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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: I know we told you last week we have two episodes,
Speaker 1: including an interview. We decided to push that back because
Speaker 1: of the tragedy within our Warriors family. Just didn't feel
Speaker 1: right or like a good time to release anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it was a lot going on, as
Speaker 3: you all may know, which we'll talk about.
Speaker 1: But we'll talk about that, We'll talk about some other
Speaker 1: NBA topics. First, before we get into that, just reminder
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Speaker 1: Subscribe. We appreciate you. Now let's get into it. Something
Speaker 1: I've been dreading since I mean not dread didn't have
Speaker 1: to speak of, but really just living in the passion
Speaker 1: of our assistant coach Deyon Milojevich Deki as he's known
Speaker 1: to most man. Just honestly, not many words I think,
Speaker 1: you know, just send love to Decki's family h m hm,
Speaker 1: his friends, uh, players like myself that had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to play for him, all those that were touched and
Speaker 1: affected by him. There's not a way you didn't have
Speaker 1: a positive experience if you were if you had any
Speaker 1: contact or connection or spent time with or played with
Speaker 1: Coach By, there's no chance you didn't.
Speaker 3: Have a positive experience.
Speaker 1: If your life had been touched or grace with the
Speaker 1: presence of Decie always smiling, always had the same energy,
Speaker 1: like no matter what, just always had that like just
Speaker 1: a good vibe and presence. And you know, when you
Speaker 1: spend your life like as a as an athlete, as
Speaker 1: a professional athlete, in the NBA, Like you spend so
Speaker 1: much time together, whether that's on the planes, games, practices,
Speaker 1: road trips like you name it. You spend so much
Speaker 1: time with the people in that locker room. And because
Speaker 1: you spend so much time with those very people, you
Speaker 1: see the good, the bad, and the ugly like of everybody,
Speaker 1: Like because you're going to like we all have bad days,
Speaker 1: and so you're going to see the greatest days, like
Speaker 1: you're going to see the highest and highest, You're going
Speaker 1: to see the lowest lows throughout the course of the
Speaker 1: nine months. Like if you imagine nine months of your life,
Speaker 1: like in what goes on in your life over the
Speaker 1: course of nine months, Like that's the amount of time
Speaker 1: we spend together each year, Like a lot of time
Speaker 1: within those nine months. And so if you imagine the
Speaker 1: things that you see, like you see the best thing,
Speaker 1: you see the worst when doing this job, And Clay said,
Speaker 1: one of the most interesting things to me, We just
Speaker 1: sat down. We played dominoes on Wednesday in Utah. If
Speaker 1: we were supposed to leave, we got stuck there, miserable.
Speaker 1: It's like everything was just on the loop, you know,
Speaker 1: Like then you come down the next day you see
Speaker 1: everybody in the same clothes as the day before at
Speaker 1: the hospital, and it's just like like you live in
Speaker 1: this nightmare and can't escape anything.
Speaker 3: It was miserable.
Speaker 1: But Clay said to me, he said, man, when have
Speaker 1: you ever walked into the facility and been like, man,
Speaker 1: what's Deckie on today? Like? Because we all have our days, right,
Speaker 1: Like I'm sure there's some days Clay walk in and
Speaker 1: be like dre on some boards today and like in
Speaker 1: some days we all walk in and be like, man, what.
Speaker 3: Is coach own today?
Speaker 1: Like everybody, because you see the best and the worst
Speaker 1: from everybody, Like that's just the life we live. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the worst of DECKI was like he
Speaker 1: was always the exact same, always smart, super smart, smart
Speaker 1: as hell, joyful, just bring the best, like great energy,
Speaker 1: stay out the way. But like you feel his presence
Speaker 1: and he walk up to you, he shake your hand, hunk,
Speaker 1: you smile, what's up?
Speaker 3: Brought that.
Speaker 1: Live?
Speaker 3: Like and like that's what you got from Decie.
Speaker 1: And you couple at of that with the most brilliant
Speaker 1: basketball mind, just a special presence and like, oh that's great, right,
Speaker 1: But like we lost such a great, incredible person, great
Speaker 1: man and being that close to someone it hurts.
Speaker 3: Like here we are Monday night.
Speaker 1: We haven't played a game since last Monday, and our
Speaker 1: first practice was today, and it's crazy how it all
Speaker 1: worked out, Like the two games were canceled, and like,
Speaker 1: I'm thankful to the league for canceling those because I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how emotionally you can step out there on
Speaker 1: the basketball court. But yet there's another side where it's
Speaker 1: like sometimes the basketball court is our safe haven, like
Speaker 1: it is our escape, it is your way of losing
Speaker 1: yourself in the game. And so it's just been a
Speaker 1: weird space to be in in the same token, in
Speaker 1: that same breath. On Thursday, when we finally made it back,
Speaker 1: I went to the gym to get shot up, and
Speaker 1: like in a forty minute workout, I stopped and started
Speaker 1: talking to Jacob and and laying like six seven times,
Speaker 1: just talking about Deci. And so then I realized right there,
Speaker 1: like dang, that this court is not offering the escape
Speaker 1: that it normally does. How most of us use it
Speaker 1: in times of need where you've like you hurt you down,
Speaker 1: this court not really offering that escape. And I realized,
Speaker 1: like every time I'm on the court, I'm stopping and
Speaker 1: saying something like, oh yo, Dekie and.
Speaker 3: It's just it's tough. I saw one of the most
Speaker 3: incredible things today when we started off film.
Speaker 1: Dekie Again, for those of you that don't know, Dekie
Speaker 1: is a legend in European basketball fever basketball play with
Speaker 1: Partisan in Serbia, Big Club, You're a league legend, three
Speaker 1: m vps in a row, legend. He comes over here
Speaker 1: and act like he's no one, like I'm just here.
Speaker 1: I'm here to coach, like legend. I'm just here to coach,
Speaker 1: do his thing, stay out like act like he's none
Speaker 1: of that. So today we had the opportunity. But right
Speaker 1: before we started film or Golden Hour, what we call.
Speaker 3: Ironically Decies.
Speaker 1: Team club that he played for, a Partisan and in Belgrade, Serbia,
Speaker 1: was playing against the team that he coached, Mega, Nicole Jokic,
Speaker 1: Tim Timothy Lahu, Cabaret, Cabaret, the list goes on and on.
Speaker 1: That's where he coached most of those guys with Mega
Speaker 1: and ironically they're playing today or they played earlier today.
Speaker 1: But we got to watch the tribute at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the game and it was so powerful. It was incredible.
Speaker 1: The love that he had the tears that would drop,
Speaker 1: the emotion, the chance, the amount of time they clapped,
Speaker 1: the amount of time they allowed the memorial to be,
Speaker 1: then a moment of silence, then they cheered again. Off
Speaker 1: for decade, they had a huge poster of him. They
Speaker 1: start lighting their flares. It was incredible to watch because
Speaker 1: when it's all said and done, you can only hope
Speaker 1: that you had that impact on someone. Twenty thousand people
Speaker 1: in those stands. It's incredible to watch, but it hurts.
Speaker 3: And so he was a fun guy to play for
Speaker 3: a straight shooter.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a little bit of a language barrier,
Speaker 1: so so you're getting it straight, like you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: people sugar coat it or try to find a nice
Speaker 1: way to say it, like you're getting it straight from
Speaker 1: Decie like whatever he means, he's saying it, no, not
Speaker 1: pacifying anything. In the NBA, people are very careful on
Speaker 1: what like the things that they say. Players not Decky say,
Speaker 1: the players not Dicky. He going straight to it, And
Speaker 1: don't understand why you won't say it, because he.
Speaker 3: Going to.
Speaker 1: And we lost a special, special person in it.
Speaker 3: It hurts, you know, I feel for Steve.
Speaker 1: Like coaching staff, like every day you gotta walk in
Speaker 1: there and you got to see that seat, like you
Speaker 1: know where he sits.
Speaker 3: Like I feel for them, like.
Speaker 1: Cavan Looney, all of a sudden you're going on the
Speaker 1: court and you're working out with someone else like Dario Trace,
Speaker 1: Like I feel for them because you'll be reminded of
Speaker 1: it every day, you know, Like we've lost people, friends,
Speaker 1: family that you don't necessarily enter ract with every day,
Speaker 1: and so there's an escape from it, like this is
Speaker 1: every day his family gonna have to live at every day.
Speaker 3: And like.
Speaker 1: When legends go, the family don't necessarily ever get to
Speaker 1: live it down because the world never really let it
Speaker 1: go down, never really let it die down. And so
Speaker 1: I send my love to his family. Everybody lies he's touched.
Speaker 1: I know how special it was to all his family
Speaker 1: and friends back in Survey and fans. We all took
Speaker 1: a hit, big hit. It hurts, It hurts a lot,
Speaker 1: but I ultimately just praying and send my cinema I
Speaker 1: love to his family. In other news, in the NBA,
Speaker 1: Pascal Siakam All NBA Player, All Star, Pascal Siakam NBA
Speaker 1: Champion not to be forgotten Former Draymond Green Show guests.
Speaker 1: Pascal Siakam traded to the Indiana Pacers, very very interesting trade.
Speaker 1: Number one, I don't think Indiana Pacers. I think that
Speaker 1: was a place that Pascal Siakam approved to get be
Speaker 1: traded to. Because number one, Pascal Siakam is a Toronto
Speaker 1: Raptor letard. No debates, They're done. He's going to be respected.
Speaker 1: Messai Ujeri is a very respectful man, known to respect guys,
Speaker 1: uh respect for to work with.
Speaker 3: And so I know there was some communication there.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna send Pascal somewhere that Pascal doesn't want
Speaker 1: to be just to get the biggest bang for the
Speaker 1: buck back for the Raptors, not how MASI moving. So
Speaker 1: I know that's somewhere that Pascal had to say, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'd be cool going there, And why.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't he be. You got a very.
Speaker 1: Young just signed the max contract point guard soon to
Speaker 1: be All Star All Star point guard, fake All Star
Speaker 1: All Star point guard, Tyreese Halliburton.
Speaker 3: That's a dream for a guy like Siacle.
Speaker 1: So when you look at it from Pascal's point of view,
Speaker 1: I can go play with this all star point guard.
Speaker 1: Also got a big man rim protector and Miles Turner. Pascal,
Speaker 1: who you know can switch for can guard on the perimeter.
Speaker 1: Now I can press up and more knowing that I
Speaker 1: got a great run protector on the back line and
Speaker 1: Miles Turner that will allowed him to mess mess with.
Speaker 3: The pieces a little bit.
Speaker 1: And Pascal Siakam has come through the East to win
Speaker 1: a championship, so he's very familiar with the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: So he's probably looking at that like, Wow, we got this.
Speaker 1: We got Myles Turner, we got Buddy Hill.
Speaker 3: Like. I can roll with that.
Speaker 1: Nim Hard young, young niece Smith young, I can roll
Speaker 1: with that. Now I come in, I bring my championship pedigree,
Speaker 1: my veteran presence with those young them boys running like
Speaker 1: I don't know, if y'all watch the NBA Indiana Pacers
Speaker 1: play this year, them boys is running and gunning. Now
Speaker 1: I can bring my veteran presence to that, my championship pedigree.
Speaker 3: I like the look at that.
Speaker 1: So I have no way of confirming that, but I
Speaker 1: think I know this business pretty well, and I think
Speaker 1: that's something that Pascal will proved. Job well done, sir.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great fit, great trade for the
Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers. I also think it was a great trade
Speaker 1: for the For the Raptors, you got Pascal.
Speaker 3: Four months away from.
Speaker 1: Being a free agent, unrestricted free agent, which means he
Speaker 1: could go to wherever he want to go. Now, you
Speaker 1: may say, oh, he's just not going to do that
Speaker 1: to the Raptors, but ten days after winning the NBA Championship,
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard did. So that's a very realistic thing for
Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors. That is a reality.
Speaker 3: And last season Fred van Vliet walked for nothing.
Speaker 1: There it is like, so you've seen this loud and clear.
Speaker 1: You know it can happen. So they get three first
Speaker 1: round picks back. And although I don't think the picks
Speaker 1: will be great, maybe the one down the road will
Speaker 1: be great, but these two I don't think don't necessarily
Speaker 1: be great picks.
Speaker 3: But again, you got a guy who you want to
Speaker 3: do right by because he's won your championship, and.
Speaker 1: You get three first round picks for a guy who's
Speaker 1: about to be out the door in a couple of months.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great trade for both. I think
Speaker 1: that is beautiful to see how MASSI worked out with
Speaker 1: a guy he won a championship with. If I'm not
Speaker 1: mistaken may have drafted. I'm almost positive Massai drafted Pascal.
Speaker 1: But they both have African tis obviously, both being uh
Speaker 1: Man from Africa and the NBA doing big things. Like
Speaker 1: to see them work that out. That's very respectful, very
Speaker 1: respectful trade. Great trade, I.
Speaker 3: Think, I don't. I don't think there was a loser
Speaker 3: in the trade. I actually think.
Speaker 1: It's every now and then you get a Tyres Halliburton,
Speaker 1: uh my demonte Sabonis that works out for both teams.
Speaker 1: Every now and then you get great trades for both sides.
Speaker 1: It's not always a winner and a loser. There can
Speaker 1: be two winners when you're talking about a trade, and
Speaker 1: maybe Indiana are just it's just a team to make
Speaker 1: those wins happen for both sides. Hope them GM's out
Speaker 1: there taking notes. They may be a team that's saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you get something great, we get something great. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, and looking at that team and what
Speaker 1: they got the key to how great that team can
Speaker 1: be coming again, it's not. It doesn't just happen in
Speaker 1: four months. You got some young guys. You got Pascal
Speaker 1: Siakam I think is twenty nine years old to twenty
Speaker 1: eight years of twenty nine, like still fairly young with experience,
Speaker 1: and you got a bunch of young hogs going to
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 3: The key that's going to make that team. What that
Speaker 3: team is going to end up being.
Speaker 1: Whether they can push it past the Jermaine O'Neill Conference Finals,
Speaker 1: Reggie Conference Final, whether they can ultimately push this thing
Speaker 1: to where we all want to go. The key to
Speaker 1: that is Benedic Mathering. Young guy they already got. I
Speaker 1: ain't saying go get this Benedict Mathering. That kid I
Speaker 1: think has a great deal of potential. He a go
Speaker 1: get her. He not soft at all. He ain't a bully,
Speaker 1: but you ain't got it. But he ain't soft like
Speaker 1: you ain't bullying him.
Speaker 3: He ain't backing down.
Speaker 1: He can shoot it well enough to where if he
Speaker 1: in that gym, his shot can become good.
Speaker 3: He can handle it.
Speaker 1: He's pretty athletic, ben Adiic Mather, and I think is
Speaker 1: the key to that team because I love his potential.
Speaker 1: I love that draft pick for the Pacers, and I
Speaker 1: think he's on a good trajectory. Like it doesn't happen overnight.
Speaker 1: That's a part of the growth, that's a part of
Speaker 1: getting young guys and grooming them. But what Benedic mathering
Speaker 1: can become will decide ultimately what that franchise can become.
Speaker 1: Tyres is great, right Like I won't say great, yeah,
Speaker 1: because the young fellas still on his way, but he's
Speaker 1: a one of the better point guards in this league
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 3: Pascal siakam Champion.
Speaker 1: All NBA All Star, like Miles Turner, is a.
Speaker 3: Great rim protector.
Speaker 1: Knock the three down athletic will finish on you like Buddy.
Speaker 1: We know Buddy shooting it obviously, you don't know what
Speaker 1: happens with Buddy's free agent where they trade and will not.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they keep them, we know Buddy can
Speaker 1: knock it down. If not, they got young fellas and
Speaker 1: they three that cap space up. I think it's a
Speaker 1: win win there. But Benedict Mathern is the key. His
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Speaker 1: is he Well, I'm gonna this because I want to
Speaker 1: quote this. Katie kind of asked a rhetorical question in
Speaker 1: a sense. He said, because I went to the Warriors.
Speaker 1: He's speaking on the goat conversation. Why is he not
Speaker 1: in a gold conversation? He said, because I went to
Speaker 1: the Warriors, Why should not be in that question?
Speaker 3: Mark, that's the question you should ask. Why not? What
Speaker 3: haven't I done well?
Speaker 1: I said, you gotta be very careful and saying that
Speaker 1: you yourself as a goat, that's something you have to be
Speaker 1: very careful of. Yet I Dremond Green said, I am
Speaker 1: one of the greatest defenders of all time, if I
Speaker 1: may have said the greatest defender of all time.
Speaker 3: So I totally get where he coming from.
Speaker 1: I can't be one to sit here and be like,
Speaker 1: you can't throw yourself in that conversation I did. And
Speaker 1: if you ain't gonna put yourself there, and nobody else
Speaker 1: is gonna put you there, So you got to embrace that.
Speaker 1: I respect that. What I will say is, I think
Speaker 1: oftentimes Katie has a huge problem with the media. Uh.
Speaker 1: He'll probably come out of say by everybody say I
Speaker 1: got a problem with the media.
Speaker 3: It just seemed like you do. He'll probably come out
Speaker 3: and say like.
Speaker 1: Or these dudes say anything on podcasts and like all
Speaker 1: that stuff.
Speaker 3: He got a podcast, By the way, or have one.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: As far as my goat conversation, though, I think Katie
Speaker 1: is one of the greatest scores we've ever seen. Like
Speaker 1: no one ever says Lebron James is a scorer, but
Speaker 1: he's scored.
Speaker 3: The most points of all times.
Speaker 1: Because it ain't the flashy Bron gonna get to the bucket.
Speaker 3: He gonna get to the cup. He gonna get it done.
Speaker 3: We know who Bron.
Speaker 1: But people always say Kd's the greatest score of all time,
Speaker 1: Like you can make that argument. Like the way KD
Speaker 1: scored the ball is so effortlessly, like so effortless, Like.
Speaker 3: That's what KD do you.
Speaker 1: He's never seen a bad shot, Like he gonna get
Speaker 1: you thirty one points on fourteen shots. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: ten for fourteen, six for six from the line, two
Speaker 1: for two from three, like that is a normal KD.
Speaker 1: Knight as effortless as anyone we've ever seen. Like and
Speaker 1: KD works like one of the hardest workers I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: I've already told y'all, Like every rep is gain speed.
Speaker 1: That's mind bog Like that's crazy stuff work like that,
Speaker 1: And like obviously I'm not one that's gonna be like
Speaker 1: kd's championships aren't real, like stop it, Like there's no championship,
Speaker 1: that's not real. People say the bubble Championship, Like there's
Speaker 1: no championship, that's not real. And KD put in work
Speaker 1: for them. Championships average thirty six in one of the
Speaker 1: series and maybe thirty three, like KD put the work in.
Speaker 1: So the whole the championships is not real. That's not
Speaker 1: a thing. You couldn't help off Clay, and you couldn't
Speaker 1: help off Steph at all, ever, and you had to
Speaker 1: play one on one with KD and good luck, good night,
Speaker 1: and so that's what it is.
Speaker 3: And KD defensively when he was here.
Speaker 1: Was insane. Like KD allowed our small ball line up.
Speaker 1: We had two rim protectors. I was a rim protector.
Speaker 1: He was a rim protector and really kind of two
Speaker 1: and a half because Andre kind of does some of
Speaker 1: that too, in a different way, but like in a.
Speaker 3: Much different way. Anyway.
Speaker 1: KD was incredible defensively too, he like when he was here.
Speaker 1: So the whole championship thing not he ain't got real championships.
Speaker 3: That's not a thing. Stop it.
Speaker 1: However, Steph didn't get the credit that Steph gets today
Speaker 1: until twenty twenty two when he led this team to
Speaker 1: a championship and won the finals MVP.
Speaker 3: So if you if you're not giving Steph that credit,
Speaker 3: which people didn't just didn't like.
Speaker 1: And by the way, as a fan of basketball, I've
Speaker 1: watched Steph do everything. When when I watched him do
Speaker 1: what he did in twenty twenty two, he took steps
Speaker 1: up for me, like, oh no, this dude.
Speaker 3: Is like he in that conversation. Now, yeah, yeah, he there.
Speaker 1: Now you gotta go do what Steph did to get
Speaker 1: to that conversation.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, I'm not in the gold conversation.
Speaker 1: That's fine, but in my opinion, my opinion, you gotta
Speaker 1: do what Steph did to get to that conversation.
Speaker 3: Maybe the team ain't as ideal as you want it
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know, maybe you know, everything ain't perfect. But
Speaker 1: guess what, when it's time, I'm gonna say, hey, come
Speaker 1: get on my back, let's go here, when everything all
Speaker 1: else failing, Hey, come get on my back and let's
Speaker 1: go here.
Speaker 3: The team ain't gonna always be the most perfect.
Speaker 1: Our twenty twenty two teams sure wasn't the most perfect team.
Speaker 1: But when it was time. And by the way, God's
Speaker 1: contributed in a major way. Andrew Wiggins, myself, Jordan Poole,
Speaker 1: Clay Loon like, we all did our things like Belly,
Speaker 1: like every GP people stepped up and did their thing.
Speaker 1: But like, you're not gonna go back through that team
Speaker 1: and compare to any of our other championship rosters and
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, that said Auto Auto is huge, like,
Speaker 1: but we went and got it done. And in large
Speaker 1: part when all else was felling, Steph said, all right, fellas,
Speaker 1: come on, let's go there.
Speaker 3: Period.
Speaker 1: That's how he got to that conversation. So for me,
Speaker 1: you gotta do that first when all else is felling
Speaker 1: the teammate't ideal, All right, come here, let's go do that.
Speaker 3: I got nothing but love and respect for KD.
Speaker 1: Won two championships with KD, so it's never no hate
Speaker 1: and all love.
Speaker 3: But from me.
Speaker 1: From me, I can only speak for me, uh, but
Speaker 1: you gotta go do that thing. Nobody mentioned Bron like
Speaker 1: really respecting Bron like that to twenty sixteen. Yeah, Bron
Speaker 1: had respecting before that. We all know who Lebron James was,
Speaker 1: but really calling him the goat, like really saying Lebron
Speaker 1: James is in the Gold Commerce twenty sixteen. That's when
Speaker 1: that happened. So you got to do that thing, man,
Speaker 1: before we get out of here. We always talk about
Speaker 1: the old debate and the old school new school debate.
Speaker 1: I myself, along with my team the new media, which
Speaker 1: is official. By the way, y'all know how I kind
Speaker 1: of feel on those things. It gets weird, you know.
Speaker 1: You get some old schoolers talking like this. You get
Speaker 1: some old schoolers talking like that. You get some old
Speaker 1: schoolers saying what they think about you and don't realize, well,
Speaker 1: what you're really saying about.
Speaker 3: Who you act like you were like.
Speaker 1: You get all of that, man, it's funny with these
Speaker 1: older you know, sometimes guys don't keep it real.
Speaker 3: It's funny.
Speaker 1: It was the Shock Diesel Shock Shack always keep it
Speaker 1: real and every instant shockkeeping it a hunting.
Speaker 3: I can respect that.
Speaker 1: Ironically, been my favorite player since I was since I
Speaker 1: since Orlando Magic, because I was born Orlando Magic, Nightlight Ones.
Speaker 1: He zip up Shaquille O'Neil iron on my first jersey
Speaker 1: in my life thirty two. Big fella. I got nothing
Speaker 1: beloved and respect for Shaq And to see how he
Speaker 1: is and growing to become the man that I've become.
Speaker 1: To see how he is, it's just crazy to me
Speaker 1: when I go back to like my five year old self,
Speaker 1: like eleving your old self, like diehard Shaquille O'Neill fan
Speaker 1: to see how he is and like what he stand on,
Speaker 1: what business he stand on. It's just crazy how life works.
Speaker 1: It's insane. And saying that the big fellow keep it real.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't KG keep it real. I
Speaker 1: got a lot of respect for KG. KG do keep
Speaker 1: it real. KG was recently just on his podcast KG
Speaker 1: Certified with all the Smoke Productions with Paul Pierce, and
Speaker 1: they were talking about the cold and like the element
Speaker 1: of the game that's lost, you know, which is the
Speaker 1: competitive element they said, is lost. One element that's missing
Speaker 1: from I think this era from like Yester your eras.
Speaker 3: It's that competitive energy. I don't want to shake your hand.
Speaker 3: I might not I might be staring at you the
Speaker 3: whole time. It was an energy of brain boxing.
Speaker 1: I respect it because a part of it is lost.
Speaker 1: Although I know when you get between them lines, like
Speaker 1: most guys, you're trying to you still trying to you.
Speaker 3: This dude like yeah, you may laugh. Okay, maybe they
Speaker 3: didn't laugh. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You may say something here and there. It's respect, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like a lot of guys they'll
Speaker 1: go out and there say these elements lost or like
Speaker 1: we ain't talking Like they asked, uh, they asked Joel
Speaker 1: what he said the joker he said, I told him
Speaker 1: you're still the best big man in the world, or
Speaker 1: something of that nature.
Speaker 3: And it's like.
Speaker 1: I never really find quotes from back then of those
Speaker 1: guys like really going.
Speaker 3: In, how they be saying they went in.
Speaker 1: Now again, I know how KG talked because I know
Speaker 1: how KG Trots talked to me when I came into
Speaker 1: the league, and I've heard a million stories from guys
Speaker 1: personally or what he said to them, Like so KG
Speaker 1: really talked like that and like really walked that, Like
Speaker 1: I get it. But like a lot of guys be
Speaker 1: saying how they said this or they did But like
Speaker 1: you can't find those quotes. You can't find the quotes.
Speaker 1: Like if we can find those quotes, then I'll believe
Speaker 1: more of it. But like if we say anything, it's
Speaker 1: all over everything, and now you gotta deal with that.
Speaker 1: Not even from that person, like forget what the person
Speaker 1: says right, Like like forget if if Joel was like, ah,
Speaker 1: I don't think Joker that good and Joker took it
Speaker 1: personally like they gonna play, Like all right, bet he
Speaker 1: gonna take it personal next time we play. If I
Speaker 1: really feel like that, then I stop them, like or not,
Speaker 1: like you gonna go play the game. But all the
Speaker 1: other stuff that you have to deal with coming from
Speaker 1: everybody who knows nothing, that's when you like, ah, I
Speaker 1: don't really know if I even want to say that
Speaker 1: to even deal with that, Like sometimes it's just not
Speaker 1: worth it.
Speaker 3: So I have a problem when older guys.
Speaker 1: Be saying like, oh, this guy shouldn't have said did this,
Speaker 1: or like he's like he they don't do this or
Speaker 1: do that, And it's like yeah, to a certain extent,
Speaker 1: everybody like if you do anything, say anything, everybody else
Speaker 1: pick it up. Make it a thing that you didn't
Speaker 1: have to live and deal with because it's a totally
Speaker 1: different day and age.
Speaker 3: Like you talking social media, you talking.
Speaker 1: Everybody got an opinion, those that don't know shit got
Speaker 1: an opinion. Everybody think they should be doing a podcast
Speaker 1: and doing this, and they got a Twitter, They should
Speaker 1: say this, and they create all these different pages and
Speaker 1: different public like anybody can have a voice today.
Speaker 3: You're subject to all of that.
Speaker 1: So even as like putting something out there, is it
Speaker 1: really worth what comes with it? It's not necessarily what
Speaker 1: you think the other guy gonna do that you could
Speaker 1: be talking about. But like what all these Twitter fingers
Speaker 1: got to say and Instagram comments and people that blow
Speaker 1: your comments up because they I either don't got no money,
Speaker 1: got a bad job, got nothing else to do, no responsibility,
Speaker 1: suck at taking care of the responsibilities, and would rather
Speaker 1: comment on your responsibilities. Like these are the things that
Speaker 1: you subject do you subject yourself too, And so the
Speaker 1: whole thing actually don't even make sense. Man, Guys still
Speaker 1: compete at the highest level of the NBA is at
Speaker 1: the highest level it's ever been. The talent in the
Speaker 1: NBA is as best as it's ever been. Like, so
Speaker 1: let's stop it. Like the game as big as it's
Speaker 1: ever been. Yes, social media and all that has something
Speaker 1: to do it. You still gotta be able to play,
Speaker 1: and like there was still a time in the NBA
Speaker 1: when guys we're going left with their right hand where
Speaker 1: guys can shoot if you can't shoot in the NBA today,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard for you.
Speaker 3: You get away with not shooting back then, like the
Speaker 3: game is.
Speaker 1: As good as it's ever been, Like, let's stop it,
Speaker 1: let's stop the Oh and by the way, this ain't
Speaker 1: even the KG thing, because KG is actually one of
Speaker 1: those guys that really lived that and did that. But
Speaker 1: like like so many guys, we talk stop enough, like
Speaker 1: we get it.
Speaker 3: It's old, it's tired, it's not new to stop. The
Speaker 3: game is great, it's in great hands as we all know.
Speaker 1: Shade Gilgess Alexander has the best post game captions. His
Speaker 1: captions are like full like bars is great. You don't know,
Speaker 1: you should go check it out for yourself. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: Dude got like real bars on his captions and he's
Speaker 1: obviously dressed to part like he do his thing, like
Speaker 1: you know, Shad's Lea's best dress. All of that with
Speaker 1: the captions is insane. And playing the way he'd be
Speaker 1: playing first team or NBA carrying that team number two
Speaker 1: seed in the West, Like you kind of got to
Speaker 1: respect it. You have no choice but to respect it all,
Speaker 1: Like you gotta respect the whole little makeup of it. Uh.
Speaker 1: One of his captions the other day said, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: read it to you. I'm gonna read you to caption
Speaker 1: because don't leave it to me to butcher the caption
Speaker 1: for you, because how a bar was intended is exactly
Speaker 1: how you should receive the bar. The caption says, they
Speaker 1: talk about me for my post game two words posts
Speaker 1: gang Comma, not my postgame. One word postgame. That's a
Speaker 1: bar because you can actually read that a couple different ways,
Speaker 1: which any bar you hear, Drake or Jay or somebody
Speaker 1: it actually can have a few different meanings, which is
Speaker 1: what makes those guys great.
Speaker 3: Because then you're like, oh wait, like that's a bar
Speaker 3: right there.
Speaker 1: And I then went to see Anthony Edward says something
Speaker 1: about him postgame getting free throws.
Speaker 3: He was twelve and thirteen from the pre throw line.
Speaker 1: And I'm just here to say, if that is a
Speaker 1: response to what Edman said, the caption is even crazier,
Speaker 1: which I think it probably is because Shaye real quiet,
Speaker 1: but talk like that and with all that, but keep
Speaker 1: to himself, but like own all that. This young budd
Speaker 1: and rivalry right here Shae Gilgers, Alexander and Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 1: My God, I'll be watching it for the next fifteen
Speaker 1: years because this is gonna be a special one. They'll
Speaker 1: go ten twelve, Shae, and you're six or seven, let's
Speaker 1: go next ten years. I'll be locked in because there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a great one. Neither one of them guys
Speaker 1: back and down. It's gonna say a little more, Shae,
Speaker 1: don't say much. This caption is gonna say everything. But
Speaker 1: they both like that. Both all NBA players, both all stars,
Speaker 1: both guys leading eighteen, number one and two in the West,
Speaker 1: young guys doing it.
Speaker 3: Gotta respect that God to love it.
Speaker 1: So if that's happening, hokie your seatbelts up, people and
Speaker 1: go along for the ride, because I am. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch it. M gotta respect it. I love how they
Speaker 1: bumping until next time. That's a rap from the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green show.
Speaker 3: Peace