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NBA Courtside: Draymond Green says he didn’t want to see Oklahoma City Thunder win back to back championships: “You’re going to put on an act and be like, you know, I don’t really care if OKC win again or not. Deep down inside you don’t want to see another team go back to back. Like, we did that. We were the last team to do that, right? Like you want to hold on to some of that.” (Via @DraymondShow)
Draymond Green compares Cameron Boozer to Tim Duncan: Tim Duncan never had to blow you through the roof. Yet he was so great. He’s one of the greatest players we’ve ever seen. But it wasn’t like gonna jump of the page at you from an entertainment standpoint to call it low on the entertainment value of it but very high on the production value of it. And I think that was Tim Duncan. And you look at Cam Boozer, he has a similar thing. Not saying Cam Boozer is going to be Tim Duncan. I don’t know that Tim Duncan’s greatest power forward we’ve ever seen play. But what I’m saying, it’s not like there’s no wow to it. It’s just results after results after results.
Draymond Green on Spurs players not shaking hands with Knicks: If I’m mad because I lost, do something about it. But the time to do it something about it actually isn’t to walk off the court because you had a chance to do something about it and you lost. So to walk off the court to me it ain’t about sportsmanship. That’s about we just looked each other in the eyes five, six, seven games in a row. And now that I beat you, you’re afraid to look me in my eyes. Remember what I said? If you leave, I own you.
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Draymond Green: He should be thrown under the jail. He should GET SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY. HE SHOULD GET SUSPENDED FOR 25 GAMES. I’ve seen one of them say. HE SHOULD BE SUSPENDED AT LEAST 25 games for doing something unsportsmanlike. But then these very people say sportsmanship is overrated. It don’t matter. In the 90s they ain’t shake nobody hand in the 90s they also would fu*king clothesline you in the game. Go on. Let me clothesline somebody. In the 2010s, 20s. Let me clothesline somebody. Guess what we gonna do? Call for Draymond head.
An extension for Green would better solidify that dream, but Dunleavy and the Warriors are valuing their future financial flexibility and are prioritizing keeping the books clean, team sources said. They only have $23.4 million guaranteed -- $13.4 million to Moses Moody and $10.3 million to Gui Santos, spread over two years -- beyond next season.
What players do you watch and model your game after? Keba Keita: I watch a lot of players, but I don’t really try to copy them. If anything, I just really like the IQ, like how to read the game really is something that I feel like is going to help me a lot. Because I really play with energy and effort, so there’s a lot of players that I watch. I like Draymond Green a lot. When it comes to comparison, I think the role that I would fit in right now in the NBA, it would be kind of like [Clint] Capela and Isaiah Stewart. So I see myself playing those roles in the NBA, but in comparison, I feel like we’re different players.
“To see [the Spurs] walk off the court, it was disheartening. I’ll blame it on youth,” Green said. “I’ll blame it on lacking the leader to show them that ‘hey, this is what you do. Not walk off.’ I blame it on that. “There’s a way to win and there’s a way to lose. And walking off the court, not looking your killer in his eyes, ain’t the way to lose…I hate it. I hate when people do it. And I hated to see those young Spurs do it because I actually think they’re capable of doing something special…and I would urge those young Spurs [to] reach out to Jalen Brunson however you can. Reach out to Karl-Anthony Towns however you can. Reach out to Josh Hart, however you can. You tell [those] dudes ‘congratulations.’”
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“Oh, by the way, y’all ain’t going to come shake [Jalen Brunson’s] hand?” Green said. “No problem. What’s the first thing Jalen Brunson did? Beeline to [Spurs coach] Mitch Johnson. Respect. Much respect. I would have loved for the Spurs players to be there for them to shake [the Knicks’] hands. They walked off. That was disappointing, a bit disappointing.”
NBA Courtside: Draymond Green believes Wemby should’ve been suspended already this finals but the NBA is showing him ‘grace’: “I will say he’s been shown a lot of grace. He probably should be suspended at some point or have been already. But I agree with the Grace” (Via @DraymondShow )
Draymond Green: Victor Wembanyama is a great player. Victor is a European player. And I've been on record saying European players are dirty and everybody's like Draymond shouldn't say that. And I told y'all no Draymond will [expletive] you up. I'm not dirty. It's a completely different thing. And I don't think anyone that I play against would tell you, man, he dirty. No, I ain't dirty. That's a different thing. I will mess you up though. Victor Wembanyama is a European player. They are a bit dirty. It's why beating France and France was such a big deal. Europeans want to own our game and they are a bit dirty. And so I've said this before and everybody's like, ‘Daymond shouldn't say that. He can't say that. He's dirty.’ No, I'm not. I will mess you up for sure because you deserve to get jacked up. Completely different thing than doing sneaky dirty stuff.
Draymond Green on Victor Wembanyama: He's been shown a lot of grace. He probably should be suspended at some point, or have been already. He’s been shown a lot of grace, but I agree with the grace. We want to see Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs versus the New York Knicks, not the San Antonio Spurs sans Victor versus New York Knicks. So, I agree. And I wish the NBA would just come out and say, ‘Yeah, in most cases, this probably should be a suspension, but it's not because we want our best in the NBA finals, and that's the way it should be.’ And I agree with that.
