The Draymond Green Show - De'Aaron Fox

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exciting one and electrified one. UM none other than well let me rewind fifth pick in the NBA draft in two thousand seventeen. Brother just got a nice contract not long ago. I need a loan, so I'm already putting my call in. I know the cars really start coming in when the bag hit. I need a loan. I'm putting my asking right now. A guy who I look at and UM thinks he will and should be a future All Star and I'm looking forward to seeing that happened.

Honored to have our next guest de aon Fox with something, my brother, what's something? Man? I appreciate you having me dog. Absolutely. Just just before we um actually started filming this, you just mentioned your new coach, Mike Brown, who I had the pleasure of playing for I think six years. Um, Mike Brown was here and you know so I understand Mike Psyche, I understand how he coached, but just for starters, how has that been adjusting to a new coach and

specifics Mike Brown? Well, when you got on, I just told you, I'm like, these practice has been long, but this is something I feel like we've just that we've needed. Like I said this, I think at the end of last year, obviously knowing that we need a new coach, I'm like, we just need structure, Like we need somebody that's gone pay attention, that's gonna be real attentative to every little thing and he something will be good, he'll stop and he'll nitpick, And I'm like, that's that's something

that we needed. Because you already know y'all could have a terrible game. You could win. So it's like, what did we learn? And I think that's what Uh, that's what he's brought to us. You know, from from day one it could be good, but it could always have been better. Absolutely, No, that's that's absolutely incredible. You know, obviously we have Mike as an assistant coach, UM, and you could still feel his imprint on on things like imprint on drills. The drills start to go along, very

detailed oriented. But Mike, we could get a little long window. But I love Mike, but film can get long. You got to tell we have had a day where film went the right amount of time. It's going over. Every day of training camp is going over. Gotta love it,

gotta love it. But no, I agree with you. I think, uh, you know, to have someone that's bringing that structure uh to you guys, like you all have a lot of young talent, you know, and like you're just now starting to tap into your talent, uh, you know, bringing over Sabonis who's still a fairly young dude, Kevin Herder, Um, Davean Mitchell, the list goes on and on. You guys have a lot of young talent, and so I think adding that structure, Um, and especially what he's going to

bring on the defensive end. I think, you know, Mike, Mike Brown is a defensive genius. I would have the opportunity to pick his brain and we toss ideas back and forth. So I'm actually happy, uh, for you and for y'all moving forward because I think it would be a really good thing for y'all. Yeah, for sure. I mean, this is the most talented team I've I've had since

I've been in the league, and it's not even close. Um, But one of our problems is and we've been terrible defensively, and like we know what, you know what, everybody knows it. We've been horrible. So to bring in somebody like that, it's definitely gonna gonna help us and just push me personally to be a better defender, like I I know absolutely and he knows I could be it. Absolutely, No,

that's incredible. At the deadline last year, you guys made a few trades, but obviously the big one being bringing in Uh Sabonas and I think, uh, you know that was a great value add for you guys with just what he brings to the table on a nightly basis, I think it's incredible and like I said, still a fairly young guy. What what did that trade? What did that message send to you as as the frenchise guard um?

And and also what did what were y'all able to find like chemistry amongst you too towards those last couple of months of the season that you all got to play together. Yeah, man, when the trade, when the trade happened, obviously everybody's talking about, you know, the me and Tyree's dynamic. Um, you know who's picking blah blah blah. And when the trade happened, for one, he told me and I was like, yea,

you lying like they didn't trade you? And then what was tweeted like two minutes later, I'm like, wow, we really we really did that. But obviously seeing that we got Domas back, I'm like, every time we didn't match up with Bro, He's twenty and twenty twenty and fifteen every time we played them, So I'm like, I'm excited to play with him, um, but for me just playing

with somebody in hell. Steph could probably Steph and Clay can attribute that to to plan with you having a big that can pass the ball the way that y'all passed the ball. Is it opens up the world. And Um, I mean I was shooting like thirty eight percent from three since we got him, So he's he's just helped expand my game tremendously. And um, having a big like that and then getting shooters around them, I think, is it makes our team so much better? And it's it's fun.

It's fun play with with with guys that can pass the ball like that, pass the ball out of the high post, pass it out of the low pos, passing out the top of the key. He can grab a rebound and go like is ask staff for anybody many they have fun playing with people like that, Absolutely, no doubt, man, definitely, And I think, uh, you know, I want to ask um a question also along the same lines of the trade, what what message did did it sent to you from

the organization? Uh that they decided to trade Tyrese? Because I know there was you know, once they drafted Tyrese, there was like this thing They're like, oh, are they planning for Tyrese to be the their franchise point guard? Moving forward? Like how does this work? And then a year into him being there, a year and a half or whatever it was, he gets traded, and in my opinion, I think that sends a clear cut message for me. It's for me, it's like, yo, they believe in me.

But two, it's like, we just traded somebody who can be a franchise point guard either here or somewhere else. So you better get on your ship and you better start winning. Like um. So it's like it doesn't add pressure, yeah, a little bit. But and then the day I've been trying to, you know, get us into the playoffs for years, so it's a little out of pressure. And ain't never heard nobody absolutely, And speaking of the playoffs, I know everybody make um this big deal of like playoff drop

and obviously you guys having the longest playoff dropt. Question I want to ask you because I think, you know, I catch a lot of flak from people. Are not a lot of flat because flat wouldn't be the right word. But from from time to time I get people telling me like, oh, man, you wouldn't not you wouldn't be nothing if you weren't on the Warriors, or um, like your success is predicated on the Warriors. And you know, it's it's funny to me because the Warriors didn't have

success before I got here. So the whole notion I didn't go to the Los Angeles Lakers are like the Boston Celtics are somewhere that like has success. Befo. I got to the Warriors. They want twenty three games the year before. So I always laugh at that notion and saying that, um, you know, people would always just speak about Warriors basketball of the past before we got here,

which wasn't very successful. I think, uh, before we made the playoffs in two thousand and twelve, um, that you know, or two thousand and twelve thirteen season that that was, Um, that was the second time in twenty years the Warriors have made the playoffs, and and so you know, people would be holding on to that and almost make you feel like, as a player, but that's your burden, you know,

like it's your fault. And I wanted to ask, like, do you feel some of that burden being a franchise guy of the longest drought or do you just feel the burden enough Since I've been here, I mean, I want to say since I've been here. But every time you see a little Instagram post, should the Sacramento Kings ain't been there for sixteen years. I'm gonna face that.

I'm gonna face that. That's on it. Like, I've been in the league for sixteen years or so, so now you definitely, you definitely feel feel the burden of the sixteen years rather than just the five that I've been here. But man, you you walk around and you talk to any Kings fan, first thing ain't gonna bring up is oh one oh two. So I'm just trying to be able to get back to that so that now you're bringing up or whatever it may be, rather than we're

talking about something that happened twenty years ago. Like every if if the kingsman is over thirty years old, that they're gonna bring up that Laker serious or that year at nine times out of ten mm hm. So like I'm not saying I'm getting tired of hearing it, but I'm getting tired of hearing it. So you're gonna change that. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's that's that's the goal. That's the goal. Since I've been here, Like I told people, even with the draft,

like I kind of knew where I was going. So, um, Philly had just traded for the first pick after I worked out for him, so they wanted Mark Kale Boston. I mean m l A, the Lonzo thing, the whole connection. Knew he was going there. New Boston was gonna take j T. And then next was Phoenix, and Phoenix at the time had just gave They just gave Brandon Knight like eighty million Eric BLOODSOE was on a crazy deal.

So I'm like, I was supposed to have a workout for him, Like ship should I work out for them? Like y'all got a hundred and fifty m s going to two point guards. I'm like, I don't want to do that. So I cancel my workout, fly back to Houston for a little bit, take a little break because I was in l a working out and stuff, and then I hadn't in Sacramento was number five, So I'm like, that's where I'm going, Like, that's where I want to go. I know about the history that at the time that

they had been eleven years. I'm like, I can go there and change something. So like I knew, I knew that's where my that's where my destiny lie. And so you canceled your workout in Phoenix because they had two

point guards. So I have a question just a follow up on that and looking back on that and knowing how it played out with Brandon in Phoenix, how it played out with Eric Blesso and Phoenix, do you ever look back on that with any regret and say, um, you know, had I went through with the workout, I probably still could have been the point guard the future

there with a backcourt mate like Devin Booker. Do you ever look look back at that or do you kind of just keep it for sure, look back at it and like I probably could have worked because that's the that's the year that uh bled had tweeted, you know, I don't want to be here no more. So they traded both of them my rookie year, traded both of them. And even that year I didn't think about it, But like three or four years later, I'm like that, actually, me and book would have been a would have been

a nice backcourt. So I've definitely thought about it before. That's absolutely amazing. And just circling back, we were speaking on the drive, Um, you guys drafted Keegan Murray, who has been impressive. What has been your thoughts of a young fell out of Iowa, um and what do you think his potential is man. He's it's crazy how good he is. Um. But he also has that like Tim Duncan demeanor, Like every day I see him like, Yo,

what's up, Ruth, Like what's up? Fox? I'm like, come on down, you gotta like you gotta give me something. You just give me something. But like he doesn't. He comes in. Man, he's the most dificient guy I've ever been around. Like you look over, if he's just shooting, he's not missing, then you we played pick up a little bit before training camp. He doesn't miss. He doesn't have any waste motion. Like everything he does is just

efficient defensively, offensively, grabbing rebounds, boxing out. He he kind of really just makes the game look easy. And if he has some facial hair, I would have thought Bro was like in his thirties, but he think he just turned twenty two. He he walks around and like the demeanor is just always calm and this he he's gonna be He's gonna be really good, Like he's gonna show the world with what he can do. That's that's incredible

to hear UM. And I think for for our listeners out there, I think one thing that you should take away from that and really understand is if he has facial hair, I think he was thirty years old, because that's saying a lot. And you know, um one reason and you not as well, Fox run reason guys come in the league and struggle. It is not necessarily from the offensive end. Most guys can't pick up the defensive end.

They can't pick up the rotations, they can't pick up um, you know, when a guy should be asking out or you know when your bottom low man, or the communication and getting the pick of switching pick and roll coverages based on who who do people are in the you know, in the pick and roll action people everything is just like like somebody might night might not be fast in terms of like speed getting up and down the court,

but in that half court, everything moving like that. And I think that's where that's for sure where people where people come in this league and start to struggle. Absolutely, So that's that's really saying a lot, you know, And that's you know, I got high expectations for the young fella. I obviously, being a big ten guy, watched him against my spark is quite a bit over the last couple

of years, So I got high expectations for him. In the way he's shooting the ball, with the way the league has turned to guys stepping out of shooting it, y'all running pin downs for him, different stuff like that, like for most foremants and having to chase a pin down. It's not territory that you used to be in absolutely, and so I think that's you know, that's gonna be really cool to see that development. I'm looking forward to that.

Um when when when you look at your game, uh, you know, as a as a basketball fan, like who do you model your game after? You know, coming in I remember in high school, everybody used to tell me Nick van Exel. Right, So I'm like I'm doing at this time, like yo, I don't Nick the quick So I'll start looking at highlights. I'm like, you know what, like I do kind of move like him when I'm coming up and um, so I kind of started watching

more film on him. Uh, little film on like John when he was younger, like how he got to the basket, how he was playmaking, and then a lot of like young CP and uh and Tony Parker. I started watching a lot of those guys like Chris Paul New Orleans to me, like so I'm from New Orleans. I was. I watched him growing up a little bit. Um, going back and watching obviously from the way he plays now and the way that he was playing in New Orleans,

it's like night and day. It was. I still even before games, I still watched a lot of film on on on a young CP. Wow, that's impressive. That's impressive. Yeah, and New Orleans man with those series that he had and was San Antonio and stuff like that. Yeah, he was due. Was amazing. He was actually amazing. Absolutely. Um. I spoke about you being the fifth pick in the two seventeen draft, and I wanted to ask you question. I know Alonso, like you said, Alonso was drafted before you. Um,

obviously JT was drafted before you. Marquelle Folks market and Okay, so here's my question. UM. I know, when I look back on early on my career, I think about the young guys, and you actually just mentioned one that I'm about to speak on. I think Brandon Knight was a year before me in the NBA draft. He I'm certain

he was. Actually Kyrie Irvin would destroy Brandon Knight every time they played, and and I had a relationship with Kyrie Kyrie was still like, didn't like Brandon Knight because everybody thought they were better than him in high school. So every time he played Brandon Knight in the NBA, he destroyed him. Like if you think back to um to the rookie sophomore, you remember you Kyrie made him fault. Yeah, okay, so that's going all the way back to high school.

And what I wanted to ask you is, do you feel a personal rivalry with those guys that were drafted before you, especially the guards? Do you feel, you know, Alonzo Marquelle faults not not necessarily Josh Jackson, not necessarily j T, as they are wings, but against those guards that were drafted before you, were you like I probably should have been a number one pick. I'm I'm a point guard. Y'all were looking for a point guard. It me you feel that rivalry still when you play those

guys are not really uh not not really. I think the only person that like it would have been a rivalry per se would have been Zoe, And that's only because we played each other twice in college. Like I never got to play I never played Uh, I never played JT, I never played Marquel, And then obviously um, when we were coming out, you know those popss. You know, he was loud at the time, Tom down but he got three sons in the league now, but like he was loud at the time. So everybody was turning it

into something that it wasn't. Like me and Zoe was cool because we had been to camps together, we had been uh to the drafting, like, we did a lot of stuff together. Obviously when we stepped on the court, like it ain't no brothership, Like it's all competing but off the court, and you know, it was never like that. But that would have been the only guy. And then we were in the same division, like we we both got drafted to it, so we was playing each other

times a year. Um, so that would have been the only one that would have been. But even then it kind of never really to me, it was never really a rivalry. But to some people, you know, they try to you know, Kentucky U c l A, Kings Lakers, it was it was supposed to be something like that, but uh, it never really was. And then um Kel was hurt for a while, so I never I probably only played Kle probably two or three times in my

career right now, So were you alone? So are never really a rivalry because you just felt like, no, like I'm better and it's not a rivalry or or man, I think we had such different games that it was never really a light go at. Somebody's like me, like, whoever it is, it's on me. I'm trying to get forty and if you got help, I'm gonna kick it. But Zoe is I'm gonna get my guys off first, and then you know, my offense comes as it comes.

So I never really like we never had like the same mentality, so it was never kind of a thing like that. I know you got married this summer. Congratulations number one ring on yours too, Min's not on right now. I had to get it fixed. I can dig that. I'm still I'm still getting used to wearing this this ring all the time. Man, It's it takes them getting used to for sure. But uh, congratulations on that number one number two. Just like, how do you feel like?

I think that's that's a huge step in life and and you and your your wife has taken that step. Just how do you feel? Um? Like, what feelings did that bring over over you? It was great? Well, one like y'all y'all actually, uh, because Rosselle worked for y'all for a year. Um, but it was probably the best best day of my life. You see, I can't stop smiling. Um, it was man, it was great. Like we've been together for a while, and I mean she was like she was a wife to me. She's always making sure I'm

good before anything else. Um. She played basketball. She played basketball at a high level. Two. So it's like I got another coach in my ear. But when I come home after a bad game or something, she she's not gonna say nothing because she's been through it. She's a coaches kid. Uh. But it's it's great, man, Like I feel like there there's not many better things than getting married, especially gett married to the person that you feel like you're gonna be with forever. So the look on your

face says everything. It says everything. And that's amazing, Uh to see I love, you know, just just to see people find their person. You know, you go through this life and it's um, you know, it's you know, for every good that it gives, there's some negatives as well. You know what I think people always think like, oh, it's just positive, that's positive. That but to have someone to like go through everything with. I think that's absolutely incredible.

And I've heard and you just you just said it. Um, you know your wife who I've heard about, Like you know, she go to your workouts with you. She'll get on the court with you. Like how is that sharing and that and knowing that, like y'all both have an equal passion for the game of basketball. Yeah, and until everything like like's official, like during the season, like she's here.

I'm like, if we got an optional workout or something like, she's coming, because for one, is the summertime and this is the most time we get to really spend together. So we do everything together. Work out, she's in the gym getting shots up. Hell, she'll be like, Yo, let's go to the gym on Sunday night. Let's let's get it. Let's get a hunted makes or whatever is Um, So just haven't heard there. Like I've gotten I've gotten better as a not only a man, but as a basketball

player since we've met, since we've been together. So it's I say, it's like having another It's like having another coach with me, like all the time. That's incredible, Man, I'm happy to hear that just looking forward to this season, what are some of your goals moving forward? Like, what do you think is next for you and your career the next thing that you need to prove moving forward other than obviously you know, making the playoffs. Man. For

me personally, it stems to shooting the ball. Like whenever I've shot the ball well, the team has done better because now you might have to take an extra step up and an extra step up guard me. It's probably it's a rap. So just being able to shoot the ball, I think unlocked so much for this team. Um, we'll have shooters everywhere around Domas like it will. I think it turns us into a into an entirely different team. Um, I'm shooting the ball if I'm shooting the ball the

way I want to shoot the ball. And for me, like it's a lot of film, Like I shot the ball well in practice. Now it's like do that ship in the game, and like it's I don't want to say it's a mental thing for me, but like I shoot the shoot the hell out of the ball in practice, shoot the hell the ball and workouts all of our lives play now it's just getting to that level of consistency in the game, and my consistency is the biggest is the biggest word for any professional athlete. Really, If

anybody understand that, brother's me. I think, you know, I've had it in my career where I shot the light side of the ball, and you know, and then really, once Katie came here, it was kind of like, yo, I need to get these guys involved, and I stopped looking to shoot, you know, and then once I stopped looking to shoot, the rhythm of it was messed up. Then you start to lose confidence in it. And getting that confidence in that shot in the game is a

totally different thing. I always tell guys like, you know, you're coming to gym with me, you come in this Warriors, Jim, it's two guys who are gonna I'll shoot me. That's Stephane Clay and nobody else. I was shooting me. But making that translate to the game is a different thing, you know what I'm saying. So I understand that, you know, and then from that standpoint to like to be a winner for me, Like the way I've looked at it over the years is your point guard has to be

able to shoot the ball. Like what's the last team that's won a championship in the point guard wasn't a really good shooter, Like you're probably going back to like what two thousand thirteen, whenever the Spurs, whenever the Spurs. One was the thirteen four team. One of these years when the Spurs went, when it was t P fourteen, Like that's the last time, because then it was Steph Kyrie. Uh, Drew can shoot the ball, like all these guys all YouTube to win at a high level as a point guard,

you have to be able to shoot the ball. And that's why for me, like that's that's that's the biggest, most important thing. And I think even when you look at Tony Parker, the game was so different than where three point wasn't really a prevalent shot or it wasn't

really a shot that people hunting. And Tony Parker mid range was deadly fire that mid range and that was a big shot then absolutely, and obviously, like you know, in the playoffs, you have to be able to get to a mid range shot because teams are gonna start taking away your first, second, third option. So you have to be which I think I can. I'm a good mid range shooter. Uh I get to the basket at the blink of an eye. So now that next step

is being able to extend my range. And it's not like I have to shoot, it's really just being thirty five thirty, like just being respectable from three. And I think that opens up the world for us. It definitely will, because nobody can stay in front of you, you know, and with your speed and just being willing to knock that shot down, like I know he's willing to take that and he can knock you down. It's going to

change the game for you. It's gonna open the floor for your teammates, and I look forward to to seeing you do that. I'm rooting for you. Brother. Always, ever needs something for me, got a question for me, I'm here and I'm really rooting for y'alls. Mike Brown is my guy. I want to see Mike do well. Uh. I know you and Luke has built a great relationship. Luke was here with us, so you've got some good guys on your side, brother, and I hope you know that it can turn for y'all. I think it will.

It's a big year for you and it's I'm looking forward to seeing you take that next step. You should one percent being All Star. If you're not an All Star, that ship is on you that ain't know nobody else chuck tilent with your skill. If you're not an All Star this year, that ain't know nobody else with you because you are that damn good. Yeah, I appreciate it.

And that's that's respect. Man. Uh. Everybody, like I'm like, yo, I love Drake because one he's gonna he's gonna spit the real but like it's always it's always gonna be respect at the end of the day. And we all know, like this is a brotherhood. Guys gonna get into it. But once we step off the court, you know that that ship is done, that should have done and and we all brothers. So I really apreciate that, absolutely, bro. I'll see you soon. Man. As you know we played

four times a year. I'm looking forward to see you. But I appreciate you coming on. Yes, sir, thank you for having me. Doctor Peace