The Draymond Green Show - Championship Recap + Addressing The Haters

fan duel sports book makes it easy. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. This is episode and our first episode of the off season for the podcast. Obviously, you know, it's been a lot going on this last week or so. I feel like I'm finally starting to get my bearings and just like my my my legs back under me and and but most importantly my mind, um when going through the playoffs. Well before we get

into this, um, it's been a great week. As you know, the parade was absolutely incredible, which we'll discuss a little more about that. But as I mentioned, this is the first episode of the off season and We're about to hit the ground running. What do I mean by we're about to hit the ground running? If you have not seen doing a live podcast recording slash show in New York City Monday night with JJ Reddit, the new media is going to be absolutely insane. Uh. The podcast will

live in the normal pod cast fees. So if you can't make the podcast, there was or or the show. There were not a ton of tickets as it is a smaller venue. So and then obviously it's the summertime when people are traveling and blah blah blah. If you can't make it, the podcast will live where every other episode live, and you'll be able to check it out. So don't fret. My pet will be just fine. But in saying that, as you know, the parade was about almost a week ago and it was great. Why was

the parade grade? I must I must be honest. Um, after having parades in Oakland, I was a little nervous because I just didn't know what to expect. I am the type of person like I like things to stay the same. Um, I'm very shy, which most people will never believe. When it comes to like new people, I it does not work well with me. It takes me a while to get comfortable with people like I just

like things to say. I said all of that to say after having three parades in Oakland and then coming to San Francisco and having a parade, I was a little skeptical about it because I just didn't know what to expect. And I love my oak Oakland family as Oakland will always be a home, second home to me. Really grew up there and became a man, not like grew up like we know, I'm sacking of Michigan through

and through baby, that doesn't change. But I grew into a man in the city of Oakland, so that place will always have a special place in my heart. Never change. But if I'm ranking parades, because we live in this society that's always trying to like rank and compare, uh, dumb shit. Um. I think that may have been the best parade. Why was it the best parade? Um for a few reasons. Number one, Steph Curry was acting up and you just never see that, Like when we wont before,

Steph didn't act up. Steph was acting up. Clay Thompson was acting up. I mean this man, by the way, I know we all saw the video, or if you have not seen the video, please go to your Instagram and find the video of Clay Thompson stumbling. The guy stumbled five steps then he hits He like runs over the girl and immediately catches his balance, which was the great parts, like you run this girl over and that's

how you catch your balance. If that girl was not right there, the girl that Clay Thompson ran over, I mean that ends badly for Clay number one. He's tripping on a little like I don't know what these calls, so forgive me and all the smart people out there. That's gonna comedy black. It's called this thanks in advance.

But the metal the cage thing that's all over the streets and there sometimes on the side, he's like tripping and I know, like in that situation, it's it's for it's probably for the train system, the Bark or whatever train system runs, whatever transportation system I should say runs downtown San Francisco on Market Street. I'm sure that's why the cage thing is there for that. But he's like tripping over that, and if he falls on that thing, that does not end well. Quite frankly, he runs the

girl and save himself. I thought that was absolutely the highlight of the parade. Um, or maybe Clay Thompson losing one of his rings. Now to show y'all how much of a fog I've been in. Clay had his rings, Steph had his rings, Bob had his rings, and I had told myself days leading up to the parade, like I need to get my rings because I don't keep them in the house like they're in a safe location, right, I need to get my rings. Totally forgot. See those

guys beginning to pray like I forgot my rings. Then Clay Thompson goes on to lose his one of his rings, and I think he found it, but I'd be the one who definitely lose the rings. So it's probably best that I did not give my rings, um, and I just I talked to my ship anyway, like I had my rings. So it was great, But man, Um, the fog that I've been number one for all our loyal supporters out there are listeners, I hope you listen to the podcast that I did right after the finals, and

it was absolutely horseship. Why was it absolutely terrible? Well, I'll tell you why it was great. Having Andre on, Like, that's surreal, Like to have him on in that moment, like right after we win, great, Like you know, you get Clay Thompson on as about as long as you can get Clay to focus. We we kept him as long as we could get him to focus. Absolutely incredible. Getting GP on there, absolutely amazing. Even the cameo by the rook who can't stay focused for twenty seconds and

answer some questions. It's great. Having those guys own is incredible. Why was it terrible? It was terrible because I was still in the fog. I didn't know what was going on. Um, I'm sure you you probably watched that and be like Draymond didn't give us much of anything. I had nothing left to give. I was absolutely exhausted, um and again and further explaining the fog that I was in. I

totally missed the Champagne celebration. Totally missed it. They like did a little small dude over for me when I

when I came in the locker room. As you know, if you watch the if you see any if you watch any of the clips that the Warriors supposed to from Champagne celebration, you'll notice you only see me in like a five second clip, maybe for five seconds, and it's really just me sitting there spreading the champagne because I missed the whole celebration again just in the fall on the court, I'm standing on the court and like not realizing pretty much anything that's going on around me,

And so I missed that. I then proceeded to miss pictures with everyone. So like if you see the pictures, like I think there maybe a picture of me and Clay, maybe me and Clay. I think it's me and Clay possibly, but like I don't have a picture like me and Steph, for me and Steve or me and g Like I totally missed that part of things. I then proceeded to miss of the after party that we had in TV Garden and like some club they got in there, Like who knew it was a club and TV Garden huge club.

I missed like of the after party. So I said all of that to say or just to give you a perspective of why A that episode was terrible because I didn't realize in scheduling the episode with Jackson and like you just don't know where the emotions were gonna be. And for me, my emotions was all over the place, like, you know, a part of me and sitting there watchington younger guys and enjoying seeing them like when their first championship and they're reacting. A part of me is sitting

there trying to process. Man, we just want our fourth championship. And let me tell you the difference in between four and three man as well be having one and four, Like it feels so night and day, like the rarefied air that we're in after winning the fourth one then winning the third one, it's literally like it's just so rare. I was on the phone with Brian the other day and I'm just telling him, like, bro, the difference like going from from three to fours and saying he like, yo,

I'm telling you, like it's crazy. That's why when when we want our when we when I want my fourth one, I'm just like naha, like stop, don't you don't want to hear anything. And we were we were just sitting there talking about how like the difference in between winning number three, like going from three to four, it's massive. And so I want to give a big shout out to the guys who has four rings. Um obviously your your current active players is made up of the Doves

and LJ. So that's a very short list. Um, but Shock Diesel, who all right said a million times was growing up for me like it was Shot, like a huge Shock fan. Had to zip up. Orlando Magic, Onzie. My night light was Orlando Magic. I had to iron on half ironed on and the rest is like going missing Shaquille O'Neil magic jersey with the lines and into him and Penny jerseys, you know, like growing up for me, my favorite player all times, Shot, just the way he dominated.

I actually be going back and watched some of Shot highlights and different stuff with Shot, and dude was absolutely insane. Four time Club, MJ. Four time Club obviously MJ six, but we're talking about the four time Club, MJ. You're gonna you're gonna be a part of this club for now. Um, we got Cold Kareem and like you know, I can go on and on with this list. Scottie Pipper, the moral of the Stories, Steve Kerr. I'd be remiss if I didn't say Steve Kerr. But there's forty four guys.

Four of them happen to be from our camp and in NBA history that has four championships, and so that leads you to the conversation that it's our seventy five team. Now we're not getting into that. I'm just joking, partly joking, partly serious. But anyway, it's like it's it's really still hard for me to put in words, but nonetheless back to what I was saying anyway, trying to put into context,

like we just want our fourth ring. In the emotions of it, standing on that stage looking out at the Boston fans, who I don't even need to revisit all of the things that they were saying and h their antics, but to watch them sit there and watch us hoist the trophy, my emotions in my mind was just all over the place, and so just kind missed the moment. I remember a story Peter Goober, who was one of the majority owners mentor mind one of the majority owners

are to go to State Warriors. He told me a story years ago. He said, Draymond at All, I always wanted to win, and um, I always wanted to win an Oscar, you know, and and you do all of these things, and you put these movies together, and like the ultimate goal is to win an Oscar. And I'm like, yeah, it's great, he said. And Draymond, we finally got the movie. We got our oscar, he said. And I'm on like a chair and back of everybody, like trying to stand up and so I could be in the picture, he said.

And in that moment, I realized the picture is the least important part of this journey. It's the actual journey that you appreciate. It's the times on set um with the actors and with the directors and producers and actresses. That's what you appreciate. You appreciate the journey. You appreciate

the process of getting there. And it took me to have to trying to hop on a chair in the back and like being the picture to realize like it's all about the process and journey, and so a part of me is just sit standing there and like like not even really caring about the picture or about holding a trophy, Like I never held the trophy on stage.

First time I held the trophy was like in the pictures afterwards where you take the individuals, but really hoisted the trophy was the parade and so it was it's it was a surreal moment for me, but it was also a little um confusing if you will. And what I mean by confusing is just it was just all over the place. I was all over the place. So that was kind of the ending of it for me, or yeah, essentially the ending. But I also want to walk you back to games five and six, A very

interesting detail. I think a couple of people picked up on it, but most people didn't. I wear the same outfit game five in game six. If you would have saw my pack back on the way back from Boston or way to Boston, very small bad because I didn't have many clothes. I wear my same black uh Converse sweatsuit to game five and the game six. What was the significance behind that. The significance behind that was I felt like leaving Boston that I was in the war.

Um with the people screaming and yelling the way they were, the disrespect, I felt like I was in the war, and and no disrespect to to to our soldiers and to um our armed forces as a whole, and actually going to war when I said, we appreciate everything our armed services due for our country, for us as American citizens. So I'm not making the comparison as if I was

going to like real war. I was going to war in my world, and my world is basketball, and I felt like I was going into a war, and so my mindset was all black everything, like I'm going to take something, and that's just kind of where I was mentally. I also didn't want to spend any energy on what I was going to wear that day. Uh, And so for me going into game five, Hazel was asking me, She's like, uh, do I need to earn your clothes for you before? Like keeping you want to set your

clothes out before you're taking that. I'm like, yeah, I think I'm just gonna wear an all black jogging cities. She's like, okay, well, if you change your mind, you know, let me know or sit. And then when I woke up from my now, she's like, hey, you got something me are I say, no, I'm one percent wearing all black jogging suits. And then you know, go to game five. We win Game five, and I told her, I'm I'm gonna take this joggon suit off. I'm gonna pack it up. No,

I'm not watching it. No I'm not. I didn't have time to send it to the cleaners or anything anyway, because we left the next morning after game five, this is going straight in the bat and I'm going to game six and I'm gonna wear the same outfit. That's exactly what I did, and the result was the exact same. I think after game four we knew we had them. Like after game four, I'm like, all right, I'm wearing

all black. It's gonna be a funeral. Game five, it's time to go ahead and really try to kill these you know, like kill these boys. Game six we put the dagger in these boys. But that was kind of like, that was my mindset, and so that's how I went into game five, in game six with at the absolute same outfit on. It was incredible. It was a part of my journey and for me, like I said, that

was my mindset, and I absolutely enjoyed that. Now, like I said, I knew after game four, we knew after Game four and really after game three, but especially after Game four that you know we had that was kind of it. And so you're going to game five where they you know, we take a big lead, they fight back. The biggest shot of the series was Jordan's Pools shot before the end of quarter number three in game five, where he banked the three in Why was that the

biggest shot of the series. The reason that was the biggest shot of the series was because they had fought back in in in the third quarter, which we had dominated third quarters, they fought back in that third quarter and when they fought back, they had taken the lead and Jordan hit the shot and we went up one going into the fourth quarter. And I know to most people it's like, but they only up one, No big

deals right there. But what that did to them mentally for them to see, man, we just had this incredible quarter and we're going into the fourth quarter down. It didn't matter whether they were down by one point or ten points to have the quarter that they had to take the lead and then go into the next quarter down that for them, I feel like it was a dagger when Jordan hit that shot. Now did they quit after that? No, we went out and we immediately took

over the fourth quarter of Game five. But you you just knew like they didn't have Like they made the comeback, but they didn't have enough to get over the hump. And if they never took the lead and they're going into the fourth quarter down one, it's a totally different mindset, but the fact that they took the lead and then they still went into the fourth quarter down I think for them mentally, that was like a gut punch for them,

and so a huge shot from Jordan's. Then you go into Game six, they start off, they make their run. We all expected it, we all expected like this. They're fighting for their lives in front of their home crowd. They're gonna come out with a bang. They started Twitter too, and then things start to change, and at that point you knew we took that first blow. That was it. That was it. And then obviously we go on and we do what we had to do in order to talk to you all the way we have been talking

to you all. And by the way, let's get into that Twitter beef. Twitter beef with everyone. I don't have Twitter beef with anyone, just that why um, because why would I have beef. I'm kind of just telling y'all like what it is, and telling y'all how I feel, and like, most importantly to shut up because quite frankly, we don't want to hear it. And so you may have seen me at the parade, and I'm just like

in every interview, I'm like shut up. And the reason being is because you have these experts that does all this talking, less analyzing, but a bunch of talking heads and they just talk talk talk talk talk. But what about getting back to actually analyzing the game? What about um?

Like why why is it so important? I know why it's important, actually, but all these hot takes, like what about explaining the game of basketball and and what's going on and like what it means and the games within the game and the advantage of the advantages that one could get winning the NBA Finals. For those of you that don't understand it is the smallest edge that it takes. Is that that's who's gonna win the NBA Finals. It's the smallest edge. It's not who can score the most points.

It's not it's Steph Curry gonna score thirty nine points and Jayson Tatum gonna score twenty nine points or thirty nine points, or it's not that that's not what wins you the NBA Finals. It is the smallest edge that wins someone the NBA Finals. And because all these dumb talking heads and never done it, they don't understand it. Even the one that has done it, don't act like he's done it because he's an idiot in the moron

and wasn't really that good of a player. And so I'm talking about Kim j. Perk Is by the way, um like so he don't even understand like how to even talk speak about winning the championship and things that go into it, and and like the advantages that you need to gain or lack thereof, and giving someone an advantage. I mean it comes down. Look, I'm very close with Jayson Tatum. Obviously he's been on the show, which we appreciate, but that's j t is a little brother to me.

It was bothering me to not speak to him at all during the finals. Aaron Miles super tight with Aaron Miles. Me used to sit and play Domino's entire flight where Aaron Miles when he was here the last few years.

It was bothering me not to talk to them guys, because when you've built the relationship like I've built with those two, like a part of me is like, man, I want to say, what's up to my brother, But the other side of me, no, I don't have absolutely nothing to say to him or or eight Miles, not either one of them because it's the smallest edge that wins you an NBA finals, and you can't let anything get in the way of that. And so for me

and going through that, yes, that bothered me. But I recently, I just talked to eight Miles and JT on the phone a couple of days ago, UM, and I told them, like I I faced time both of them, like what's up, and to look on both of their faces when they answered the phone. Obviously it's not at the same time, but when they answered the phone, the look on both

of their faces was priceless. I wish I would have screenshot at it, but I didn't, UM, because some things are just for those moments and that and that's one of them. But to look on both of their faces with prices. But I called both of them and I said, hey, man, I'm just calling the break the ice. Like we ain't spoke a few weeks, but I'm just calling the break

the ice. And I specifically waited until after the parade to break the ice because you know, like you're still in those moments and you know you're preparing for the parade and it's still early. So I waited till after the parade to hit both of them chop it up, check in and it was great, It was absolutely incredible. But I brought that up and just speaking on the edge and the smallest edge that it takes to win the NBA Finals, and what is this significance of that.

The significance of that is ESPN had us like eighty two and what is that? What do I mean by we've heard of that before? Right? These people had us with a twenty percent chance to win the NBA Finals and an eighty percent chance to lose. So I asked the question and apparently it was like made by the basketball power in dex So I asked the question who makes these like, like who comes up with these numbers? Like what's the formula? Is it? Is it the formula?

Like is the formula made based off of the idiots that be talking about the game that we haven't talked about the game of basketball? Because that's clearly what it looks like, like how do how does your index come up with it chance for us? But it's because I don't know maybe again I don't know what makes up this index and like how you come up with that?

But clearly it's flawed and clearly broke. I think after Game four we might have been still like twenty something percent chance of winning, which is absolutely insane because that means you didn't watch Game four and be like, oh, this ain't right. Something here not right, and I see what's happening here. No, but most people can't see that because they don't quite understand. So let's get back into these talking heads, Skip Bayliss. No, I don't want to

come on your show. No, I'm not gonna come on your show and debate. But if you want to analyze the game of basketball and we come on there and we do that, I'd absolutely consider it. I'd consider it. I'm say I'm gonna come, but I will consider it. But if you want to sit there and debate, I didn't go to law school, brother, Like I don't want to come on your showing debate sports or debate anything else because I didn't go to law school. If I if I wanted to debate something, then I just like

I wouldn't went to law school. And really did that not try to make basketball that like, No, basketball is beautiful basketball. There's a lot to analyze in the game

of basketball if you know the game. And I think that's the problem a bunch of you guys run into You can't give analysis because you don't know the game, so you end up trying to like debate with somebody and like that's whatever teachers on, Like, I don't want to sit there and debate with you on TV because quite frankly, there's someone that's never watched your show, and they may be flicking through the channels and see me

on your show. And because they've never watched the show and they flick through the channel and they see me on your show, they may mistakenly take me for the fool as opposed to knowing right away that you're the fool. And I'd hate for them to mistakenly take me for the food that you are or get me confused with the idiot that you are. Right, I don't have much of an interest for that. I wouldn't want that on

my name. And and to like like, no, it's it's very evident what you are and who you are, right, we know that. It's concrete, Like we know exactly who you are, clown, And I just don't think i'd be doing myself as sir uh any service or any good by coming on your show. I'm also not sure that I would even want you as as a guest on the Draymond Green Show, because if you go back and you look at resumes of guys on the show, you don't qualify like you. You don't qualify for this show.

Your your resume not there. So I probably won't come on your show. Unless you want to sit there and analyze the game of basketball, then I'll come on maybe, But I'm not sure. And the only other outlet I would really be able to talk to your on us right here on the Draymond Green Show. And and again, your resume doesn't quite crack. It doesn't quite crack the code. Maybe we'll change that standard one day and have a

guy like yourself on. But as of right now, especially coming off this fourth championship, you're not welcome, my friend. You are not welcome here. And by the way you come out talking about the new media, you're not the new media, you're the real media. You are the real media. You're right, you've attached your name to a black man for all of these years. I and and that black man is none other than King James Lebron James himself, and you try to tear him down as much as

you can all these years. So you're right, you are the real media. You are exactly who I speak of when I say this is the new media. We do this differently. You're right. I'm happy you admitted it real media. But the new media is here to stay and we're taking this thing over. You know why, because people don't want to hear that old, dried up, tired stuff that you're talking about. Nobody want to hear that no more. The new media. Baby. It's a reason JJ Reddick going

on TV and crushing everybody. It's a reason they keep calling Patrick Beverly back to TV. It's a reason why c J McCullum just signed that deal. It's a reason why I signed the deal that I signed. It's the reason why this podcast, the Draymond Green Show, it's doing the numbers that it's doing. It's the reason why the new media. I don't nobody want to hear all that tired stuff you're talking about anymore. Mr Real, Stop attaching

your name to Lebron James. Stopped because you know Lebron James, in his incredible life that he's lived and continues to live, that there will always be something for you to talk about. If I just attached my name to Lebron James, we don't want to hear your brother. It's over. It's the new media. We're here to stay, so you keep talking that real media stuff. I'm happy you did. You showed your hand. You are exactly who I thought you were, exactly who I thought you were, Kendred Perkins. You act

like this clown, and it's baffling to me. He could never be you. You know, he could never be you because he's never done it. You go up here acting like him. You don't have to do that. Buddy, you played, you did it? Go talk about it or can you not? I hope that you can. With all these hot takes you make, you should be able to You don't have to act like that, my man. You don't have to go up there. You go from being enforcer the coon. How does that happen? At least you act like it enforced.

I didn't really ever take you for one, which is why when we were playing the Calves in the NBA Finals and I was shaking them pom poms and people was like, oh man, I remember my Twitter blowing up like you leaveing Lebron alone. You shouldn't be shaking pompous out Lebron, Bron my big brother. I would never shake pomp poons at him. Also, who's he cheering for? I was shaking pompoms at the guy in the suit in the back or here in the bench, shaking my pompoms

at him, that guy. You don't have to act like that, man. You can go on TV and be real and like stand on business. You know, gotta go up there doing that stuff you're doing. This. Man just went on on JJ's podcast the other day and said, I was praying that Lebron James got hurt. What are you kidding me? You actually thought that was okay to admit? Come on, cause you can't think that's okay to admit even if you felt that way, which, by the way, why do

you feel that way? That's a problem. But even if you felt that way, they take that one to the grave. MA Man and j J being the scholars that he is, the great individual that JJ is, and most importantly, the new media. Why is that significant right now? Because the new media we also protect guys like we protect this. This isn't about tearing you down. This isn't real, Skip Bayless, try and tell you down we don't do that. Now.

We we do critique something's off. We're gonna talk about it, but we're not gonna just try to tell you no, no, no, we're gonna try to help that. And so j J, being the new media member that he is, then tries to give you an opportunity to walk it back, like you mean like you spraying anchor now a c l Are you kidding me? Bro? There was once upon a time or excuse me, there was once a point in time where a c L S was in and people careers. Man,

you remember this how we feed our families. We always talk like I don't know if you do, because it's not my substance, but I always talk about like when you get hurt, you lead a court like you live that, like you don't lead a court. And then it's like, all right, I'm not hurting no more. I can walk down. But when the game is going on and when practice going on the back on crutches, like like it's a video game. No, you really live this stuff. So for you to pray on another man down fall, that's a

character flaw, my man. If you pray on somebody down fall, once you're gonna pray on it again, not necessarily that you pray on Lebron's down fall, because y'all are in like living too totally different worlds. Um, But that just means you're the type of person that will prey on someone's downfall. That's a little whack to me. That's not New Media's m I don't understand. You don't have to go on TV and act like that. Brother, you played act like it. Stop doing this. Stop making a fool

of yourself. You played act like it. Nicholas right, how are you doing a lot of hot takes? You admit it the other day we make hot takes. Analyzed the game my man now total opposite of Skip Bayles's Skip Bayless has kind of rolled Lebron James and tried to tear him down for all these years, and that's how he feels. His segments on the show. Nick Wright has been total opposite Bron. Bron could go one for nineteen and Nick right gonna say he he made one shot

and he was the best player on the floor. What happened to the days of again analyzing the game? Honest depends you got and like clowns like Bill Simmons, who's like a Boston die hard fan through and through. That's not really giving you the real because he's not impartial. Like what happened to the days of doing a great job in media and your stories and your takes and

just giving analysis, not being a homer. Not Kendrick Perkins going on First Taken then going on the Boston Celtics home TV show, like, yeah, we're going for the South, dude, you were just doing national TV about these games. By the way, the issue that I have with with this topic in particular, if y'all are misguiding people, Like people actually see y'all on TV and they actually think y'all

know what you're talking about. So then when they actually think that you guys know what you're talking about, they may be betting on games and they're watching you and like listening, like to Kendrick Perkins say dumb things about the Celtics and the wards. They may believe you, and you're not giving them the real because your heart's in it and because you're not doing a great job at what you should be doing, which is analyzing the game

of basketball. If you're gonna talk about the game, analyze the game, say why this is wrong? Say why that happened. You can't just say, Draymond play terrible? And who who who looked like the old Hill or al Harford is who he used to be like? How though? Why explain to us what you mean? And you have to explain it, analyze it, help us, not just don't don't just be these hot take guys. Man, explain what you're talking about. Be thorough. It's important people are listening to y'all and

think y'all actually know what you're talking about. It's important, you know why. Another reason, it's important to make sure these guys act the way they should be acting, to carry themselves the way they should be carried. I was once suspended from Game seven of the NBA Finals. I'm sorry, Game five of the NBA Finals. What's the significance of that? Why is that matter in this conversation, because, again, the

guy's opinions matter. I'm sure I'm certain that some media members had conversations with people about in the league office about whether I should be suspended or not for that game. Your opinion matters. Hard to trust those opinions, hard to be honest in those situations. If you can't even analyze the series and say X, Y and Z. Now, granted, when I'm done playing, I'm sure I'm gonna want to

see the Golden State Warriors. When I spent ten years of my life here, hopefully we'll spend the next five, six or whatever here, So I'm sure I'll feel a certain way about to go and State Warriors. Okay, if I go on any show off, if I'm on inside the NBA, I'm gonna break the game down and break the series down and tell you why this matters and why that matters, and how this helps and how how

it doesn't. Like you still have to do that. You can't just be like, oh, I wanted the Selfstius to win, Like no, no, no, they're paying you to analyze and you know, like you're doing the countdown shows. I gotta tell people what's going on. Man. They trust you, so they think they trust you. You have to be able to thoroughly help break this game down, and we don't see a bunch of that. And it's baffling to me. It's baffling. You know, come out hot, take this hot,

Take that back to your boy, Nicholas. You spoke all of that stuff about Andrew Wikins. You spoke all of that stuff about how the warriors were done and like would never win again, and Stephanie needs to leave, go to stay and blah blah blah. And then once you're wrong, you then try to go on TV the other day or whatever you are on and say that's what we do. We make hot takes and up. No, no, no, you're wrong, brother. You gotta stand on that. No ste takes. Don't just

get the roll off. See that's what y'all accustomed to. I say, they make these ask no statements, and then once I'm done, it's just over. No no, no, no no. You got to stand on that. Changing your opinion in the middle of this. No no, no, brother, stand on that, stand on your word. It's important to stand on that. Not just flipping and flopping and all this and not what do you stand for? I don't understand. I don't understand. It's baffling to me. We gotta be utter and I

only care. I only care. It's because I've transitioned into that industry. I'm now a part of that industry. Not part of the real media though I'm the new media, but I'm a part of the industry, and I know how you guys are view and I would love to change the view before I'm really seeing as a part of that industry, because it's just a little unfortunate. I can get media media people out here just making these

crazy statements and like saying these things. I tweeted at Uncle or Instagram story one of them, and I said, I got an Uncle Oaks story type story for this podcast. Let me give it to you. And speaking of media, just talking, there was a clip going around during the finals. By the way, these all the things that be going on during the finals, and and and the guy sitting there like, uh, Draymond, you're you're, you're the podcast is

blah blah blah. These are all the things going on in the finals that you all really don't know going on behind the scenes. And I really haven't had time to talk about him because I'd be so locked in on task at hand. But there was a clip that surface and centric Maxwell says to Gary Payton, see her, Draymond was acting like that in the eighties and nineties. He get punched in his face. He could punch right in the mouth whatever he said. So here's the thing.

Let me explain something to y'all. I played basketball. When I go on the basketball court, I'm not going out there to punch on buying the mouth. I'm not going out there trying to pick a fire with anybody. I am going out on the basketball court to simply win the basketball game, hopefully play well in doing it. In doing that, you're going to try to find any small ash that you can, because the smallest edge. When'd you

the NBA Finals? Okay, So if I go on the court and I talked jump, I talked to somebody, Listen, you heard it here first. I'm not going out there trying to fight anybody. I played basketball. Will I fight someone if I? Of course, Like I grew up my whole life fighting, I don't fight anymore. It's pointless. So I saw it so here here it is. I'm telling you here first. When I go on the court and I'm talking jump, I am not talking junk because I

want to fight someone. It's not what I'm going out there and do, quite frankly, because it's gonna cost me too much money if I do go out there and fight someone. So I'd rather save that money, all right, now that we got that. Sometimes in trying to gain an edge on the court. It does lead to you having beef off the court. Uh, you leaving the court piste off. Not really me in most cases, but some people leaving the court piste off and it carries on

outside of that. To be quite frank with you, I don't really know how many guys fighting off the court even when it carries outside of that. But short can whatever. If I had to fight, great, we'll fight. But I said all of that to say you gotta fight. Like I said, you'll fighting, I'll fight. It is what it is. But nobody's really fighting sanba Okay, so multi billion dollar organization, gosh, just all run around fight. But so central Macuwell makes

the statement blah blah blah. He does his stay. So now after game five, almost positive it was after game five, Yeah, I think it was after game five, molmost positive. I actually game five. I go out and I do the Scott vm PL show, and then I see to the left, my family is still sitting in the stands over where they sit. So I go over there, kiss my family, hug him. I'm like, all right, I have to now head back to do I just finished Scott ben Felt. I now have to head back and do the media room.

So in doing that, where their seats are in the tunnel, I'm about to walk out of the tunnel. Who's standing there? Gary Payton Senior and Cedric Maxwell with a few other people, But those are the two that I see now. I noticed, so I so if GPS standing with his back to

the stands Cedric Maxwell, it's like standing over here. So I like come into between them and I put my back to sector Maxwell and I tell g P he should nobody should ever be able to come to you and like think they can talk about me and they

got a friend and you like GP. That's my O G man Like even before a young g P out here, I used to play dominoes with GP like Oakland real Oakland legend, like nothing but respect and love forever for g P. O G. I said, he shouldn't be able to come to you like he got a friend and you and talk about me, because ain't nobody gonna come to me and talk about g P like they got a friend. Know, you're gonna do one or two things.

Either you're gonna go tell GP that you told me you're gonna punch him in his mouth, or I'm telling you right now I'm gonna go tell him that you said you're gonna punch him in his mouth, because if you're walking around saying you're gonna punch this guy in his mouth, I think he should know. So I told g P that, and GP like, man, I ain't getting into all that, and he's standing right there. I said, I know he's standing right here. That's why I came and said it to you right now because I saw

you earlier. But I ain't say it to you earlier because I want him to know. When you're gonna you're gonna talk about something punching somebody in the mouth, you gotta stand on that. You can't just be walking around talk like, oh he get well, you do the punching. You gotta stand on that. And so I asked, you know, GP like nine and so then sential Mass, Well, oh man,

I'm gonna get out of here. Of course you are, because you're walking around talking about you're gonna punch someone in the mall or somebody would get punched in the mall or whatever. But I'm playing basketball and I'm trying to gain an edge in the basketball game. Punching in the mouth has absolutely nothing to do with basketball, So let's just keep this basketball. And so then he walks out,

he walks off. I finished talking to GP. So then I walk out the same tunnel because I'm going to do my media and he's standing there like, Drakemona, let me talk to you, and I'm like, it ain't really nothing to talk about. Like you said, I would get punch in the mouth. So I want to know, are you gonna punch me in the mouth. No, I ain't gonna punch you in the mouth. I appreciate your game,

of course you do. So then stop talking about that, Like there's absolutely no reason for you to be talking about me getting punch in the mouth unless you're going to punch me in the mouth. And so it's just this whole thing of like you know, you saw Russ the other day, check Skip Payless, like um, Russell Westbridge. That that man name is Westbrook, right, that man has children, that man has a family, that's a family name. You're

talking about Russell Westbridge. Again. People just run off talking and think they don't have to stand on that. You gotta stand on them words, man, Your words mean something. You gotta be willing to stand on that. And so that that's like my whole thing with this new the new media stand on that real media, but calling this man Westbrick like, what who are you? So hopefully these guys will see this, they'll of course they'll look at it. They'll go respond to say, I'm not doing that, Bob.

But if you know what's good for you, you gotta make the adjustment, man, because people tired of that old ass tire stuff. Y'all given the sick of it. Yours truly the new media. Lastly, before I get out of here, let's talk about free agency. I also, oh, before I get to this, this is actually lead right into where I'm going. Brian Windhorse said after Game five, that was a pocketbook win. The Warriors bought that win. I got no problems with Brian went Horse. I got no problems

with Brian went Horse at all. Action I have a problem with that statement. The reason I have a problem with that statement is because it's very contradictory. I was a contradictory. Well quite frankly, you guys, said pan Clay Thompson. The money that he made coming off of his injury was a bad idea boy, Joe lake Cook, they should have paid him less money, blah blah blah ah. You guys also said Steph Curry and the extential he signed, it was over and that was it, and blah blah blah.

You guys also said when Andrew Wiggins came to this team that we never went again, that we took on that bad contract and he is a zero and the bus and blah blah blah. You guys also said that I was washed up. Those are for highest paid players. You had an issue with every single contract. The moment it's beneficial, it's no longer a problem now it's now

we bought the win. How is that possible after y'all had an issue with every single one of the contracts I just mentioned our top four contracts, you guys had an issue with. How is there any such thing as a pocketbook win for a team that y'all said was pathetic that would never win. That's baffling to me. Now,

I gotta give Joe Lacom some credit. We do how the highest payroll and the NBA in large part due to we drafted well, our team, our front office, our ownership, the ownership group, and they've done an incredible job and number one building the business. Of the Golden State Warriors. As we know, it was not great in two thousand level when they bought this team, so they built the business an incredible one. They've drafted well. Shout out to

Bob Myers. The guy who did not receive a single vote for g by the Year or Executive of a Year did not see he did not receive a single vote, a single vote for a team that y'all said would never win again, would never do anything. The guy who put this roster together did not receive a single vote for Executive of a Year. And for the smart alect that's out there, he may have received one. I don't think he received a single vote. That's no slight to

whoever won Executive of the Year. But the guy who won a championship that put this roster together, that y'all said was total horseship, didn't receive one. Okay, so we know we already know that there's a problem with the voting system. First team, M v P, D P, O, Y, you name it. We already know there's a problem there. So that just falls right into the category with that, let's pathetic, But the fact that we can have a pocketbook win on a roster that y'all said would never compete.

That is baffling to me. Like I said, we do have the highest payroll now to give Joe lacol credit there, guys not afraid to spend, which, by the way, we got some important stuff coming up, so we'll talk about in a second and the importance of it. But you can't say that, you just can't. Something that's baffling to me is that the Warriors Steph Curry it's been here thirteen years, drafted, Clay Thompson eleven, drafted myself, ten, drafted Wiggins, Yes,

traded for not signed. We traded for Andrew Wiggins, James Wiseman drafted. I think the next highest paid player after that, if I'm not mistaken, is Jonathan Cominga drafted, Cavan Luney drafted. The fact that we're paying the same tax penalties that teams are that can go buy a team is crazy.

Like the fact that there are no like okay, so you can go further into the tax if you have bird, right, But the fact that we've drafted all of these guys, and yes, the contract to get up there when you have success, but why is the tax rate the same exact tax rate as far as penalties go, for someone if they just went and when we say bought the team, if they went and signed every free agent that they didn't draft, why why is the taxes the same? I

don't understand that. Like, so, to get penalized for drafting well, that doesn't really make sense to me, because then what's the incentive of drifting well and keeping your guys if that's going to be the case. Prime example being we're in free agency. You got Kavan Luney, who's a free agent who's going to do extremely well, who's put himself in a great position. Um, you get further penalized for giving him more money, but you drafted him with the

thirtieth pick. Loon is by far next to Moses Moody, by the way, the most professional guys I've ever seen. Incredible, don't miss a beat, not late, no issues, They will never piss Steve Karral like, guys are great. You signed you when you drafted Looni with the thirtieth pick, and now you're gonna get penalized for that does not make sense to me. Doesn't make sense. We signed GP when

no one else wanted g P. Obviously not drafted. But and so if there's a penalty there, I understand your Otto Porter who's also a free agent, the money and b Elisia Andrea Dollar. If there's other penalties, I get it. But for these guys, myself being one of them that's like drafted here, the fact that you face the same penalties, it's baffling to me. It's baffling. It doesn't make sense

because again, what's the point of drafting. Well, if you're gonna get penalized ultimately for drafting, well, you can't help. But look at okay, see who has all these draft picks, and then wonder they'll may they'll probably be able to, like they may be able to in the long run keep two or three of these guys because the money is gonna cost so much of these guys turn off to be good. But they're drafting these guys, and so

that right there is a little baffling to me. Like I said, I give Joe lake Up a lot of credit for all that he's been willing to spend and to keep this team going, because like I told y'all before, we ain't done. We're not done. We're gonna keep this train rolling. But the fact that there's no relief there. It's just baffling to me. So I think that's something that needs to be looked at in this next C B A, because you know, and I know people will make the argument and say, uh, well, yeah, but you

gotta help the smaller market teams out. Guess what, I don't really care to like you help them where you may, but like my pay doesn't get raised. I live in expensive at San Francisco, and so the max salary if I make the max salary and Oklahoma City, that money stretch is way further than my money, my max money with stretch in San Francisco. But they don't say, oh, we're gonna pro rate your salary because the rent is more expensive or to buy is more expensive per square.

They don't do that. But when it comes to small market teams, we get punished as saying, nah, if you're gonna do that, then you gotta make it that way across the board, not just for a small market team or for this or that. Then you have to take into all of those disadvantages and advantages across the board, including for the players. And with that, I'm out of here. That's a rap from this episode The Draymond Green Show. Your next episode after this will be j J and I.

Hope all of you enjoy it until next time. By the way, guests is on the way back. J J is not a guest. He's been a guest. J J and I are collaboring and doing Old Man in the three and The Draymond Green Show collap So JJ is not a guest, But guests are on the way back and we're gonna have some big ones. Stay locked in much love. That's a rap from the Draymond Green show Piece