The Draymond Green Show - Championship Reaction From TD Garden

fan duel sports book makes it easy. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Draymond Green Show Championship Edition That's My Daughter Podcast. We are in the press room, still here at TV Guarden, a couple of hours after the game. Full time champions up here as you see, got my man, Killer, Clay Dre, the Vet, the O G the guy who guided us through all of this. Honored to be here. Man, they said we could not do it again. Talk to me, Killer. How does this one feel as a and in comparison

to the other three, how does this one feel? I can't sugarcoat it. Bro us the sweetest one, just uh you know from the fifty season when Steph not on the bench, we had to watch you out there just anchoring bucks and struggle. Then the next year having to watch again and the insert myself in this line up and then just uh see the whole thing come together. Bro.

It's it's like the sweetest experience I've ever been a part of, man, and it makes a journey that much sweeter just knowing what we all had to go through. So I just it's an honor to be up here for real. This is this is such a special moment, not because we just won the championship, but because it took us a championship to get Clay Thompson on the podcast. So that is such an honor. But a long is

journey and which has been three years now. Um, was there ever any doubt for you, a that you would be able to come back to player that you have come back and be that we we would be able to do this again once you came back. Oh yeah, I doubted, man every day. I remember guarding LB September and I could not stay in front of this man, even will She he who never played in the league. I was getting busted by him. Everybody. I was just the weak link out there, and I'm just like man,

I swear I used to be a great defender. I swear I used to be a great shooter. And then Rick celebrity will tell me every day, like Clay, it's gonna be up and down. But once you we just need Clay for playoffs and that's all it's gonna take. And I was like, Okay, Rick, whatever you say. So I had so many doubts. But once we got closer to the real thing though, and we actually didn't even

get to play with each other until the first playoff game. Well, once I saw a YouTube on the floor with Steph and the town we had around us, I knew it was a rap, like no one can mence with us. One more question before we get Clay out of here, because I promised him this will be three questions and it is a miracle that we got him here. But for you moving forward, do we have Clay Thompson finishing

his career with the Golden State Warriors. I need to notice for my own person to say, Man, I did tell Steve Kerr at the u NBA TV Little Podium. I told him, you know, I'm going full Michael Jordan' I'm inlining myself with Steve. I ain't playing for anybody but Steve, so that's the plan, and I don't it would be weird to be in another UNI, you know. So I'm just grateful to be up here and to be mentioned with the Lakers and Celtics and the Bulls.

Now we're there, and it's it's I never sure when you got drafted here, Andre signed on, you never would envision this. Maybe one but four and we ain't done. That's a beautiful thing about it. We got these young bucks behind us and we got it same squad coming back. It's scary for the NBA. It is very scary, my brother. I appreciate you coming on, of course, thank you much. We'll get a full podcast. We will. Drake come talk

to us, Brother, come talk to us. And here we have a return guest, um, a guy who came on the podcast before. Like it was easy to get guests, and not that it's easy now, but once you build a reputable show, you know, then it's a lot easier to come on. I'm very thankful to this man for coming on when it was just trying to start a podcast. And guy who's taught me so much talking of us

so much, How does this one feel? This one? This one's on my loss of words because I think, then then they let us get this one and we're gonna get off. We're gonna get all, we're gonna get all, you know what off. They made a mistake. Let us get this one off. No, but I was saying, because there's only so many you talk about any sport, there's only but so many that put a strangle hold on

that entire league. But this long, like you talk about Brady, talk about forty niners, you know, you talk about you know, the Bulls, the Spurs had it stretched out, and you talk about the Lakers and Celtics obviously, but you know this is seventy the NBA seventy five years when we do like two hundred a year, Like it's it's just like we should really get our ship off absolutely, family for mother talk so much cash, like, oh, you know

the funked up right? You know that's incredible, man. And honestly, I told you all, don't let us win a fucking championship, and y'all the fucked up and let us win a championship. Hey, but check this though we were going to run five straight finals. Um, and then Bob Myers coming to you and he said, yo, Kevin Leaves and he said, Yo, we're gonna trade you. What was that like for you? You know, it's funny because I saw it. You know how you and I are like we we see before

like things happened. So I knew in my contract I had an extension date, so the last year my contract I can get cut, and that that salary we spread it over three years. So something had told me called Bob and asked him wins my cut date? I was like, by with my cut eight and we've built such a great lay ship with Bob. Bob was like, come talk to me, Come in here, man. Yeah. Yeah. So Bob was like, come talk to me. So I went to Bob's office and he was like, we might trade you.

And he kept it real just because we have a great report. And that's when I knew. So I wasn't surprised and you're killing our contact, young fellow, all right, but I knew, you know, there might be an opportunity

on the back end. So you know, I was talking about it with the NBA media earlier that things happened for a reason, and me going to Miami and experience in the Miami Heat culture that really helped me come back and then accept the role I had, because like, I had really good days this year, but the body

just wouldn't hold up. But I knew that I can still be impactful and I still knew that we could, Like you know how it is, you can't let the year get by, and you know you let one slip away, like we've been here too many times, so I just like, let me just do what I need to do. And it's just been incredible. It has been incredible. Speaking of the body now holding up, because it's actually something I

was gonna ask before you just said that. But I didn't think it would be possible as an NBA Finals MVP that we probably felt your impact this year more than any year, that you were competing and playing and dominating and clamping and selling our offense down and getting us into the position. I didn't think that would be possible. I am one certain we don't do this without you and your leadership and showing us the way, But for

you as a competitor, that still gotta be tough. Knowing that ultimately I am a basketball player, I'm not a coach like I played basketball. I'm on this team and yet your body not allowing you to give what you know you could give on the court. How was how was getting through that and just ultimately saying I'm working hard to get back and be available for the finals, but ultimately knowing like I may not play much. How

was that for you? It was tough because I would have like good workouts, like I had to work out before or right after Game three, and we had practice and I didn't I didn't miss a shot like I look like step I did a step thing where I started the painting, went all the way back to half court and made like none straight shots. I'm like, I'm really ready, and Steve was just kind of like I might have to go another direction, and like, to be honest, that hurt you. We're all human. It's like, bro, I

can help, like let me help. But at the same time, it's like, listen, man, I'm believe in these guys. Like I know if Wiggs can do what he's able to do for us, we're good. I know of g P does what he needs to do for us, We're good. I know of Otto. It's is told White, We're good Belly was. Belly was huge for us, you know what I mean, Like Belly went out there and helped us

win the championship, you know what I mean. We talked about like Nick Young came and helped us in the Houston series a couple of years ago, and then just Jordans who and just being trying to be that role model. And it's like Mike Bright Brown said, I need to put you in for one minute in game five when Loon got four quick files because I forgot what rep is calling on the files on him and he was like going for a woman. I said, damn you up

with me for a woman and g like that. But at the same time, it's like, yo, man up, bro like man up, because commed is here. You know, he's very impressionable and you know he does whatever we say, but you gotta show him the way too, because in the eight years it might come into effect, like eight years from now. Commede is like man Andre went in he finals MVP. He went in for uh seventy seven seconds and play good minutes, you know what I mean.

So like that those things coming to mind, you know, like that stuff comes back ten folk for sure, and I think what people don't understand is how how fast something could swing. And although that that seventies seven seconds, you know it wasn't a bunch of points or it wasn't a bunch of this. All it takes is seventy and seventy seven seconds to swing again. And so all it takes is for coach to put a guy in that he doesn't necessarily trust um and they have one

turnover and that changed the entire game. And I think that's what people don't understand about this entire process, is like that's seventy seven seconds. All of us were comfortable because regardless of what you were, what what you didn't do, we knew what you were gonna do. And that's not make a single mistake. And it was such a beautiful thing. Man. And I can go on and on with this interview, as you know, but I really I want to say

thank you, Um. You you came back here. You didn't have to come back here, um, and to come back here and show us the way again, you know, no matter no matter what next year holds for you, Like I mean, I'm I'm pretty certain that you you probably want to be done because you you know, for those that don't know. I'm not even sure if I can say this. Can I say this? Well? Andre is doing um yeah at the public starting to a venture capitalist fund.

Like that's that's our o G. You know, that's that's who. That's who has shown us the way you know and like I know, you have bigger and better things that waits for you, awaits you, and whether you decide to come back or not, the impact that you had on our lives and our careers and what we can continue to move on. Obviously, this brotherhood doesn't end, this is forever.

But I can't thank you enough, brother, for your leadership, for your guidance and being a true definition and showing me what it meant to be a vet to someone else. I thank you, brother. I love you four times brother that they never take that appreciate you. I love you

absolutely not my dog finals MVP Andre God Media. We own y'all ass yes, sir, brother, such such such an incredible journey and within our our little audience that we have here at the Draymond Green Show, we have a guy who we have a guy who playing on four NBA teams, five G League teams, which is even more impressive than the four NBA teams, five G League teams,

and you know, it's a very interesting thing. When I was when I was um and we've had the pleasure in the honor of having his pops on and I remember asking them just like you know, I knowing all these interviews, they asked you about defense and being the club and all of these things. But but tell me about being a father and as someone who went back and forth with do I name do I name my son? And Jr? Not because then they have to live up

to that and blah blah blah. And this guy is that way before DJ And to get it out the mud. People don't realize sometimes having the same name as as an NBA legend, it works the opposite way, you know. I know most people think like, oh, it's nepotism. No, no no, no, it actually works against you in a lot of cases.

And to see him get it out the mud to be the fifteen guy to make the roster, this this is a full circle moment for us because I remember his ten day ended, and you know where that ten day ended, that that ten day ended here in Boston, and he's tapping all of us up, like yo, man, it's been great. I appreciate you all. I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, oh my ten day up? I'm like, dude, you be here, see you later. And

then I called Bob. Stuff called Bob and we're like, yo, yeah, you can't get rid of GP, like you gotta bring him back. You see what he's doing for you. Gotta bring him back. And that was the start of all of this. And so I'm honored to welcome the next guest, the champ Gary paid the second GP to my brother. Welcome to the Trademond Green Show. Um, how does it feel? Um?

First and foremost just from for me to you, just I appreciate you and you know everything you did, you know, just went for back for me, you know, through the summer and you know my first ten days and to day whatever. Uh you thirty, you know, having my back up and give me this opportunity and believing to me, that's just that alone, just you know, means the world. That's why I went to back for you just whole year. You know. Um, I ain't Jewish and me or whatever.

I just for y'all and your legacy. Your legacy is bigger than you know, my career whatever. So forth, it's just I'm proud of you and you know everything you've been through and how you got it out. You know, you feel me and you know I appreciate you. I appreciate you rather than honestly, the beautiful thing about all of this is you're now a part of that legacy,

you know, and the journey. The most beautiful thing about this is the journey, you know, like holding the trophy like I didn't hold the trophy on stage one time, like I didn't even want to get near it. Because it's the journey that you appreciate. It's the people that

you go through it with. That's why you appreciate it, you know, that's the beauty and this it's like you go through people, you go through this with with the people that you've been in the trenches with over and over and over again, and that is the beauty and

it's that's why you do this. And so for me, the thing that I've enjoyed most about each championship outside of the first one, we're seeing the guys who's winning it for the first time, because that reaction that it's almost like the innocence of a child like that does

not know what it feels like. And so for me, that's what I get the most joy out of seeing you win a championship, Seeing Jordan Poole win a championship, Seeing Otto, who a guy who signed a hundred million dollars contract when it was nearly impossible to get a hundred million dollar contract and didn't go through the injuries, see him get a championship. Uh, Belly, you know who's Belly's thirty three years old and come over to the NBA until I think he was seven or something like that.

To see Belly get a chance, That's that's the beauty in it. And so you know, I want to say congratulations, Um, you've earned your key. You belong here and you've shown that too. To be the man on the roster and become a vital part of that roster. It's a heard of. It doesn't happen you play one preseason game due to the injury. You're going through the preseason and you're unable to get out there and you know what's riding on

this and you need to make this team. What's going through your mind through that preseason and and just trying to rehab from an injury. Um, just trying to get ready as fastest, you know, fast way I can stay ready, keep my mental right, and you know, just know that, you know you're working towards you know that moment, at one moment that might change you know, your career, your life. And they said I would have that moment, you know, keep working, stay the course and you know, keep doing

my rehab. So I just kept keep they stay ready basically, uh kept my rehab up. And you know when that when that time was ready where they let me go, I had to leaven a no doubt, you know, for bothering them to make that decision, you know, and keeping

such an amazing thing. Um, like I said, just only playing one game and you beat out Avery Bradley, who at that point it's like you need a defensive, a wing defender, and you beat out Avery Bradley, who has been an incredible defender in this league for a long time. And I thought that was absolutely amazing. I have a tell and this is what I could be thinking. And you may think otherwise, and you can tell me if you think I'm wrong or what you think it is.

But I was having a conversation with with a young fella a couple of weeks ago um and he finished the season with with an organization and he was back working out wherever he works out in the summer. Do you see any significance in a guy who was in your position or in a position similar to yours sticking with that team throughout the summer that they ended with and training with that team and being around those coaches

and being around those young guys. Do you see the benefit in that as opposed to all right, I ended with this team, I'm gonna go back to l A and training, I'm gonna go to Vegas and training. I'm gonna go to Miami and train. Now what is this significance and sticking with that team and training with them and going through their all season red. Yeah, that was That was probably the biggest decision I made because all the other times I got cut, I went back home.

That's what I did. I went back to Vegas and I got back in the gym and whatnot. But with this team and what I felt on my first ten day, you know, and going into the off season like this is this is the group. This is the formula for me like I could be, you know, a big piece in and helping you know, everything goes smooth and than what it was. So I made that decision when I

got cut. Why I asked to be in the video room is to be around you'll, like I was still be in practice, still show you know, Bob and everybody that you know I can still play. I can not I can play in his lead. So that was my mindset on, you know, asking for that job. And when I decided to stay here this whole summer regardless, I said, I told myself, I said, I'm not going nowhere like I'm gonna show them that I can play basketball right way and I can work in the system with y'all.

So that was my mindset, and I wasn't gonna let nobody or anything, you know, tell me other way. It's amazing, brother. Before we get out of here, your pops, it's no longer the only one in the house with a ring. What you got to say to the oh, I got it? I got I think I got it. Sooner you feel me and and I'm and I'm one for one. You can't say nothing about a cent. That's so you want to talk to me? You you know where I live. O G. I'm so happy for him. Four time Champ Um,

I couldn't have done it without this man. He led us throughout the year. He's had so much on his back and he's did so much for us, done so much for us, and it's for the organization, and I I can't do nothing. Thank you rather than congrats, phold time champ and you already know I appreciate, thank you for coming on. We're gonna have to do a full episode and just really get into your background and how you grew up and the the things that I want

to talk about. The struggles are going. I've grown up with a father in the NBA. You know, I think you know the thing that people don't realize it is like as beautiful as that is, and like as dope as that is, you're not home. You know, you're on the road and he's not home. I'm not home all the time. And and your rock, your mom and how she held it down. And so we're gonna get into all that. Man have to have to bring you on the shop. Thank you, appreciate sir. The young gloves too,

my dog man. Um, I am exhausted to say the least. Um our audience in here is starting to dwindle down. But but my beautiful wife Hazel is still sitting there and it's absolutely incredible to be on this journey with you. My love, my dog Stills and still sitting there. Director of Sports Marketing at Converse. And then my brother Torreon man Man Harris, who showed me the way we got Jackson behind the camera. We got Faves in here. Faves is the man behind the Draymond Show Instagram giving you

all the content. And then we have me yours truly the new media, the champ. Four times, I tell you what. Both times, I'll tell you what, Man. I got a lot of respect for that group over there, uh led by Email Yudoka. UM incredible, incredible coach and it's ironic

to go up against him. I I think back to one of my tweets UM and their series during their series against Milwaukee and Emay, they had just winning one game six on the road and I was watching Sports Center and and they they showed this feature on Buddenholzer. Just Budenholzer is a great coach, champion coach, don't take nothing away from him, but they showed this feature on

him after they just had loss. And then they showed like JB talking J Jayson Tatum talking like Boodenhols are talking and they didn't show email Udoka talking and so I and when I say talking mean like the press conference um given quotes, And I tweeted, I said this email, do does he do press conferences? Because some situations people don't like to talk and they you know, they get over they hand that over to the system, maybe the assistant coach just to talk. So I said this email

you dooka, does he do press conferences? Because it's baffling to me that there's a feature on the losing coach. Then there's words from the losing coach, but nothing from the winning coaches. If he didn't make any adjustments to go on the road and win Game six, And I thought that was strange and I didn't like it. And that's why I tweeted it because this is a much different team than than they've had here. So what's the difference. The difference is that a coach came in and required

something different, tapped into something different. When everyone said Jalen and Jayson Tatum can't play together, and they were foolish for signing Marcus Smart to a max deal, and they were stupid for bringing out horrorback and all of those things. And you gotta get Brad Stevens' credit and some of those moves that he made. But the thing that changed was email Eudoka came in and he required something different from those guys. He required j T to play defense.

He required JT to move the ball and he averaged seven or eight assists in this series. He required JB to take that next step. He required um Robert Williams to take that next step. He required Smart to go back to his Oklahoma state days and be the point guards that this team needed. Aaron Miles, who was on that bench, who was with us last year. That's the difference. The difference is those guys that came in, Damon Stodhomyre will Cherry, they commanded a different respect and you have

to give him a lot of credit. That team ain't going nowhere. That team will be back. You better believe that team will be back. Give a lot of credit to Robert Williams. Most guys, especially this day and age, most guys sitting out on that knee got a knee injury. Most guys, and they're not continuing to go for what We're in the finals. I'm banged up. I got my money. No what nobody would have complained if Robert Williams decided to sit out. He didn't. He was a game changer

in this This entire series cost fits. You gotta give a lot of credit to that young man with his whole entire future, A had his whole entire future ahead of him. He left it all out there on the line. You respect guys like that. There's so many guys in this league that would never do that. You respect guys like that the utmost respect for me. That's a group, that's a young group over there. Grant Williams, who was all in my grill, in my face the entire series.

We had our words back and forth. I got respect for that young man. Them guys gonna be together, and they'd be crazy if they don't keep those guys together. But it wouldn't surprise me if we see this team sometime in the near future when we're done win the championship. They got it. They're not weak, they're not soft. They got scoring, they got the defense, they got the bigsday. If there's one place that they can improve, it's probably

their depth. You know, if you look at this series, I feel like they just ran out of gas, like and and that was it for us. We're like, yo, they are only really playing seven guys. Sometimes it's only six. Let's just keep running these guys. Keep it by in front of these guys. Let's try to wear them down. But the thing about it is championship teams they got their guys and then they fill out with great minimums. And when you're a great team like that, you start

to get the great minimums. And so you're going into next year, your bench looked totally different. You're able to rely on that bench. And so those are some of the things that I think we'll see from them. And I don't think this is our last time hearing from the Boston Celtics. That's a great group. They got a great young core and they're gonna continue to get better before we get out of here because I have to go join this party. Let's talk about some of these naysayers.

Before this series started, I saw ESPN power indexes. Something gave us a chance and win. Why who makes those things? What is their job? Secure? Aready liked because you're lying to people? So that is anyone held accountable these days? Anybody hell the company these days. I even saw it was like to the two and they're like, seventy are you crazy? You know who you're dealing with? Sass to count us out like that. It's just it's crazy to me.

Where do y'all get these numbers from? Like are they coming from the people that sit up there and don't know what they're talking about? That's how I gotta be calculated, because it's just those numbers just don't make sense to me. They didn't make sense, and they for damn sure don't make sense. Now Nick Wright comes out and say, uh, Steph Currys, that's it. He would never see the finals again.

And Andrew Wiggins three years ninety five million dollars left on his deal, why would they go do that worst trade? And blah blah blah. I hope you will understand on that word. Brother, stand on that and tell us why you thought that. Tell us why you thought that? Tell us why this whole series you've been yapping, yapping, and then all of a sudden you want to switch to the doves. Tell us why, Because what's in question is your basketball knowledge. Some of these asking on asked statements

y'all be making. That's why I speak of the new media. For those of you that don't know what the new media is, let me explain to you what the new media is. The new media is not athletes doing media. Been doing that. A lot of them turned into coons and start acting like the old media once they become media. But let me explain to you what the new media is. The new media is a stand on your word. We don't apologize for our world. We don't flip and go.

You stand on your word, good battering different. We stand on that be. We're not trying to create controversy. I'm not trying to align myself with a guy or two so I can feel some TV slots on the daily and create controversy. Basketball is a beautiful game. If you know the game of basketball, basketball will give you enough to talk about the problem is all of these people talking about basketball that don't know basketball, and so what do you do You chase controversy. The new media we

don't do that. That's why you see J. J. Reddick flourishing. That's why you see C. J. McCullum flourishing. That's why you see me flourishing. So we don't do that. We simply talk the game that we know and embrace it. Teach. That's what these spots are about. How do you teach the game? How do you teach the fans the game? These people that think they know the game of basketball but don't really know. How does JJ ready go up there and teach the game? That's the new media. We

give flowers when flowers are due. We don't have to try to build a guy up for a week to tear them down next week. So I got something to talk about. That's the new media. Respect integrity, respecting integrity on the job, about the job. I remember days when you didn't go on a on a TV show and cheer for another team. You go on and give analysis.

Nobody give a damn who you're sharing for. You got foods like Kendrick Perkins, come dressing like a clown, come up hearing a jail suit, and then you lead a game early tonight. Stand on your word, brother, you gotta stand on that. One thing is for certain. I'm gonna stand on my full time champ. I'm out. Vivid and livid, liver, livid, liver and liver, livid, livid, liver and liver, livid, liver and livid, li