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What's up, everybody? Welcome back to The Draymond

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Green Show. This is episode and

0:55

our first episode of the off season

0:58

for the podcast. Obviously,

1:01

you know, it's been a lot going on this last

1:03

week or so. I feel like I'm finally

1:05

starting to get my bearings

1:07

and just like my my my legs

1:10

back under me and and but most

1:13

importantly my mind, um

1:18

when going through the playoffs. Well

1:23

before we get into this, um,

1:25

it's been a great week. As you know, the parade

1:28

was absolutely incredible, which

1:30

we'll discuss a little more about that. But

1:33

as I mentioned, this is the first episode

1:35

of the off season and We're

1:38

about to hit the ground running. What do I mean

1:40

by we're about to hit the ground running? If you

1:42

have not seen doing a live

1:44

podcast recording slash

1:47

show in New York City Monday

1:50

night with JJ Reddit, the

1:53

new media is going to be absolutely

1:56

insane. Uh. The podcast

1:58

will live in the normal pod cast fees.

2:00

So if you can't make the podcast, there

2:02

was or or the show. There were

2:05

not a ton of tickets as it is a smaller

2:07

venue. So and then obviously it's the summertime

2:10

when people are traveling and blah blah

2:12

blah. If you can't make it, the

2:14

podcast will live where

2:16

every other episode live, and you'll be able to check

2:19

it out. So don't fret. My pet will

2:21

be just fine. But

2:24

in saying that, as

2:27

you know, the parade was

2:29

about almost

2:31

a week ago and it

2:34

was great. Why was the parade

2:36

grade? I must I must be honest.

2:39

Um, after having parades

2:41

in Oakland, I was a little nervous

2:44

because I just didn't know what to expect. I

2:46

am the type of person like I

2:49

like things to stay the same. Um,

2:53

I'm very shy, which

2:55

most people will never believe. When it comes to like new

2:57

people, I it

3:00

does not work well with me. It takes me a

3:02

while to get comfortable with people like

3:04

I just like things to say. I said

3:06

all of that to say after having three

3:09

parades in Oakland and then coming to

3:11

San Francisco and having a parade, I was a

3:13

little skeptical about it because

3:15

I just didn't know what to expect. And

3:19

I love my oak Oakland family as

3:22

Oakland will always be a home, second

3:24

home to me. Really

3:27

grew up there and became a man, not

3:29

like grew up like we know, I'm sacking of

3:31

Michigan through and through baby, that doesn't change.

3:34

But I grew into a man

3:37

in the city of Oakland, so that place will always

3:39

have a special place

3:41

in my heart. Never change.

3:44

But if I'm ranking parades,

3:47

because we live in this society that's

3:49

always trying to like rank and compare,

3:52

uh, dumb shit. Um.

3:56

I think that may have been the best

3:58

parade. Why

4:01

was it the best parade? Um

4:05

for a few reasons. Number one, Steph

4:07

Curry was acting up and

4:10

you just never see that, Like when

4:12

we wont before, Steph didn't act up. Steph

4:15

was acting up. Clay Thompson was

4:17

acting up. I mean this

4:19

man, by the way, I know

4:21

we all saw the video, or if you have

4:24

not seen the video, please go

4:26

to your Instagram and find

4:28

the video of Clay Thompson

4:31

stumbling. The guy stumbled

4:33

five steps then

4:35

he hits He like runs over the

4:37

girl and immediately catches

4:40

his balance, which was the great parts,

4:42

like you run this girl over and that's

4:44

how you catch your balance. If that girl

4:47

was not right there, the girl

4:49

that Clay Thompson ran over, I

4:51

mean that ends badly for

4:53

Clay number one. He's tripping on a little

4:55

like I don't know what these calls, so forgive

4:58

me and all the smart people out there. That's gonna comedy

5:00

black. It's called this thanks in advance.

5:04

But the metal the cage thing that's

5:07

all over the streets and there sometimes on

5:09

the side, he's like tripping and I

5:11

know, like in that situation, it's

5:13

it's for it's probably for the train

5:15

system, the Bark or whatever

5:18

train system runs, whatever

5:21

transportation system I should say

5:24

runs downtown San Francisco on Market

5:26

Street. I'm sure that's why the cage

5:28

thing is there for that. But

5:30

he's like tripping over that,

5:33

and if he falls on that thing, that does

5:35

not end well. Quite

5:38

frankly, he runs the girl and

5:41

save himself. I thought that was

5:43

absolutely the highlight of the

5:45

parade. Um, or

5:48

maybe Clay Thompson losing one

5:50

of his rings. Now

5:53

to show y'all how much of a

5:55

fog I've been in. Clay

5:59

had his rings, Steph had his rings,

6:01

Bob had his rings, and I had told

6:04

myself days leading up to the parade, like I need

6:06

to get my rings because I don't

6:08

keep them in the house like they're

6:10

in a safe location, right,

6:14

I need to get my rings. Totally

6:17

forgot. See those guys beginning

6:19

to pray like I forgot my rings. Then

6:22

Clay Thompson goes on to lose his one

6:24

of his rings, and I think he found

6:26

it, but I'd be the one

6:28

who definitely lose the rings. So it's probably best

6:31

that I did not give my rings, um,

6:33

and I just I talked to my ship

6:35

anyway, like I had my rings. So it

6:37

was great, But man,

6:41

Um,

6:44

the fog that I've been number

6:47

one for all our loyal supporters

6:51

out there are listeners, I

6:54

hope you listen to the podcast that I did

6:57

right after the finals, and it was absolutely

7:00

horseship. Why was it absolutely terrible?

7:03

Well, I'll tell you why

7:05

it was great. Having Andre

7:08

on, Like, that's surreal, Like to have him on in

7:10

that moment, like right after we win, great, Like

7:13

you know, you get Clay Thompson on as

7:15

about as long as you can get Clay to focus. We

7:17

we kept him as long as we could get him to focus.

7:19

Absolutely incredible. Getting GP on

7:21

there, absolutely amazing. Even

7:24

the cameo by the rook who can't

7:27

stay focused for twenty seconds and

7:29

answer some questions. It's great. Having

7:31

those guys own is incredible. Why

7:34

was it terrible? It was terrible because I

7:36

was still in the fog. I didn't know what was going on.

7:38

Um, I'm sure you you probably watched

7:41

that and be like Draymond didn't give us

7:43

much of anything. I had nothing left

7:45

to give. I was absolutely

7:47

exhausted, um

7:51

and again and further explaining the

7:53

fog that I was in. I totally missed

7:55

the Champagne celebration. Totally

7:59

missed it. They like did a

8:01

little small dude over for me when I

8:03

when I came in the locker room.

8:05

As you know, if you watch the if you

8:07

see any if you watch any

8:09

of the clips that the Warriors supposed to from Champagne

8:11

celebration, you'll notice you only

8:13

see me in like a five second

8:16

clip, maybe for five seconds,

8:18

and it's really just me sitting there spreading

8:20

the champagne because I missed the whole celebration

8:23

again just in the fall on the

8:25

court, I'm standing on the court and like not

8:28

realizing pretty much anything

8:31

that's going on around me, And

8:35

so I missed that. I

8:37

then proceeded to miss pictures

8:39

with everyone. So like if you see the pictures,

8:41

like I think there maybe a picture

8:43

of me and Clay, maybe me

8:46

and Clay. I

8:48

think it's me and Clay possibly, but like I

8:50

don't have a picture like me and Steph, for me and

8:52

Steve or me and g Like I totally

8:54

missed that part of things. I then

8:57

proceeded to miss of

9:01

the after party that we had in TV Garden

9:03

and like some club they got in there, Like who knew

9:05

it was a club and TV Garden huge

9:08

club. I missed like of

9:10

the after party. So

9:16

I said all of that to say or just to give

9:18

you a perspective of why

9:20

A that episode was terrible

9:23

because I didn't realize in

9:26

scheduling the episode with Jackson and

9:28

like you just don't know where

9:31

the emotions were gonna be. And for me, my emotions

9:34

was all over the place, like, you know, a part

9:36

of me and sitting there watchington younger guys and

9:39

enjoying seeing them like when their first

9:41

championship and they're reacting. A

9:43

part of me is sitting there trying to process.

9:45

Man, we just want our fourth championship.

9:48

And let me tell you the difference in

9:50

between four and three man as well

9:52

be having one and four, Like it

9:55

feels so night and day,

9:57

like the rarefied air that we're

9:59

in after winning the fourth

10:01

one then winning the third one,

10:03

it's literally like it's

10:06

just so rare. I was on the phone with Brian

10:09

the other day and I'm just telling him,

10:11

like, bro, the difference like going

10:13

from from three to fours and saying

10:15

he like, yo, I'm telling you, like it's

10:18

crazy. That's why when when

10:20

we want our when we when I want my fourth

10:22

one, I'm just like naha,

10:25

like stop, don't you don't want to

10:27

hear anything. And we were

10:29

we were just sitting there talking about how like

10:31

the difference in between winning number three,

10:34

like going from three to four, it's

10:36

massive. And so I

10:40

want to give a big shout out to the guys who has

10:42

four rings. Um

10:45

obviously your your current active players

10:47

is made up of the Doves and LJ. So

10:49

that's a very short list. Um,

10:52

but Shock Diesel, who

10:55

all right said a million times

10:58

was growing up for me like it was Shot,

11:01

like a huge Shock fan. Had

11:03

to zip up. Orlando Magic, Onzie.

11:06

My night light was Orlando Magic. I

11:08

had to iron on half

11:10

ironed on and the rest is like going missing

11:12

Shaquille O'Neil magic jersey with

11:15

the lines and into him and Penny jerseys,

11:17

you know, like growing up for

11:19

me, my favorite player all times,

11:22

Shot, just the way he dominated. I

11:24

actually be going back and watched some of Shot highlights

11:27

and different stuff with Shot, and

11:30

dude was absolutely insane.

11:33

Four time Club, MJ. Four time

11:35

Club obviously MJ six,

11:38

but we're talking about the four time

11:40

Club, MJ. You're gonna you're gonna be a part of this club

11:42

for now. Um,

11:44

we got Cold Kareem

11:47

and like you know, I can go

11:49

on and on with this list. Scottie

11:52

Pipper, the moral

11:54

of the Stories, Steve Kerr. I'd be remiss

11:57

if I didn't say Steve Kerr. But

12:02

there's forty four guys. Four

12:04

of them happen to be from our camp and

12:06

in NBA history that

12:08

has four championships, and

12:11

so that leads you to the conversation

12:13

that it's our seventy five team. Now

12:15

we're not getting into that. I'm just joking, partly

12:18

joking, partly serious. But anyway,

12:24

it's like it's it's really

12:26

still hard for me to put in words, but nonetheless

12:29

back to what I was saying anyway, trying

12:32

to put into context, like we just want

12:34

our fourth ring. In the emotions

12:36

of it, standing on that stage looking out

12:38

at the Boston fans, who

12:42

I don't even need to revisit all

12:44

of the things that they were saying and h

12:47

their antics, but to watch

12:49

them sit there and watch us hoist the trophy,

12:54

my emotions in my mind was just all

12:56

over the place, and so just

12:59

kind missed the moment. I remember a story

13:02

Peter Goober, who was one of the majority

13:04

owners mentor mind one of the majority

13:06

owners are to go to State Warriors. He

13:09

told me a story years ago. He said,

13:11

Draymond at All, I always wanted to win,

13:13

and um, I always

13:16

wanted to win an Oscar, you know, and and

13:20

you do all of these things, and you put these movies

13:22

together, and like the ultimate

13:24

goal is to win an Oscar. And

13:27

I'm like, yeah, it's great, he said. And Draymond, we finally

13:29

got the movie. We got our oscar, he

13:31

said. And I'm on like a chair and back of everybody,

13:34

like trying to stand up and

13:36

so I could be in the picture, he said. And in

13:38

that moment, I realized the

13:41

picture is the least important part of

13:43

this journey. It's the actual

13:45

journey that you appreciate.

13:47

It's the times on set um

13:50

with the actors and with the directors

13:52

and producers and actresses.

13:56

That's what you appreciate. You appreciate the

13:59

journey. You appreciate the process

14:01

of getting there. And

14:04

it took me to have to trying

14:06

to hop on a chair in the

14:08

back and like being the picture to realize

14:10

like it's all about the process and journey,

14:14

and so a part of me is just sit

14:16

standing there and like

14:18

like not even really caring about the

14:21

picture or about holding a trophy, Like I never

14:23

held the trophy on stage. First

14:25

time I held the trophy was like in the pictures afterwards

14:28

where you take the individuals, but really

14:30

hoisted the trophy was the parade and

14:34

so it was it's it

14:37

was a surreal moment for

14:39

me, but it was also a little um

14:44

confusing if you will. And what

14:46

I mean by confusing is just it was just all

14:49

over the place. I was all over the place. So

14:52

that was kind of the

14:56

ending of it for me, or yeah,

14:59

essentially the ending. But I

15:01

also want to walk you back to

15:04

games five and six,

15:08

A very interesting detail. I think a couple of

15:10

people picked up on it, but most

15:13

people didn't. I wear

15:15

the same outfit game five

15:18

in game six. If you would have saw my pack back

15:20

on the way back from Boston

15:25

or way to Boston, very small bad

15:27

because I didn't have many clothes. I wear my same

15:29

black uh Converse

15:31

sweatsuit to game five and

15:34

the game six. What was the significance

15:36

behind that. The significance behind

15:38

that was I felt

15:40

like leaving Boston that I was

15:42

in the war. Um

15:45

with the people screaming and yelling the way

15:47

they were, the disrespect,

15:50

I felt like I was in the war, and

15:53

and no disrespect to

15:55

to to our soldiers and

15:58

to um

16:01

our armed forces as a whole, and

16:04

actually going to war when I said, we

16:06

appreciate everything our armed services

16:08

due for our country, for us as American

16:11

citizens. So I'm not making

16:13

the comparison as if I was going to

16:15

like real war. I was going to war

16:18

in my world, and my world is

16:20

basketball, and I felt like I

16:22

was going into a war, and so

16:25

my mindset was all black everything,

16:27

like I'm going to take something, and

16:30

that's just kind of where I was mentally. I

16:32

also didn't want to spend any

16:34

energy on what I was going to wear

16:36

that day. Uh, And so for

16:39

me going into game five, Hazel

16:41

was asking me, She's like, uh, do I need

16:43

to earn your clothes for you before? Like keeping

16:45

you want to set your clothes out before you're

16:48

taking that. I'm like, yeah, I think I'm just

16:50

gonna wear an all black jogging cities. She's like,

16:52

okay, well, if you change your mind, you

16:55

know, let me know or sit. And

16:57

then when I woke up from my now, she's like, hey, you got

16:59

something me are I say, no, I'm one percent

17:01

wearing all black jogging suits. And

17:03

then you know,

17:06

go to game five. We win Game five,

17:09

and I told her, I'm I'm gonna take

17:11

this joggon suit off. I'm gonna pack

17:13

it up. No, I'm not watching it. No I'm not. I

17:15

didn't have time to send it to the cleaners or anything anyway,

17:18

because we left the next morning after

17:20

game five, this is

17:22

going straight in the bat and

17:25

I'm going to game six and I'm gonna

17:27

wear the same outfit. That's exactly

17:29

what I did, and the result was

17:31

the exact same. I think after

17:34

game four we knew we had them. Like after

17:37

game four, I'm like, all right, I'm

17:40

wearing all black. It's gonna be a funeral.

17:43

Game five, it's time

17:45

to go ahead and really try to kill these you know,

17:47

like kill these boys. Game six

17:49

we put the dagger in these boys.

17:51

But that was kind of like, that

17:54

was my mindset, and so that's how

17:56

I went into game five, in game six

17:59

with at the absolute same outfit on.

18:01

It was incredible. It was a part of my

18:04

journey and for me, like

18:06

I said, that was my mindset, and

18:08

I absolutely enjoyed

18:11

that. Now, like

18:13

I said, I knew after game four, we

18:15

knew after Game four and really

18:17

after game three, but especially after

18:19

Game four that you

18:21

know we had that was kind of it.

18:24

And so you're going to game five

18:26

where they you know, we take

18:28

a big lead, they fight back. The

18:31

biggest shot of the series was

18:35

Jordan's Pools shot

18:37

before the end of quarter number

18:39

three in game five, where he

18:42

banked the three in Why was that the biggest

18:44

shot of the series. The reason that

18:46

was the biggest shot of the series was because

18:50

they had fought back in

18:52

in in the third quarter, which we had dominated

18:54

third quarters, they fought back in

18:56

that third quarter and

18:59

when they fought back, they

19:03

had taken the lead and Jordan hit the shot

19:06

and we went up one going into the

19:08

fourth quarter. And I know to

19:10

most people it's like, but

19:12

they only up one, No big deals

19:15

right there. But what that did

19:17

to them mentally for

19:20

them to see, man, we just

19:22

had this incredible quarter and we're

19:24

going into the fourth quarter down. It

19:27

didn't matter whether they were down by one point

19:29

or ten points to have the quarter

19:31

that they had to take the lead and

19:34

then go into the next quarter down that

19:37

for them, I feel like it was a dagger

19:39

when Jordan hit that shot. Now did

19:43

they quit after that? No, we went

19:45

out and we immediately took over

19:48

the fourth quarter of Game five. But

19:52

you you just knew like they didn't

19:55

have Like they made the comeback,

19:57

but they didn't have enough to get over the

19:59

hump. And if

20:01

they never took the lead and they're going into

20:03

the fourth quarter down one, it's a totally

20:06

different mindset, but the fact that they

20:08

took the lead and then they

20:10

still went into the fourth quarter down

20:13

I think for them mentally, that

20:16

was like a gut punch for them, and so

20:18

a huge shot from Jordan's. Then you go

20:20

into Game six, they start off, they

20:23

make their run. We all expected it,

20:25

we all expected like this. They're fighting for their

20:27

lives in front of their home crowd. They're gonna

20:29

come out with a bang. They started Twitter too, and

20:33

then things start to change, and at

20:35

that point you knew we took that first

20:37

blow. That was it. That

20:40

was it. And then obviously we go

20:43

on and we

20:45

do what we had to do in order

20:47

to talk to you all the way we have been

20:50

talking to you all. And by the way, let's

20:52

get into that Twitter beef. Twitter

20:56

beef with everyone. I don't

20:58

have Twitter beef with anyone, just that why

21:01

um, because why

21:03

would I have beef. I'm kind of just telling y'all

21:05

like what it is, and telling

21:07

y'all how I feel, and like, most

21:10

importantly to shut up because

21:13

quite frankly, we don't want to hear

21:15

it. And so you may have seen me at the parade,

21:18

and I'm just like in every interview, I'm

21:20

like shut up. And

21:23

the reason being is

21:25

because you have these

21:28

experts that

21:31

does all this talking,

21:35

less analyzing, but a bunch of talking

21:38

heads and they just

21:40

talk talk talk talk talk. But

21:43

what about getting back to actually analyzing

21:46

the game? What about um?

21:48

Like why why is it

21:50

so important? I

21:53

know why it's important, actually, but

21:56

all these hot takes, like what

22:00

about explaining the game of basketball

22:02

and and what's going

22:04

on and like what it means and

22:06

the games within the game and the

22:08

advantage of the advantages that

22:11

one could get winning the NBA

22:13

Finals. For those of you that don't understand

22:16

it is the smallest

22:19

edge that it takes. Is

22:22

that that's who's gonna win the NBA Finals.

22:24

It's the smallest edge. It's

22:26

not who can score the most points. It's

22:28

not it's Steph Curry gonna score

22:30

thirty nine points and Jayson Tatum gonna score

22:33

twenty nine points or thirty nine

22:35

points, or it's not that that's not what wins

22:38

you the NBA Finals. It is the smallest

22:41

edge that wins someone

22:43

the NBA Finals. And because all these

22:45

dumb talking heads and never

22:48

done it, they don't understand it. Even

22:50

the one that has done it, don't act like he's

22:52

done it because he's an idiot in the moron

22:55

and wasn't really that good of a player.

22:57

And so I'm talking about Kim j.

22:59

Perk Is by the way, um

23:02

like so he don't even understand

23:05

like how to even talk speak

23:07

about winning the championship and things

23:09

that go into it, and and

23:12

like the

23:14

advantages that you need to gain or lack

23:16

thereof, and giving someone an advantage.

23:19

I mean it comes down. Look, I'm

23:21

very close with Jayson Tatum. Obviously

23:23

he's been on the show, which we appreciate,

23:26

but that's j t is a little brother to me.

23:29

It was bothering me to not speak to him

23:31

at all during the finals. Aaron Miles

23:34

super tight with Aaron Miles. Me

23:36

used to sit and play Domino's entire flight where

23:39

Aaron Miles when he was here the last few years. It

23:43

was bothering me not to talk to them guys,

23:46

because when you've built the relationship

23:48

like I've built with those two, like

23:52

a part of me is like, man, I want to say, what's up

23:54

to my brother, But

23:56

the other side of me, no, I don't have absolutely

23:58

nothing to say to him or or eight

24:01

Miles, not either one of them because it's

24:03

the smallest edge that

24:06

wins you an NBA finals, and

24:09

you can't let anything get in the way

24:12

of that. And so for me

24:16

and going through that, yes,

24:19

that bothered me. But I recently,

24:21

I just talked to eight Miles and JT on

24:24

the phone a couple of days ago, UM,

24:26

and I told them, like I

24:28

I faced time both of them, like what's up,

24:30

and to look on both of their faces when

24:32

they answered the phone. Obviously it's

24:34

not at the same time, but when they answered

24:36

the phone, the look on both of their faces

24:39

was priceless. I wish I would have screenshot

24:41

at it, but I didn't, UM,

24:44

because some things are just for those moments and

24:46

that and that's one of them. But to look on both

24:48

of their faces with prices. But I called

24:50

both of them and I said, hey, man, I'm just calling

24:53

the break the ice. Like we ain't

24:55

spoke a few weeks, but

24:57

I'm just calling the break the ice. And I specifically

25:00

waited until after the

25:02

parade to break the ice because you

25:05

know, like you're still in those moments

25:07

and you know you're preparing for

25:09

the parade and it's still early. So

25:11

I waited till after the parade to

25:13

hit both of them chop it up, check

25:15

in and it was great, It was absolutely

25:18

incredible. But I brought

25:20

that up and just speaking on the

25:23

edge and the smallest edge

25:25

that it takes to win the NBA Finals,

25:28

and what is this significance of

25:30

that. The

25:32

significance of that is ESPN

25:37

had us like eighty

25:39

two and

25:42

what is that? What do I mean by

25:45

we've heard of that before? Right? These

25:47

people had us with a twenty percent chance

25:49

to win the NBA Finals and

25:53

an eighty percent chance to lose. So

25:56

I asked the question and

25:58

apparently it was like made

26:01

by the basketball power in dex

26:03

So I asked the question who

26:09

makes these like, like who comes up with these

26:11

numbers? Like what's the formula? Is

26:13

it? Is it the formula? Like is the formula

26:15

made based off of the idiots that be

26:18

talking about the game that we haven't talked about

26:20

the game of basketball? Because

26:22

that's clearly what it looks like, like

26:25

how do how does your index come up

26:27

with it chance for

26:30

us? But it's

26:33

because I

26:35

don't know maybe again I don't know what

26:37

makes up this index and like how

26:40

you come up with that? But clearly it's flawed

26:42

and clearly broke. I think after

26:45

Game four we

26:48

might have been still like twenty

26:51

something percent chance of winning, which

26:53

is absolutely insane because that means

26:55

you didn't watch Game four and be like, oh,

27:00

this ain't right. Something here not right,

27:02

and I see what's happening here. No, but

27:04

most people can't see that because they don't

27:06

quite understand. So let's get back

27:08

into these talking heads, Skip

27:11

Bayliss. No,

27:14

I don't want to come on your show. No,

27:17

I'm not gonna come on your show and debate. But

27:20

if you want to analyze the game of basketball

27:23

and we come on there and we do that, I'd

27:27

absolutely consider it.

27:29

I'd consider it. I'm say

27:32

I'm gonna come, but I will consider

27:34

it. But if you want to sit there and debate,

27:36

I didn't go to law school, brother, Like

27:39

I don't want to come on your showing debate

27:42

sports or debate

27:44

anything else because

27:49

I didn't go to law school. If I if I wanted to

27:51

debate something, then I just like

27:54

I wouldn't went to law school. And really

27:57

did that not try to

28:00

make basketball that like, No, basketball

28:02

is beautiful basketball. There's a

28:04

lot to analyze in the game of

28:06

basketball if you know the

28:08

game. And I think that's

28:10

the problem a bunch of you guys run into You

28:13

can't give analysis because

28:15

you don't know the game, so

28:20

you end up trying to like debate with somebody

28:23

and like that's whatever teachers

28:25

on, Like, I don't want to sit

28:27

there and debate with you on TV because

28:29

quite frankly, there's

28:33

someone that's never watched your show,

28:41

and they may be

28:44

flicking through the channels and see me on your

28:46

show. And

28:49

because they've never watched the show and

28:52

they flick through the channel and they see me on your

28:54

show, they may mistakenly take

28:58

me for the fool as

29:01

opposed to knowing right away that you're

29:03

the fool. And

29:05

I'd hate for them to mistakenly take

29:10

me for the food that you are or

29:12

get me confused with the idiot that

29:15

you are. Right, I

29:18

don't have much of an interest for that. I

29:21

wouldn't want that

29:23

on my name. And and to like

29:27

like, no, it's it's very evident what

29:30

you are and who you are, right,

29:34

we know that. It's

29:36

concrete, Like we know exactly who

29:38

you are, clown,

29:42

And I just don't think i'd

29:44

be doing myself as sir uh

29:46

any service or any good by

29:50

coming on your show. I'm

29:53

also not sure that I would even want you

29:55

as as a guest on the Draymond Green

29:57

Show, because if you go back

29:59

and you look at resumes of guys on

30:01

the show, you don't qualify like

30:05

you. You don't qualify for this show. Your

30:08

your resume not there. So I

30:12

probably won't come on your show. Unless

30:14

you want to sit there and analyze

30:17

the game of basketball,

30:22

then I'll come on maybe, But

30:26

I'm not sure. And the only other

30:28

outlet I would really be able to talk to your on us

30:30

right here on the Draymond Green Show. And

30:33

and again, your

30:35

resume doesn't quite crack. It

30:40

doesn't quite crack the code. Maybe

30:43

we'll change that standard one day and

30:46

have a guy like yourself on. But

30:48

as of right now, especially coming

30:50

off this fourth championship, you're

30:53

not welcome, my friend. You are

30:55

not welcome here. And by

30:57

the way you come out talking

31:00

about the new media, you're not the

31:02

new media, you're the real media. You

31:04

are the real media. You're right, you've attached

31:06

your name to a black man for all

31:08

of these years. I and

31:10

and that black man is none other than

31:12

King James Lebron James himself,

31:15

and you try to tear him down as much as

31:17

you can all these years. So

31:19

you're right, you are the real media. You are

31:22

exactly who I speak of when

31:24

I say this is the new media. We

31:26

do this differently. You're right. I'm happy

31:28

you admitted it real media. But

31:31

the new media is here to stay and we're

31:33

taking this thing over. You know why, because

31:35

people don't want to hear that old, dried

31:37

up, tired stuff

31:41

that you're talking about. Nobody want to hear

31:43

that no more. The new media. Baby. It's

31:45

a reason JJ Reddick going on

31:47

TV and crushing everybody.

31:50

It's a reason they keep calling Patrick

31:52

Beverly back to TV. It's

31:54

a reason why c J McCullum

31:56

just signed that deal. It's

31:59

a reason why I signed the deal

32:01

that I signed. It's the reason why

32:03

this podcast, the Draymond

32:05

Green Show, it's doing the numbers

32:08

that it's doing. It's the reason why

32:11

the new media. I don't nobody

32:13

want to hear all that tired stuff you're talking

32:15

about anymore. Mr Real, Stop

32:20

attaching your name to Lebron James. Stopped

32:23

because you know Lebron James,

32:25

in his incredible life that he's lived

32:27

and continues to live, that

32:30

there will always be something for you to

32:32

talk about. If I just attached

32:35

my name to Lebron James, we

32:38

don't want to hear your brother. It's over.

32:41

It's the new media. We're here to stay,

32:43

so you keep talking that real media stuff.

32:46

I'm happy you did. You showed your hand.

32:49

You are exactly who I thought you were, exactly

32:52

who I thought you were, Kendred Perkins.

32:55

You act like this clown, and it's baffling

32:57

to me. He could never be you.

32:59

You know, he could never be you because he's never done

33:01

it. You

33:04

go up here acting like him. You don't have to do that.

33:06

Buddy, you played, you

33:08

did it? Go talk about it

33:10

or can you not? I

33:13

hope that you can. With

33:15

all these hot takes you make, you should be

33:17

able to You don't have to act

33:20

like that, my man. You don't have to go up

33:22

there. You go from being enforcer the coon.

33:24

How does that happen? At

33:29

least you act like it enforced. I didn't really ever

33:31

take you for one, which

33:34

is why when we were playing

33:36

the Calves in the NBA Finals

33:39

and I was shaking them pom poms and

33:41

people was like, oh man, I remember my Twitter blowing

33:44

up like you leaveing Lebron alone. You shouldn't be shaking

33:46

pompous out Lebron, Bron my big brother. I would

33:48

never shake pomp poons at him. Also, who's he

33:50

cheering for? I was shaking

33:52

pompoms at the guy in the suit in the back or

33:56

here in the bench, shaking

33:58

my pompoms at him,

34:00

that guy. You don't have to act like

34:02

that, man. You can go on TV and be

34:04

real and like stand

34:07

on business. You know, gotta

34:09

go up there doing that stuff you're doing.

34:12

This. Man just went on on

34:14

JJ's podcast the other day and

34:16

said, I was praying

34:19

that Lebron James got hurt. What

34:28

are you kidding me? You

34:30

actually thought that was okay to admit? Come

34:33

on, cause you can't think that's

34:36

okay to admit even

34:38

if you felt that way, which,

34:41

by the way, why do you feel that way?

34:43

That's a problem.

34:46

But even if you felt that way, they take that

34:48

one to the grave. MA Man and

34:51

j J being the

34:54

scholars that he is, the great individual

34:56

that JJ is, and most importantly,

34:59

the new media. Why is that significant

35:01

right now? Because

35:04

the new media we also protect guys

35:06

like we protect this. This isn't about tearing

35:09

you down. This isn't real, Skip

35:11

Bayless, try and tell you down we don't

35:13

do that. Now. We we do

35:16

critique something's

35:19

off. We're gonna talk about it, but

35:22

we're not gonna just try to tell you no, no,

35:24

no, we're gonna try to help that. And

35:26

so j J, being the

35:29

new media member that he is, then

35:33

tries to give you an opportunity to walk

35:35

it back, like you mean

35:38

like you spraying anchor now a c

35:40

l Are you kidding me? Bro? There

35:45

was once upon a time or

35:48

excuse me, there

35:52

was once a point

35:55

in time where

35:58

a c L S was in and people careers.

36:01

Man, you

36:03

remember this how we feed our families. We

36:06

always talk like I

36:08

don't know if you do, because it's not my substance,

36:10

but I always talk about like when you

36:12

get hurt, you lead a court like

36:15

you live that, like you don't

36:17

lead a court. And then it's like, all

36:19

right, I'm not hurting no more. I can walk down. But

36:22

when the game is going on and when practice going on

36:24

the back on crutches, like like it's a

36:27

video game. No, you really live this stuff.

36:30

So for you to pray on another man down

36:32

fall, that's a character flaw, my man. If

36:35

you pray on somebody down fall, once you're gonna

36:38

pray on it again, not necessarily

36:40

that you pray on Lebron's down fall, because y'all

36:42

are in like living too totally different

36:44

worlds. Um,

36:50

But that just means you're the type of person that will

36:52

prey on someone's downfall. That's

36:55

a little whack to me. That's

36:57

not New Media's m

37:04

I don't understand. You

37:06

don't have to go on TV and act like that. Brother,

37:09

you played act like it. Stop

37:13

doing this. Stop making a fool of yourself. You

37:16

played act like

37:18

it. Nicholas right, how

37:22

are you doing a

37:25

lot of hot takes? You admit

37:27

it the other day we make hot takes. Analyzed

37:29

the game my man now

37:38

total opposite of Skip Bayles's Skip Bayless

37:41

has kind of rolled Lebron James and tried

37:43

to tear him down for all these years, and that's how

37:45

he feels. His segments on the show. Nick

37:49

Wright has been total

37:54

opposite Bron.

37:58

Bron could go one for nineteen and Nick

38:00

right gonna say he

38:03

he made one shot and

38:06

he was the best player on the floor. What

38:10

happened to the days of again

38:13

analyzing the game? Honest

38:15

depends you got

38:18

and like clowns

38:21

like Bill Simmons, who's

38:23

like a Boston die

38:26

hard fan through and through. That's

38:28

not really giving you the real because

38:30

he's not

38:32

impartial. Like what

38:35

happened to the days of doing a

38:37

great job in media and your

38:39

stories and your takes

38:42

and just giving analysis, not being a homer.

38:45

Not Kendrick Perkins

38:47

going on First Taken then going

38:50

on the Boston Celtics home TV

38:52

show, like, yeah, we're going for the South, dude,

38:54

you were just doing national TV about these games.

38:57

By the way,

38:59

the issue that I have with with this

39:02

topic in particular, if

39:05

y'all are misguiding people, Like

39:08

people actually see y'all on TV and

39:10

they actually think y'all know what you're talking

39:12

about. So then when they actually

39:15

think that you guys know what you're

39:17

talking about, they

39:22

may be betting on games and they're

39:24

watching you and like listening, like to Kendrick

39:26

Perkins say dumb things about the Celtics

39:29

and the wards. They may believe you,

39:35

and you're not giving them the real because

39:38

your heart's in it and because you're not

39:40

doing a great job at what you should be doing,

39:43

which is analyzing the game of basketball.

39:46

If you're gonna talk about the game, analyze the game,

39:49

say why this

39:52

is wrong? Say why that

39:54

happened. You

39:57

can't just say, Draymond play terrible?

39:59

And who who who

40:01

looked like the old Hill or al

40:03

Harford is who he used to be like? How though?

40:06

Why explain to us what you

40:08

mean? And you have to explain

40:10

it, analyze

40:13

it, help us, not

40:16

just don't don't just be these hot take guys.

40:18

Man, explain what

40:21

you're talking about. Be thorough.

40:25

It's important people are listening

40:27

to y'all and think y'all

40:29

actually know what you're

40:31

talking about. It's important,

40:34

you know why. Another reason, it's

40:37

important to make sure

40:39

these guys act the way they should be acting,

40:42

to carry themselves the way they should be carried.

40:45

I was once suspended from Game seven of the

40:47

NBA Finals. I'm sorry, Game five of the

40:49

NBA Finals. What's

40:52

the significance of that? Why

40:54

is that matter in this conversation, because,

40:59

again, the guy's opinions matter.

41:01

I'm sure I'm certain that

41:04

some media members had conversations

41:07

with people about in the league

41:09

office about whether I should be suspended

41:12

or not for that game. Your opinion

41:14

matters.

41:16

Hard to trust those opinions, hard to be

41:19

honest in those situations. If

41:21

you can't even analyze

41:24

the series and say X,

41:28

Y and Z. Now, granted,

41:31

when I'm done playing, I'm

41:36

sure I'm gonna want to see the Golden State Warriors.

41:39

When I spent ten years of my life here, hopefully

41:41

we'll spend the next five, six or whatever here,

41:46

So I'm sure I'll feel a certain way about to

41:48

go and State Warriors. Okay, if

41:52

I go on any show

41:54

off, if I'm on inside the NBA,

41:58

I'm gonna break the game down and break the

42:00

series down and tell you why this

42:02

matters and why that matters, and how this

42:04

helps and how how

42:06

it doesn't. Like you still

42:08

have to do that. You can't just be like, oh, I wanted

42:11

the Selfstius to win, Like no,

42:13

no, no, they're paying you to analyze

42:17

and you know, like you're doing

42:19

the countdown shows. I

42:21

gotta tell people what's going on. Man. They trust

42:23

you, so they think they

42:26

trust you. You have to be able

42:28

to thoroughly help break

42:31

this game down, and we don't see

42:34

a bunch of that. And it's baffling

42:36

to me. It's baffling.

42:40

You know, come out hot,

42:42

take this hot, Take that back

42:46

to your boy, Nicholas. You

42:51

spoke all of that stuff about Andrew Wikins.

42:54

You spoke all of that stuff about how the warriors

42:56

were done and like would never win

42:58

again, and Stephanie

43:00

needs to leave, go to stay and blah blah

43:02

blah. And then once

43:05

you're wrong, you then try to go

43:07

on TV the other day or whatever you

43:10

are on and say that's

43:12

what we do. We make hot takes and up. No,

43:14

no, no, you're wrong, brother. You gotta stand

43:16

on that. No ste takes. Don't

43:18

just get the roll off. See that's what y'all

43:20

accustomed to. I say,

43:22

they make these ask no statements, and

43:25

then once I'm done, it's just over. No

43:27

no, no, no no. You got to stand

43:29

on that. Changing

43:33

your opinion in the middle of this. No no, no,

43:35

brother, stand on that, stand

43:38

on your word. It's important

43:41

to stand on that. Not

43:44

just flipping and flopping and all this and not

43:47

what do you stand for? I

43:50

don't understand. I

43:53

don't understand. It's

43:56

baffling to me. We

43:59

gotta be utter and I only

44:01

care. I

44:03

only care. It's

44:06

because I've transitioned into that

44:08

industry. I'm now a part

44:10

of that industry. Not part

44:12

of the real media though I'm the new media, but

44:15

I'm a part of the industry, and

44:18

I know how you guys are view

44:23

and I would love to change the view before

44:26

I'm really seeing as a part of that industry,

44:28

because it's just a little unfortunate. I

44:30

can get media media people

44:32

out here just making these crazy statements

44:35

and like saying these things. I

44:38

tweeted at Uncle or Instagram

44:41

story one of them, and I said,

44:43

I got an Uncle Oaks story type

44:46

story for this podcast. Let me give

44:48

it to you. And

44:51

speaking of media, just talking, there

44:53

was a clip going

44:56

around during the finals. By

44:59

the way, these all the things that be going on

45:01

during the finals, and and and the guy sitting there

45:03

like, uh, Draymond, you're

45:05

you're, you're the podcast is

45:07

blah blah blah. These are all the things going on

45:09

in the finals that you all really don't know going on behind

45:11

the scenes. And I really haven't

45:14

had time to talk about him because I'd

45:16

be so locked in on task

45:18

at hand. But

45:21

there was a clip that surface and

45:24

centric Maxwell says to

45:27

Gary Payton, see her, Draymond

45:31

was acting like that in the eighties and nineties. He get

45:33

punched in his face. He could punch right in the mouth

45:35

whatever he said. So

45:40

here's the thing. Let me explain something to y'all. I

45:43

played basketball. When I

45:45

go on the basketball court, I'm not going out

45:47

there to punch on buying the mouth. I'm

45:49

not going out there trying to pick a fire with anybody.

45:52

I am going out on the basketball court to simply

45:54

win the basketball game, hopefully

45:58

play well in doing it. In

46:02

doing that, you're going to try to find

46:04

any small ash that you can,

46:06

because the smallest edge. When'd

46:10

you the NBA Finals? Okay, So

46:12

if I go on the court and I talked jump, I

46:15

talked to somebody, Listen,

46:18

you heard it here first. I'm not

46:20

going out there trying to fight anybody. I played

46:22

basketball. Will I fight someone

46:24

if I? Of course, Like I

46:26

grew up my whole life fighting, I don't fight

46:29

anymore. It's pointless. So

46:32

I saw it so here here it

46:35

is. I'm telling you here first.

46:37

When I go on the court and I'm talking jump, I

46:40

am not talking junk because I want to

46:42

fight someone. It's not what I'm going out there and do, quite

46:44

frankly, because it's gonna cost me too much money

46:46

if I do go out there and fight someone. So I'd

46:48

rather save that money, all right,

46:51

now that we got that. Sometimes

46:54

in trying to gain an edge on the court. It

46:57

does lead to you having beef off the court.

46:59

Uh, you leaving the court piste off. Not

47:01

really me in most cases, but some people

47:04

leaving the court piste off and it carries on

47:06

outside of that. To be quite frank with

47:08

you, I don't really know how many guys

47:10

fighting off the court even when it carries outside

47:12

of that. But short can whatever.

47:16

If I had to fight, great, we'll

47:19

fight. But I

47:21

said all of that to say you gotta

47:23

fight. Like I said, you'll fighting, I'll fight. It

47:25

is what it is. But nobody's really fighting

47:27

sanba Okay, so

47:31

multi billion dollar organization,

47:33

gosh, just all run around fight. But

47:37

so central Macuwell makes the statement blah

47:39

blah blah. He does his stay. So

47:41

now after game five, almost

47:48

positive it was after game five, Yeah,

47:56

I think it was after game five, molmost positive.

47:59

I actually game five. I go out and I

48:01

do the Scott vm PL show, and

48:04

then I see to the left, my family

48:06

is still sitting in the stands over where they sit. So

48:08

I go over there, kiss my family, hug

48:11

him. I'm like, all right, I have to now head

48:14

back to do I just finished

48:16

Scott ben Felt. I now have to

48:18

head back and do the media room.

48:22

So in doing that, where their

48:24

seats are in the tunnel, I'm

48:26

about to walk out of the tunnel. Who's standing

48:28

there? Gary Payton Senior and Cedric

48:30

Maxwell with a few other people, But those

48:33

are the two that I see now.

48:35

I noticed, so I

48:37

so if GPS standing with his back

48:40

to the stands Cedric Maxwell, it's like standing

48:42

over here. So I like come into between

48:44

them and I put my back to sector Maxwell

48:46

and I tell g P he

48:50

should nobody should ever be able to come

48:52

to you and like think they can talk about

48:54

me and they got a friend and you like GP. That's

48:56

my O G man Like even before

48:59

a young g P out here, I used to play dominoes

49:01

with GP like Oakland real

49:03

Oakland legend, like nothing but

49:06

respect and love forever for g P.

49:08

O G. I

49:11

said, he shouldn't be able to come to you like he got

49:13

a friend and you and talk about me, because

49:16

ain't nobody gonna come to me and talk about g

49:18

P like they got a friend. Know, you're

49:20

gonna do one or two things. Either you're

49:23

gonna go tell GP that you told me you're

49:25

gonna punch him in his mouth, or I'm telling

49:27

you right now I'm gonna go tell him

49:29

that you said you're gonna punch him in his mouth, because

49:31

if you're walking around saying you're gonna punch this guy

49:33

in his mouth, I think he should know. So

49:38

I told g P that, and GP like,

49:40

man, I ain't getting into all that, and he's standing right

49:42

there. I said, I know he's standing right

49:44

here. That's why I came and said it to you

49:46

right now because I saw you earlier.

49:49

But I ain't say it to you earlier because I want

49:51

him to know. When you're gonna you're

49:53

gonna talk about something punching somebody in the

49:55

mouth, you gotta stand

49:57

on that. You can't just be walking around

50:00

talk like, oh he get well,

50:02

you do the punching. You gotta

50:04

stand on that. And so I asked, you

50:06

know, GP like nine and so then sential

50:08

Mass, Well, oh man, I'm gonna get out of here. Of

50:10

course you are, because you're

50:13

walking around talking about you're gonna

50:15

punch someone in the mall or somebody would

50:17

get punched in the mall or whatever. But

50:23

I'm playing basketball and

50:25

I'm trying to gain an edge in the basketball

50:27

game. Punching

50:30

in the mouth has absolutely nothing

50:32

to do with basketball, So

50:35

let's just keep this basketball. And

50:37

so then he walks out, he walks

50:39

off. I finished talking to GP. So

50:43

then I walk out the same tunnel because I'm going to

50:45

do my media and he's standing there like, Drakemona, let me talk

50:47

to you, and I'm like, it

50:49

ain't really nothing to talk about. Like you

50:52

said, I would get punch in the mouth. So

50:54

I want to know, are you gonna punch me in the mouth.

50:56

No, I ain't gonna punch you in the mouth. I appreciate your

50:58

game, of course you do. So

51:01

then stop talking about that, Like there's

51:04

absolutely no reason for you to be talking

51:06

about me getting punch in the mouth unless

51:09

you're going to punch me in the mouth. And

51:11

so it's just this whole thing of

51:14

like you know, you saw Russ the other day, check

51:16

Skip Payless, like um,

51:21

Russell Westbridge. That

51:24

that man name is Westbrook, right,

51:28

that man has children,

51:31

that man has a family, that's

51:33

a family name. You're

51:35

talking about Russell Westbridge. Again.

51:38

People just run off talking and think they don't

51:40

have to stand on that. You gotta stand on them

51:43

words, man, Your words mean something. You

51:45

gotta be willing to stand on that. And

51:48

so that that's like my whole

51:50

thing with this new the

51:52

new media stand

51:54

on that real media,

51:58

but calling

52:00

this man Westbrick like, what

52:05

who are you? So hopefully

52:10

these guys will see this, they'll

52:15

of course they'll look at it. They'll go respond to

52:17

say, I'm not doing that, Bob. But if

52:19

you know what's good for you,

52:22

you gotta make the adjustment, man, because

52:25

people tired of that

52:27

old ass tire stuff. Y'all given

52:29

the sick of it. Yours

52:33

truly the new media.

52:37

Lastly, before I get out of here, let's

52:41

talk about free agency. I

52:44

also, oh,

52:47

before I get to this, this is actually lead right

52:49

into where I'm going. Brian

52:51

Windhorse said after

52:54

Game five, that

52:57

was a pocketbook win. The

53:03

Warriors bought that win. I

53:09

got no problems with Brian went Horse. I

53:11

got no problems with Brian went Horse at all. Action

53:15

I have a problem with that statement. The

53:17

reason I have a problem with that statement is because

53:19

it's very contradictory. I

53:22

was a contradictory. Well quite

53:24

frankly, you guys, said pan

53:27

Clay Thompson. The money that he made coming

53:30

off of his injury was a bad idea

53:32

boy, Joe lake Cook, they should have paid him less

53:34

money, blah blah blah

53:36

ah. You

53:39

guys also said Steph

53:41

Curry and

53:43

the extential he signed, it

53:45

was over and that was it,

53:48

and blah blah blah.

53:51

You guys also said when

53:53

Andrew Wiggins came to this team that we never

53:55

went again, that we took

53:58

on that bad contract and he is a

54:00

zero and the bus and blah blah

54:02

blah.

54:04

You guys also said that I was washed up.

54:11

Those are for highest paid players. You

54:13

had an issue with every single

54:16

contract.

54:18

The moment it's beneficial, it's

54:20

no longer a problem now it's now

54:23

we bought the win. How

54:26

is that possible after y'all had an

54:28

issue with every single one of the

54:30

contracts I just mentioned our top four

54:32

contracts, you guys had an issue with.

54:35

How is there any such thing as

54:37

a pocketbook win for

54:41

a team that y'all said was pathetic that

54:43

would never win. That's

54:47

baffling to me. Now, I gotta give Joe

54:49

Lacom some credit. We

54:51

do how the highest payroll and

54:54

the NBA in

54:56

large part due to we drafted

54:59

well, our

55:01

team, our front office, our

55:03

ownership, the ownership group, and they've

55:05

done an incredible job and

55:08

number one building the business. Of the Golden

55:11

State Warriors. As we know, it was not great

55:13

in two thousand level when they bought this team,

55:15

so they built the business an incredible

55:18

one. They've

55:23

drafted well. Shout out to Bob Myers.

55:26

The guy who did not receive a single

55:28

vote for g by the Year or Executive

55:30

of a Year did not see he

55:33

did not receive a single vote, a

55:37

single vote for a team that y'all

55:39

said would never win again, would

55:42

never do anything. The guy who

55:44

put this roster together did not

55:46

receive a single vote for

55:49

Executive of a Year. And

55:52

for the smart alect that's out there, he

55:55

may have received one. I

55:57

don't think he received a single vote.

56:01

That's no slight to whoever won Executive

56:03

of the Year. But the guy who won a championship

56:06

that put this roster together, that y'all said

56:08

was total horseship, didn't receive one.

56:12

Okay, so we know we already

56:14

know that there's a problem with the voting system.

56:17

First team, M v P, D

56:20

P, O, Y, you name

56:22

it. We already know there's a problem there.

56:24

So that just falls right into the category

56:26

with that, let's pathetic, But

56:29

the fact that we can have a pocketbook win

56:32

on a roster that y'all said would never

56:34

compete. That is baffling to

56:36

me. Like I said, we do have

56:38

the highest payroll now to give

56:40

Joe lacol credit there, guys not afraid

56:43

to spend, which, by the way, we

56:46

got some important stuff coming up, so we'll

56:48

talk about in a second and the importance

56:50

of it. But you can't

56:53

say that, you

56:55

just can't. Something

56:58

that's baffling to me is that the

57:00

Warriors Steph

57:03

Curry it's been here thirteen years, drafted,

57:07

Clay Thompson eleven, drafted myself,

57:11

ten, drafted Wiggins,

57:16

Yes, traded for not

57:19

signed. We traded for Andrew Wiggins,

57:24

James Wiseman drafted. I

57:28

think the next highest paid player after that,

57:30

if I'm not mistaken, is Jonathan Cominga

57:32

drafted, Cavan

57:34

Luney drafted. The

57:40

fact that we're paying the same tax

57:42

penalties that teams are that can go buy

57:44

a team is crazy. Like the

57:47

fact that there are no like

57:50

okay, so you can go further into the tax

57:53

if you have bird, right, But

57:56

the fact that we've drafted

57:58

all of these guys, and yes, the contract to get up

58:00

there when you have success, but

58:03

why is the tax rate the same

58:05

exact tax rate as

58:07

far as penalties go, for someone

58:10

if they just went and when we say

58:12

bought the team, if they went and signed every

58:14

free agent that they didn't draft,

58:17

why why is the taxes the same?

58:19

I don't understand that. Like, so,

58:21

to get penalized for drafting well, that

58:25

doesn't really make sense to me, because

58:30

then what's the incentive of drifting

58:32

well and keeping your guys if

58:35

that's going to be the case. Prime

58:38

example being we're in free

58:40

agency. You got Kavan Luney,

58:42

who's a free agent who's

58:45

going to do extremely well, who's put himself

58:47

in a great position. Um,

58:53

you get further penalized for giving

58:55

him more money, but you

58:57

drafted him with the thirtieth pick. Loon

59:03

is by far next

59:05

to Moses Moody, by the way, the most

59:07

professional guys I've ever seen. Incredible,

59:10

don't miss a beat, not late,

59:14

no issues, They will never piss Steve

59:16

Karral like, guys

59:20

are great. You signed

59:23

you when you drafted Looni with the thirtieth pick,

59:25

and now you're gonna get penalized for that

59:27

does not make sense to me. Doesn't

59:31

make sense. We

59:33

signed GP when no one

59:35

else wanted g P. Obviously not

59:38

drafted. But and so if

59:40

there's a penalty there, I understand your

59:43

Otto Porter who's also a free agent, the

59:45

money and b Elisia Andrea Dollar. If

59:48

there's other penalties, I get it. But for these

59:51

guys, myself being one of

59:53

them that's like drafted here,

59:55

the fact that you face the same penalties,

59:57

it's baffling to me. It's baffling.

1:00:00

It doesn't make sense because again, what's

1:00:03

the point of drafting. Well, if

1:00:05

you're gonna get penalized ultimately

1:00:07

for drafting, well, you can't

1:00:09

help. But look at okay, see who has all these

1:00:11

draft picks, and then wonder they'll

1:00:13

may they'll probably be able to, like they

1:00:16

may be able to in the long run keep two or three

1:00:18

of these guys because

1:00:20

the money is gonna cost so much of these guys

1:00:22

turn off to be good. But

1:00:25

they're drafting these guys, and

1:00:27

so that right there is

1:00:29

a little baffling to me. Like I said, I give Joe

1:00:32

lake Up a lot of credit for all that he's been

1:00:34

willing to spend and to

1:00:37

keep this team going, because like

1:00:39

I told y'all before, we

1:00:41

ain't done. We're not done.

1:00:43

We're gonna keep this train rolling. But

1:00:47

the fact that there's no

1:00:49

relief there. It's just baffling

1:00:51

to me. So I think

1:00:53

that's something that needs to be looked at in this next

1:00:56

C B A, because you

1:00:58

know, and I know people will make the

1:01:00

argument and say, uh, well, yeah, but

1:01:02

you gotta help the smaller market teams out. Guess

1:01:05

what, I don't really

1:01:07

care to like you help

1:01:09

them where you may, but like my

1:01:12

pay doesn't get raised. I live in expensive

1:01:14

at San Francisco, and so

1:01:16

the max salary if I make the max salary

1:01:18

and Oklahoma

1:01:22

City, that

1:01:24

money stretch is way further than my money,

1:01:27

my max money with stretch

1:01:29

in San Francisco. But

1:01:32

they don't say, oh, we're gonna pro rate your salary

1:01:34

because the

1:01:36

rent is more expensive or to buy

1:01:38

is more expensive per square.

1:01:41

They don't do that. But

1:01:43

when it comes to small market teams, we

1:01:47

get punished as saying, nah,

1:01:50

if you're gonna do that, then you gotta make it that

1:01:52

way across the board, not just

1:01:55

for a small market team or for

1:01:57

this or that. Then you have to take into

1:01:59

all of those disadvantages

1:02:02

and advantages across the board, including

1:02:04

for the players. And with that, I'm

1:02:06

out of here. That's a rap from this episode

1:02:09

The Draymond Green Show. Your next

1:02:11

episode after this will

1:02:13

be j J and I. Hope all of you

1:02:15

enjoy it until next time. By the way,

1:02:17

guests is on the way back. J

1:02:20

J is not a guest. He's been a guest.

1:02:23

J J and I are collaboring and doing

1:02:26

Old Man in the three and

1:02:29

The Draymond Green Show collap So

1:02:31

JJ is not a guest, But

1:02:33

guests are on the way back and we're gonna

1:02:35

have some big ones. Stay locked in

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