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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Trademond Green Show.
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Speaker 1: let's get right into it. Doves was on a five
Speaker 1: game win streak. I think and have dropped the last
Speaker 1: two on the road. Go figure the road. Road Wolves
Speaker 1: continue A commonly ask question is why can't you guys
Speaker 1: win on the road? And a common answer I want
Speaker 1: to give a give is if I knew that, don't
Speaker 1: you think I would correct that? Quite frankly, I think
Speaker 1: I think, and I've said this before, I think winning
Speaker 1: on the road requires an incredible amount of mental strength.
Speaker 1: And it's not just one guy's mental strength. It's not
Speaker 1: two guys or a few guys. It's a collective mental
Speaker 1: strength as a team. And quite frankly, it just seems
Speaker 1: that we have not reached that as a team to
Speaker 1: be as great as we are at home and as
Speaker 1: bad as we are on the road, Like it just
Speaker 1: does not make sense. Like it's like fragileness one on one,
Speaker 1: so one oh one. So um, it's it's weird, man,
Speaker 1: It's weird. And it's like every time you feel like
Speaker 1: you're taking that next step, it's kind of two steps back. Um,
Speaker 1: Like even the Laker game, we didn't shoot particularly well,
Speaker 1: but I didn't think we were awful, and yeah, you lose,
Speaker 1: and then last night just kind of is what it is. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, in this league you have to beat the
Speaker 1: teams that you're supposed to be And Shay had a
Speaker 1: great game Um, Giddy had a great game. Uh, lou
Speaker 1: Dort was there there? What lou Dort does? Uh? You
Speaker 1: know they played really well. You gotta get those guys
Speaker 1: from Jaylen Williams, the bigger Jaylen Williams had a really
Speaker 1: good game. Uh, Dario played well off the bench. So
Speaker 1: you just gotta give guys credit. They made plays. It's
Speaker 1: very weird games from some things that I've never seen
Speaker 1: before in my life. Um, but yeah, they won, and
Speaker 1: the road struggles continue. It's been great to have Steff
Speaker 1: back the last two games though, you know, and when
Speaker 1: when you get such a big force back, um, it
Speaker 1: does take time, like filling back in around that and
Speaker 1: kind of filling your way through it and saying that
Speaker 1: not so sure because it should have equaled in two losses,
Speaker 1: especially as great as he's been playing in his return. Um,
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. It's very frustrating, frustrating to say the least, um,
Speaker 1: you know, in such a stacked Western Conference log jam
Speaker 1: right where we stand. You know, like I said, you
Speaker 1: just really got to win the game games that you're
Speaker 1: supposed to win, and quite frankly, we've dropped the ball.
Speaker 1: So it's town to get that to right that right
Speaker 1: tomorrow night in Memphis, as I sit in my Memphis
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Speaker 1: Lawd's price guaranteed. A lot of things went on with
Speaker 1: Memphis since we last vote. Brandon Clark. I wish him
Speaker 1: a very speedy recovery. Never never want to see anyone
Speaker 1: get injured. That's just you know. I always tell people like,
Speaker 1: like I've seen fast cheer when someone get injured and
Speaker 1: the different things of that nature. You live those injuries
Speaker 1: every day, like you don't leave a basketball court, and
Speaker 1: like that injury that you have, it's just left on
Speaker 1: the basketball court and you can't play like you live
Speaker 1: that every single day, getting up off the couch, getting
Speaker 1: in and out of a car, going to use the restroom,
Speaker 1: getting in and out of bed. You live. He would
Speaker 1: live that Achilles injury every single day, and I don't
Speaker 1: wish that on anyone. So speedy recovery to Brandon Clark.
Speaker 1: You know, he's very promising young player. Hate to be
Speaker 1: this guy, but I'm happy he secured his back. And
Speaker 1: you know, you don't have that worry on your head
Speaker 1: like I can only imagine what's going through his mind
Speaker 1: had he not going ahead and signed his extension. So
Speaker 1: that is a silver lining that you don't have that
Speaker 1: pressure to try to fix it right away. Like no,
Speaker 1: you can go through the proper rehab process and get
Speaker 1: back strong as possible so it doesn't happen again. And so,
Speaker 1: like I said, speedy recovery to Brandon Clark. In related
Speaker 1: news to Memphis, the same day, Dylan Brooks was suspended
Speaker 1: for a game for technical files. When it rains, it pours,
Speaker 1: and in related news, I think the same day, the
Speaker 1: idiot says something about me and his article which I
Speaker 1: thought was very interesting. Raymond Ritter, best PR guy in
Speaker 1: the NBA, happens to work for Dubs. He sent me
Speaker 1: this thing and he's like, hey man, this this writer
Speaker 1: reached out. He reached out, he said, Dylan Brooks said
Speaker 1: this about you, and he give me you a chance
Speaker 1: to respond. Quite frankly, if I was gonna respond, it's
Speaker 1: going to be right here on the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: But I just wasn't really even sure when when I
Speaker 1: received that, like if it was worth a response. What
Speaker 1: I will say is this idiot said, I don't know
Speaker 1: what Draymond does out there. A matter of fact, let
Speaker 1: me run this back. He said, I don't like Draymond
Speaker 1: at all. You don't know me. That's number one. I
Speaker 1: just don't like Golden State. I quite frankly wouldn't like
Speaker 1: a team that beats me all the time either. That's
Speaker 1: something too, I don't want. I don't like anything to
Speaker 1: do with them. Quite frankly, you were a little kid
Speaker 1: in high school watching US win championships. Should be happy
Speaker 1: that you even witnessed that, or maybe college. But you
Speaker 1: get the point. You're a fan, so that's crazy. Draymond
Speaker 1: talks a lot. I think if you have four you
Speaker 1: talk a lot. Now, so if you have four rings,
Speaker 1: sure you talk a lot more. For All Stars, you
Speaker 1: probably talk a bit more. Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 1: for damn, sure would talk more. Need I say more too?
Speaker 1: Olympic gold medals, you definitely would be talking because that
Speaker 1: would mean you beat Team USA and we all know
Speaker 1: how that go. So, okay, understand that that Okay got
Speaker 1: it gets away with a lot too. What exactly do
Speaker 1: I get away with? I have fifteen texts, one less
Speaker 1: than your dumb ass. Okay, great, his game is cool.
Speaker 1: If you ever wondered why the Memphis Grizzlies is not
Speaker 1: ready to compete for a championship. Look no further than
Speaker 1: this idiot right here. They're actually depending on this guy
Speaker 1: to help them win a championship, and he says his
Speaker 1: game is cool. Quite frankly, that just shows how little
Speaker 1: you know about basketball. And that's where it gets really interesting,
Speaker 1: because it's one thing for a fan to say that.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, I expect them to. Most of them don't
Speaker 1: really understand the game. You have the understanding of like
Speaker 1: the the Your level of understanding the game of basketball
Speaker 1: is at a fan level. And yet y'all you running
Speaker 1: around talking about a dynasty. The dynasty starts after you,
Speaker 1: not with you. That's just a fact. I know dynasty
Speaker 1: like players and they aren't clowns. That doesn't work when
Speaker 1: building the dynasty. Taken from me, I actually know clowns
Speaker 1: don't work building a dynasty. My man, so you know,
Speaker 1: he plays with heart, knows the ins and outs of
Speaker 1: the defense. Who want to be quite frank I made
Speaker 1: the ins and outs of our defense like you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like a middle linebacker. You know, improvise, read
Speaker 1: the situation and react. You follow the stay at home
Speaker 1: in a strong side corner, and you follow. You should
Speaker 1: go there. You follow that guy should tract the box.
Speaker 1: I don't do that. That's where you went wrong. But
Speaker 1: quite frankly, you have the level of understanding of a
Speaker 1: fan of the game of basketball. Some fans have a
Speaker 1: deeper understanding before the majority. That level of understanding, it
Speaker 1: isn't the same. It's kind of like a lot of media.
Speaker 1: It's very lazy. It's very, very, very lazy. So I
Speaker 1: guess that's why they like him over there. Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure out why they like you in Memphis,
Speaker 1: or do they like you in Memphis? That's a better question.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure your teammates like you. Doesn't leave the
Speaker 1: one and then, I mean, we run won some regular
Speaker 1: season games. But I can tell you why they like
Speaker 1: me over there. When you contribute in the way that
Speaker 1: I contribute. I have contributed to four championships, they tend
Speaker 1: to like you because, quite frankly, four championships. There's four
Speaker 1: four NBA organizations to have the amount of championships I have.
Speaker 1: That's why they like me over there, not including the
Speaker 1: organization that I've won my four with. That's why they
Speaker 1: like me though. Um kid, So next time you speak
Speaker 1: up on me, you should do some fact checking. Next
Speaker 1: time you speak up on me, you should do some
Speaker 1: soul searching. Next time you speak up on me. I
Speaker 1: hope you are in a better situation than you and
Speaker 1: now were the guys you play with actually enjoy playing
Speaker 1: with you because they actually think you're contributing to winning.
Speaker 1: Because it ain't happening right now. Chap Ah, You're not
Speaker 1: a chap You're a clown. It ain't happening for you.
Speaker 1: In other news, JJ Reddick and Kendrick Perkins, the new
Speaker 1: media member JJ Reddick and Kendrick Perkins had a little
Speaker 1: back and forth phone first Take the other day. Now,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I didn't see it, but I saw the
Speaker 1: clip on Twitter, and I thought it was very interesting.
Speaker 1: I thought it was very interesting because of a few reasons.
Speaker 1: Number One, it was over the MVP debate, which I
Speaker 1: think is a very interesting debate, which I also think
Speaker 1: no one has solidified yet. I think Jo Joker is
Speaker 1: right there in a running. I think Janice is right
Speaker 1: there in the running. I think Joe Ell is right
Speaker 1: there in the running. I think if it's ever been
Speaker 1: as close a race. It's this year race has been
Speaker 1: extremely close, and I think it's still to be decided.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're sixty six games, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how many games in those teams are there Somewhere
Speaker 1: between sixty three and sixty seven or sixty eight, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: and even at that number of games for those of
Speaker 1: you who don't know, he played eighty two games in
Speaker 1: the NBA, even at that amount of games, I am
Speaker 1: still not sure that the MVP race has been decided.
Speaker 1: Who's also right up in that race is Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1: I know, quite frankly he's not placed there a bunch,
Speaker 1: but Harris, why Jason Tatum is in that race? For me,
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum's performance has been absolutely incredible. What you must
Speaker 1: understand is and the reason like why you can't always
Speaker 1: just pay attention to stats. Jason Tatum could average easily
Speaker 1: six or eight more points a game. He's that good
Speaker 1: number one, but number two Jason Tatum has done less
Speaker 1: to do more. What do you mean by that, Draymond Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I mean by that. Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: has done less so that Jalen Brown can do more
Speaker 1: for the ultimate good of the team so that they
Speaker 1: don't go through what they went through last year was,
Speaker 1: which is getting to an NBA Finals and losing again.
Speaker 1: Those guys, those guys have a goal of coming out
Speaker 1: on top winning the championship. And I personally can tell
Speaker 1: you I can look at it and tell I also
Speaker 1: know this from personal relationship. But screw the personal relationship.
Speaker 1: I can spot it from a mile away. Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: has one goal and it's to win an NBA championship.
Speaker 1: I can tell. I can see it. I can see
Speaker 1: it in this demeanor. I can see it in this game.
Speaker 1: He's trying harder on the defensive end as he picked
Speaker 1: up last year. He's trying harder to make plays for
Speaker 1: guys as he started constowed improvement last year. But I
Speaker 1: think he's taken an even bigger step back this year
Speaker 1: to take a much larger step forward. And it's the
Speaker 1: most valuable player, right, It's that not valuable because again,
Speaker 1: if he averaged the six more points, what would people say.
Speaker 1: Would they say, Man, it's JT because he averaging thirty
Speaker 1: six and not thirty. It's quite ridiculous when you think
Speaker 1: about it, that you can't take a step back and
Speaker 1: see man, everything this guy's doing, he's still averaging thirty points,
Speaker 1: five or six assists or whatnot five assists, I think
Speaker 1: probably eight rebounds. But quite frankly, I didn't check his
Speaker 1: stats because I don't need to check his stats because
Speaker 1: my whole point is actually does not matter. I just
Speaker 1: say to the voters out there and looking at the
Speaker 1: end MVP race, I'm not saying Jason Tatum is the MVP.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and looking at the MVP race, give Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum more respect, respect the step back, to take the
Speaker 1: step forward a little more because it's very valuable, and
Speaker 1: that's the name of the world, the most valuable player. So,
Speaker 1: as I was saying, I think this race will still
Speaker 1: continue to go down to the wire. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's decided. The whole stat padding thing, accusations that that
Speaker 1: Joker has been facing, I think it's ridiculous. I think
Speaker 1: I think if you were going to make those about Joker,
Speaker 1: you had to make those about Russ when Russ was
Speaker 1: averaging triple double. I have tripled up after the triple double,
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, even if you were going to make
Speaker 1: those about Russ, I quite frankly don't care because you
Speaker 1: know how good you have to be to stat padding
Speaker 1: get a triple double. Like you still have to be
Speaker 1: very good to stat pad and get a triple double.
Speaker 1: So like this whole narrative of like, oh these guys
Speaker 1: are stat pattern this like if you stat padded, you
Speaker 1: still wouldn't get a triple double. It's not easy to
Speaker 1: get a triple double stat pattern not. You gotta be
Speaker 1: very very very good to stat padding get a triple double,
Speaker 1: and most importantly winning. That's the kicker. You can't win
Speaker 1: like twenty nine games in a row, thirty games in
Speaker 1: a row. Again, I didn't check the stats because quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I don't care, but you can't win that many games
Speaker 1: in a row getting a triple double and only be
Speaker 1: padding and stats like comments sense would say that doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense because how do you just keep winning? Like
Speaker 1: at some point you're stat pattern and thirty I say,
Speaker 1: calling thirty wins. At some point your stat pattern and
Speaker 1: thirty games, it's going to catch up to you, like
Speaker 1: at some point, like you trying to get an assist, like,
Speaker 1: trust me, I see jokers stat lines often there's oftentimes
Speaker 1: wherehood have ten or eleven assists. So if he's stat
Speaker 1: padding there at some point you chasing that tenth to
Speaker 1: eleven assist is going to cost y'all a game. It hasn't,
Speaker 1: so the whole narrative. And again you're speaking to someone
Speaker 1: who just last week had Gilbert Arenas on the show
Speaker 1: and we were discussing Europeans not catching the same flat
Speaker 1: for American players for winning the championship. So understand that
Speaker 1: this is no narrative. Understand that this is no bias.
Speaker 1: Understand that these are straight facts, and understand that the
Speaker 1: stat padding narrative, it's lazy. The stat padd narrative is
Speaker 1: I don't have anything else to talk about, anything else
Speaker 1: to say. I need to say something. It's lazy. Just
Speaker 1: dissect the game, dissect what Joker doing, because I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. If I go sit and really watch the game,
Speaker 1: I'll dissect the game for you. Maybe I'll do that soon.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch a Denver Nugget game and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: dissect the game, and we're gonna do it right here
Speaker 1: on the Drapemond Green Show, and I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: if Joker is stat pattern or not, and if in fact,
Speaker 1: he is, you gotta be so good to stat bad
Speaker 1: and win and get them numbers that it don't really
Speaker 1: even matter. Sitting that number one in the West, thirty
Speaker 1: games in a row, in a triple double, and they said, this, man,
Speaker 1: it's stat padding. If that ain't a reach, if I've
Speaker 1: ever seen one before in my life. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna keep going on and on about this
Speaker 1: because you get my point. But let's stop being lazy.
Speaker 1: Let's do the job. These people are actually interested in.
Speaker 1: What if you have a platform and you go on TV,
Speaker 1: they're actually interested in what you have to say. Take
Speaker 1: more pride in what you do, and stop being lazy
Speaker 1: at this job. There's actually a world that you actually
Speaker 1: can stop being lazy and go dissect these basketball games.
Speaker 1: I speak. I speak on fans not totally understanding the
Speaker 1: game because I try to do all I can to
Speaker 1: help them better understand the game. So let's do that.
Speaker 1: They're looking for it, they need it. It'll only help
Speaker 1: our game. But in order to help our game, you
Speaker 1: gotta know what you're talking about. And a lot of
Speaker 1: times in this media, not the new media, but in
Speaker 1: this media, a lot of times I'll be looking and
Speaker 1: I notice a lot of y'all don't know what y'all
Speaker 1: talking about. So that's your last pass. We got to
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Speaker 1: have to talk about the biggest news in the NBA.
Speaker 1: I have sat back and watched UM. I mean, plenty
Speaker 1: of people speak up on this situation, tons of difference, opions,
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, I have a few thoughts about it.
Speaker 1: Um Number one is it's unfortunate to see jaw on
Speaker 1: Instagram live holding a gun in a club like I really,
Speaker 1: I quite frankly don't understand why. Like, But on the
Speaker 1: flip side, I ask for grace and being in this situation,
Speaker 1: being in this position that we're in. Oftentimes, when guys
Speaker 1: make the mistakes, you see people saying, oh, man, get
Speaker 1: rid of them, like take their money away, do this,
Speaker 1: to do that. But when common folks make the same
Speaker 1: mistakes or worse, people don't run to their jobs saying
Speaker 1: you should take their livelihood away, you should take how
Speaker 1: they feed their children away. And so I just ask
Speaker 1: for that same grace, not only for basketball players but
Speaker 1: for people in general, because it's really something that are
Speaker 1: in the world that we live in. We struggle with
Speaker 1: it dramatically. We're so fast to cast doubt, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to cast judgment, and very slow to cast out some grace.
Speaker 1: And sometimes you just need that, you know. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: you turn on something, you pick up your phone, and
Speaker 1: you see all of these things about what should happen
Speaker 1: to you, and they're all bad, and sometimes you just
Speaker 1: need that grace because and the reality is we all
Speaker 1: make mistakes, and so that's one side of it. It's
Speaker 1: just grace, like having grace, and it's not even necessarily
Speaker 1: that it's this incident in particular. This is just overall
Speaker 1: about having grace, having some grace. Quite frankly, um guns
Speaker 1: in this country has been a big issue. We know
Speaker 1: the history, we know all the things that's going on.
Speaker 1: It's been a big issue and we can't ignore that.
Speaker 1: And so being in the position that Job morenz in,
Speaker 1: which is an amazing position, you do have to be
Speaker 1: more careful and you do have to understand the position
Speaker 1: that you're in and understand what that comes with. Job
Speaker 1: clearly didn't do a good job of that. When I
Speaker 1: look at this situation and I look at me, who
Speaker 1: I am and the things that I've gone through in
Speaker 1: my life. My biggest regret in the NBA is this.
Speaker 1: I know most people will think it's being suspended from
Speaker 1: Game five of the NBA Finals, and that's not quite it.
Speaker 1: It has something to do with being suspended from Game
Speaker 1: five of the NBA Finals, but being spending from Game
Speaker 1: five is not my biggest regret. My biggest regret was
Speaker 1: giving those that say things about me that don't know
Speaker 1: me but think they do because they watch you on
Speaker 1: a TV screen, watch you play basketball. They say these
Speaker 1: things about you as if they know you, and they
Speaker 1: don't know you from a can of pain. And my
Speaker 1: biggest regret was putting myself in a position to be
Speaker 1: suspended from Game five and allowing them to say, See,
Speaker 1: I told you, I told you he can't control this temper.
Speaker 1: I told you he was I told you he was
Speaker 1: a bad person. Like people call me a bad person,
Speaker 1: I think I'm an incredibly great person. I told you
Speaker 1: you can't trust him. I told you this. I told
Speaker 1: you that, I told you this. That was my biggest regret.
Speaker 1: I hope when Jah looks back at this situation down
Speaker 1: the line, he learns to not put himself in situations
Speaker 1: that people can say I told you so. If you
Speaker 1: rewind back to the last couple of weeks, there was
Speaker 1: a story about the Indiana Pacers and a laser or
Speaker 1: some being, and then there was also a story recently
Speaker 1: as a last week about a seventeen year old job
Speaker 1: getting into it with a seventeen year old punching him
Speaker 1: or something and having a gun in his waist. Banners
Speaker 1: both of those stories, there was no way to confirm
Speaker 1: that there was a gun involved. You just put yourself
Speaker 1: in a position to where they can say, see, I
Speaker 1: told you he had a gun. I told you so.
Speaker 1: And that sucks. That sucks because pretty much everything that's
Speaker 1: been said about you, you validated almost and allowed people
Speaker 1: to say it. And you're now guilty until proven innocent.
Speaker 1: And that sucks because quite frankly, the court of public opinion,
Speaker 1: you are guilty until proven innocent, and even once you're
Speaker 1: proven innocent in certain situations. Not sure that this will
Speaker 1: be that situation, but in certain situations, even when you're
Speaker 1: proven innocent, no one cares. And as loud and as
Speaker 1: big as it showed up, it quietly passed through the
Speaker 1: bottom when you're proven innocent, because that's the world that
Speaker 1: we live in. I saw a lot of slander about
Speaker 1: Team Rent, an African American man who raised a young
Speaker 1: six successful African American son. I saw a lot of
Speaker 1: slander Team Ran. It is ridiculous. Is this is that
Speaker 1: as if he did not raise a successful son, a
Speaker 1: successful young man, there are shots taken on him as
Speaker 1: a father. He did his job, He raised a successful
Speaker 1: young man black man in America. Catch that caveat a
Speaker 1: successful young black man in America. He did his job,
Speaker 1: gives a father himself. GI's a grown man who makes
Speaker 1: a bunch of money. That adds and even another layer
Speaker 1: because we all know how brad winners work. We all
Speaker 1: know that thing. So that asn't even another layer. What
Speaker 1: you hope that tea's pulling him aside, saying John, stop this,
Speaker 1: stop that. Don't like what is this? What is that? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and just like I'm not sure that he hasn't. None
Speaker 1: of you who's taken shots at him as a father
Speaker 1: who's raised a successful young man aren't sure he hasn't either.
Speaker 1: You'd hope so. But quite frankly, can he control a
Speaker 1: grown man raise them or not? You ask yourself the question,
Speaker 1: can your dad control everything you do as a grown man?
Speaker 1: I'd be willing to bet the answer is no. So
Speaker 1: the fact that this man is getting so much slander
Speaker 1: and all he did was raised a successful young black man,
Speaker 1: is baffling to me. It's given very lavarballish. Are they outspoken, yeah?
Speaker 1: Are they in front of the camera, Yeah, they should be.
Speaker 1: They did the unthinkable, They raised successful young black men
Speaker 1: in America. So I don't really agree with the slander
Speaker 1: of t Morett. I think it's ridiculous. Again, Jahs are
Speaker 1: grown man. Job makes his own decisions, and Joe got
Speaker 1: to stand on those decisions. I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: on here and say that, ain't you Jah like people
Speaker 1: getting on TV that ain't you as if they know him?
Speaker 1: Why is it not him? Because he plays basketball. You
Speaker 1: don't know him. You don't know if that's him. And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that because when people going
Speaker 1: and said, they're almost saying in a soft manner, like
Speaker 1: you soft you ain't like that? But how do you know?
Speaker 1: Because you don't know him? What I will says John
Speaker 1: can't be him and be what he's capable of being,
Speaker 1: which is possibly the face of the NBA, the biggest
Speaker 1: global brand, one of the biggest global brands. Knowing the
Speaker 1: man you got a chance to be the face of that,
Speaker 1: that's insane, it's incredible. But you can't do it like that.
Speaker 1: You can't do that putting the NBA in tough spots
Speaker 1: because nothing happened with the patients thing, nothing really happened
Speaker 1: with the thing coming out about the kid, and then
Speaker 1: the same day you show the gun. Hey, everybody, you
Speaker 1: remember what they were saying about me. Look, come on,
Speaker 1: but I am not here the past judgment because I
Speaker 1: have made mistakes, I will make more mistakes. I am
Speaker 1: not going to get on here and ask for this
Speaker 1: man livelihood to be taken. I am not going to
Speaker 1: get on here and do any of that. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get on here and I'm gonna ask for grace, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, if that is what you want job,
Speaker 1: to be the face of the NBA, possibly to be
Speaker 1: a star, to build dynasties, to do all the things
Speaker 1: that you spoke about doing. You can't do it that way.
Speaker 1: That ain't gonna work. Just gotta shoe from Nike. That
Speaker 1: ain't gonna work. Kids buy shoes. Kids, shoes are bought
Speaker 1: for kids. Parents buy shoes for their children, but sneaker
Speaker 1: cells are driven by children. Those two things don't go together.
Speaker 1: So you have to make a decision of what it's
Speaker 1: going to be. The decision is up to job, nobody else.
Speaker 1: The decisions up the job, and I pray that he
Speaker 1: learned from it. So I feel like this is one
Speaker 1: of those things that it's just bad enough where he'll
Speaker 1: get through it and he'll be fine. But it's just
Speaker 1: enough to make you make a decision, to make you
Speaker 1: say I'm choosing this path for that path. It's just enough.
Speaker 1: It's just enough. But I tell you what, you can't
Speaker 1: be the face of the NBA putting it, putting the
Speaker 1: NBA in harm's way. You can't be the face of
Speaker 1: the NBA putting the NBA in a tough spot. Lebron James,
Speaker 1: don't put the NBA in a tough spot. Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: don't put the NBA in the tough spot. The list
Speaker 1: goes on and on. You cannot be the face putting
Speaker 1: the NBA in a tough spot. Understand that, and understand
Speaker 1: the privilege that it is to be the face of
Speaker 1: the NBA. To even like for that to even be
Speaker 1: a possibility, it's incredible, and it's being thrown away. A
Speaker 1: team competed at a championship level, number two seed in
Speaker 1: the West, it's being thrown away. It's hard to win championships.
Speaker 1: I told y'all, you don't just win championships because your
Speaker 1: roster looked like you should or could. So many things
Speaker 1: have to go right when the pressure is on you,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the eyes are on you and
Speaker 1: you're expected to do well, What do you do that
Speaker 1: all goes into winning championships. That's a big part of
Speaker 1: winning championships. So all being thrown away right now, you
Speaker 1: don't get these opportunities. Often make the right choices. Take
Speaker 1: advantage of the opportunity because you do not know if
Speaker 1: it's coming back around. Injuries happen, trades happen, ownership groups change,
Speaker 1: Take advantage of it when you got it. It's rapt
Speaker 1: from this episode of the Draymond Green Show. Peace