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The Draymond Green Show w/Baron Davis: De’Aaron Fox on Kings Contract Extension, The Beam, 1st Signature Curry Shoe & ‘23 Playoffs vs. Warriors
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Draymond Green
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Draymond Green
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De'Aaron Fox
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Brandon Davis (BD)
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De'Aaron Fox
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LeVar Arrington
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Draymond Green
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De'Aaron Fox
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Draymond Green
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Unnamed Host
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Brandon Davis (BD)
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Brandon Davis (BD)
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Take the guesswork out of buying tickets with GameTime Picks. Download the GameTime app, create an account and use code GREEN or $20 off your first purchase terms. Apply again, create an account and redeem code G R e N for $20 off. Download game time today. What time is it? Game time. What's up everybody? Welcome back to the show. I'm happ had this incredible player back on the show. He was on the show when it was just the Draymond Green show. He haven't been on the show since. It's been the Draymond Green with BD show.
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Unnamed Host
What's up, my dog?
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Just chilling, brother. But like I said, I'm happy to have this next guest. I've had the honor of playing against this this next guest in a playoff series which amongst a lot of people, always create beef with this guy. It's just a lot of love. And we compete and we talk. He talk on the court way more than y'all know. He talk. He never makes it too obvious, but he talk way more than y'all know. He talk. He's an all star. He's a clutch player of the year in my opinion. Definitely the fastest point guard in the league. You can argue with your mama. That's just how I feel. But none other. The one and only Sacramento Kings all star guard. Dear Fox. What up, player? What's up?
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Draymond Green
What's good, y'all, man? I appreciate y'all having me, brother.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Yeah, sir.
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Draymond Green
You.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
You rich. Rich. Two Christmas trees that, brother.
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Draymond Green
I ain't gonna lie. We got five.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Oh, my God.
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Draymond Green
We got. We got two in the living room and then we got three in the foyer.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Amazing.
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Unnamed Host
Come on, dog.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
You like.
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Unnamed Host
You love the Christmas spirit. We gotta sing some black Santa gear. Compliments to me and Draymond.
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Draymond Green
My birthday. Five days. Five days before Christmas. So I love. I Love the season.
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Unnamed Host
That's what's up, man.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
My son, December 22nd.
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Draymond Green
Yeah, he right there.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Yes, sir. Happy holidays, my brother.
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Unnamed Host
Happy holidays. I'm a big fan, man. You are actually my youngest son's favorite player. I don't know if you remember when we came to Sacramento, I came to a Sacramento game. I think Rico was coaching at the time. But we just flew up to see. My son wanted to see you play. And when he met you, he was done. He wanted to fly back to la.
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Draymond Green
I remember a couple years ago. Plus, just know Rico. Rico got a lot of great things to say about you. And you talk about you all the time.
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Unnamed Host
Oh, man, that's my dog. Shout out to Rico Hines. But he had nothing but great stuff to say. Your work ethic, you know how much you were a dog. And when my youngest son was like, yo, dad, that's my favorite player, I was like, how do you know him? He said, I watch him. And I was like, oh, let me start tapping in, you know what I mean? Cause I was mad at you from the ucla. How do you do this like that? So I was holding a grudge, bro. But you know, one, I just love your game. Everything you bring to the NBA, being tagged the fastest player in the league is, you know, one thing I think for you when I watch you is just your overall leadership. Can you just talk to us about just the evolution, you know what I mean, of De'Aaron Fox, you know, and still being with the same organization, so the trials and tribulations.
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Draymond Green
Yeah, yeah.
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Unnamed Host
You know, that you have to go through to get where you are.
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Draymond Green
One, like coming in, like when I got drafted, Kings had already missed the playoffs for 11 years. Right. So I already, I know this. Um, but I tried, I tried not to let that, you know, be, Be. Be the weight on my shoulders. Like, it's not my fault. Like, I wasn't in the league when they was, when they was missing the playoffs. So coming in, knowing that I was pretty much I was starting behind a lot of, like, guys that was in my draft. Like, Markel went to Philly. Philly had already had Ben and Joel, so they were, they were up and coming. Boston was already in the conference finals, I think the year before we got drafted. So JT's going to a good spot. Uh, Phoenix is obviously building. LA was building. And I'm like, the Kings had already promised me, like, yo, if you're at 5, we're taking you. So I kind of already knew I was going there. So coming in, like, I knew that it was going to be a challenge. But as the years kind of went through, went, went by, I'm like, what? How can I get better? How can I get stronger? How can I possibly get more athletic? And things like that. So just going into every season, I started to learn the game. And I tell kids all the time, you playing from high school to college wasn't a jump for me at all. Like, and obviously that's why we see a lot of one and dones and some people do take longer, but a lot of one and dones, because that game ain't that different. But then you go from College to the NBA where you're 17, 18, 19 now, you're playing against grown men who feed their families with this game. And I learned that real, real quick with how serious that this is taken. And it took me time to get adjusted, but once I got adjusted to it, I feel like I've continued to get better. And I feel like the sky's the limit. And then just with leadership, man, playing with so many guys, like, there's been. I don't know how many players I'm in year eight, I don't know how many guys from, like my second year team that are still in the league. So being able to see that revolving door of how many people have come in and out, I'm like, one, I gotta continue to step my game up. Two, I gotta continue to be a professional. And three, once my game, once I start getting older and my game starts to, you know, dwindle, everybody slows down at some point, what can keep me in the league? And that's. That's kind of. No, I don't. I mean, I feel like I'm still getting better. Obviously, I'm only 20, 27, but that, that leadership role playing, but that, that leadership role. And if I'm not playing that many minutes or if I'm not playing at all, how can I help a team? And I feel like, like with my voice and with my knowledge, I feel like I'm starting to kind of turn that corner.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah, I also think you turn in the corner as far as just being, you know, a lot of people. Oh, it's speed. It's speedy to speed. You've been able to kind of like now become a. A pace change.
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Draymond Green
It's funny because ever whenever y'all actually said that I was gonna be like, I think I play with pace more than, I'm just running fast.
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Unnamed Host
Bingo.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
For sure.
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Draymond Green
That pace is that big thing for me because, yeah, sure, I can continue to run 100 miles per hour. But who is that helping? Like, that's not helping. It's not helping my team. And I'm just getting tired while I'm doing it. So that pace, being able to play with pace while being extremely fast, extremely quick, I feel like has really taken my game to the next level.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
That's a fact. Because you can turn the jets on whenever you want to. And when you turn it on, when you play with the pace like you play at now, when you turn the jets on, it's almost like, damn it, I forgot he was that fast. You know what I'm saying? But for someone who just give you.
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Draymond Green
That all the time, it's easy to.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Guard that you can game plan for speed. Like at a certain point, if you just gonna be fast, you can game plan for that. But when you are fast and you got that change of pace, how you like, I'd say 50%. And you're one of those fast, super athletic people. So like, yeah, your fast walk is a job.
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Draymond Green
People be like, yo, you don't understand how fast you moving. I'm like, bro, not even running your.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Fast walk is like a, a really hard job. And so I feel like you spend most of your time at that speed and then you.
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Draymond Green
Yeah, I mean, honestly, all. Honestly, I would say like maybe two or three times in a game, like with the ball, I'm really sprinting, but.
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Unnamed Host
Other than that, yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't. I see you going, I see you playing like you go from 30 to 60, 80, 70, like even in the half court. I think your game has evolved. Being able to play isolation and off the pick and roll and be able to wait and then take the, take the. Except like you can go zero to 60 faster than anybody. You know what I mean? And so I feel like you've learned how to go 30, 0 to 30, then 30 to 60 before anybody can get catch up to you. And I think that's really been the evolution of like your pick and roll game, your ISO game. So it's not even like you not even going fast no more. You know what I mean? You just, you move fast, you know what I mean? Like, you move fast, your moves are much faster, they more precise. And I think, you know, that's why you are the clutch player of the year, right? You're getting fouled, you know how to get fouled. You know, it's just great to see.
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Draymond Green
Yeah. And it took, it took a lot of time to learn that. Like, like you Said, man, with a lot of guys who are faster or more athletic than everybody that they've played against up until a certain point, it's like, what's going to separate you when you get to the top? Because, like, guys like Zion. Yeah, Zion's going to be that, you know, 0.01% of guys who can be the most athletic in high school, go into college, be the most athletic, and then go into the NBA and you're still the most athletic. But it's not many guys that's like that. So it's like, what can, what can you. How can you separate yourself in terms of your athleticism or, you know, whatever gift that you were given, try to evolve that. And I feel like that's what I've done and like, continuing to try to do, continue to work at, Continue to try to be in control of how fast you're moving. And I think that's where, you know, a lot of guys who, you know, I was either one compared to or guys who've come in after me that were compared to me where they were super athletic. But then you see them in two, three years and they're gone. And it's like, well, why didn't this guy stick? It's like, well, he was just fast. He couldn't play. He wasn't a basketball player. He was an athlete or he was just quick. So that's why I feel like I'm trying to separate myself. And I feel like people who just think I'm just speed haven't watched me play in a very long time.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Now, obviously you can't teach that speed, but aside from your pace and what you ultimately picked up, what would you say is the. And since coming into the league and you talked about like, your jump from college, from. From high school to college and then your jump from college to the NBA was way more drastic. What was the number one thing outside of the pace that you say you had to improve in order to become the All Star and the face of the franchise that you've become. Like, guys that get drafted, where you get drafted, become the face of the franchise initially, let's face it, most of them aren't the face of the franchise for a long time. To be able to sustain that, what was the thing outside of just the pace that you had to improve the most?
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Draymond Green
I would say, one, physicality, like, thousand percent. Like, I was a skinny guy coming into a grown man's league. And two is the understanding of the game. We're playing an entirely different game. So, like, from year one to year two, I feel like I made a really big jump. And I think from year two onward and upward, I feel like I've constantly just gotten better. But the jumps haven't been as drastic from my first year. So that was really the biggest thing. Like I said, man, you're playing basketball, but you playing a whole different sport than you playing in college.
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Unnamed Host
This is an entirely different sport.
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Draymond Green
And once you actually learn it and you start to really understand the game, even if you're not the most athletic or you don't shoot the best, understanding the game can keep you on the court and can keep you in the league for a real long time. And I feel like that's. That's what, like, is that kind of. Was that that switch?
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Unnamed Host
Yeah. No, for sure. I feel like my rookie year was like, you walk in and everything is the first time, so you don't really have a feel. But the second year, like, you remember how you felt walking in all those arenas. And like, now I gotta change my approach. So when you say that drastic leap, you know what I mean? I think that's like. Every point guard has to go through that, you know what I'm saying, In order to understand, like, okay, where do I fit in? And then how am I gonna build my game and get better and, like, people understand who I am and learn how to, you know, play my style of play.
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Draymond Green
Sometimes you gotta be. Sometimes you gotta get thrown in the fire. But, hey, everybody can't handle the fire. So, like, that's why it's a revolving door. You see dudes in here for a year, maybe two, and they disappear and we all wondering where they at because they couldn't. Couldn't handle what? What goes on in this league.
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Unnamed Host
Facts. That is big facts.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Last week. Well, first off, before I move to the question, congratulations and what I'm saying, congratulations to last week, your first signature shoe, the Fox One Drop, which, as we all know, is Not a small feat in the NBA. Everybody think, like, just having, like, your own shoe is like a, you know, coming into the league, you think like, oh, that's just what it's going to be, man. That is hard as hell to do. You know, your first shoe release last week, just what did it mean to you? You know, your. Your first shoe release, Fox one under Curry brand. I know Steph is one of your favorite players coming up. Like, what. Just what did it all mean to you and how did it get done? You know, if you ultimately, I think, leaving Nike and then become a Curry brand, Under Armour and signing under Curry brand, which I think is super.
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Draymond Green
Nah, it was, it was. I mean, it meant the world, man. It's. It's. It's nothing like it. Like you said, like, people, People think that one, that, that stuff just happens, but especially coming from a brand like that who's been around and, like, touching every single sport, like, it's not, you know, I ain't throwing shots at people, but, like, when you have those smaller brands who just give, you know, if they sign an NBA player, they're going to give them a shoe. Like, it's not the same. This is a brand that's been around for. For decades and a lot of things. So just being able to be a part of that is a blessing, man. And then doing it under Steph's brand and being that first, the first player, that was. That was big for me. So, like, for me at the end was. It was Curry brand. It was New Balance, Those are the two. And New Balance actually offered me more, but Curry brand offered me a Sig. So I'm like, okay, I'm not hard on money. I'm good. So I'm like, like, you know, we continue to get better and where we were, we had just played y'all in the playoffs, so I'm like, okay, like, hopefully we can keep this thing going. And now, you know, you can play on TV more. You get seen more shoe sales going. So that's the way I'm thinking. And, And I, I loved. I love playing in steps, man. I played in steps. I think about 75% of the season that I was a sneaker free agent. So, like, so I love the product. And, like, and I told him that whenever we started talking about it and, and we started talking about having deals, like, I love the product first and foremost, and that's kind of how it started. And it was super organic going through it. And obviously, you know, stuff. And he's hitting me like, bro, like, it's so dope that you're doing this, because not many guys would do it. And I. Yeah, I told him at.
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Unnamed Host
The end of the day, that is big.
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Draymond Green
I told him at the end of the day, bro, I'm helping you with your brand, but you're also helping me with my brand. Like, I feel like kind of where it's working on both way on both sides, and you have a mutual respect where people. When we play y'all in the playoffs, people are like, bro, you can't wear his shoe while you're playing against him. Like, why the not like one?
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Unnamed Host
Right, Right, right.
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Draymond Green
Say we beat y'all, and now everybody like, oh, you got beat. And somebody. Somebody had your shoes on. So, like, it can work both ways. So cool with it. Obviously, you know, I don't care what people got to say. They not sit business meetings. They don't know. They don't know what's really going on. And they can sit there and be like, oh, his. His mark. His team shouldn't have had him do that. It's like, bro, you're getting paid millions of dollars to put a shoe on for one. Like, oh, y'all would do it if.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Y'All ain't that bad.
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Unnamed Host
And it's the shoe you.
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Draymond Green
That you love, that I love. So I'm like, I'm getting paid to do that. Like, who wouldn't do that? But, nah, that. The sneaker release, man, it's been dope. When me and Steph were in China, he saw him for the first time. He loved him. So it's been a dope process, bro. And I wouldn't change what we did for the world.
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Unnamed Host
I love it. How was sneaker free agency? Talk to me about the free agency process. I mean, you touched on it. He was just rocking what you wanted. But when you're going through deciding, you know what I mean? It's not always about the money, right? What is it more? What does it mean more for you and your legacy?
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Draymond Green
So whenever I was going through it, obviously, I was with Nike. I was with Nike my first five years. And whenever I was coming, whenever. Whenever the year was coming up, off season, I was proud, working out and whatever I can get my hands on. So, like, Reebok was sending stuff. Nike still sent, like, the. I think this was at the GT2, GT cut twos, under Armour since stuff. Adia sent stuff. Converse. I played in Converse a lot, actually, during that season, too. And for me, it was like, what feels the best? And then it was like, okay, what does the money look like? Does this. Does this company offering me, you know, this much more outweigh how I feel about their product? And that's kind of what was. How kind of going. And then once I got to it, it was. I was like, yeah, I'm kind of done with Nike at this point. They offered me the same contract, which was good contract, but I'm like, I just want to go in a different direction. And so I was pretty much off them. Then I started seeing my Nike rep everywhere. I'm like, God. I'm like, bro, I see y'all more than I did when I was with y'all. I'm like, nah, it's too late. I'm like, then they actually offered me more, and I'm like, nah, bro. I just. I want to go a different direction. And it was what. It was like, no hard feelings. I like, you know, I'll talk to y'all when I see y'all, but I just wanted to go in a different direction, and that's kind of how I came to those last two.
- [27:22]
Brandon Davis (BD)
When you talk about your shoe, what's. You know, just. As a consumer, what comes different with the Fox one than the other signature shoes that were already out there?
- [27:36]
Draymond Green
I think one is we wanted to do a shoe that was more like a running shoe. I don't know if y'all see, like, the A6 and, like, the dad. That's kind of what's popular right now. So I'm like, I want to get a shoe that even if somebody don't hoop, they could throw them on, you know, go for a run, go work out in them. My boy Reno's like, I'm wearing these with jeans. He's like, your shoe need to come out so I can stop wearing all these other shoes. So we wanted a shoe that could do it both ways, and it's kind of like book shoe. Like, book shoe looked like. It's not a basketball shoe, but you can go out and hoop in it. And that's kind of the. That we were. That I was trying to go.
- [28:10]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Yeah, that's definitely the wave right now to running shoes. When we were coming up, it was like, you really wore hoop shoes. Hoop shoes?
- [28:19]
Draymond Green
Yeah. Yeah. Like when I.
- [28:20]
Brandon Davis (BD)
When we were.
- [28:20]
Draymond Green
Yeah, like when I was, you know, middle school, high school, people throwing on bronze kd, Kobe's with your blue jeans, with your cargos, whatever. Whatever type of pants you was wearing, people threw it on like that. So that was my thought process, because everybody don't hoop. Yeah, that was My thought process going.
- [28:37]
Unnamed Host
Into it, man, on back to back nights, you scored 109 points, 60 in the first game, 49 in the second game. That makes you the first King player ever to score 60 in the game. And 109 points in two nights is the most in the NBA since the Mamba Kobe Bryant in 2007. Can you describe the feeling of the 60 point game then coming back and getting a 49 piece? Oh, no.
- [29:08]
Draymond Green
60. Man, I was so tired. I was so tired because we was already missing Malik. Debo went down in the first half and the second half was like, was back me and Domas, but I had it going. So Domas was coming up cracking whoever was guarding me and pretty much going downhill most of the night. Nah, it was a crazy, like we was down 22. Actually, we was down 20. We had to come back and we had a chance to win the game in regulation. And I think I would have. If I would have scored, I think I would have ended with like 51.
- [29:39]
Unnamed Advertiser
Or something like that.
- [29:40]
Draymond Green
And he ended up not getting the rebound. They get an offensive rebound and they get the last shot. So I was like, bro, I was. I don't even want to get 60. Malik walked up to me in the fourth quarter and was like, yo, you might as well go get 60. And I think I had like 47 or something at the time. So I was, I was hoping to not even have that chance, but we ended up losing the game. Like, you didn't even feel like. Like I couldn't. Like, obviously I still felt good. Like scoring 60 ain't no, you know, that's not easy. But we lost, so it's like, bro, I can't even really celebrate this like how I want to. So that was, that was, that was the rough part about the night. I would have loved to have won that game. And like now you. I wouldn't have took a little picture with the, with the white paper. I wouldn't have did that, like have that type of feeling. And then that second one, dog, I end up missing three of my last five free throws. Crazy enough when I have 49. I was at 47. I missed two free throws. Then I ended up getting fouled again because they were playing a foul game. And then I made my. That's how I got to 49. So Debo walked up to me, was like, bro, what? You just started shaking his head and walk and walk to the locker room.
- [30:51]
Brandon Davis (BD)
You know, he don't mess up free throw.
- [30:53]
Draymond Green
No, not at all. And then after the game, I Find out that cold had 110, and everybody's talking about 109, 109, 109. I'm like, bro, 109 seemed like it's so far away from 110, and that just had. That just had me cheating myself. That had me picking myself.
- [31:11]
Brandon Davis (BD)
That's funny. Oh, speaking of Coleman Debo, man, what's it been like playing with Debo? You obviously have played against him. He's been in the west, you know, then he went to the east for a couple years. But what's it been like having him as a teammate? What's, you know? And what's something about his game that, you know, maybe you didn't know from playing from afar that you've been able to see with just having him as a teammate?
- [31:36]
Draymond Green
Man 1. Just his presence, bro. Like, just being around him on and off the court, just. Just the calm presence that he brings to a team into a locker room. It's like. It's like a feeling that you just have never had. And then having him out there on the court, like, y'all can go through dry spells, and you can just give him the ball, and he just go get one.
- [31:57]
Unnamed Host
Create.
- [31:58]
Draymond Green
Yeah, like. And. But like you said, create. Like, he creates so many opportunities for everybody else as well, because people are like, well, yeah, we don't want to give up a midi. But then you start sending doubles at him, and he's such a willing passer. He's so willing to get off the ball. He makes it easy for everybody else. And then one thing, dog, when I say it seemed. It looked like he walked to his spot. Like, at times, he literally will walk to a spot and just shoot over you like you're not even standing there. So at times. At times. And he just scored. I think he just scored his 24,000th point.
- [32:32]
Unnamed Host
That's crazy.
- [32:34]
Draymond Green
It's amazing to watch. Like, he'll. He'll run off five possessions in a row. Just give it to him. And people, he just get to a spot, rise up. You got to follow him. He'll get to the free throw line, shooting 12, 14 free throws, and he just makes the game look that much easier. And it's crazy to see, because obviously, as he's getting older, you don't have the athleticism that you had, but he still go out there, and he'll make a super athletic play. But then he come back, and it's just real calm, real steady, and he's able to do it over and over again and just that consistency that he's done it with and how long he's been playing, man, is. Is amazing. You see why he's been in the league for. I think this is 16th year.
- [33:14]
Unnamed Host
Damn, dude, that's.
- [33:16]
Draymond Green
He wanted him one.
- [33:18]
Unnamed Host
He wanted him, bro. I remember. I remember seeing him, like, dunking, like, when he was first dunk in the year he was first dunking, and everybody was talking about he was dunking in eighth grade. You know what I mean? So, like, 16.
- [33:32]
Draymond Green
Just. Just the skill, bro. The skill that you got to have to, like, 24,000 points to be able to do that. As athletic as he was at a certain time, and you're 16, not as athletic, and you still doing that type of stuff. Like, it's. It's. It's amazing to see footwork.
- [33:46]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Impeccable, man.
- [33:48]
Unnamed Host
Another great player you play with with great footwork. Sabonis is a. Basically a double double every night. I think he's highly underrated. I'm sure you do. Tell us about, you know, what it means to play with somebody like Sabonis.
- [34:01]
Draymond Green
I think. I think he's. Like you said, I think he's very underrated, very unappreciated, underappreciated, but I think so. Like, the way he's playing this year and the way he's shooting the ball, we're like, bro, you don't even. Like, we're not asking him to come off down screens or, you know, shoot off the dribble or anything like that, but we just need people to respect it because. And I told him this, like, whenever I started shooting the ball better, and people had to take one step. Had to take one step up on you that opens the court up for yourself and everybody else. And we tell them, bro, don't hesitate. If you got it, shoot it. Let it fly. Because he's shooting. I think He's. He's like 50, 40, and, like, 85 right now. So, like, if we can do that and continue to get him, but it's all coming from very quality looks. Continue to do that. Like, I think the sky's the limit for him, and the sky's the limit for us because then you pull the big out a little bit longer, a little bit more. Now, that creates driving lanes. We're able to put teams in rotations, and it just makes our offense that much better. But he knows as well as we know where we have to be better at if we want to get to where we can to where we want to get to. And Dre know it. We got to be better defensively. Offense ain't never been our problem. Offense has never been our problem. And you talked about, I think you were talking about Indiana last year, like, yeah, y'all the number one offense, but you can't guard a soul. Get in the playoffs. Like, what's this going to look like? So that's. That. That's my thought. That's about it. We know. We know how. Where we got to be. What's funny, though? What's funny though? So we just play San Antonio, right? And. And we come out of halftime and I'm picking CP up and cp, you know, CP asshole. So don't care. He like, he don't care to comment, nothing like that. But he walks up to me, he like, yo, you're. You, like the only point guard that actually plays defense. Like that actually come and guards me, come pick me up. And like, at the time, I'm like, yo, whatever. Like, he said it, but then, you know, after the game, and then he just became the second leading assistant ever. I'm like, knowing cp, he don't just walk up to nobody and just give him a compliment like that. So I'm like, man, he really. He really felt that. And for me, like, I want to be that type of guy. I want to be able to there guard people. Be the guy that people don't want to put you in the action because you blow actions up. And then at the end of the day, still on offense, being able to get to work. So, like, I really did appreciate that.
- [36:20]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Nah, that's fire, you know? You want me to tell you what I fucking hate, Fox? I hate that damn bean.
- [36:29]
Unnamed Host
The beam.
- [36:30]
Brandon Davis (BD)
I hate the beam. It disgusts me. And I get. I get great joy out of when we play y'all. And the beam does not get lit.
- [36:40]
Draymond Green
Have you seen it?
- [36:40]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Of course I've seen it. And I've also been in the playoff series against you and had to go back to the hotel and look at it till 3 o'clock in the morning. It's ridiculous. I hate that. How did they introduce that beam to you? Did they come to you with the idea? Did they light it? And y'all was like, dope, like, what did you think of it at first, initially?
- [37:00]
Draymond Green
Ah, so this was so not last year, the year before, the year we actually made the playoffs. We were playing in the preseason and, like, they never said anything about it. We're playing in la, we end up beating the Lakers, but I think we lost our first preseason game. So, like, no one knew anything about it. And during the preseason game, we won, and they just tweeted like, the Beam. And then it was a picture of a beam coming out the top of golden one. So that's how we, like, we learned about it the same way everybody else learned about it. And at first, like, it was a gimmick, and everybody was like, oh, how long is this going to last? And then it started becoming a thing. Fans really started liking it and other people started hating it. So I think that was the reason that they really kept it is because other people started hating it. Everybody's like, oh, it's a gimmick, blah, blah, blah. But I think it's been dope. Like, it's. It's a cool thing. Like, you drive around the city and you go to a random restaurant and they got some type of beer called the Beam, or they got a poster with a damn beam on it. So it's been cool for the city. And, like, obviously we have the baseball team here this year and we have a. We just got an MLS team. But, like, for as long as people can remember, it's just been the Kings. So being able to have that for a city that only had one professional team has been dope. And I think it just brings the city together. So if other people hate it, man, that makes me like it even more.
- [38:21]
Unnamed Host
When the Kings win and the Beam is.
- [38:24]
Draymond Green
And when we in other stadiums, like, our fans are there and we about to win, the game's about to end, we start getting those light the Beam chant. It's dope. It's definitely dope. I love it.
- [38:33]
Brandon Davis (BD)
That's fact. It was no better feeling than going. Going back to my hotel room and getting my stuff and looking over there and said we wanted to say.
- [38:46]
Draymond Green
It was. It was fun, man. Like, I gotta. Just getting back to the playoffs and obviously, you know, you won multiple championships and got even, even got into the finals, lost. Like, I want to be able to just feel that, like, know what that feeling is, just being able to get to that spot.
- [39:04]
Unnamed Advertiser
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Draymond Green
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Brandon Davis (BD)
More day until Friday.
- [39:47]
Draymond Green
But then somebody walks into the elevator.
- [39:49]
Brandon Davis (BD)
And says, happy Fri. Yaaay.
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Draymond Green
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Adnan Virk
What's up, everybody? Adnan Vir here to tell you about a new podcast from iHeart Podcast and the National Hockey League. It's NHL Unscripted with Burke and Demers.
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Jason Demers
Hey, I'm Virginia Jason Immers, former 700 game NHL defenseman turned NHL Network analyst. And boy, oh boy, does daddy have a lot to say.
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Adnan Virk
I love you. By the way, on NHL Network, we're looking forward to getting together each week to chat and chirp about the sport and all the other things surrounding it that we love. Right?
- [40:34]
Jason Demers
Yeah, I just met you today, but we're going to have a ton of guests from the colliding worlds of hockey, entertainment and pop culture. And you know what? Tons of back and forth on all things NHL.
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Adnan Virk
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Jason Demers
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Adnan Virk
That's short of Kazarakis. Listen to NHL Unscripted with Burke and demers, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [41:09]
Justin Pennick
What's going on, everybody? This is Justin Penick from John Boy Media, the host of the Football Today podcast alongside Bobby Skinner and Chris Rose. We're rolling three times a week, on Mondays, on Wednesdays, on Fridays, breaking down everything you need to know about the NFL. We're talking about the MVP race. Is Josh Allen going to pull it out? Lamar Jackson? Can Saquon Barkley even break the rushing record?
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Draymond Green
Can you?
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Justin Pennick
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Draymond Green
Hey, I'm Miles Gray. And I'm Jack O'Brien.
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LeVar Arrington
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Draymond Green
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Draymond Green
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Draymond Green
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Draymond Green
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- [42:43]
Unnamed Host
One of my favorite coach and people, Mike Brown, in this game, he repeated the word possession 26 times in his last press conference. What's the wildest thing you've seen from Mike Brown as a coach? And then, Jay, that question is for you, too.
- [43:03]
Draymond Green
I would say it's the clip that everybody saw when he was talking about turn on the Jets. I'm like, bro, when he started running, I'm like, I hope he don't tear something. I just hope something don't pop because he was moving like, he was running as hard as he could. And he ran once. One sprint. He only did it one time. Bullets just started coming down. But that's.
- [43:26]
Unnamed Host
That's.
- [43:27]
Draymond Green
But, like, that was. That was his first training camp with us, and he set the tone. He definitely.
- [43:32]
Brandon Davis (BD)
That's. That's a fact. When I saw. When I saw that clip, I was dying laughing, because that's who Mike Brown is. Like, he gonna start running, get out on defense, start sliding, dripping sweat, and it's. That's just the passion he bring every day.
- [43:52]
Draymond Green
Yeah.
- [43:52]
Unnamed Host
Yep.
- [43:53]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Like, he the same way every single day. And so I always respected it.
- [43:57]
Draymond Green
It's crazy. He do be playing defense when we just doing regular shooting drills. He start coming in. He get in the stand. He like, no, people like me think kicking. Like, he really. He really get out there.
- [44:10]
Brandon Davis (BD)
That's a fact. We used to be like, yo, Mike B, you need to chill, bro. Your Achilles, like, you old Mike B. Like, you ain't working out like that. You gotta chill. But, like, that's just the intensity that he brings. And you got a lot out of about Mike Brown. I'm. I. I'll tell you what I'm surprised at. I'm surprised. The thing that y'all have struggled with as a team's defense, because Mike Brown with defense, like, that's what he do. Like, he guru, and so I know it'd be driving him crazy. So you.
- [44:40]
Draymond Green
You.
- [44:41]
Brandon Davis (BD)
You gotta challenge. You got it. This on y'all as players, because Mike Brown, I know he loses.
- [44:48]
Draymond Green
He. He. He lost whatever hair he had left, wherever it is. No, it's. I mean, obviously, I think personnel is a thing. Like, we're we're one of those smaller teams. Obviously, we don't. We have a legit shot blocker. So, like, you're fighting against kind of construction. Like, you can't. Obviously, you're only as good as your personnel a lot of the time. So for us, you know, we throw out different things and different looks. Try to, you know, muck the game up, try to change. Try. Try to change the way that people see us. You know, I might guard somebody, then Keegan might guard somebody, then Keon might guard somebody, but he. I think he's making do with what, you know, he's got. And we've been better defensively this year. I think we were. We were like 11 for a while, and then we had a bad stretch, drops like 20. I think we're hovering around like 14, 15 right now. But obviously he. He. One day he comes up to me, he's like, hands me a paper. I'm like, what the fuck is this? And it showed. The past 20 champions, what they ranked what they were rated in defense during the regular season. They're rated in defense in the playoffs. And I think the worst was like the 02 Lakers that were like, 20th, I think, during the season, but then they were number one defensive team in the playoffs. But this is after won a championship, so they knew what it was like. So they just. The regular season, in the playoffs, they could flip that switch. And he's like, that's the only team that wasn't in the top 10 that won a championship that year. So, yeah, he's. He's trying to make. He's trying to make it work. And he, as, you know, me, as the leader and the head of the snake, and a lot of times I'm the guy picking up or the point of attack defender, he's like, this is what we have to get to if we want to win. Our offense can be as good as it can be, but until we decide, until we go out there consistently can guard somebody, we're not going to win.
- [46:36]
Unnamed Host
I agree, man. I think especially in the Western Conference because it's so stuck right now, y'all in the playoff pitcher. But, you know, a lot of time left, right? And to that point, working your offense is potent, right? Defense is hovering, you know what I mean, at about mediocre. What do you think you guys need to do to make sure you get hit? Getting that playoffs?
- [47:03]
Draymond Green
We gotta be consistent. That's always the word. How can you be consistent? Is what I think we're really trying to figure out. Can we consistently bring Physicality, every game, can you not allow offensive rebounds? Can you take care of the ball? Like, being able to control those things? Obviously, you can't control if you make shots or not that game. That's the way that the ball bounces. But winning at the little things is his thing. And Dre, you've been in the locker room with him. Possession game, free throw count, turnovers. And what is offensive rebounds can you win at, though? And I think lose balls, can you win at those things? If we win at those things, you put yourselves in a great chance to win. Now, it doesn't mean you're going to win, but you probably got a higher chance to win than if you didn't do those things. So those are the things that, you know that he's preaching and just trying to be consistent at that. Because, like I said, you don't know if you're going to make shots that day. But if you're not making shots, can you get extra possessions? Can you take care of the ball? Can you get to the free throw line, put yourself a great chance to win.
- [48:01]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Last time you were on the pie, you had spoke about how you were tired of hearing about the Kings playoff drought. You obviously went on to break that drought. Y'all obviously face us, unfortunately. But what was it that you end up finding? You know, it's tough. Talk to us.
- [48:22]
Unnamed Host
Tough task. Tough task.
- [48:23]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Well, especially in your first playoff series. Because what it came down to is y'all were probably a better team than us. We just had to know how. Like, we knew between me and Steph and just us talking and then Clay, you know, like, Clay being who he is and what he's done, we just knew how to do it. And so what was it that you found coming out of that playoff series that you like, all right, when I get back there, I know I now know this that I think can help us get over the hump.
- [48:58]
Draymond Green
I think the big thing is in it is adjustments. Like, obviously, we go to game seven and good game until halftime. And then y'all come out in the third quarter and just punch us in the mouth. And, like, there was no looking back from. From. From that point in time. But I just think every time y'all made an adjustment, it, like, frazzled everybody. Cause guys haven't been in those positions. Like, I think Domas had played in a playoff series before, but. And then HB obviously had played in the finals. But other than that, it was my first time. It was Malik first time. Egan was a rookie. Kevin had played in a Conference finals before. But, like, most of the guys, especially our main guys, were. You know, it's our first time doing this. TDs, first time, Davion's first time. Like, everybody. It was everybody's first. Most of the guys, first time being able to be in that type of environment and even at home, like, once y'all hit us in the. In that second half, it was like, yo, what the hell are we gonna do? Like, we couldn't figure out a way to stop nobody. Then we couldn't really score y'all up. The physicality from the first six games, and I think it kind of rattled everybody, and it was pretty much over. Like, we literally couldn't. We had no answer for anything that y'all had at that point. But just knowing that and being able to feel a playoff series and, like, for me, playing a team seven times in a row, I'm like, what the hell is going on? Like, my head hurt. I'm tired of seeing them. Like, it was. It was different. But I love the feeling. Like, I'm like, bro, I'm in the best shape of my life. Like, I feel like I could play for another month. And then even last year, after we beat y'all and then we lost the Pelicans, I'm like, bro, like, I'm in the best shape. Like, I feel like hell. And then the Pelicans go get swept by okc. I'm like, shit, they could let us win, and we like, I would have got us a game. I would have got us one game. But just being able to have that feeling, it's like. It's hard to describe unless you've been through it. But on what it felt like, I'm like, I need to get back there and try to take those next steps, because you don't want to be a part of a team that's just. You get in the first round, you get bounced. You get in the first round, you get bounced. Now, are you looking at blowing teams up after that? So it was a good feeling to break that, but at the end of the day, bro, I'm a competitor. So just getting to the playoffs, obviously losing to a team that had just won the championship. Obviously, I felt good about getting to the playoffs, but then having that, like, I feel like I'm missing out.
- [51:29]
Unnamed Host
So, yeah, I was. I think I watched that series, man, and I thought, you know, one for your, you know, your first playoffs, that was like, you know, everybody say, you're coming out party. That was your coming out party. I felt like One of you guys go up two. Two games. I was up two zero. Right, we know what happened in game two, right? Is there anything. We know what happened.
- [51:57]
Draymond Green
We know what happened.
- [51:59]
Unnamed Host
We know what happened in game two.
- [52:02]
Brandon Davis (BD)
What happened in game two.
- [52:03]
Unnamed Host
Bd man, you got. Then you get ejected and kicked out.
- [52:08]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Oh, you talking about when bro grabbed my ankle with both of his hands. That man grabbed my ankle with both his hands. Check this out. Bd.
- [52:17]
Draymond Green
I didn't think they was gonna suspend you though. I didn't think that.
- [52:20]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Look, Doc, but that was suspended.
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Unnamed Host
That was the most pivotal point in the series though.
- [52:27]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Wait one second. Don't be the time out. He grabbed my ankle with both hands. And they specifically told me. They specifically told me. Nah, that ain't nothing. I just didn't move my arm a few weeks ago. I didn't. I didn't grab. I just didn't move my arm. And so Zach Edie tripped and I was upgraded to a flagrant file after the game, right? But when my ankle was grabbed with two hands, they told me that was nothing. I said, that's great. So that's number one. BD number two. It was a turning point. You know why I was a turning point? Because they were up 2 0.
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Unnamed Host
Yes.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
And they went up 2 0. And they shouldn't have just left things the way they were. Mike Brown come out like, oh, we gonna see what the league do. Number one. I was pissed at Mike because, bro, you've been in the foxhole with me. You know the, the bullshit that I've been up against and you go feed this narrative and ultimately I think it cost him because you changed the way the series look. You are too old. Leave everything.
- [53:34]
Draymond Green
Yeah.
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Unnamed Host
You want the set. You want the same smoke. You want the same smoke. Yeah.
- [53:39]
Draymond Green
Yeah, we did.
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Unnamed Host
Yeah.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Because guess what? You know why? So here's what happened. You changed the way it looked. Now your game plan that you, you're is. Is set for the team with me. So now you're essentially going into a playoff game where they're completely game plan for you and what you want to do. And you're essentially going into the game with no game plan for what they going to do. And it's like, it's like when Ja, when Ja got hurt when we was playing them in the, in the championship year. They beat us by 50 the next game because we went into a game and it's not on the coaches. It's just. You haven't seen it. Whereas they see your game plan for two straight games. So once Y'all change the game plan essentially by him saying, oh, we'll see what the league gonna do, as opposed to saying, let's move on. He. He fueled the fire, and then y'all got blown out. Now coming back in Game four again, here's the. Know how we know the adjustments we need to make, right? So now we come back to Game four, and we know the adjustments we need to make. Y'all ain't beating us once we make the adjustments, because we know it's all.
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Draymond Green
Winning three in a row.
- [54:48]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Exactly. And so it just changed the whole complexity of the series. And, yeah, I remember that.
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Unnamed Host
I remember Game four because y'all two got into it. I say, that's what I'll be here for. You know, when my PG don't back down, you know, I love my PGs when my PGs don't back down. You and Dre got into each other's face. I mean, you know, it's all competitiveness, I think. You know, just talk about Dre and how he bring that competitive nature out of that series. But more importantly, I think he brought it out of you where you was like, you know what? I gotta be the one.
- [55:30]
Brandon Davis (BD)
You know what I mean?
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Unnamed Host
It can't be Sabonus. It's gotta be, like, you. I think you was like, fuck it, man. It's gotta be me.
- [55:38]
Draymond Green
I mean, it takes, like you said, like I said before, like, to win at a high level, bro, you gotta be able to match that. And, like, he had a hard foul is what it is. Physical. You gotta match the physicality. So being able to be in that series and, like, understand that, like, guys are getting to it. People always talking about, oh, you can't be friends, and blah, blah, blah, bro, we can be cool off the court and punch each other in the mouth on the court. Like, you fight with your brothers, you fight with your sisters, you fight with your cousins. After it's all said and done, you love them the same. So being able to go through that and, like, that was. I think that was obviously. I think that was me and Dre's first time really, like, getting into it, obviously, because his team's always been blowing my teams out. So it's like, what can I say? So, like, it wouldn't be in that is. Is definitely, like. It's. It's cool. And, like, you have to be able to match that, because as a. And this is. As a team, if you back down and you know somebody like him or a team like that, that's one there that's been there. Once they smell blood, it's right. Like, once they sense fear, they sense you really don't want to fight, it's over for you. So that's where we as a team had to step up and be able to match that. And I think once my team saw that and they already know, like, how I get, like, if I get pissed off, like, I'm a different person, different player. So, like, them being able to see that, I think helped us be able to extend the series because, like you said, they won three straight. We go into game six at they crib, like, y'all can lay down or y'all could try to bring it back home. And I think game four, even though we lost game five, like, still, we still had that belief. We still had that belief that we could win this series. And like I said, game seven, second half, they. And we was rattled. We was rattled. Round 10, and it was over.
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Unnamed Host
It was, you know, it was a testament of, hey, man, y'all fighting the heavyweight champs, you know what I mean? And, you know, y'all young guns and y'all swinging. Y'all swinging. Y'all fighting, you know, but there was. There's something to what these dudes know, you know what I mean, in that championship pedigree. And when you think about, you know, even Steph setting his playoff career high, you know, 50 points, you know what I'm saying? It's like, damn, you know what I'm saying?
- [57:59]
Draymond Green
Like, when I said, bro, what's that like?
- [58:02]
Unnamed Host
You know what I'm saying for you? Like, what was that like, being on the court? I know, like, it wasn't a pleasant thing, but when you look at it, you know, for where you want to grow and where you want to get to as a player, talk about that Game seven and how important it is, because I feel like it's. It's going to mold your career when.
- [58:21]
Draymond Green
I say it was nothing you could do. Like, we threw the kitchen. We threw the kitchen. We threw the whole goddamn kitchen out. Like, we ain't throw the sink. We threw everything that was in the kitchen at him. There was absolutely nothing you could do. He dribbling around four or five people and one throwing and getting it back and one, three, and it was like just a snowball. And it's like, bro, we trying, but once they. Once they figured it out in that second half, like, no matter what we did just wasn't working. So being it, like. But a lot of that don't even have to do with just your skill. Or just their skill. It had to do with their. Know how once they knew what was. They knew what was going on, how it was doing, how it was going. Everybody got it going. Like, it wasn't just Steph. It was. Everybody got it going, and there was just nothing we could do because we hadn't been there, and we didn't know how to adjust to the last thing that they did. And like I said, that's. That's when the series. That's when the series just was. Was over.
- [59:20]
Brandon Davis (BD)
It's crazy because. And when you talk about making adjustments, like, there's. There's more than just game plan adjustments that need to be made, like, sometimes.
- [59:30]
Draymond Green
And.
- [59:30]
Brandon Davis (BD)
And. And you kind of just hit at it sometimes in the playoffs, it's attitude adjustments that have to be made. And after y'all popped us in game six, the next morning, I sent something to Steph. I text him at, like, 3:00 in the morning. I couldn't sleep. And so I text him, like, what my thoughts. And he text me back this book. And he was like, it's funny. You can't sleep, because here's what I'm thinking. And it was like a book, like, went way more detail than what I was saying. And I'm like, we gotta have a meeting. He like, yeah, we need to have a meeting tomorrow. But, you know, I talk in a lot of the meetings. He said, but I got this. All right, big dog, you got it. Like. And we went in that meet, players only. And he pretty much said to everybody, like, I don't care about your ego. I don't care who you are. I don't care what you do. If you get on this bus, this is what it is. You come in, you get and lose balls. You come in to play hard. I don't care if you play a minute, if you play a second, if you play two. I don't care if it's me, if it's Draymond, if it's Clay. I don't care who you are. If you play, you don't play. If you get on that bus, you come with one attitude. You riding with me. If you ain't riding, don't get on the bus. And then he came out and did that, and I was like, oh, wow, that's. That's crazy.
- [61:02]
Unnamed Host
That's.
- [61:04]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Whoa. Like, so it was this. And, you know, coming off winning the NBA Finals the year before, you got to get through that first round. Like, the reality is, I don't think we just. We ain't have Enough. We ran out of gas, but you just had to muster up everything that you could.
- [61:20]
Unnamed Host
And his little bro, you know, the little. Little bro, Lil Bro is. Is biting on them ankles, baby. He. He want to scrap. You know what I'm saying? But we gotta give. We got dear. We gotta give you your flowers. Cause in that series, 24, 7 and 5, I mean, for a coming out party for, you know, your first playoff game, I think, you know, one, you just. You established that pedigree, you know, that we've all known since, you know, since college. But like, to see you mature into that role and to be able to have that stage, man, that's why I love the playoffs. Cause the real one's gonna shine. You know what I mean? The real is gonna prevail and step up. And so, you know, I love seeing that from you. And I wanted to give your flowers in the series. Cause taking the champs, you know, the seven games, man, you know, y'all definitely deserve some credit. And I think, Lil Bro, you know, they getting bigger, man.
- [62:18]
Draymond Green
Yeah. Nah, I appreciate it, but where we. Where we are now, like, especially where I. Where I am in my career and like, I'm about to get on my. I'm getting close to getting on my third contract. You want to be a team and a player that's constantly in the playoffs, can you. Can you? Obviously, everybody wants to win a championship, right? Everybody can't be a contender. Truth of the matter. Everybody wants to win. Honestly, everybody don't want to win. Troop be told, you know, you want to be part of that group that's always in the playoffs. And obviously, you know, at times you might have a two or three year window where you can win a championship here and there, Here or there. Here or there. So, like, you know, for me as a player, trying to figure out what we have to do to take that next step, because, you know, you don't want to always be like, oh, and, you know, we lost to the warriors because they just won a championship and they beat us in the first round. Like, I can't let that be just the only story that we have to tell. So, I mean, there's still a lot, a lot of work that we have to do as a team, as an organization, but I think we're trying to build towards that. You don't want to have that. Just one off. Y'all had a good season. You broke the. You broke the streak. And then shit starts again.
- [63:29]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Hey, but Fox, you. What was your. You. You recently, right before the season, had an opportunity to sign an extension. What was the motivation for you to pass on the extension? Essentially continuing to bet on yourself, but you know, to pass on that amount of money and just play the season out.
- [63:50]
Draymond Green
For me, man, it's. It has all to do with just the team, the organization. Where are we going? I want to make sure that we're in a position to try to win in the future, because that's ultimately what I want to do. Like, I know make enough money regardless of where I play or what I do. Like, I'm going to be fine unless, you know, God forbid, knock on wood, that you have a career in injury. But aside from that, I feel like I'm continuing to get better as a player every year. But for me, it's. Are we looking like we're continuing to get better year after year, and are we going to be able to compete at a high level? And that was. That's all mine is, like, if we can show that this year, like, you know, you sign the extension now. If not, like, I still, obviously, I still have another year, but that's. That's where my mindset is. At some point, will we be able to compete for a championship or really compete at a high level for a long time? And that's where I'm at.
- [64:49]
Unnamed Host
You at that. You got that stage?
- [64:51]
Draymond Green
I love the city. I love being here. I've raised my family here. We got our grandparents or the kids, grandparents here. I would love to be here and retire here, play. I mean, how many people can say they played in one organization for their whole career? I want to be a part of that, select few people. But at the end of the day, I also want to win. So.
- [65:16]
Unnamed Host
Especially where you at, that's where.
- [65:17]
Brandon Davis (BD)
You want your real money.
- [65:18]
Unnamed Host
You want that league, you know what I mean? You want that window, you want that chance, man. And, you know, I think you got. You got to put yourself in the best situation at all times, especially when you're in the primary.
- [65:31]
Draymond Green
Yeah, I'm coming up on. I'm coming up on those years.
- [65:33]
Brandon Davis (BD)
So, yeah, they know, they know.
- [65:37]
Draymond Green
They know I'm give all I got. But at the end of the day, brother, organization also got to give all they got. So, like, that's. That's where we are right now.
- [65:44]
Brandon Davis (BD)
I respect you holding them to the, you know, holding them to their end of the bargain as well, because most guys in your position these days, they don't, you know, they just do whatever it is that, you know, and then a lot of them have agents that aren't willing to take that risk. You know, a lot of them have agents that's like, yo, you should sign this extension. Because the money. I know from experience you have an agent that's like, no, this got to make sense for you, right? And if this don't make sense for you, it is my duty and obligation to advise you to do what makes sense for you, because we in a position. We getting the money. You know what I'm saying? And. But there's a certain standard that should be upheld from organizations. When you talking star players, and I think the King is. Is a great organization. There's, you know, it takes time to turn an organization. Vivek took over the team. He came from here. Vivex, I think, is one of the better owners in this league. And I think, you know, they. I know they want to be great, but in wanting to be great, you have to learn how to do it, you know?
- [66:49]
Draymond Green
And so, yeah, it takes time to learn how to do that.
- [66:52]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Absolutely. It's just. It's. You know, it's not that I know where they have struggled. It's never for a lack of. Want to be great. They want to be great. But want to be great is making the right hires at all levels.
- [67:03]
Unnamed Host
You got to have in mind. Yeah, you gotta have them minds on all levels.
- [67:09]
Draymond Green
And that's one thing Mike actually did when he got here. He's like, yo, from ownership down to the ball boys, equipment guys, we got to be aligned. And that's. That's. That's what he brought, like, first. First meeting, got somebody from every single department. Like, so he. He's bringing that. Obviously, he knows what it takes.
- [67:27]
Brandon Davis (BD)
For sure. No 100. You have to do that. And I think, you know, like that. I thought from the gate, Mike B. Was a great hire, but everything around that has to make sense in order for that hire to reach his ultimate potential. So I respect it, brother. I wish you well. We appreciate you coming on the show. My dog. Thank you so much. Good luck the rest of the way. Stay healthy.
- [67:53]
Unnamed Host
Fox ones, baby. Keep rolling.
- [67:55]
Brandon Davis (BD)
No, Fox one.
- [67:56]
Unnamed Host
Hey, I'm a size sports team. Excel. Come on, Lace, y'all. G, what color.
- [68:04]
Draymond Green
What color you want?
- [68:05]
Unnamed Host
Shit, man, you pick.
- [68:06]
Draymond Green
We got. We got the green, all greens about to come out, but we have the blue and oranges that just.
- [68:11]
Unnamed Host
That just dropped, you know. You know, blue and orange is my nick colors, but the green, you know, the green is for the money and dream Green.
- [68:22]
Draymond Green
I appreciate y'all having me, brother.
- [68:24]
Brandon Davis (BD)
Appreciate you. Shout out to the fans. We appreciate y'all. Tuning in. Go copy some of them. Young fella got his first shoe. It's a wrap from this episode of the Draymond Green show with BD the Volume.
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Brandon Davis (BD)
Going.
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Draymond Green
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Unnamed Host
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Draymond Green
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