The Draymond Green Show - Emergency Pod: Dray Reacts To His Game 1 Ejection

fan duel sports book makes it easy. What's up, everybody? Welcome to The Draymond Green Show Special one. This is an emergency pot in the six FIFTHPM live from my hotel room and beautiful with Memphis, Tennessee. Uh Dubs just gotta win. And I know that's why everyone is here, because y'all are looking for my breakdown on the game and what I saw right. No, you're here to listen. You want to hear my thoughts and my take on the infamous Draymond Green ejection from game one of round two.

And to be honest with you, I think my take on it maybe a little different than your take or not but there will be for all of our listeners, are our great listeners who's been tuned in, all your incredible supporters who we appreciate. There will still be the Draymond Green Show where we really discussed Game one of the Dubs versus the Grizzlies, where we really dive into Game one of the Celtics versus the Bucks, and the

Bucks are up one. Oh. We'll also talk about my projections and what I think of the other sit reads, which is the Phoenix Suns versus the Dallars Mavericks, and which is Miami Heat versus the Philadelphia Seventies six years. But before we go to that later in the week, let's talk about the ejection and might take on it. Let's get into it amazing when um, I think tonight our guys show that we're you know, we're we're battle tested. You know, we've been through the wringer, We've been through

the ups and downs. We know how it feels to win, we know how it feels to lose, and God's stuck with it no matter how the night was going, not much when our way, but God's stuck with it. Now, let's now let's really talk about what everyone's here for what. You know, what everyone wants to talk about, which is me getting ejected for. I'm not quite sure for what, but um for a file. UM very interesting one. You know.

You know one thing about that file is I actually tried to hold him up, and I was well, I wasn't told anything because I left the court, but guys were told I was. I was ejected for throwing him down, which is very interesting because I mean, even once he hit the ground, I still was holding his jersey up. But I mean, at this point, I kind of expect things like that, Like I've been suspended from Game five of the NBA Finals. Do you do you think I for one second don't believe I would get kicked out

of game one of the second round. Not surprising to me at all, not, not not one bit. So you know, when when they reviewed the file for as long as they reviewed it, I said to myself, I said, I wonder, what could they be deciding that's possibly going to take this long. I'm actually dumb enough to think I wasn't gonna get a flavor of one. Talk about an idiot,

You wanna call anybody an idiot? Look no further than Draymond a Green himself, because I was I mean, I was literally sitting there, like, you know, it's crazy, as I was about to start dancing to the crowd saying kick him out, kick him out, to taunt them, because it's like kick him out for that. So I was about to start dancing, and when I was literally starting to edge up out the scores table, something said to me,

but it's you involved in this play, Draymond. So because it's you involved in this play, you probably shouldn't dance, because you probably should always expect the unexpected. And so the little birdie that sits on my shoulder nowadays told me, just wait a second, don't get up and dance and make fun of them, because if you get up and dance and make fun of them, sure enough, you're then

not expecting the unexpected. And if you're not expecting the unexpected, very soon they'll probably be able to make fun of you. And so I sat there and then the official turn he had a hard time tell. He said, and it's going to be a flagrant, and like long, Paul, like pause two. He didn't even want to say it was gonna be a flagrant too, which was very interesting, to me, because again I am dumb enough to think that it

would not even be a flavor one. That you know, the playoffs are a little tougher and not as soft as the regular season, you know, and that um, you know, you can you can bump a little more and you get away with a little more, you know. Like, but you know, we've seen questionable cause in the first first round, some things that didn't get reviewed, and yeah, I guess it, you know, sometimes I guess it's just a case by

case thing. It's you know, it's a reputation thing. I think tonight it was probably a reputation reputation thing more so than um, a hard file. You know. Now, my biggest worry moving forward is that gives me two flavor of file points, and as we know, I've been ejected for accumulation of flavor file points. So my hope is that the right thing will happen and that will at least get rescinded to a flavoring one. Because a flagrant too,

I mean unnecessary contact. I can't quite say it was unnecessary because I was trying to stop him from making a bucket and getting the hand one, so I can't quite say it was unnecessary excessive. I didn't even really make contact with the guy's body, so excessive would be a bit extreme. If a guy is flying off a one leg, then maybe you say, all right, he was in an unsafe position and you know he couldn't protect himself.

Flagrant too. A guy jumping off two feet straight up and down who then sells a file and dive to the floor, can't quite say he was in an unsafe position. So I guess my me trying to explain this, this flagrant foul to you, your guess is just as good as mine, because by definition, if we go through the definition of a flagrant to foul, I'm not sure that that play would quite be the definition of a flagrant file.

I'm not sure it would meet that criteria. So and this one, you know, I always say, you know, so many people talk about basketball and they don't really know basketball. And you know, like I studied basketball daily for hours and hours and hours, and Joe Blow thinks he knows basketball as good as me because he watches NBA games. You know, I always speak on that. Well, here I must tell you that me and you and whoever else

are all on a level playing field. Here, which means you don't know and I don't know, and we're gonna keep it that way because even the explanation I got, I still don't understand it. So I think in this one situation, are I accused our understanding? They're all on a level playing field, We're right in the same spot. Maybe someone can hashtag the Draymond Green Show for our mailbattery part of this week's show, because oh, don't get it twisted. This is just an emergency pod because the

streets want to hear about the ejection. The streets want to hear how the doves end up still pulling it off. So this is just an emergency pot for all, for all of the Draymond Green Show listeners, um, the ones who supported us all year, who we greatly appreciate. We don't take that for granted at all. This is just an emergency pod for you to hear my side of things, which is kind of like your side of things. You're confused.

I'm confused, and that's just that. Now. What I will say is kudos to my brother my brothers for going out and no matter what, still getting the job done against all odds, um, you know, against whoever else was against us. That's for you to decide. They got it done. We got it done. And it was such a beautiful thing to see Jordan's pool go out have a huge game.

Steph Curry come out in the second half and go lights out, and Clay Thomps and to be shooting miserably after sitting the entire first half pretty much, and then hit the big one because that's what Clay Thompson does. And you know, I was sitting in the back in the locker room and before he caught the ball when they swung it to him, I said, and hair is the one. Har's the one right here? Because that's what

Clay Thompson does. Clay Thompson makes big shots. We've seen that play over and over again where Clay Thompson catches that and he knocks it down right on the wing kind of the wing slide area. We've seen that over and over again. Now, what I do have to talk to Clay Thompson about is these miss free throws. Um. I also need to talk to Steph Curry about these miss free throws, Like, what's going on with with my guys? They miss free throws? And you know, Clay missed too.

But and typical clay fashion and being the biggest competitor that I've ever stepped on the basketball court with, including myself, um and typical clay fashion. What did he do? He goes and get to stop and we go on home wigs with a big box out so they didn't get a quick putback, a quick tipping. I mean, God stepped up to the plate and it was such a beautiful thing to see. But back to what you're here for,

which is the the file. I'm not so sure I want I want to refer to it as a flag and file because I'm not sure it really meets the criteria for a flaging file. And if it does means the criteria for a flaging file, I definitely can't call it a flagrant too. I just can't do that. I mean, I've seen flagrant twos, and I mean even you know, even even with my reputation, like I don't, I don't knock the fact that I have a reputation in this league and and that I will get the benefit of

the doubt the opposite way. I don't. I don't knock that one bit. I understand that the last thing I am is an idiot that doesn't understand that. Like and so I understand that. But I'm not even sure by my standards that i have to live up to on a basketball court. I'm not even sure I can really refer to it as a flagrant too. Even if I'm gonna say, but your Draymond and it's a little different, I can't say that that I'm I'm going to refer to as a flagrant too. And now again, reputations are earned.

I love my reputation. It's gotten me where I am. It's got me three NBA championships, has got me a Defensive Player of the Year award, has got me for All Stars. It has made me who I am in the NBA, coming from a thirty fifth pick, who should who they said would never play a day in the NBA. Here I am in your team, still sitting here in front of you, um, still playing, and you watch me on your TV screen in your living room, You come to games, you wash them. So I appreciate my reperence sation.

I'm not want to shy away from it. I know what it is, and that reputation is hard to earn, you know. And I saw Dennis Robin get ejected for files that probably um Luke Longley wouldn't have got ejected for. You know, I I've seen that, And so I've seen Rashid Wallace get ejected for things that um Corlis Williams said wouldn't have got ejected for. Like you know, I've seen stuff like that over and over against But I am I am an NBA UM fan. I am a

basketball fan. So I've watched basketball and been a fan since I was a kid. So I remember seeing those guys get ejected for things that maybe another guy wouldn't have got ejected for. And the reality is they earned that reputation. But guess what, to me, that's a that that's that's a badge of honor. Like I don't, I earned my reputation. I appreciate my reputation. I'm never gonna shy away from it, and most importantly, I am never

gonna stop being Draymond Green. Now, what I will say is I'm looking forward to see Earlier I said I will say I hope it gets rescinded. Now I'm gonna say I'm looking forward to it getting rescinded. And that's your emergency. Draymond Green Show Live from my hotel room in Memphis. It's a rap. I'll see you guys later this week. Until then, peace,