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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. It is post
Speaker 1: All Star break. Well, NBA season is kicking back off.
Speaker 1: I should say not just our season, but the games
Speaker 1: are kicking back off. Cited time to really you know,
Speaker 1: the pretenders they really identify themselves, and the contenders they
Speaker 1: identify themselves. This is the time of the year where
Speaker 1: you kind of get to see who's that team headed
Speaker 1: towards making a push, who's already shipping their cars home
Speaker 1: and getting ready for vacation. The NBA stretched run is
Speaker 1: upon us. Huge matchups across the league as my dubs
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Speaker 1: let's just recap All Star Weekend. I had the pleasure
Speaker 1: in honor of doing the commentating the All Star Saturday
Speaker 1: Dunk Contest, Skills Competition, three Point Contests alongside the great
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller and the legend Kevin Harland, which was an
Speaker 1: incredible experience. Like you know, just sitting at that table
Speaker 1: number one doing live event like that was a totally
Speaker 1: different thing for me and in a different avenue and
Speaker 1: something that I've wanted to get experience in. It's not
Speaker 1: quite a game, but it was great experience, but most
Speaker 1: importantly it was fun. Like the energy that those two
Speaker 1: guys brought was absolutely amazing. Alone with Adam Lefco who
Speaker 1: was doing the sideline reporting, I was an absolutely incredible experience.
Speaker 1: Got a chance to witness Damian Lillard take home to
Speaker 1: three point Contest. As I said here, I told you
Speaker 1: Tyrese Halliburton was my dark horse pick. He was in
Speaker 1: the final. Mac mcclun shocked a lot of people in
Speaker 1: the Dunk Contest, did not shock me. Mac mcclough winning
Speaker 1: the Dunk Contest and then the Utah Jazz their group
Speaker 1: Colin Sexton, Jordan Clarkson and Walker Kessler taking home the
Speaker 1: skills competition that was All Star Saturday. The energy was incredible.
Speaker 1: As we know, Mac mcclough came and saved the dunk contest.
Speaker 1: Last two years where absolute disaster. So it's good to
Speaker 1: see Mac have his moment though, Like you know, we've
Speaker 1: seen Mac all over YouTube for years doing all of
Speaker 1: these crazy dunks and just going viral and taking YouTube
Speaker 1: by storm, and to see him get that moment on
Speaker 1: an NBA stage was absolutely amazing. He took full advantage
Speaker 1: of it. I think one of the most impressive things
Speaker 1: that he did was he didn't miss a dunk, Like
Speaker 1: he didn't attemper dunk a second time. Everything's first try,
Speaker 1: And to me, that ass to the prestidure of the dunk,
Speaker 1: like because it's a mystery if you showed me seven
Speaker 1: times the dunk you're trying to do and then you
Speaker 1: finally get it, like I know what you was trying
Speaker 1: to do, I could imagine it before you actually do it,
Speaker 1: So I don't, you know, I don't The missing dunks
Speaker 1: thing is it gets tough, but shout out to Mac mccluan.
Speaker 1: Dame Dollar took home to three point contest as expected.
Speaker 1: Dollar had all obviously had more experience than these guys.
Speaker 1: It was interesting to hear him say I want it now.
Speaker 1: I can retire, but I have a different take. Dollar
Speaker 1: Steph Curry wanted last year and could not defend his
Speaker 1: title this year due to injury. Dollar wanted this year.
Speaker 1: I would love to see if Steph Curry Dame rematch
Speaker 1: with Klay Thompson in there next year, Like, let's get
Speaker 1: all the heavy hitters in there, just like we need
Speaker 1: to get the heavy hitters in the dunk contest. Let's
Speaker 1: get John Moren in there. Let's get Zion way of
Speaker 1: sending there. Let's get Anthony Edwards in there, although ant
Speaker 1: Man say he don't do the fantasy dunks, Like, let's
Speaker 1: get their guys in there with the bounce, the superstars
Speaker 1: that we that we know, Like, let's get those guys
Speaker 1: in the Dunk contest. And then obviously you gotta bring
Speaker 1: Mac mcclumb back. He's the champ. Gotta bring Mac back.
Speaker 1: But how can we get guys to do that? Well?
Speaker 1: Number one quite frankly, I think the league has to
Speaker 1: share more of that that money, get the sponsors more involved,
Speaker 1: get the pot up so guys. Having sent him to
Speaker 1: do it, I think that'll be huge. I think it'll
Speaker 1: be great for All Star Saturday, and we need to
Speaker 1: move that in the right direction now, And speaking of
Speaker 1: that All Star Sunday, I know there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of questions about the All Star Game and how can
Speaker 1: you make it better? Number one, let me rewind back
Speaker 1: just a little bit. This is a mailback episode. I
Speaker 1: will be answering your questions. But how do we make
Speaker 1: the All Star Game better? I saw a lot of
Speaker 1: people complaining about it and just the intensity and a defense.
Speaker 1: And it's crazy because here's here's another way of thinking
Speaker 1: about it that I don't quite think people think about,
Speaker 1: which is, if those guys go out there, I've been
Speaker 1: in the game. If you go out there and play
Speaker 1: as hard as you can play and someone get hurt,
Speaker 1: didn't everyone will be on TV saying, oh, those guys
Speaker 1: shouldn't be playing that hard. Now you get hurt, you
Speaker 1: miss your team, and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So you can't have it both ways. Now, in saying that,
Speaker 1: how can you make guys compete more? You be surprised
Speaker 1: what a little bit of money would do? And when
Speaker 1: I say a little bit of money, it's not a
Speaker 1: little bit of money. That's the sarcasm in the comment
Speaker 1: I'm making, But it's all relative. And why is it relative?
Speaker 1: Because say if the if the bonus was five hundred
Speaker 1: grand or million dollars, like, you're going to have guys
Speaker 1: really out there competing and the fans going to get
Speaker 1: what they want, which is the show that they came
Speaker 1: to see. Now where's that money coming from? I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's not my job. That's saw on Adam to figure
Speaker 1: out and Michael Levine and it saw those guys to
Speaker 1: figure it out. But I definitely think a bigger incentive
Speaker 1: to play hard will have guys playing much harder. And
Speaker 1: you know, like the new format where guys were playing
Speaker 1: by quarter and winning for charities first couple of years
Speaker 1: or the first year, that was amazing, and so like
Speaker 1: just like anything else, you have to keep improving it
Speaker 1: that to keep that hunger, to keep that fire, to
Speaker 1: keep you know, guys really competing at the level that
Speaker 1: when you go to these games you want to see
Speaker 1: them compete at. And you know that's a league thing,
Speaker 1: but I think it's something that needs to be done.
Speaker 1: If everyone's going to complain these guys aren't playing hard,
Speaker 1: then give Marvin and Center to play hard. But like
Speaker 1: I said, you can't do that. Something goes wrong, and
Speaker 1: then everyone's going to jump off the bandwagon and say, oh,
Speaker 1: they shouldn't be playing that hard. It's only an All
Speaker 1: Star game. That's that Another should there be more defense?
Speaker 1: It's basketball, I think it should be. But in the
Speaker 1: same token, I understand the other side of it too.
Speaker 1: Let me give you another side of it for those
Speaker 1: of you that don't quite understand the journey through All
Speaker 1: Star By the time you get to the game Sunday night,
Speaker 1: you're exhausted. All the commitments that you've had leading up
Speaker 1: to it, whether the NBA commitments, sneaker deal commitments, other
Speaker 1: endorsement deal commitments, just foundational commitments, just different the different
Speaker 1: things that you have to do. By the time you
Speaker 1: get to the games Sunday, you're exhausted and just trying
Speaker 1: to get to your next spot, which for most people
Speaker 1: is vacation. I know you all probably heard Lucas say
Speaker 1: the most, the thing he's looking forward to most was
Speaker 1: going to Mexico. Like by the time you get to
Speaker 1: the end, you're exhausted, and then you think about it,
Speaker 1: like some of the cities that the All Star Game
Speaker 1: has been in, like you don't have to remember everyone
Speaker 1: goes on All Star break and the All Stars have
Speaker 1: to report to these cities. Shouldn't it be held in
Speaker 1: like a Vegas on a regular Miami or New York
Speaker 1: or LA cities that guys really want to be in
Speaker 1: because it is an All Star break and on top
Speaker 1: of it being an All Star break, like it's a
Speaker 1: privilege to make All Star, Yes, but then you're like
Speaker 1: stuck like in certain cities and it's just not as pleasant,
Speaker 1: you know. So I think that's another thing that can
Speaker 1: make All Star better. It's like, where are you having it? Like,
Speaker 1: let's get some main state places and let's put it there.
Speaker 1: Hasn't been in a hot city and gotten as how
Speaker 1: long a warm city like, So I think those are
Speaker 1: other things to look at as well. And making the
Speaker 1: arts just the overall product better. I think those are
Speaker 1: definitely things that needs to be looked at. But in
Speaker 1: saying that, shout out to Jason Tatum taking home All
Speaker 1: Star Game MVP fifty five points. He said he was
Speaker 1: going forward. If I'm not mistaken, this is the first
Speaker 1: year the trophy is named after Kobe if not, last
Speaker 1: year was the first year. But we all know Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum's love for Kobe relationship, fandom, whatever you want to
Speaker 1: classify it as to see him take home that trophy.
Speaker 1: Like I remember him kind of out he like, I'm
Speaker 1: going for the MVP, and he went out there, got hot,
Speaker 1: got it going, and for a while there it was
Speaker 1: him and Donovan on the same team, going back and
Speaker 1: forth and they both was knock shots down in JT
Speaker 1: Capa rolling was able to take home take home the
Speaker 1: MVP trophy in Lebron's first year, losing as a captain,
Speaker 1: which I thought was a big deal. Yannis didn't play
Speaker 1: this year, but Yanni's team took home to the the
Speaker 1: All Star Game Trophy, and you could tell Jannis was
Speaker 1: all into it and saying that. I thought the drafting
Speaker 1: was absolutely awful. It was awful. It was too long.
Speaker 1: It was drawn out, like if you're gonna go, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna say, I'm going to playground style line the
Speaker 1: guys up across the free throw line, pick them playground
Speaker 1: style real quick and let's go like that. That thing
Speaker 1: took an hour and twenty minutes just sitting there like that.
Speaker 1: That was not pleasant at all. I think the like
Speaker 1: the idea was great and like everybody's excited about the idea.
Speaker 1: But I think if you're gonna go playground style line,
Speaker 1: the guys up across the line pick pick and go
Speaker 1: play the game that and I understand like you have
Speaker 1: to do certain stuff for TV and like the production
Speaker 1: and all of that, like it's fine, but that was
Speaker 1: a little too drawn out and I did not enjoy
Speaker 1: that at all. So hopefully we'll see some changes with
Speaker 1: that next year, because it was it did not roll
Speaker 1: over the way I thought it would or the way
Speaker 1: most people probably thought it would. I just thought it
Speaker 1: was drawing out for no reason. So looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing if we can change that. But in saying that,
Speaker 1: like I said, my roll experience was great. At All
Speaker 1: Star weekend, my Turner family bought me in shout out
Speaker 1: to Terror August by the way, who wrapped eighteen years
Speaker 1: at Turner Slash T and T just this weekend. Her
Speaker 1: last day was Sunday with the All Star game. Terror's
Speaker 1: been absolutely incredible inside the NBA. As you know, at
Speaker 1: the brought all the things that you've seen with T
Speaker 1: and T. The talent. Terror has a huge had a
Speaker 1: huge hand in making all of that happened. And like
Speaker 1: I said, inside the NBA today, as you know it.
Speaker 1: She had a huge hand and making that happen. Terror
Speaker 1: job well done. Looking forward to whatever it is that
Speaker 1: you do next. No, you'll be great. It's absolutely pleasure
Speaker 1: to work with and I thank you for bringing me
Speaker 1: into the foe. Can't thank Taryll August enoughing job well done,
Speaker 1: so now and saying that let's get to the mail back.
Speaker 1: It's been a while since we've done a mailbag, and
Speaker 1: I think it's a great time for us to do
Speaker 1: the mailbag coming off an all star break. Jackson, let's
Speaker 1: get into it. You got some questions for me, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1: Let's start with something fun. Which visitor arena is your
Speaker 1: favorite to play in? Including college? Turn every Thursday into
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Speaker 1: betting partner of the NBA. My favorite visitor, well, that's
Speaker 1: two different, two totally different things college, Yes, exactly, because
Speaker 1: for totally different reasons. Like my favorite visitor arena to
Speaker 1: play in in college was in Indiana Assembly Hall. Just
Speaker 1: the history of the way it is built up. It
Speaker 1: feels like the noise is coming down on top of
Speaker 1: you because the thing is built straight up, very interesting.
Speaker 1: Arena is super loud in there. That was my favorite
Speaker 1: arena to play in in college. My favorite arena to
Speaker 1: playing in the NBA visiting arena is Staples which is
Speaker 1: formally Staples now Crypto Arena. Uh. It's a great you know,
Speaker 1: especially when you're playing the Lakers. The stars are out.
Speaker 1: The Lakers kind of have that thing or where like
Speaker 1: the court is lit up but you're looking the stands
Speaker 1: in this dark. Madison Square Garden also has that. I
Speaker 1: think Brooklyn has it now, but initially it was only
Speaker 1: Lakers of Madison Square Garden. The area and theres is
Speaker 1: always great and and and Staples is like a great
Speaker 1: shooting gym, like someone with the lights in the rim.
Speaker 1: It's a great shooting gym. I've always had really good
Speaker 1: games at Staples. So, um, that is my favorite arena,
Speaker 1: to away arena to play on the road. I like it.
Speaker 1: This one from sorry. That question was from mc soul.
Speaker 1: These are all from Instagram. Shout out the Instagram, go
Speaker 1: follow Okay, next question from sloth is legend. Do you
Speaker 1: know which rests are working in your games ahead of
Speaker 1: time or do you find out game day? And does
Speaker 1: that sort of impact your strategy at all or you
Speaker 1: just or does it not matter? Ah? If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: I think the NBA either releases rougherees the night before
Speaker 1: the morning of the game. Either way, it goes when
Speaker 1: we when we get to the game and for shoot well,
Speaker 1: when we get to the arena for shoot around in
Speaker 1: the morning. Um, they'll actually post it in our locker
Speaker 1: room or who the officials are. Does it change my
Speaker 1: game plan or how your approach the game? I mean,
Speaker 1: depending on the rough like you do know some ruffs
Speaker 1: are less tolerant of whatever it could be. But for
Speaker 1: the most part, like you're going to the game with
Speaker 1: the same mindset, like that, you're going to go into
Speaker 1: the game with not necessarily trying to taitle or it
Speaker 1: um for the rough per se. But you know, as
Speaker 1: far as me like getting texts or something like, you
Speaker 1: do know which rougherees are you know, less likely to
Speaker 1: talk to you or have conversation, which I think is
Speaker 1: a big issue honestly, but you do kind of know that,
Speaker 1: and so you kind of adjust that before the most part,
Speaker 1: you go in with the same mindset. Next one from
Speaker 1: your boy aunt, who is your favorite player to lock
Speaker 1: up and talk smack too? My favorite player to lock
Speaker 1: up and talk smack too is DeMarco Rose. Oh okay, no,
Speaker 1: honestly though, it really is, and quite frankly, like I'll
Speaker 1: have some possessions where I get the best him, and he,
Speaker 1: of course DeMar is gonna have possessions where he getting
Speaker 1: in his spot and getting the best. But like every
Speaker 1: time I get to stop, I'm saying something to him,
Speaker 1: or every time he scored, he's gonna say something to me.
Speaker 1: But that's my brother like super tight. So it's just
Speaker 1: kind of that battle within the battle. And like I said,
Speaker 1: if I get that stop, he got to hear it.
Speaker 1: And if I don't get to stop, of course I'm
Speaker 1: hearing it. So I would say that's my favorite one
Speaker 1: for sure. I like that. Next one, let's do in
Speaker 1: a similar vein. Do you talk shit playing dominoes like
Speaker 1: you do on the court from where is rob G's
Speaker 1: Rob G? And playing dominoes? If you're not talking, you're
Speaker 1: not playing. I've never been to a domino game and
Speaker 1: they don't talk. You better how your one liner is
Speaker 1: ready to go. You got to be ready to talk.
Speaker 1: That's a part of your game. Like you gotta mentally
Speaker 1: try to tear your opponent down as well. So I
Speaker 1: think in dominoes, if you're not talking, I mean that's
Speaker 1: a born Dominoes table. If you're not talking at the
Speaker 1: domino table, I'm talking Big Bronco at the domino table,
Speaker 1: probably even more than in the basketball game, which it's crazy,
Speaker 1: that's kind of hard to believe a little bit absolutely.
Speaker 1: Next one from dtn gleek one, what did you spend
Speaker 1: your first NBA check? On my first NBA check, I
Speaker 1: brought some furniture from my apartment. I had no furniture.
Speaker 1: I was so So for those of y'all out there,
Speaker 1: when you get drafted to the NBA, um you signed
Speaker 1: a contract, and if you know, once you whenever you
Speaker 1: sign your contract, you can then take an advance. I'm
Speaker 1: like out to like maybe ten percent or your salary
Speaker 1: or because for most guys who are not like top
Speaker 1: five picks, you don't get like money right away with
Speaker 1: sneaker deals. Now obviously all that's changed with nil and stuff.
Speaker 1: You got these kids that are coming with money and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But for me coming out, I had
Speaker 1: no money, and like, so you know, you're kind of
Speaker 1: just trying to scrape along, scrape along, and you don't
Speaker 1: get your first check. Now mind you we get drifted
Speaker 1: in June, you don't get your first check to November fifteenth,
Speaker 1: So trying to scrape along. Um, Now, once you get
Speaker 1: your once you sign your contract and you get your advance,
Speaker 1: then you're fine. But that can take a while. Like
Speaker 1: I didn't sign my contract to like almost September, and
Speaker 1: so you gotta think like June, July, August, I got
Speaker 1: no money. I was about to borrow some money from
Speaker 1: one of my homeboys. I'll never forget Jarelle Worthy. He
Speaker 1: had got drafted to the NFL second round. You know,
Speaker 1: sound like a three or four million dollars sounding ball.
Speaker 1: I was about to borrow money from Worth because I
Speaker 1: was just trying to get to my advance and I
Speaker 1: had no money, and so I was about to borrow
Speaker 1: some money from Word and sure enough, like he was
Speaker 1: gonna send me a wire the next day, and my
Speaker 1: advance finally came through, and I'm like, bro, I don't
Speaker 1: need the money, like I'm good. But my first check,
Speaker 1: I know I gave you way more than what you
Speaker 1: ask so I apologize. But my first check, I bought
Speaker 1: some furniture from my apartment Ashley's Furniture Outlet in Oakland.
Speaker 1: I furnished my entire apartment at Ashley Outlets store in Oakland.
Speaker 1: It was great. Okay, next one from Blakeley Thompson. This
Speaker 1: has been kind of in the news recently. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Anthony Edwards comments on load management and
Speaker 1: just your thoughts on load management in general. My thoughts
Speaker 1: on Anthony Awards comments. I think I think you'd be
Speaker 1: crazy to knock what he said, because quite frankly, you
Speaker 1: have to understand the point, which is there's someone out
Speaker 1: there that that could be the only game that they
Speaker 1: can afford, and they come to see the game, want
Speaker 1: to see a particular player, player or two or three,
Speaker 1: and they're not playing but are physically able to play.
Speaker 1: That sucks. And I think as players you do have
Speaker 1: to take that into account because fans drive, you know,
Speaker 1: fans are a huge part of this game. Fans drive
Speaker 1: a lot that happens with the game of basketball. So
Speaker 1: you have to respect that side of it and understand it.
Speaker 1: Now in saying that, I think for me, it would
Speaker 1: be hard for Anthony Edwards to speak for me. I've
Speaker 1: been in this league eleven years. I played a whole
Speaker 1: extra two seasons in playoff games, which is at an
Speaker 1: entirely different level of competing than the regular season itself.
Speaker 1: So I think that right there alone is one thing,
Speaker 1: um that you really have to take into account. So
Speaker 1: I don't knock what aunt Man said at all. However,
Speaker 1: that should be his mindset. He's what twenty one, twenty
Speaker 1: two years old, knock on wood. It's never had any
Speaker 1: injuries for real, like any real injuries. Maybe some knicks
Speaker 1: and some knacks there, and so that should be his mindset.
Speaker 1: But I think everyone situation is different, And I pose
Speaker 1: the question back, if a guy is really at risk
Speaker 1: in a game, with all the science and different things
Speaker 1: that are used now to make these decisions, if a
Speaker 1: guy is really at risk of injury, do you go
Speaker 1: out there and risk the injury and risk two weeks
Speaker 1: two months a year due to injury and you knew
Speaker 1: what the risk was and you could have avoided. That's
Speaker 1: also another side to look at. You get a much
Speaker 1: better product if guys are healthier in the long term
Speaker 1: as opposed to trying to force one game. Ultimately, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the right answer is. What I do
Speaker 1: know is we in this game in the NBA, and
Speaker 1: I say we, I'm speaking of the league as a whole.
Speaker 1: There's way more science involved to it. There's data tracking,
Speaker 1: player tracking, your what your workload was for the day,
Speaker 1: what your workload was for the week, what it was
Speaker 1: for the month, how the schedules lining up. You have
Speaker 1: all of those things, and so I don't think it's
Speaker 1: as clear cut as old black and white. This is
Speaker 1: the answer, that's the answer. But I think at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. As players, you want to be
Speaker 1: out there and put on the show for the fans.
Speaker 1: As you know that's what makes us ticking. You want
Speaker 1: to do that. And so I don't I know that
Speaker 1: players want to be out there and at times like
Speaker 1: there are some back to backs this year that I
Speaker 1: didn't play in that I wanted to play in, and
Speaker 1: the team help me out, and they held you out
Speaker 1: because they're looking at these numbers and you're these numbers
Speaker 1: and you're in the red and in danger for injury
Speaker 1: and playing this game to the point of where you're
Speaker 1: seventy percent likely to get injured, and if you take
Speaker 1: this game off and play the next game, you're seven
Speaker 1: percent likely to get it injured. Well, I think in
Speaker 1: anyone's life, when the difference in percentage is seventy and seven,
Speaker 1: you're usually going to choose the thing that's seven. And
Speaker 1: as far as percentage of getting injured or whatever that
Speaker 1: theme may be, most people are going to pick seven
Speaker 1: because it's the logical thing to do. And so I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a great answer or one answer that's
Speaker 1: right or wrong. I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: players have to do the j job of understanding why
Speaker 1: you are sitting or or why you aren't, and then
Speaker 1: I think, uh, it's it's it's it's also on fans
Speaker 1: and us for them to understand all of those things.
Speaker 1: And however, those numbers and things aren't made public, so
Speaker 1: it's hard to understand them. But I will just hope
Speaker 1: and want fans to know that, you know, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: we want to be out there as well, you know,
Speaker 1: but on the same and the same breath. The science
Speaker 1: is the science, the data is the data, and if
Speaker 1: you don't follow the data, then everyone's screwed. We got
Speaker 1: a couple questions similar ones about Steph Curry and where
Speaker 1: he ranks all time. I know you don't like to
Speaker 1: do all time ranks all that, so I'm not going
Speaker 1: to ask you to place him somewhere all time, but
Speaker 1: at this point the best point guard of all time.
Speaker 1: Conversation for most people is usually between Maddick Johnson and
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. Maddick Johnson a spartan, Steph Curry, your teammate,
Speaker 1: very different play styles. How do you compare the two?
Speaker 1: I think comparing those two is lazy, just like I
Speaker 1: think there's still only five positions in basketball it's lazy.
Speaker 1: You know, we all we all speak about positionist basketball,
Speaker 1: right like that is a lazy term. Like I think
Speaker 1: it's all lazy. Steph Curry and Magic Johnson, if you
Speaker 1: watch those two guys play basketball, you probably wouldn't say
Speaker 1: they're the same position if you just watched with no
Speaker 1: understanding of positions. If you just watch those two play,
Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't say they're the same position. Just like
Speaker 1: if you listen to Drake's whole catalog and you wouldn't
Speaker 1: listen to jay Z's catalog, you probably wouldn't say they
Speaker 1: are in the same genre of music. Yet people very
Speaker 1: lazily throw Drake in the same category with jay Z.
Speaker 1: I feel the same way about Steph and Magic is like, yes,
Speaker 1: both point guards as far as the term goes, but
Speaker 1: two totally different players and went about it two totally
Speaker 1: different ways. Quite frankly, there's someone that's gonna like the
Speaker 1: way Magic went about it because they're like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: more of a true point guard and that's what I
Speaker 1: know to be a true point guard. And then there's
Speaker 1: others that's going to appreciate Steph more because it's like, man,
Speaker 1: look what he'd done at the position and scoring and
Speaker 1: how he affected defenses and all of that. Totally get that. However,
Speaker 1: I think they're both goats. They are both the greatest
Speaker 1: point guards of their errors, and you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: I just get tired of the comparing errors because quite frankly,
Speaker 1: they're just hypotheticals or you know, someone wishing up on
Speaker 1: the start that they could have sought this person against
Speaker 1: that person, Like it's never happening. Game was totally different
Speaker 1: when Magic played and when Steph played, like literally a
Speaker 1: totally different game. Like they're almost not even both basketball like,
Speaker 1: and so it's just totally different than we get into
Speaker 1: like making these comparisons or which one is better than
Speaker 1: the other. And quite frankly, those both of those guys
Speaker 1: dominated their era at the point guard position, and they
Speaker 1: both should be giving their flowers and appreciate their greatness
Speaker 1: because they're both all time great players. I love that
Speaker 1: answer from Verdon verdict. Is there such a thing as
Speaker 1: going too far? When trash talking? Is there a thing
Speaker 1: going too far? I think I wouldn't necessarily say there's
Speaker 1: a thing that's such a thing that's going too far.
Speaker 1: I just think once it does go wherever too far
Speaker 1: is you gotta be willing to deal with whatever comes
Speaker 1: with that. You know, if that's something off the court
Speaker 1: and a guy is like carrying that grudge, you gotta
Speaker 1: deal with what comes with that. For something that you said,
Speaker 1: you know, and you can't run from that. And I've
Speaker 1: seen that happen on the court where you know, guys
Speaker 1: say something that they not really they don't really want
Speaker 1: to stand on. And if you don't really want to
Speaker 1: stand on it, then don't say it. But don't tell me, oh,
Speaker 1: that went too far, because in the in the heat
Speaker 1: of the battle, the gloves or off. And so if
Speaker 1: we're just competing that we're both talking, jump what what
Speaker 1: what's said is what's said. Now, it's saying that I
Speaker 1: think you do have certain respect for other guys and
Speaker 1: certain guys, and those guys you just wouldn't say certain
Speaker 1: things too, because the respect is there. Where the problem
Speaker 1: gets is when there's no respect there and guys get
Speaker 1: to talking and then you just you say certain things
Speaker 1: and there's no coming back from certain things that said.
Speaker 1: And then at that point I can't necessarily say it's
Speaker 1: going too far. I would just say you have to
Speaker 1: be willing to deal with whatever comes with whatever quote
Speaker 1: unquote we're going too far would be next one, and
Speaker 1: then we'll sort of close with a little bit of
Speaker 1: a rapid fire segment. What is it like balancing and
Speaker 1: being a professional athlete and being a father? I know
Speaker 1: this is a topic you care a lot about, ah man. Um.
Speaker 1: It is a tough honestly, because quite frankly, you want
Speaker 1: to give all that you can to your career, and
Speaker 1: in order to do that, that requires time. And yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to give all your time to your children,
Speaker 1: and in order to do that, that pulls away at
Speaker 1: the time from the career. Um. Quite frankly, I think
Speaker 1: you do the best that you can to find that balance.
Speaker 1: And by the way, that's what anyone at work right like,
Speaker 1: that's with a CEO, that's with a janitor like you.
Speaker 1: You you have to find that work slash life slash
Speaker 1: parent balance. And for me, Um, you know, you just
Speaker 1: really dive into the time that you do have. I
Speaker 1: don't worry so much about the time that I don't have.
Speaker 1: I worry more about making the most of the time
Speaker 1: that I do have and ultimately understanding and hoping that
Speaker 1: your kids will understand that. You know, when it's all
Speaker 1: said and done, you were doing this for them. You know,
Speaker 1: you miss Christmas Day game for them, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean you miss the Christmas Day because you had a game,
Speaker 1: and ultimately you're providing for them. You know. To leave
Speaker 1: my kids in the position that I to never leave
Speaker 1: my kids in the position that I was in is
Speaker 1: always my goal. That requires work, that requires you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you're gonna miss some things, and you just hope
Speaker 1: that you raise your kids in a way and that
Speaker 1: they understand that you know and and not really hold
Speaker 1: a grudge or you know, feel a type of way
Speaker 1: about you as a parent because you're out, you know,
Speaker 1: doing what you have to do to provide, to close
Speaker 1: out the mailback and do a bit of a rapid
Speaker 1: fire segment. Okay, I'm gonna ask you some questions. Quickly
Speaker 1: got his answer. First thing that comes to your head.
Speaker 1: Let's go, what's your favorite nighttime snack? My favorite nighttime
Speaker 1: snack is uh, potato chips. I'm I'm a I'm a
Speaker 1: big potato chip guy. Okay, well, flavor hot Cheetos is
Speaker 1: my favorite, but I kind of stay away from those.
Speaker 1: Those do a number on my stomach at times. Um So,
Speaker 1: if I had to go outside of hot cheetos, I
Speaker 1: would go sour cream and onion ruffles, Cheddar, Cheddar, sour
Speaker 1: cream and onion ruffles, scoop. What's your favorite song right now?
Speaker 1: My favorite song right now? Oh man? My favorite song
Speaker 1: right now? I think my favorite song right now is one.
Speaker 1: It's Still It's you know, one of my favorite songs
Speaker 1: of all times? Which your song cry? By jay Z?
Speaker 1: Who is the last text? Who is the last text
Speaker 1: message you sent to? I was just texting my wife.
Speaker 1: Which warrior is the flakiest? Which warriors the flakiest is
Speaker 1: by far Klay Thompson? But I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to use the word flaky is because the word flaky
Speaker 1: just comes off as like distasteful. But you just you
Speaker 1: just never really know what they expect with Clay. Which
Speaker 1: warrior is the funniest the Which warrior is the funniest?
Speaker 1: Um ooh man, who is the funniest warrior? I am
Speaker 1: going to have to say. I am looking around the
Speaker 1: locker room, and the funniest warrior to me is John
Speaker 1: Think amina flats are drums drums? Favorite all time video game?
Speaker 1: Favorite all time video game is NBA Jam. Last One
Speaker 1: Tough one Rihanna or Beyonce Beyonce. Rihanna is incredible, by
Speaker 1: the way, but I think Beyonce Beyonce is one of
Speaker 1: the greatest entertainers we we've ever seen in this lifetime.
Speaker 1: All Right, that's that's it for the mail back today.
Speaker 1: Come back here for the show next week. I got
Speaker 1: a great guest. Appreciate y'all. That's a rat Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the stress run of the NBA season. That's a
Speaker 1: rout from this episode of The Draymond Green Show, Jackson.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the questions. To everybody out there that submitted
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Speaker 1: Until next time, Peace,