Draymond Green Rumors

Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴: Kenyon Martin says he could name 200 players that are better players than Draymond Green: “That man’s individual body of work is cool but I can list 200 players that’s better than Draymond Green, is he better than LeMarcus Aldridge, Al Jefferson or Elton Brand I can go all day”

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Sirius XM NBA: “Free agency for us, as a league, is a very important asset.” Rich Paul explains the significance of free agency and clarifies Draymond Green’s recent comments with @TheFrankIsola pic.x.com/4B0cV5cbDY

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Draymond Green: Dear Diary, I’m sitting in my mancave having a conversation with my wife. Baffled at the fact that NBA free agency is over. Quite frankly it never really started. The level of anticipation leading up to July 1st were as exciting as the fireworks on the 4th. It was the excitement of the NBA Finals yet only a week after watching a team spray champagne and ride on floats. One can only point to the “New CBA” and the 2nd apron(hard cap) for absolutely putting an end to Free Agency

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Draymond Green: As we once knew it. Sadly, I sit here and watch so many players overplay the market and not understand what they are up against with the new rules. Which leads me to trying to understand the unstaggering percentage of guys that has no idea of THE BUSINESS they are apart of. And I as a “VET” in this league watch players mismanage their careers and before they know it, look back like DAMN, where to next? I can go so far with this but I really don’t feel like typing it all right now. Because,

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Draymond Green: But regardless of where I decide to let these thoughts out, I should’ve been the Players association president lol. I could’ve helped a lot 🤷🏿‍♂️ The league is great, it’s been great to all of us. Amazing partnership amongst players, staff, front office, ownership, and Fans that make the well oiled machine soar. And rightfully so, but it’s baffling to me how little players know about this business and how it affects them and ways most don’t understand. Funny thing is, I said this before the last CBA.

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Draymond Green: Kinda beating a dead horse I suppose lol. And also before yall run and make this about JK, it isn’t. He’s 22 and will be great and make a bunch of money, so this ain’t got nothing to do with him.

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Kevon Looney: I had hip surgery before the season started, so I was out for a big chunk of that year, but I remember coming home from practices and talking with my folks, or friends back in Milwaukee and being like: “No joke, Steph … you don’t even understand. It’s insane. I’m pretty sure he’s the best player I’ve ever seen in my life.” We lost nine games all season. Nine. Total. For the entire regular season, 73–9. Like are you kidding me? Obviously I can’t take any credit at all for that excellence, but I can tell you that it was fun as hell to watch from up close. Steph and Klay and them, they like to say that I didn’t talk to anyone for the first six months. And I dispute that for sure. But I will admit that I only really started being myself after I saw Coach Kerr and Draymond screaming at each other during that game at OKC when Steph hit the half-court buzzer beater in OT.

The Players' Tribune

Kuminga set a franchise record with 138 dunks in his third season. He scored double-digits in 34 straight games. He averaged 20.6 points in January and finished that season at 16.1 points per game on 52.9 percent shooting. His fourth season included a big stretch prior to the ankle sprain — that at one point had Draymond Green declaring Kuminga up next and accepting a brief demotion — and the four-game playoff flurry to close against Minnesota. “I did it here and there, but it was never a consistent role, a consistent role given to me,” Jonathan Kuminga said. “It only happens five games on, 10 games off. I want it to be a consistent role. Because I know what I got. I know what I could bring. I know how much work I put in. I know I’m dedicated to this game, how much I love the game.”

New York Times

Draymond Green, who claimed he’s a completely different person when he steps off of the court, said he’s motivated by winning and that it’s nothing personal when things turn chippy on the hardwood. “And you may not think so, but I don’t always try to be hated,” said Green, whose on-court incident with Timberwolves big man Rudy Gobert — when he grabbed him around the neck in a Nov. 14, 2023, game — was brought up by the panel’s host.

New York Post

Draymond Green is anticipating his transition to life after the NBA. The Warriors star, who helped bring four championships to the Bay Area, shed light on his future in the league Tuesday while discussing sports villains and athlete storytelling at Sport Beach, which is hosted by Stagwell at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. “As I transition in the next two or three years from basketball… I know that’s where my life leads me in the next two or three years,” Green, 35, said as he expressed his dedication to telling unbiased stories about the game on his eponymous podcast.

New York Post

Metta World Peace to Draymond Green on guarding LeBron James: And to your point on one-on-one, one of the reasons why it's so hard to guard LeBron because he's not only going one-on-one, even though he's a great one-on-one player. When I first started playing against LeBron, what really was killing me was that he was a team player. So, when he would move the ball, he would move it in the way where you had to shift, he was moving it to a good target where the defense was going to be all out of whack. So, not only was he doing that, he was also really good as a one-on-one player. So you can't help too much. Then when you closing out to him, that's a huge problem.

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Draymond Green: "Basketball used to be a poor man's game… now it's a rich kid game... There's no imagination. Everybody's doing the same thing. And I think a lot of that is due sometimes to having trainers." @Money23Green reflects on what LeBron said about youth trainers vs. real hoopers — and how the game’s roots are fading.

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The Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis: "Basketball used to be a poor man's game… now it's a rich kid game... There's no imagination. Everybody's doing the same thing. And I think a lot of that is due sometimes to having trainers." @Money23Green reflects on what LeBron said about youth trainers vs. real hoopers — and how the game’s roots are fading.

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But even before the NBA, he was the video coordinator at Michigan State and helped train Green for his pre-draft workout when he was at the school, as he said on his self-titled show. “Who trained me for the Draft, literally trained me for my pre-draft workout, was Jordan Ott,” Green said. “Jordan was the video coordinator at Michigan State, and he had been a GA before, then he left and took the video job at Penn State, came back and took it at Michigan State, and trained me for the NBA Draft.”

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