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Everybody got my Lobos water. Appreciate everybody being here today. I am excited to get back going. It's like I did a few after we lost and then it just kind of gets boring and I stopped. So here I am back the Draymond Green Show live here at the first annual Film Film Festival Uninterrupted Film Festival is Maverick here.
Of course.
Maverick didn't come see me speak No, But I really want to think Uninterrupted for the opportunity. I've actually been a part of Uninterrupted really since the inception of the company, and it's been a great journey. And to be here it's just like a full circle moment. I got into this podcasting thing like a couple of years ago and it's been fun and I actually when I first got into it, I didn't really understand what it was doing.
I was just like, I'm long winded, and on the podcast, I can just speak and no one can stop me, and my answers don't have to be short, and so I just continued on with it, and you know, then we were waiting signed a deal with the volume, who's been great partners, and we were kind of waiting on the traditional I'm an athlete, let's find the host, and you know, it's traditional thing that we've all seen. And my thing was it has to be the right host or I won't start.
And so we went for a while and we start to get further.
Into the season, and I was just like, man, let's just start it and I'll host it myself and we'll just see where it going as we wait for a hosts, we'll just go. And it ended up being a blessing in disguise because I felt like it turned into something that we hadn't seen. You know, we hadn't seen many athletes taking their own show running with it being the host, holding an interview, speaking about the game and all of those different things, and it's it's uninterrupted. That's that's essentially
what it is. And so just to continue to take the influence from Maverick and Lebron and the blueprint that those guys have laid out. And I always have this thing of like not trying to be so different and make things your own that you twist it and fuck it up. And so I try to follow the blueprint that those guys lay out, and but be myself and following that blueprint. And here we are the Draymond Green
Show live at the first Annual Uninterrupted Film Festival. So I have the honor of having a guest today, a guy who I've wanted to talk to for a while has a chip on his shoulder larger than the planet Earth.
And I love that. And we're going to get off.
Into that chip and how it's judged and how it is viewed. But I'm honored to have this next guest, a two time NBA All Star, one time All n B a h NBA All Rookie First Team none other than the Great Treyyon.
What's up?
Can we please get a better welcome than that? Jesus Christ, it's up, y'all, what's up?
Thank you? Welcome to the Draymond Green Show, my brother.
Like I said, you're someone who I've wanted to have on the show for a while, and I'm happy that it happened this way where we can do it live, we can do it in person, because I feel like you're raw and everything that you've done, and you're the way you've come up, the way you speak, it's organic and it's natural, and I wanted to have this moment where it's just natural and and I'm extremely excited about this.
So thank you for joining me.
I appreciate you having me, Bro I'm excited about.
It absolutely, So I mean, let's get right into it though. Growing up in Oklahoma Number one, Talk to me about the basketball culture in Oklahoma because for me, growing up in Michigan, we all see Oklahoma and what's the first thing we think.
We all think Oklahoma Sooner football.
Talk to me about the basketball culture and growing up in Oklahoma.
Well, first off, I appreciate you having me again, but for me growing up like I was, I grew up in Oklahoma. But like a lot of people don't understand, like I'm a Texas kid, like I was born in Texas, Like my dad played in Texas Tech.
And I was born there and I kind of grew up.
I have a lot of family in Texas, so I think a lot of what it is built inside of me, is built from like my family roots in Texas, and even though I grew up in Oklahoma, I'm still the Texas boy at heart. So I just think, like, for me, I kind of stood out that way as far as like my competitiveness and what I like, how I thought every day and how I.
Like attacked everything. It was just a different approach.
I even played football like second grade till about eighth grade until I had to really give it up and make a choice.
But I'm really a Texas boy.
I mean, I grew up in Oklahoma, so I'm gonna claim that and I'm always gonna ride for my state. But I got a lot of Texas blood in me too, So I feel like that's where I got a lot of that toughness from too.
And you definitely got a lot of that.
Be careful, man, you may not be able to go back to Oklahoma and talking about it.
No, No, because I grew up No, I mean because trust me, everywhere I go I read Oklahoma. It's on my signature shoes, It's on I mean, it's on my pages, It's on everything I read Oklahoma. But I think a lot of people forget, like I think that's the part of the reason why I stand out separately. I'm trying to add that type of DNA to everybody in Oklahoma, you know what I'm saying. But like that's that's kind of like how I was kind of up. I mean, my upbringing brought me to.
Now that's incredible. Talk to me about you're growing up.
You're coming up in the era where Blake Griffin gold to Oklahoma, Russell Westbrooks playing in Oklahoma, Kevin Durantz playing in Oklahoma, James Harden for a short stint playing in Oklahoma. Talk to me about the impact that that had on you. Having those guys in that state playing basketball at the level they were playing.
It that why you're coming up.
I mean it was big for me.
Like I'll never forget being a I was a ball boy at the University of Oklahoma when I was in like fourth fifth grade, when Blake was at school, So I was a ball boy. I wasn't that specific game whenever Blake played Steph in college and everybody knows about Davison coming Oklahoma, and.
I wasn't a ball boy that game.
But that year I was ball boying too, So I had a lot of ties to that university, even when I was back a kid.
But Blake was a big role model for me.
And then obviously when the Thunder came, it was like the biggest thing in Oklahoma for us. We don't have an NFL team, we don't have a hockey team, we don't have anything else.
We do have an NBA team and.
So, but even before that, when it was Oklahoma City Hornets and Chris Paul was there, like before the Thunder got there, I was a big fan and a big admirer of his.
And like, so I've been a student of the game since back then.
But when Russ and KT and they were rookies and second year players in the league and Oka see, it was like my eyes was focused on them and how can I be at that level?
You know what I'm saying.
So, like they've been big role models for me from a distance ever since then. And so Blake, I mean, like you said, Katie and Russ, I tried to take a little bit from from every one of those guys.
That's incredible.
Uh.
When I when I introduced you, I talked about the chip on your shoulder being larger than life, larger than earth. As someone who came through this league and had to have a chip, second round pick, undersize, too too fat to play this position, too slow to play that position, too small to play this position.
I had to have that chip.
And so when I watch you, I feel like I can understand you a lot more than most can, because although you're a point guard, you're undersized. When we start talking about the NBA, talk to me about how important having that chip is and what's done for you in your career coming this far.
Well, I mean to be honest with you, I've been undersized my whole life, Like seeing like I used to want to go play with my dad and like he would go to the y like six thirty seven thirty in the morning, go.
Play pick up with the older guys.
I'd be twelve thirteen year old and want to go play with those guys and just jump in and just play with the older guys. And so I've always played up, Like even on my AU teams before I got to high school, I was playing up against older guys. So I was always a smaller guy. So I'm kind of used to that type of thing. But as I started playing my age and it was started level out a little bit more I was able to.
Show my skills and be better.
But I've always kind of like used that undersize that, I mean, you're too small to your game to translate to the next level. It's kind of like a motivation. Like you said, that chip on my shoulder, but I don't. I don't think about it too much anymore. But because I know who I am, you know what I'm saying. But I definitely remember as a kid being that smaller guy, being on the sidelines waiting for my dad's team to lose so I could try to get on his team
on the next one. Like I just remember always playing up and being that smaller guy. So it ain't never been nothing new to me.
So that's interesting because I I what you just said, I try not, like I know who I am, I try not to really have that anymore. And I think that's a very interesting thing because and I'll talk to you from my experience, and I'm asking if yours is the same. So you come into this league and underdog chip on his shoulder. I came in a little differently than you. I was the thirty fifth pick. He was
the fifth pick. So but like I said, some of those similarities and the same things they were saying about me in a much different way about you. You use that chip every day to get you going, every day, to push you past this guy.
I want to destroy this guy in front of me.
You use that chip on your shoulder, and while you're climbing up, everybody love it. Everybody's like, oh man, you see you see him. He he has passion. You know, he don't take no shit from nobody at this and that thing, and everybody applauded. And then when you and what it seems like to me, once you get to a space of you've had success as far as accolate it's all Star on NBA. But most importantly, as we all know, people in the world, when they talk success,
they just success by money. And so then you get the max contract and all of a sudden and they don't really accept that chip anymore because they're now looking at you like, wait, you're not an underdog. You're making two hundred million dollars like you mean, you're an underdog.
And so now that.
Very thing that helped you succeed, they're now trying to use against you. That has that been your experience and if it has, how have you tried to adjust to that?
That's definitely I mean, that's definitely been my experience from looking at it from like it what it is, but like I thought, weird saying like with Spider Man, like with great power comes great responsibilities, Like I think me getting that mass contract came with a lot of responsibilities, and like for me, that's how I look at it, Like no matter what other what someone else says about me or what they expect for me to do for myself and for my team, like nobody has higher expectations
than me, you know what I'm saying of myself and for my team. So whether I get the All Stars of All nbas or whatever, I mean, like I did get the next Like my mindset never changed, Like I want more, you know what I'm saying. And I know once I get that, what came with it? You know what I'm saying, The more scrutiny, the more the expectations rise, you know what I'm saying, when you get that type of stuff, So I understand that and I accept it,
you know what I'm saying. Like I feel like if you're in my position, you have to either accept it or or just turn it down. You know what I'm saying, because when you get it, you know, it all comes with it. So I tried to learn to really just accept it and then try to move each day, I mean the right way.
So I just just had to accept it.
For with being the face of the franchise as you are. I mean, you've been a face of a franchise since you walk into the NBA, which is tough. Then most people have a chance to grow to that. You know, you've been that from the beginning. Talk to me about some of the difficulties of that, because I think people just look at it and they think, you know, it's it's just basketball, like how you perform at seven pm
on Tuesday night, on Thursday night, Friday night. People have this idea in their mind, Oh that's what a face of a franchise is. Talk to me about the difficulties of being the face of a franchise that most people don't even have a clue comes with with that.
I mean for me being like the face of the franchise, it's like it was a lot tougher for me coming into the league.
Obviously being nineteen.
When you're young in that facing franchise, you don't necessarily know everything, and if you don't have a vet around you, that's really putting that into your ear and how you need to move, how you need to talk to your teammates, communicate with your teammates, spend time with them, because that
stuff goes a long way. And I feel like for me, I was able to learn, thankfully through a situation where we I mean, we were rebuilding and so we weren't really expected to win, So it was a place for me I can go and I can really learn through the through the thicket things and play through games and stuff like that. So I just I think people don't understand when you're nineteen, you come in, you're leading, trying.
To lead grown men.
You're thirty year olds, twenty eight year olds who have family kids. You've playing video games in your dorm room all year, your freshman year of college. You just all of a sudden, now you got to go spend time and dinners and nice dinners and all these things.
With these with these dudes. Just like it's an adjustment period.
And so for me, like, thankfully I was able to go through that justin period early on rather than now. And now I'm still relatively young and I'm able to learn a lot more.
And I've had vets that came around, like Rondo, like lou Will, like Jeremy Lynn.
When I was a rookie, he had been through insanity and everything about him and everything. So I was able to pick their brains and ask them questions. And so I'm just I'm just thankful out of baby. I was able to learn through some struggles early on to be where I'm at now, and so it's supposed to only be better from here on out.
Speaking of rebuilding, I think you guys did something that a most people didn't give you a chance or didn't expect. You all went to the conference finals, like really ahead
of time in that process of rebuilding. Do you think that changed the expectation and narrative on you because all of a sudden, you're rebuilding and you're leading this rebuild, and then you go to the conference finals, and now there's an expectation the next year and the reality is you're really still in that same window that you were in.
You just had some success. Do you think that that changed things for you?
For sure?
I think that definitely like changed the outlook of our team and where we were supposed to go and where we were headed, because we were like we were on the track of just continue to get better. We I mean, like we weren't the most talented team and left in the playoffs, but we had some talented guys, you know what I'm saying. But we had guys that clicked at
the right moment and it happened. But going into the next season, obviously the expectations are higher because you you went to the conference finals.
We went further than what we were expected to be and so.
If we don't get better as a team, like everybody's gonna be coming for us, everybody's gonna catch us. And so, uh, I think that's what happened that next year, being knocked out in the first round. But uh, like I just it definitely changes things when you go that far. I mean, you know, you you win championships, you're expected to win championship the next year, where you ain't supposed to be
knocked down in the first round. So it's like you, uh, you have to learn through it, and you go through it. And that's definitely something that I've I've learned through the process of whenever you get that far, you're expected to go that that's that same route or even further than next year.
So I don't.
I'm not mad at it, because that's that's my expectations. I expected to go further that next year. I feel down when we didn't. So I'm never mad at a fan of our team that that feels that we should be better than what we were the year before, because that's that's my expectations too.
Incredible. I have a question for you all.
Do you think I spoke about this earlier I don't know, many many weeks and months ago, about European players being judged differently than American players.
Do anyone here agree? Disagree?
Nobody agree that Americans are judged harder, right, Okay, I agree to I said all of that to say, Luca is incredible. One of the guys I absolutely hate Garden like yourself, great player, you've been all NBA, he's all NBA. You've been All Stars, he's an All Star. Neither has won MVP. Both has led their team to the conference finals, yet they have a playing game which.
His team didn't make the playing game.
Your name's being thrown around in trade talks the day of the game, thrown around in trade talks.
Have not heard anyone ever.
Say Lucas should be traded. Anybody else ever heard that. I've never heard it. But you've done some of the same things. How does that make you feel or do you even think about that?
When?
Because you two are always compared because of the draft day trade and so everybody's always comparing you to guys whereas he and his career, whereas he and the reality is when you take a step back, you're very close in points. You probably I think you probably lead and assist. But the narrative out there is that the say talk to me about that and just living that.
I mean, it's I mean, it's to be honest with you, I don't even I don't even stress of it no more like I just I know the real ones get it for really, you know what I'm saying, Like I feel like for me, once I win a championship, they'll even open up more more eyes to what I've really done and what I've I mean, especially to some of my peers that I'm compared with and compared to. So to be honest with you, I have no hate towards nobody, especially Luca.
Me and him talk.
We talk all the time, like we got a lot of love for each other, a lot of respect for each other. But I mean, I do agree with you. It's different agendas and different and the way people look at certain people is different.
But to be honest, I don't get caught up into it. I feel like.
Eventually people are going to understand what it is and Mike realize that it's not It's not that far off. Obviously he's a really good player, hell of a player. But it's like we kind of do the same things. He's six' eight, I'm six six two sixty three. Like we just were different sides. But I mean he can play like I can play.
You know what I'm saying. We can we can both hoop so at the same time, that's just what it is.
I respect that.
And speaking of which, I want to roll this clip from earlier this year.
I went on Taylor Rook Show.
And I said something about you, and I really appreciate it the way you responded to it. Because people people get in their feelings about a lot of shit. I mean, I used to get in my feelings about Charles Barkley, so I understand.
That I really get it too.
But people really get in their feelings when you say something like sitting on this media side, and so I always can appreciate the way guys respond to it, and I love the way you responded. But I said something and it's right along those same lines of what you just said.
So can we roll that clip?
I personally think Trey has in his mind he's taken on this villain role.
And he's bought into it, and he is dove head first in. He's good enough to take it on.
And still play well and still betray young and still being All Star and be fine.
But I personally think it's the wrong approach.
So what brings me to this is, you know, speaking about the agendas because and I, by the way, when I'm wrong, I've been wrong before in situations, as we all know, I'll be the first to raise my hand and say I'm wrong. I don't need you to tell me i'm wrong. I'm the first to know, trust me. That's why I don't appeal technical files anymore. I mean to first tell you when I'm wrong. And I actually said this wrong here. I said, you're diving into this
villain role. And the reality is I feel like where that all was birth really was the series versus the Knicks, where everybody in New York Knicks fans are fucking delusional and miserable. And I love New York, so don't pay me from y'all city, but they're hard.
They are hard fan base.
You go in the garden, you're hitting the shots, you bowing every timely shot you need to make, you make, You're making every play.
And what I actually think.
Now and continuing to watch and continuing to pay attention to it is you are very much so a showman. But yet that's been flipped and again talking agendas into being this villain. And I'll be the first to say it, being a villainous such like it's no fun when you but but when it's up against you, you either fold or you stand up to it. You go into it.
And so I've stepped right into it. And people have now made you out to be this villain when in fact, the way you shoot the ball, the way you play the game, they don't vilify guys that do that, but they've done that to you. Talk to me about that, how you feel about that? Like do you do you embrace it at times?
Well, like first off, like you said, like.
Shit ain't really fun being a villain, Like you know what I'm saying, Like I don't like in that video I commented letting you know, like I didn't. I don't dive into that, Like I just I kind of feed off the crowd.
Like if you were listening to the game.
In the ten minutes left in the first quarter of Game one, the whole arena was yelling f tray Young like two minutes until the Boston Yeah, That's what I'm saying. So it's like, what do you want me to do? Like I'm just hooping out'm playing. I ain't said nothing to the cry I ain't boad, I ain't say as quiet as effing here. I ain't say none of that yet. Like I just really played off of played off of how they they I mean they guarded me and how the fans reacted. Like I just I come out playing,
trying to win, trying to put on a show. And I mean, if the fans want to get into it, like in the with the Boston thing, like they started yelling it in game five late in the game. So it's like I didn't say nothing to any Boston fans. I think they was all cool with me. The whole time, and then Game five when they were up three to one, that's what happened, and then we hit the game winner,
and that's why I'm looking at them. But it's like I just I really just feed off of the crowd, Like I really don't like being that way, but like it's been like way since high school when I was averaging forty my senior year in high school, going.
To different very but that's that's kind of what it was.
Like I was going to other arenas and they was chatting overrated if I wouldn't scoring, and.
I was people loved it.
And then I was scoring and finishing the game off, and so that's just how I kind of was looked at. And then videos of highlights when I come back in the NBA, that's how fans just gravitate towards that. And then it's just it's just what it is. But I'm not like that that type of person, Like I'd rather just go out there, put on a show, have fun, smile and get to win. So but if it happens that way, like you said, I ain't about to turn down from anything.
So who is Trey Young?
I mean really just a family person like I'm a when it comes to basketball, like I'm just I'm just so competitive, Like I've just been competitive my whole life. If you win, like I'm gonna make sure we run it back, make sure we can play again.
Give me a chance to run it back.
But I'm just super competitive, and I just in everything I do, and I just I try to bring my people with me and make sure my friends and my family is with me throughout the whole journey.
And but that's that's pretty much it.
New father, which I can relate to, Yeah, soon to be married next week, appreciate.
It, which I can also relate to.
I've almost been married a year now.
Talk to me about having your first kid and what that has done for you as a man and as a basketball player, because I know when I my son is actually here somewhere, there is up DJ there you go. I know for me and having kids, it gave me perspective. Especially you come home from a bad game. Everybody you turn on your phone, everybody say you suck, you're this, You turn on the TV, you're the worst, You're that, And like you walk in the house, kids like.
What's up that? Yeah, you been up to daddy? Like all love.
I'm like, wait, I guess I don't suck as bad as everybody said. I must be pretty cool. But talk to me about the person. Just what having your first child has doffinite?
H No, Like for me, like I said at the beginning, when I don't worry about like my height and my my height when I'm playing anymore, like I just I don't focus on too much of the negative attension and negative things that are said about me, or the false rumors that come out about me. Like I'm I'm focused on my team and my family and really my family first, especially with my son now being born, Like ain't nothing
like it, you know. It's just especially having a son, like you just want to you want to make sure you're doing the right thing. So eventually when he gets older and he's seeing everything that you're doing now, it helps him become who he needs to be. So I'm just just trying to focus on every day living the right way and making sure I'm a great role model.
So whenever he does see this type of thing, whenever he gets older, he he knows that I was doing doing the right things and that he can follow it.
So speaking of his son, ole model those words can only help me or make me think of the word legacy. You're assuming be on your third signature shoe, and you recently just started a podcast, which I think is incredible. Talk to me about those couple of things and how those things can add to your legacy and what you leave behind.
No my sinners, Like you said, legacy is important to me, especially in my family, like me and my dad talked about that all the time.
It's about building that legacy.
And having my third shoe is so surreal to me, Like just knowing like my favorite players growing up and having their own shoes, going to the stores making sure I got those. So I went to the court and felt just like those players, like I need to I need you to have that type of feeling. So to have my third shoe coming out here soon before the season starts, this unbelievable feeling, and then obviously started my
own podcast. Is I mean influenced by I mean guys like you, Those guys like speaking their mind and had certain things come out about them that's not really true, but you don't really want to go to the media because they may take it a certain way.
So now you have Now I have my own platform where.
I can I can speak the truth, I can speak my mind, I can speak on what's real and what's not. And I mean there's been times on my podcast where I said I messed up in certain situations.
So I just I get on, I get on, and I just I speak the real.
So it's just a platform for me that I can do that, but also break break certain news and certain things.
So it's definitely a.
Good space now that I have a place and platform I can go and I can just chop it up and speak the real.
For I think it's incredible.
Man. When I first started this podcast, like I did not realize the voice that it gave me, and not that it's just like, oh, you start a podcast, you get a voice, like don't work like that, but people knowing where to find you speaking have like speaking on the topics that you wanted to speak on, the things, covering the things that you wanted to cover, Like it's been absolutely amazing. So I wish you were if I can give you one word of advice, it's one of
the most important things that I've done. Colin Kyle Hurd is here who I'm partners with, and Colin asked me. He was like, like, you have a day job.
Why do you work like this?
Like you're doing all of these episodes, no matter what happens, you're doing this. And the reality is is because one thing stuck with me. Jj Reddick told me when I first started the podcast, because I had tried it before and I was so inconsistent, like I've do a podcast and then five weeks later.
Do another one. It's awful.
I don't know what I was doing. And he said, if you're going to do a podcast, one of the most important things you can do is deliver your content to your fan base, to your listeners, your subscribers when you're supposed to deliver it. You may be off a day, you may be off too, but every week you have to give you up listeners and your subscribers what they're looking for, because if not, they're gonna leave your podcast, and when they leave, they don't come back. They're on
to the next podcast and that's their thing. They're not gonna then leave that podcast and say, huh, let me go back and see what Tray's doing over here.
Now.
Once they leave, they don't come back. So it's very important. We have very busy schedules. So if it's for fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, making sure that my listeners and my subscribers get what they've gotten on a weekly basis. If I can give you one word of advice, it's extremely important, and to work as hard. And so back to what Colin Colin said for me, it was like, oh, that's all I know. Like as hard as you work at basketball,
you have to work at the podcast. So the days that you don't want to get up and go to the gym, there's gonna be days you don't want to do the podcast. But if you're doing it, you have to commit to it because then that's how you make it great. That's how you build your fan base, that's
how you build the audience. That's how your podcast gives you a voice that can be taken away because I've built a fan base that wants to hear what I have to say, and I've built that by being consistent in delivering them content that they want.
Now you've done it the right way. You've done it the right way. We trust me. We all following. So I appreciate that.
No doubt, And before we get out of here, I'd be remiss if I didn't speak on this.
I've had two coaches.
In my career, Mark Jackson, who is absolutely incredible for us, and and I've had Steve Kerr, who is one of the most win one of the most winningest.
Somebody winning winning people in NBA history.
And that's what I've had to learn from.
It hasn't quite been that same path for.
You yet, and being a franchise player, people blame you, Oh Man, Lloyd Pierce, this it's Tray Young Falk. Nate McMillan is it's Tray Young Falk. Now it's Quinn Snyder, who I think is incredible coach, incredible basketball man. Happy you will have the opportunity to work with him. But just walk me through what that's journey, that journey has been like and what you're looking forward to it, Quinn, Because by the way, we are who we say we are, and we are the narrative that we want to push.
And so people try to push this coach killer narrative funk out of here. Like the people that push the coach killer narrative never had a coach, but they say you're a coach killer, which I don't quite understand. And yet coaches are getting fired all around the league every day. But then people try to come label you as that we're not rolling with that. That's ridiculous. But just talk to me about what that journey has been like and what you're looking forward to with Quinn Snyder.
Ah that Okay, this journey has been tough, like because to be honest, I ain't have very many coaches growing up, like I've every year, Like I didn't really had too many different AU coaches, So like being labeled a coach killer.
Was crazy to me.
But I mean Lloyd coming in, he was my first coach, and uh having him like he was perfect for us, like we were a young team.
And the thing is is LP would tell you.
He was brought in to develop guys, like he was a development guy from Philly, like was getting everybody right.
This is his first job.
His first day on the job was basically my first day on the job too, So we came in together. I got nothing but love for LP. A lot of people want label it me versus him like he had. Yeah, we had some we butted heads a couple of times and certain things, certain situations, but we always had respect for each other. And so people don't always want to
label that part and mention that part. But with Nate, like we got to the conference finals and he was Nate McMillan was our assistant coach at the time, or he had taken over halfway through the year, and he wasn't even guaranteed to.
Go further on. He didn't know how longer he would he wanted to coach.
But we went to the Eastern Conference finals and we were winning, and it got him his juices flowing. He wanted to keep coaching and keep coaching us, and we were all excited and doing that, and we wanted to keep rolling with him. And then obviously he was let go. I don't know if it was right after that next year or the year after, but uh, people wanted to use me again as a as a crutch for that and for real, like we had a really good relationship
to begin with. That's always why he stayed and stuck around. So people lay with me as coach killer. Two of my coaches in the league, like, to be honest with you, it is I don't I don't really feel about it anymore.
Like me tell you something, brother, you mad Miller like an extra ten fifteen million, but they say you killed them. Now, that's a hell of a sword to die on. Extra ten to fifteen million dollars.
Yeah, you got some money. But nah, I definitely like I like, but I think Quinn, hopefully Quinn for me is my Steve curR, Like I hope, I hope Quinn is the guy that we win three four championships with. Like I just, I mean that's my plan, Like I don't, I don't see it. Further, I don't look. I'm not looking past Quinn. Like if something happens with Quinn tomorrow, Like if it happens, like people going to say it's me, but it's not, Like I just I want Quinn to
be the next Steve Curve for me. So I just I've used and learned everything from all my coaches coming up. It's including LP and Nate, and so with whatever anybody has to say, like I know where my heart is on my head is I got a lot of love and respect and I've learned so much from both of those two. So I ain't got nothing but love for them, and hopefully Quinn is my Steve Kurr going forward.
So by the way, I've bumped hands with Steve Kerr a million times.
Oh we know.
People say, oh, you bump hands with this guy, so now he's fired, it's your fault. It's not true. You're going to bump hisss. It's a very intense job. You have the coach and his star player. They're going to go at each other at times. That's what the job requires. We've seen that over and over and over again. It's not going to go away.
And y'all still and you still fight through it, like y'all y'all butted his throughout the year, or something's happening like you've seen, it's been been public and then y'all find a way to get back together and go win a championship.
Like sometimes you gotta go. You can't. It's not easy.
Like anybody who's been in this business they know, like win the championship. Getting past the first round is hard. Like so winning the championship is it a whole another level, So like it's not easy. Like so I mean obviously, like I salute you all the guys, bron all those guys that be winning championships all the time, Like that's not that's not hard, that's not that's not easy.
So I mean people.
When people say you don't have to go through anything stuff like that, I mean confrontation with your coaches and players like sometimes it's good and it's what's needed to get better and push forward to be at the be at the end.
One percent.
I tell you what I look forward to you silence and everybody, because there's no better way to silence all the noise than to win. And you've won in your career. No, you haven't won a championship, but to get to the conference finals, that's so hard to do. And now you know what it feels like. Now you know how to work towards that, which showed this past year. You know you're getting the play in game, tough situation. What do you do you come out of it right away? Team
who ends up going on playing the NBA Finals. No, I'm gonna come in your house and I'm gonna beat you by the way on the day that they say I'm gonna get traded, you know, and that takes a special person. Like I said, but this will be it before we get out of here. I just want to know one of my favorite guys in the NBA. I don't have a lot of friends in this league.
I don't.
Probably self inflicted wounds, but hey, it is what it is. I also like a lot of people, but I got a lot of love and respect for Dejohnte Murray and traded to you guys last summer. Just signed an extension, well deserved. But you know that's paring y'all up in this backcorner. Now, talk to me about what Dejohntay has brought to the team and you know how that's going to be moving forward for y'all.
Man, He's brought a lot to us, Like I mean, it's crazy fun fact our birthdays on the same day. He's two years older than me, he said to Himer nineteenth, so we already got a connection that way. But he's just like he's just a real dude, like you just what she sees, what you get. Like when you around him, you hear him talking. He talks about family, he talks about wanting to win, wanted to get better. I mean, him signing that deal for us now, I mean, just
shows how much he wants to win. Like, it just shows how much he wants to because he could have signed, he could have signed next year and got way more. I means, still a lot of money. But that's I mean, that's the type of person he is. He wants to win, he wants to he wants to make our team great.
And I just know from us, like we talk all the time, and so like we knew that it was gonna be an adjustment period last year with two pgs who are used to having the ball in our hands, so one of us going to play off each other and play on the wing, Like we got to learn that. So now we've been through a year now we're going
to our second year together. We've we've kind of got some chemistry together, and we've been working throughout the summer too and talking and texting, so we I'm looking forward to what we we got going forward because he means the hell of a person before he is player too, So I'm glad he's on our team for sure.
And when it's all said and done, we get to the end end of your career, what will Trayon be remembered as? And what do you does Trayon want to be remembered as? Because those could be two different things.
Not on the top of my head though right now, Like what will and what is going to happen is the same thing.
There go that chip. I love it.
But for me, I just I pray and I hope that I'm just looked at as one of the best pgs to ever play this game. And I know if I'm one of the best pgs to ever just played this game, I'm one of the best players, and I've won championships and I've won certain things like it's and it all comes to winning. Like I remember my AU coach telling me when when it takes care of everything. So I remember being unranked and being winning PCHGM and becoming a top three point guard in my class.
Like I just I just know winn will take care of everything.
And so hopefully at the end of my career, I looked at as one of the best pgs to ever play this game, one of the greatest players that ever played this game. And that means I've I've won some championships, I've helped some some lives along the way and my communities and things like that, and I looked at as a as A as one of the best players.
For sure, y'all give it up for my clutch brother, Trey.
Y thank you brother, I appreciate you.
Oh, y'all better appreciate it over.
I really enjoyed that. Just oh yeah, I'm headed out. I'm gonna wrap yourself for y'all. I really enjoyed that. Like I said, I respect guys who get it out the mud, who got a chip on their shoulder, who it's all not lined up for you to succeed, and Trey the challenges that Trey face that they'll never change being that size in the NBA, Like you're already a step behind, Like you already have so many uphill battles to fight and to become the player that he's become,
but not only become, continuing to grow into. I think it's special. And I love when a guy's battle test. I love when a guy have to go through some ship and that's what he has, he's had to go through. Like we discussed people saying he's a coach killer and talking about trading him on the day he's going into a playing game and all these different things, and yet he just keep tracking along, tracking along, getting better each year. It's hard to get better. Every year you come to
the NBA. Scouting reports changed, the way defenses are guarding you, change the way you're officiated, change, Like I think people don't realize officials are like, they're human beings. They have feelings, they're feeling. This may change shorts you. You may not get that call you once got, you know. And those are all of the things that he's been up against.
And that's just to name a few.
And to watch how he's continued to go and continue to carry a franchise. It's not hard, it's not easy to carry a franchise, and he's doing it, and he's doing it at the highest level. So I'm honored to have him as a guest. I'm honored to come up here and host The Draymond Green Show in front of you all.
I thank you all for coming out. Until next time.
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Thank you Peace,