You're listening to Comedy Central. Draymond Green. Mr Draymond Green, Welcome to The Daily Show. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Are you kidding? I'm shocked that you have time to do anything after winning your fourth NBA championship because he gonna get old. You know, this one feels different than any other one. It's like the ultimate, it's the best. Let's let's talk about let's jump straight into it.
This is what I love about you. You know, there was an error in sports where you know, people would sort of say what they mean on the court, but then when they would come off the court, did an interview, what do you think about this and be like, oh, it was a good game, it was a fun game. Draymond Green says what he feels. Draymond Green says what he means. The fans love you because of this. I love watching the postgame interviews because of you. So let's
let's talk about that that aspect of the game. You've been honest about it from the beginning. People wrote your team, all people say Golden State was done for Does this feel like like like vindication in the biggest way? It does. I felt like people doubted us more this time than they did prior to two thousand and fifteen when we had never won anything. And I think that's ultimately, you know, everybody's like, oh why why why in the parade are
y'all saying after everybody and shut up? And that's because the reality is they disrespected the work we've already done, you know, to disrespect us as if we aren't champions and just write us off like we hadn't done it before. That's why I said self, Can I tell you what
else are like? This is what I like. There's there's a there's an element of of danger that's been infused into the team because I think you know this, The Golden State Warriors are an amazing team, But you guys have like a bit of a like like a like a Christian youth group vibe about you, you know what I mean. I mean, especially like Clay and Stafford, like you're the bad boy of the group, but like Clay staff it's very much like I'll see you guys on Sunday.
It's like a nice thing. And I think there was this attitude in the league where people like, man, they're the nice guys. You can say anything about them. They won't do anything. I saw you one of the post post match interviews where you said, they said, what do you think happened? You said, I thought it was too soft in that game. You changed everything after that. How do you maintain being good players, being good people, but still bringing enough hardness to the game while playing Wasston
playing clean? Well? I think ultimately you follow your leader. And so when you call us a youth charge group, that's Steph Curry to the tea like he is run the ministry. But now Clay, I think everybody kind of has miss under Clay miss understood. Yeah, And what way, Clay's a little while like Clay go off the rail a little bit? Is this pre injury Clay on post injury? Has he changed? He's a little more tame after the injury, before the injury. But I think, you know, um, there's
kind of the misconception of to take this disrisp. Yeah, it's like light skinning guys like that's that's funny that you said to me, don't like, don't don't get like you don't light skin guys are really saying, like, you know what, that's like this misconception of light skinning guys being soft. Huh, And I always but like you just but yeah, like you just said, I was the soft one, Like we saw one Steph Curry was great, but I was the soft one. So I think, you know, it
may be time to change the misconcept. Okay, okay, you you've got You've got four championships. You know, it feels like each championship has a story. You know, the first time is who is this team? What are they doing? Steve Kurr, this this whole mix. I would argue that your team has almost reshaped basketball. You know, the way teams play, the way you move the ball, where people shoot from, how you defended, all of that has changed
because of Golden Eight. Like when you look at your fourth championship, how do you motivate yourself to do even more now? Because most would go, I've won. What else do I have to push myself on? Well, Lebron has far and if if I get five from the greatest ever, right, so honestly, like like that's the challenge, Like can you do it again? Like the moment we finished, I'm standing up on a podium and I'm like this this is crazy, Like it's wild. How do we get back here? That's
it's feeling. Like my biggest fit when we want the first one was that this feeling is so great, I'll never feel this again in my life. And so you're just chasing that feeling again. And quite frankly, like I said before the season, nobody has proven that they can beat us, it still happen. So you're going into another season. The team is looking good. The spirit and just in the city, like if you're in Oakland, you know, even around San Francisco, you can feel its a pride in
and around the team. I feel it changing you as well in that you know, there were some moments where it felt it felt like dreamond Green was angry. You know, people weren't giving you the respect that you deserved. Now it seems like you play with the anger, but you have like a you have like a different swag to you as a person. Now you you you laught at people's doubts. You know, you you enjoy those moments. On your podcast for instance, you you you you put it
all out there. What do you think change in your life? I think, hey, um, having a fiance that I have, she's incredible. She's changed me. And I love that, and and and also my children, Um, they've changed me. And and like my mom constantly reminds me, hey, the baby is watching you, Like make sure you're all your best behavior. The babies are watching you. And so I think that's changed me and it's helped me channel a lot. Now.
Another thing that's helped me is when you have that fire in that chip as a second round pick, everybody loves it, is great, But when you carry that same name chip as a four time All Stars, a four time champion, it's then distasteful because you're not the underdog anymore.
That's interesting. And so what I realized was that I was carrying that same chip that allowed me to remember the thirty four guys that was drafted before me in the year five and six, and people are starting to look at it like, man, that's that's nasty, that's distasteful, And I knew that I wanted to change that. I don't want the perception of me to be a bad taste in someone. I hear what you're saying. You weren't
trying to be the villain. You're just trying to be somebody who's driven, and it changes with your position of power. I hear you before I let you go. There's one thing I've I've always wanted to know about that element of the game with the players and the teams and the fans and all of that is you have this camaraderie. You guys have this drive you you you you have this this world that we don't know about as the fans, and when the fans are cussing you guys out from
the sides. On the one hand, fans are there to throw you off your game. They want to say whatever to to get at you, and that's part of being their life. On the other hand, you're human beings. You have family, you know you you, you have emotions. How do you think we find that balance between what fans can say at a game and what you should or shouldn't respond to as an athlete. Well, I used to feel like fans should be stopped from saying some of
the things that they say. Then Commissioner Silver comes out and say, hey man, those Boston fans are great as they're saying you Draymond. So I'm like, all right, commission is the best commissioner And like I said on my tweet, he's probably one of the best CEOs in America. Let alone commissioner of the Sports League. But he's like, oh, that's great. So my response to that is great, cool, Can I turn the yell them because because if I if I can, then no problem. Let them. You know
what they want to year. I ye know what I want to yell, and I continue down the court. And so I think the thing for me is like some at some point you're kind of allowing them to do this and encouraging it in a way because they know. If I yell that to Draymond and he says that back to me, he's getting fined twenty five dollars. He's getting fined fifty dollars. So what I'll say the commissions, no problem. That was fun. Let them do their thing,
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