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Draymond Green: "I think wishing that the NBA took $50 million from a player is disgusting. I think it's purely disgusting. I like Gallo, I like Gallo a lot actually, but this is, this is disgusting to me. And the reason this is disgusting because number one, I don't, I don't want anyone getting fined. I think that, I think that shit is whack. You can go back and look where I said if this is true, I hope the punishment is they dismantle the CBA, not take $50 million out of Kawhi Leonard's pocket. That's so whack and I can't believe he said that."
Draymond Green: "Kawhi Leonard does not have the power to trade a player. He can request, hey, I want y'all to go out there and get this guy, but he don't have the ability to make that trade. That franchise have to agree, just like they had to agree that they were going to circumvent the cap. He can't make them do that. These are decisions that that franchise made. So in turn, you must have left a big enough impact on that franchise. But to blame another player and say he should have to pay off $50 million back, that shit is whack."
Draymond Green: Galinari is one of those guys who was extremely talented, who would give you fits, but was a little lazy. Uh, one of those guys who was not known as someone who give their all to the game of basketball. Uh, one of those guys who come in with a random back injury. One of those guys who isn't always in tip-top basketball shape because the word around him is he don't really care. To put your career mishaps on Kawhi Leonard coming to the Clippers and then you getting traded..
Draymond Green: "For the first time in my career, Coach (Steve) Kerr told me towards the end of last year, he pulled me to the side, he's like, Draymond, I want you shooting the three. And I was like, oh shit. Like it was like a, it was like a out of body out of body experience, because I had never really heard him like confidently look me in my eyes and say to me like, yo, I want you shooting the basketball. Even when I was shooting the ball great, it was just something that I had never heard. And so when he told me, like the confidence level raised immediately, like, oh man, like Coach want me to shoot."
Heat Central: Draymond Green DEFENDS Giannis after Channing Frye called him a 7’0 running back who isn’t as skilled: “I think this is a dumb statement. To call one of the greatest in the game Giannis, a 7FT running back is PATHETIC. It takes a lot of skill to dribble end to end and dunk the ball. Takes lot of skill to get in the paint and get finished and kick outs. I’ve seen him take people to the post and put in the rim. — To act as ‘he’s a RB’ cause he don’t have the same skillset as Joel Embiid, ok cool. Then Shaq was also a RB. Kevin Garnett did not have the skillset as Joel Embiid… That’s wack. Calling somebody that great a 7FT RB, that’s clickbait.”
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Draymond Green Show: Draymond reacts to Danilo Gallinari's comments on Kawhi Leonard "I think wishing the NBA took $50 million from a player is disgusting... that also wasn't his first time being traded, so for him to sit and act as if Kawhi Leonard ruined his career, that's bulls**t... I think Gallinari would choose Paul George over himself and if you won't, that's crazy, that's ridiculous... Kawhi Leonard does not have the power to trade a player, he can request... but he don't have the ability to make that trade."
Whether Green can navigate that contradiction could determine more than Golden State’s early-season record. Warriors insider Marcus Thompson II has suggested a poor start could force the franchise to confront an outcome once considered unthinkable. “Draymond could be traded at the trade deadline,” Thompson said.
Steve Kerr is asking Draymond Green for a favor the Warriors star once requested from him: patience. Green thanked Kerr during their postseason exit meeting for remaining patient with him through years of emotional swings, confrontations and suspensions. With Golden State entering a transition season, the coach now wants that patience returned. “He’s going to have to adapt a little bit, and it’s probably going to be a little frustrating at times,” Kerr said on the “Tom Tolbert Show.” He added that he would need Green’s patience.
The Draymond Green Show: Draymond reacts to Ben Simmons returning to the NBA and signing with the Kings "He got off to a very promising start and then a lot of people tried to blame his game and not his injuries... when I look at this signing, I think this is great for Darius Acuff, let's face it, Ben Simmons is Ben Simmons, this will take some of the pressure off Darius Acuff... for a GM that knows as much as Scott Perry does, that's one of the deciding factor, if not THE deciding factor behind this move."
Draymond Green: "We all get a licensing check. LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kawhi Leonard, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Nikola Jokic, they all get the same jersey sales as the rookie. Excuse me, as a rookie, you don't get a license check because the license check is from a year before. But say a second-year guy who didn't play much on a team, and the license check was 500 grand, that's jersey sales. That's all of the licensing things, right? That same 500 grand that that second-year guy gets, Steph Curry gets. It's divvied up, it's even split. And so, you could make 300,000, you could make 500,000, but every player makes the same amount."
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The Draymond Green Show: Draymond reflects on the negotiations when he almost left the Warriors and went to the Grizzlies "In negotiations, you wanna have another team, you have to sometimes make it real to the team that, 'hey you got something else'... I called the Warriors and said 'Yo I'm gonna go to the Grizzlies, can y'all do all y'all can do to work that sign-and-trade and make it work for me?' and to the Warriors credit, they then went into negotiations with the Grizzlies and I will say, they moved the goalposts on the Grizzlies a bit, but once they moved the goalposts, it also was clear to me like 'they really want me here' and at that rate it's like 'let's go, let's get this done." 📺 Watch on YouTube | 🎧 Listen everywhere podcasts are available - follow the link in bio
NBA Courtside: Draymond Green says one thing you should understand about the NBA, once you take a pay cut you don’t make that money back anywhere: “There’s this common misconception like, oh well, like for instance, we’ll use LeBron James as an example. LeBron took a $4 million deal. He can go make the 40 million somewhere else. No the fu*k he can’t. He can go make 40 somewhere else, but it ain’t that same 40 that he just gave up. Like, so say next year, all right, that 40 takes him in total for a year 60 million make on a year. Well, the other 40 would have taken him to 100. Like, you don’t just go make that money up somewhere else.” (Via @DraymondShow)
Draymond Green: "Patrick Beverley said on the The Analysis podcast that he helped ignite the winning culture in Minnesota. He said I really put on for the city of Minnesota. I don't know if people know this, but they hadn't missed the playoff, they haven't missed the playoffs since I got there. I'm not saying it's all me, but I started something in Minnesota for sure. I just want to remind Patrick Beverley that when he got there, young Ant-Man was there. Now, what I will say is, you can't take credit away from Patrick Beverley because Patrick Beverley brings a certain mentality to a group. And for a young talented player like Ant-Man to see that mentality and say, ah, okay, and also get that first taste of the playoffs, it then set you up for the future. So I'm not going to come on here and say, oh man, Patrick Beverley is tripping. I do want to remind him that a young Ant-Man was on his way."
NBA Courtside: Draymond Green on Joe Johnson comments about Amen Thompson getting paid $200 million with no jump shot: “I do think number one, you get paid for what you’ve done. I think there’s always this idea of you get paid for what you’re going to become. No, no. In this league you get paid for what you you’ve done. Amen Thompson has put together a body of work that says if you want to keep me, this is going to be the going rate. Now, yes, he needs to improve. But on the flip side, I do get a little frustrated sometimes when people come out like, “Yo, this guy can just gain a jump shot.” Like, yo, jump shooting is a skill. Yes, you can work, work, and work to better that skill, but we’re not going to ask Steph Curry to go be Amen Thompson athletically. So, if we’re not going to do that, then let’s not always point to when it’s shooting for a guy, oh man, he need to like, yes, he do. I agree with that. But let’s also know he is elite at jumping. He’s an elite defender. Getting from point A to point B, elite.” (Via @DraymondShow)
