man. If they can get out and get a 10-point lead, 10 12point lead, it’s gonna be hard for Denver to come back because I think OKC just got the crowd. They got they got multiple talented dudes that can step up. So, it’s been a good series. Game seven, I’m looking forward to it. My Knicks, we have a chance to make it to the Eastern Conference Finals since 1999. Do you think the Knicks close it out at home? They better close it out at home. Um because if they don’t and you got to go back to Boston for game seven, they might lose that month by 20. So they better close. I’m just saying they better close it out because if not, game seven, it’s rap. Reynolds. Hey man, I think the Knicks close this thing out, man. We in New York. New York ain’t had this in in in a long time since 1999. Damn near the year before I got dra uh the year I got drafted. Man, it’s Knicks tape season. Listen, it would be beautiful. Come on. I would love to see Come on. make it to the conference. I think the New York Knicks fans deserve it. Um I will wear a Knicks hat. They better. I will wear a Knicks hat. They better win game six. I will wear a Knicks hat. You know me for my LA hats. I only wear LA hats. But I wear Knicks tape hats. Shout out to the Knicks. They going to take them down. I like I can’t say I like Boston cuz I never been a Boston Celtics fan ever in my life. I like some of the players on the team. I like a lot of the players on the team, but I’m not rooting for no Boston, bro. We in the same spot. And it’s Knicks right now. And we’re in the same spot. It got my brother. Shout out to Nicks TV. Shout out to the Knicks tape. Shout out to the whole Knicks staff. I mean, that was some of the best times of my life. Even though I, you know, career and the injury, they took good care of me, man. I may have to fly. You know what? I’m going to fly the next day after they do the conference after we get into the Eastern Conference Finals. Then I’ll be at game one. Respect. Listen, I since y’all didn’t [ __ ] win, man. And I can’t go get no more damn games. He was an hour flight away and the Clippers, they was like 20 minute drive. So now I got to fly all the way east to go get catch me a playoff game. Hey, wait. So this whole Knicks tape thing, y’all ain’t make it to the conference finals? Uhuh. I don’t think so. Nope. No, you we lost to Indiana. We lost. The mixtape thing happened because like it was really like when I got to New York, it was me, Jr. Shump, Melo. It was just like we all hung out together and we started the Knicks tape so we could all stay together and kind of move like a unit. And so the Knicks tape became kind of like our marketing. Uh, so it was better off the court than it was on the court. No, it was great. No, it made it make it made us better on the court because but y’all ain’t win nothing. Y’all y’all ain’t even not everybody goes to the finals and win something. So it’s better off the court than others. Sometimes you have to build a culture. And what I’m telling you before before when you look at the Knicks every when I got there it looked like everybody was segregated. Any and everybody was a star. Any and everybody could go out had an entourage. And it wasn’t about Nick’s basketball. The Knicks tape made the Knicks tape about basketball. Y’all come to watch us play. It’s almost like the steel curtain for for Pittsburgh. They won championships. Don’t do that. What? Steel curtain won championship. That is but that’s a mantra, bro. No, you have to start. They won championships. Don’t do that. You have to start as a as a mantra or like you have to have a mantra or energy. If you ain’t just birthing championship pedigree and don’t have a championship system and so you have to find ways to change the culture. So So right now they still benefiting from Nick Tape right now. Uh Jaylen No, that’s just my era. No. Oh, that’s just your error. Okay. Okay. Okay. I thought I was still rolling with that. But I still say Nick Tape. Everybody that played in our still say Nicks Tape and we call them the Nicks Tape cuz they have a reunion. They exude the energy. Y’all going to have they when they win the championship, you want to come? No. Well, we gonna invite your ass since you want to harass me, but I’m about Nick’s state. It’s like Dove Nation, you know what I mean? Dove Nation became like a mantra. We believe that [ __ ] was just a slogan. It was kind of like what defined us, but it wasn’t something that we could carry on. You feel what I’m saying? That’s why it wasn’t it was Well, it’s it’s a lot of factors go into winning, Draymond. You’re just lucky. No, you’re just lucky. You’re just You’re lucky. And part of basketball is luck. Definitely some luck. Guess what? You got to have a luck for sure, bro. You got to have a lot of luck to get drafted. where you draft and go to the We believe y’all won a championship, bro. We will beat y’all right now. Swear to God. Swear to God. We’ll beat y’all. We will beat this year. The We believe team will get in shape and beat this year’s playoff team. Guaranteed summer. Uh, can I share a secret with you? Can I share Can I share a an a secret with you that I’ve never shared with you before? Go ahead. The Warriors history was so bad that early on in my career, me, Steph, Clay, we’d be at Oracle Arena and they have these moments and they would every a moment at every one single time in every game, they would go to a fan, a season ticket holder of the game, and they put the microphone in their face and they say, “Oh, season ticket holder of the game, such and such from Santa Rosa. How long? I’ve been a season ticket holder since 1982. Oh, great. Wayne, what’s your favorite Warriors moment? And the f the the the most common ones were Baron Davis dunk on Andre Karolinko and the we believe season. Now the the Baron Davis dunk on Andre Karolinko we all loved, right? Like we respected it. Steph would [ __ ] pull the shirt up like that. Like we actually all loved and respected that moment. But then they would say we believe and we used to look at each other and laugh and be like man these people are really celebrating like a first round win and it’s crazy to us like we really got to change this like this is just this is insane BD and so I just wanted to share that little secret with you. We used to laugh at I agree. I agree. But we love y’all when we Hey, bro. Hey, bro. Every team that has a history when you going for championships, I would have said the same thing. They celebrating going like when I got here, they celebrated nothing. There was nothing to celebrate. It was dead as a door knob. So, when you breathe life, then that’s how you get these the next generation of babies. I don’t hate on y’all. I just I just consider We don’t hate on y’all either, but you been shoot all day. I shoot back, Clay. I’ve been just letting you shoot all day. I shoot back, just so you know. September 30th, we believe. You You want to do it? Yeah. That’s what I thought. That’s what I thought. That’s what I thought. That’s what I thought. It’d be worse. That’s what it be worse. It’d be worse than the Rockets and playoff series. on board than they was. No, we not. We going to play a game of seven. We going to play five games to seven. Pick up lock jam. I already see how you play domino. You lost. You You should have just left it out. You should have just left it out. All right. Hey, just left it out. I would do this yesterday. Should have just let it be. I wasn’t going to even say nothing. Hey, my brother just left it out. Hey, my brother is having a bad day, ladies and gentlemen. Laugh it out. And sometimes sometimes like the big bro, you got the little bro. [Laughter] If you’ve ever won anything in your life, people, you know that’s [ __ ] What he say? If you ever want anything, you know the first first thing somebody gonna do when they lose, okay? Act like they let you do it. That man on the bones right here. Walk him down. Everybody right here. Draymond Green right here. And they didn’t talk for an hour. That’s sick. That’s ridiculous. We play head up. We both beat. We had to go. I had to go. I had to go. But oh my god. I can say I can say I seen how you and Jimmy communicate and I see during the domino game y’all was coaching each other and talking the game which is not accepted but y’all got good chemistry and I believe next year the way y’all communicate and the way y’all was improving in dominoes man watch out for the Warriors cuz Dr. Jimmy just hold them. Hold them. Is it’s just a loss. It’s just a loss. You know, the the sunshine on the dark ass once today. Yeah. Hold on. As we get close to the end, first I wanted to say get well soon to my boy Jason Tatum. Yes, sir. Uh, damn. We ain’t get a chance to say it will soon to him is all all my legends, all my dudes is out. Uh, got big love for him. But we got to uh take a TV timeout. The guy Emanuel Ao. Uh, he had a take on Tatum’s mental toughness by saying, “I don’t think the Celtics are better without Tatum. I think they match up better mentally.” Then KD responded and KD said, “Hot take artists have ruined the sport. Football guys, no disrespect, but y’all boys need to stay in your lance. You don’t know what it’s like in between these lines, man. Give it a break. Dudes who quit football early to pursue media, taking mental toughness, talking mental toughness, cut it out. Then oo had a whole video saying that, you know, when you respect the game and you have a respect for the game, you’re able to chime in and give opinions. And then he went off on KD on the leadership saying KD didn’t want to be a leader. He quoted him on that and tried to bring it back. I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention, you know, u you just got off of work. Uh, what was your thoughts on the exchange, especially since he’s talking about KD leadership during his years with the Warriors? Uh, my thoughts on the exchange was like Jason Tatum is an NBA champion and a two-time gold medalist, but even more so than the Olympic gold medalist. And I, by the way, I went through the Olympics with Jason Tatum. Mentally, it wasn’t the easiest. Like, you’re stuck in a hotel in Tokyo. cannot go outside for three and a half weeks unless you’re going to the gym. Having to win like the whole world on you and JT played a much bigger role in that Olympics than he did this past one. Having to win while everybody in America is saying you’re going to lose. Why y’all going to lose? How y’all not good enough? You got Americans rooting against America in the Olympics. You turn on an American talk show and they’re crushing the USA Olympic team. So to KD’s point about ruining the sport, I get what KD is going at. I was KD was also on that team as well. But even more so the NBA championship than the Olympics cuz somebody will say, “Oh, you’re on team USA. Team USA always win.” As if it’s not hard. So I’ll just kill that argument for you. An NBA championship requires a level of mental toughness that most people have no idea it even requires. You know why? Got to get there to understand. They can’t understand it. They like you didn’t get there to do it. You got to get there. Yeah. And so to to say J Jason Tatum doesn’t have mental toughness for me it just don’t work because Jason Tatum is an NBA champion. And so to try to make a point because you can’t say they’re a better team without Jason Tatum. You’re just going to look like a complete idiot if you say that. So to find something to try to make that statement to me is is kind of whack. It actually puts you in a position to be spoke to the way KD spoke about you. And not that I think, oh, because you play football, you can’t talk basketball because I don’t believe that, but because I thought ARO made great points about you study something. That’s all our league is. Our like some front officers in our league are people that study numbers and then learn the game of basketball, right? So like I agree with Acho. You can study the game and learn it. However, to start talking mental toughness would be implying that you know the mental toughness that it takes to do that thing. And you don’t know that. Like you don’t know the level of mental toughness that it takes in order to win an NBA championship in order to be the most important player or second most important player or third most important player on NBA championship team. You don’t know the level of mental toughness that it takes. So the take becomes very hot just on that alone because you just made this about mental toughness and you can’t speak to that like not because you’re a football player but you don’t know the level of mental toughness that it takes to win a championship period because you also didn’t win a football one. So it’s not that you can’t speak because of football you were football and not basketball. It’s just that when you start making it about a specific thing, this time being mental toughness, you don’t know the that level. And so it’s hard to hear you speak on it. But even if you do speak on it, it’s hard to hear it and like agree even just to simply agree because Jason Tatum is an NBA champion as the face of a franchise. like he’s not just an NBA champion that became he’s the face of an entire franchise and became an NBA champion. And so I’m not hearing the mental toughness like that don’t work with me now to go at KD and question his leadership and all that. They’ve been questioning the same thing for years. Fine. It don’t matter what he got legacy. He is a star, a legend, a goat, a champion, a Olympic gold medalist three time or four times, one of the two uh four times or four times. Like the the like you can’t you can’t go at KD’s game so you start talking about leadership. That’s what people do, right? And so listen, their back and forth is what it is. I just don’t really understand trying to the whole like people be trying to like dampen people legacy like that that to me nah KD is KD point blank period. If there’s anything that if you need to see it’s simply put there’s a video out there where he said you know who I am. You know who I am. Yeah. Y’all know who Y’all know who I am, right? I’m KD. Like there couldn’t be anything out there in the world that can better sum this up for you. You know who I am, y’all. You know who I am. Y’all, I’m KD. So, I’m not in the whole you like you can’t talk football because you don’t play or you can’t talk basketball because I don’t believe that. But to start talking mental toughness that to me you lose me. or start talking leadership like especially especially lose especially if you ain’t mentally tough. Yeah. Like that’s how you how can you comment on somebody’s mental toughness like we say a lot of [ __ ] and sometimes like we don’t know what we said and he was saying oh mental like he questioned the mental toughness but what he was really trying to say is like Jaylen Brown is a more mentally tough leader. That’s what he was trying to say. And the way he plays is like they shouldn’t lose anything. They should gain something because now Jaylen Brown, he’s the next leader up and they’re going to assume his his personality. But I just don’t think that he understands what it means to be Jason Tatum, right? And what it means to be Jaylen Brown. And when you talk about mental toughness and one plays one way, one plays the other way, you’re still a dog. And but you know, another thing I ain’t like about it though, BD, is why are you pitting two teammates against each other? Like they’re actually teammates. They’re supposed to complement each other. If you had two Jaylen Browns, it probably don’t work. If Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum, I am here to tell you they wouldn’t be teammates this long. like it it actually is strategically set up that way like Jason Tatum to be one way and for Jaylen Brown to be one way that it’s actually how Brad Stevens built the team start well Danny Ames but then Brad Stevens to retool around it’s actually set up for them to be two completely different players so again to try to pit them against each other but in the same token say but he play this style and he play that style Yeah, it doesn’t matter. He and Steph Curry don’t play the same style. Jimmy Butler and Steph Curry don’t play the same style because if any of us did, it probably doesn’t work. And so I didn’t understand that part either. That part I was like, but why why are we doing this thing again? Like it’s him versus him. No, those two guys are champions together. They supposed to compliment each other. That’s how the game works. And with that, what Dre said, you know, I don’t do the outros, but we out. This the Draymond show. That’s Draymond with Baron Davis. That’s me. Until next time, Dub fans, NBA fans, basketball fans, keep rocking with us. We out.

Draymond Green and Baron Davis react to the Golden State Warriors getting bounced by Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second round of the NBA playoffs. Dray gives his takes on the Dubs coming up short after losing Steph Curry to injury, the standout play of Julius Randle and Rudy Gobert, and the publicized incident between himself and a Minnesota fan. Dray and Baron discuss how the Jimmy Butler trade salvaged the Dubs’ season, young players like Brandin Podziemski and Jonathan Kuminga stepping up in Steph’s absence, and what the offseason has in store for Golden State. They also react to the series between the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics (episode recorded prior to Game 6) and Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City Thunder, as well as Phoenix Sun star Kevin Durant going at Emmanuel Acho.

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0:00:00 – Start
0:00:23 – Warriors lose to Wolves
0:09:01 – Julius Randle matchup
0:16:02 – Rudy Gobert’s role
0:19:50 – Where Warriors came up short
0:24:35 – Steph Curry injury
0:27:12 – Look-back at Warriors season & Jimmy Butler trade
0:34:21 – Jonathan Kuminga & Dubs offseason
0:46:49 – Fan incident & “angry black man” comments
1:06:02 – Nuggets-Thunder
1:10:41 – Knicks-Celtics
1:14:36 – We Believe vs. 2025 Warriors
1:20:45 – Kevin Durant vs. Emmanuel Acho

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