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Speaker 1: back to The Draymond Green Show. As I said last week, UH,
Speaker 1: this is the seventh episode, and this is a special
Speaker 1: holiday edition episode. Uh. This will be the mail back
Speaker 1: episode where we will take questions from our listeners subscribers,
Speaker 1: and I will answer those questions. So my producer, Jackson,
Speaker 1: will be asking me you're hard hitting questions that you
Speaker 1: all have submitted, and I will be answering those questions.
Speaker 1: I am extremely excited to do this UM number one.
Speaker 1: As I said last week, I think it's important that
Speaker 1: your voices are heard. You know, you guys subscribe and
Speaker 1: you listen weekly about and you end up just listening
Speaker 1: to what I want to speak on or what I
Speaker 1: think the hot topics of the week are in basketball,
Speaker 1: and I think it's important that I take some of
Speaker 1: your questions and what you want me to speak on,
Speaker 1: and we do and we and I answered those questions
Speaker 1: and you will make that this week's episode. So I
Speaker 1: am extremely excited about it. I'm happy to be answering
Speaker 1: your questions. I hope everyone had an amazing, amazing holiday,
Speaker 1: you know, spend time with your family. I think you know,
Speaker 1: we all understand the importance of that, especially being stripped
Speaker 1: of it, you know, quite a bit in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. So hope everyone had an incredible holiday.
Speaker 1: And I hope you are excited for this episode as
Speaker 1: excited or more excited than I am. But I am
Speaker 1: extremely excited. So I think that will be tough so Jackson,
Speaker 1: what you got for us? Let's hear what the people
Speaker 1: wants to hear. Okay, first up from at I'm shy
Speaker 1: Labs on Twitter. I'm gonna slightly change the question because
Speaker 1: it's sort of uh was asked before Christmas? But what
Speaker 1: is the best gift that you gave a member of
Speaker 1: your family this Christmas season? And also, as part of that,
Speaker 1: what is your favorite UH holiday family tradition? I think
Speaker 1: the best gift I gave my family this Christmas season
Speaker 1: it was a dog, um and that is for my
Speaker 1: entire family who lives in the household with me, how
Speaker 1: my fiance Hazel, my three children, Nana as well, although
Speaker 1: Nana probably doesn't want a dog, but Nana doesn't hate dogs.
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure she's gonna care too much about
Speaker 1: this dog because Nana and baby c are super tight,
Speaker 1: so bringing another baby in the house, I don't know
Speaker 1: how Nana feel about that. No, but honestly, the dog.
Speaker 1: My Hazel has been talking to me or trying to
Speaker 1: get me to agree to having a dog in the
Speaker 1: house for three years, and my my children love dogs.
Speaker 1: Um DJ loves dog, Olive love dogs. Cash does not
Speaker 1: like furry filling things. And I'm not sure how she's
Speaker 1: going to feel about this dog. It's like any furry
Speaker 1: type thing she touches, she like pulls her hand back,
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure she's going to I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure or how she's really going to grow with
Speaker 1: this dog, Like I just don't. I don't. I mean
Speaker 1: we'll see, like does she adjust to it well? But
Speaker 1: every time she touches it or fur like things, she
Speaker 1: pulls her back, so we'll see. Um, But that that
Speaker 1: was the gift. I think that was the gift of
Speaker 1: this year, where like they're all in heaven, they love it.
Speaker 1: They all been asking for a dog forever. And the
Speaker 1: reason I wouldn't agree to the dog because my mom
Speaker 1: is like allergic to dogs, and so I know my
Speaker 1: mom won't come out, like and I love when my
Speaker 1: mom come out and visit, and I know my mom
Speaker 1: won't come out if we have a dog. So now
Speaker 1: I'm not. So now I have to figure this out,
Speaker 1: Like what's gonna be to deal with my mom coming
Speaker 1: to visit, Like is she just going to in our
Speaker 1: in our building with she can stay in like another
Speaker 1: little apartment type thing. But then it's like she's never
Speaker 1: coming upstairs, so are we just like it's the whole thing.
Speaker 1: So that was the hesitation on getting the dog. But
Speaker 1: that was the best Christmas gift for the family. And
Speaker 1: I think you get did you get a hypoallergenic dog?
Speaker 1: Did you try to What kind of dog did you get?
Speaker 1: I don't think it's it's a golden dudo. I don't think.
Speaker 1: Yeah you got are they hypolergen it? Yeah? Yeah, My
Speaker 1: mom is also literate to dogs. We got a Labradodle
Speaker 1: many years ago for that exact reason. So you should
Speaker 1: be fine. Oh, I don't know. My my mom, I
Speaker 1: don't know. She's not going to believe the dogs hype
Speaker 1: of outgen but we'll see. Um. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that that's that was the gift. And I think a
Speaker 1: Christmas tradition I'm ashamed to say this. Um, but other
Speaker 1: than opening gifts these days we don't and wearing like
Speaker 1: our Christmas with jams when we get the chance, and
Speaker 1: just you know, really diving into like hanging with the
Speaker 1: kids and like them opening those gifts and playing with
Speaker 1: those gifts in the ascitement of that, you know, having
Speaker 1: some milk and cookies. We don't have really many holiday
Speaker 1: or Christmas traditions. Now, I had Christmas traditions on up,
Speaker 1: but now that I've been in the NBA for ten
Speaker 1: seasons and nine of them, I've played on Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: So the entire time of me having my own family,
Speaker 1: I'm playing on Christmas Day, So not really many tradition
Speaker 1: because sometimes I'm on the road. So like, how do
Speaker 1: you still and so I think more so just like
Speaker 1: spending that time together, um, opening some gifts, uh, having
Speaker 1: our pjs on, and you know that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: what it has to be for now. That's that leads
Speaker 1: me to a question from from me. I'm going to
Speaker 1: jump the line on all of the Twitter questions from everyone,
Speaker 1: but I've always been curious someone like you who's played
Speaker 1: on Christmas so often, what is your Christmas Day schedule?
Speaker 1: Like do you still get to do presents with the family?
Speaker 1: Like I guess it depends on what time your game is.
Speaker 1: I'm like curious, how that how you navigate Christmas on
Speaker 1: a game day? So, um, in situations where the game
Speaker 1: is a way, uh, we tend to do it either
Speaker 1: before after Christmas where we're open to presents and kind
Speaker 1: of celebrated. If it's Christmas Day. If it's a home game,
Speaker 1: it's a little different because you can either do it
Speaker 1: before or after. But it's always tell people planning on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day is like as an athlete or as an
Speaker 1: NBA player, it's like the best thing ever because you know,
Speaker 1: like it is as big of a regular season game
Speaker 1: as you're gonna have, like Christmas Day, the whole world's watching,
Speaker 1: you know it, Like everyone's home, everyone's watching. That's just
Speaker 1: the way it goes. I mean, growing up for me,
Speaker 1: when I remember like getting eating food and getting stuffed
Speaker 1: and then like landing on the floor next to my
Speaker 1: grandfather's lazy boy. He was sitting a lazy boy and
Speaker 1: lay out and fall asleep and we watched games all day.
Speaker 1: I would lay on the floor, stuff, fall asleep still
Speaker 1: and just watch games all day. And so like everyone's
Speaker 1: watching on Christmas Day because everyone's home, everyone's with their family,
Speaker 1: and and there's marquee games on Christmas Day. There's matchups
Speaker 1: that you want to see. I think that league does
Speaker 1: a great job of that. And so when you're home,
Speaker 1: you can either do it before or after. But then
Speaker 1: what plays and what plays and what takes or what
Speaker 1: plays a part and what you can do is the
Speaker 1: time of the game. I've had a very early game
Speaker 1: at home. I've had the latest game at home. And
Speaker 1: so when you have a very early game, then you
Speaker 1: just wake up, you go to the arena, you could,
Speaker 1: you know, handle your business, do your work, and then
Speaker 1: you come home and you have the rest of the day,
Speaker 1: you know, to celebrate Christmas, which is what I enjoy
Speaker 1: the most. When you have the latest game on Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: it really sucks because you still spend your whole day
Speaker 1: preparing for a game, so you can't really indulge in
Speaker 1: whatever it is that you want to indulge in, spending
Speaker 1: time with your family and really being in that moment
Speaker 1: because again, this is probably the biggest game of the
Speaker 1: regular season. You're locked in and focused on that, and
Speaker 1: so the latest game sucks. I've had both of them.
Speaker 1: I've had a very early game, I've had a very
Speaker 1: late game. And the one that I enjoyed the most
Speaker 1: was the earliest game was the early game. You know,
Speaker 1: for instance, this year playing in Phoenix on Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: which was two PM game as far as specific standard
Speaker 1: time goes, but three pm UM Mountain time. ABC game
Speaker 1: time outs are longer. The game ends at uh five
Speaker 1: forty five mountain time, six pm and ended, you know,
Speaker 1: so all of a sudden hour and a half between
Speaker 1: media getting to the airport actually taken off and get
Speaker 1: home and then get home at n And so for
Speaker 1: us this year, um, we celebrated on Christmas Eve because
Speaker 1: our flight didn't leave to a PM on Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: and go to Fenn to give guys sometime with their
Speaker 1: families around the holiday. Um, and so we celebrated on
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve and kind of had that entire morning, the
Speaker 1: entire day to celebrate the evening until I had to
Speaker 1: leave to the for the airport. But I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a very dicey situation because as I said, it's
Speaker 1: the best you know, it's the best game. Like it's great,
Speaker 1: you want to play in that game. But on the
Speaker 1: flip side, it sucks because you end up altering your
Speaker 1: family time. You end up uh the same time that
Speaker 1: everyone just gets to sit at home and relax and
Speaker 1: enjoy their family. You don't get that, you know, and
Speaker 1: like like we're not paying holiday time. You know some
Speaker 1: people work on holidays, Like they we're not paying holiday time,
Speaker 1: We're not giving anything extra for that, Like it's just
Speaker 1: another like just another game on the schedule, except what
Speaker 1: it means to you as more right, Like you know
Speaker 1: it's a bigger game. You know, the lights are bigger soul.
Speaker 1: That's all about what it means to you. But we're
Speaker 1: not compensated for playing on Christmas Day, So you know,
Speaker 1: on the flip side of it, it it sucks. Uh, kind
Speaker 1: of sucks a little bit for your kids. Uh, it
Speaker 1: sucks a little bit as far as your family, just
Speaker 1: your family as a whole goals. It sucks as a
Speaker 1: human and just want to like enjoy Christmas as everyone
Speaker 1: gets the opportunity to do. But I wouldn't trade that because,
Speaker 1: like I said, as a competitor, Uh, the stages, when
Speaker 1: the stages as brightest, that's when you want to be
Speaker 1: out there. And like I said, until you get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, there's no bigger stage in a regular season
Speaker 1: game than Christmas Day with everybody watching. And so to
Speaker 1: giving a curse the good, bad and the ugly, but
Speaker 1: like I said, I'll take I'll take the bad and
Speaker 1: the ugly because you you put that work in, you
Speaker 1: want to shine bright on the brightest stage that you
Speaker 1: could possibly shine. On. So as a competitor, you enjoy it,
Speaker 1: but the human side of me, I hate it. I
Speaker 1: like that. That's insightful stuff. Next one from at Maverick Records.
Speaker 1: What's on your pregame playlist? What's on my pregame playlist?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maverick. I don't really have a set
Speaker 1: pregame playlist per se. I think for me it's um.
Speaker 1: You know, there are you play eighty two games. There
Speaker 1: are some games that you're extremely hyped up for. Um.
Speaker 1: And when I am extremely hyped up for a game,
Speaker 1: I like to play slower music nineties R and B
Speaker 1: kind of slow it down because I have to like
Speaker 1: keep myself here. Uh, I'm already jacked up, and I
Speaker 1: go start playing on some music. I'm ready to jump
Speaker 1: through this glass window right here, like and just like
Speaker 1: what like let's go, like it's time and I should
Speaker 1: be too amped up. And and when I'm too amped up,
Speaker 1: it works against me. Now you're pressing, you're filing because
Speaker 1: you're overreacting to something. You know, it just it starts
Speaker 1: to work against me as opposed to work for me.
Speaker 1: So when I'm already super empt up about the game,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna listen to some nineties R and B slowed
Speaker 1: down a little bit, kind of chill kick back. But
Speaker 1: if it's one of those soft Tuesdays and you're playing
Speaker 1: against somebody who shouldn't be that bad in the NBA, uh,
Speaker 1: then I gotta turn me on some some you know,
Speaker 1: some some some music that I get me there. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean at times it's different though, like then at
Speaker 1: that point, like you know, it's some possible Drake colds
Speaker 1: from Drake, some little baby, some dumb baby, you know
Speaker 1: jay z uh, you know, just stuff that like get
Speaker 1: you gone, get you moving a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: like I kind of bring you into yourself. You know,
Speaker 1: you you're kind of feeling yourself now and they can
Speaker 1: kind of give you that little boost. So I think
Speaker 1: for me, it's no set playlist, and I kind of
Speaker 1: vary on the mood that I'm in that day and
Speaker 1: how I'm feeling about that particular game. Okay, next one
Speaker 1: from at Matt Bullymore. Who is the funniest guy You've
Speaker 1: ever had in the locker room? I'll let you include
Speaker 1: teeny say if you want, but either Warriors or Temu say,
Speaker 1: the funniest guy I've ever had? In the locker room.
Speaker 1: The funniest guy I've ever played with for two different reasons.
Speaker 1: One is Nicky Young because he is just a character
Speaker 1: and like funny, like that's just who Nick is, like
Speaker 1: why he super funny character. And Brandon Rush and for
Speaker 1: two totally different reasons. Brandon Rush is very funny but
Speaker 1: unintentionally like not trying to make you laugh. Pretty quiet guy,
Speaker 1: but when he speaks hilarious, like unintentionally hilarious. So I
Speaker 1: would say those two guys, but in very different ways.
Speaker 1: Like Nick is funny, he's in your face, he's intentional, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he's like, that's just who Nick is. He
Speaker 1: liked to last clown althought he's not like class clown
Speaker 1: per se, but you get where I'm going with it.
Speaker 1: He's like the guy that's in the mix and like
Speaker 1: always into something. And then Brandon Rush is unintentionally just
Speaker 1: one of the funniest guys I've ever been around in
Speaker 1: the Rush. That's a deep cut from shout out Brandon
Speaker 1: Rush from at Optics Splendor. Who is the best trash
Speaker 1: talker in the league, Well, the best trash talker in
Speaker 1: the league. Uh, I think you're you're you're a subscriber
Speaker 1: to this podcast. I hope you're you're. I hope you've
Speaker 1: I hope you're a weekly listener. And if you are,
Speaker 1: you haven't you get the opportunity to listen to the
Speaker 1: best trash talk in the league weekly. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any better trash talkers in the league than me,
Speaker 1: and I stand on that, like PEPSI I guarantee it
Speaker 1: you heard. You heard what Frank Lucas said. I stand
Speaker 1: by my product. I guarantee that. No. But I think
Speaker 1: there's some guys who are good trash I always tell
Speaker 1: people and they don't. I think you started to realize
Speaker 1: that now with like the more he talks on Twitter
Speaker 1: or the more you he's caught saying stuff to fans
Speaker 1: in the stands. Katie I've always said told people like
Speaker 1: Katie was one of the biggest trash talkers to me
Speaker 1: since I came into the league, like always half been
Speaker 1: but all he wasn't always like outrearly to where you
Speaker 1: can see it. But if you played against him, you
Speaker 1: new and and it would be like disrespectful stuff like hey,
Speaker 1: who is this? Katie would turn to do the round,
Speaker 1: like trying to look at the back of his jersey,
Speaker 1: like see his name on the back, Like Kay would
Speaker 1: saying stuff to people and you're like, yo, you Kevin Durant,
Speaker 1: Like there's not really much I can say back, like
Speaker 1: what like what what are you going to say back
Speaker 1: to Kevin Durant? I always have something to say, and
Speaker 1: I probably said something first knowing me. But Kay Katie
Speaker 1: was one of the ben and Katie got like these
Speaker 1: one liners like oh he drunk at the bar like
Speaker 1: K hit somebody with a cross and he drunk at
Speaker 1: the bar like like K got one liners for days,
Speaker 1: like I played dominoes a lot. E forty got crazy
Speaker 1: one liners. Gary Payton got crazy one liners like Katie
Speaker 1: got one liners for days. And so I think if
Speaker 1: if I'm not going with myself, I would have to
Speaker 1: say KD for sure. It's it reminds me the way
Speaker 1: you described me at kind of like Larry birdish where
Speaker 1: it's just like he's always like who is guarding me?
Speaker 1: Like what who is this that you're sending at me?
Speaker 1: You know who are you? And again, what were you
Speaker 1: going to say to Larry Bird? Like oh, you're not nice?
Speaker 1: Like like some dudes talking you like bro, you trash,
Speaker 1: like why are you talking to me? Like, but like
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant talking like what are you gonna say? Like, Bro,
Speaker 1: you can't dribble, like, you can't shoot, like you can't check,
Speaker 1: Like what are you gonna say? You gotta be real creative?
Speaker 1: And so for me, you know, so I can create now,
Speaker 1: like and so I can go there with him. But
Speaker 1: like Larry Bird, like what what what are most people
Speaker 1: gonna say? Right? If so, if you're not witty enough
Speaker 1: to just come up with comebacks like that, ain't got
Speaker 1: nothing to do with Oh, bro, you suck or like
Speaker 1: or you can't do this and you can like, if
Speaker 1: you ain't witty enough to come back with to have
Speaker 1: comebacks that's not like those things, then you screwed. And
Speaker 1: so I think that is that's definitely a good comparison
Speaker 1: for what I know of Bird, right, like I never
Speaker 1: played against Bird, for what I've heard, what I've seen,
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty good comparison. And obviously two
Speaker 1: great basketball players, yes sir uh. Next one from at
Speaker 1: Jake vs. Mingo? Who is your favorite player to guard?
Speaker 1: My favorite player to guard? Um, my favorite player to guard?
Speaker 1: It is also Katie and the reason my favorite player
Speaker 1: to guard is. I think for me, that's the toughest challenge.
Speaker 1: Uh Is I can't Like what can I do to
Speaker 1: make it hard on Kevin Duran? He sees right over
Speaker 1: the top of me seven ft. Uh. He's probably a
Speaker 1: little quicker than me. He's probably a little more athletic
Speaker 1: than me. He's probably a little faster. So I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to lose that challenge, Like I'm supposed to lose that battle.
Speaker 1: What can I do to change that outcome? Can I
Speaker 1: take on that challenge that we all felt at um?
Speaker 1: Can I be successful in taking on that challenge? Like
Speaker 1: I think for me, guarding the best and taking on
Speaker 1: that challenge of the best score to do it like
Speaker 1: that's fun, Like I enjoy that, and more importantly, I
Speaker 1: get better guarding him because if I can do some
Speaker 1: things against him like that opens up some things for
Speaker 1: me to be able to do against anybody, you know.
Speaker 1: And so I think you always want to play the best,
Speaker 1: and you like always want to like take on that
Speaker 1: challenge of the best. And I think Kevin Duran is
Speaker 1: the greatest score we've ever seen. How the opportunity to
Speaker 1: guard that guy, it's incredible, And so I'd have to
Speaker 1: say that's my favorite guard, because how many how often
Speaker 1: do you get to say I guarded the best or
Speaker 1: I went head to head with the best, as said,
Speaker 1: thing like, you don't get to say that often. So
Speaker 1: you know, I've had times where like I played good
Speaker 1: defense on him, I've also had a time where he
Speaker 1: put fifty four up on It just is what it is.
Speaker 1: But I enjoyed the challenge because it doesn't get any
Speaker 1: better than that when you're talking about scoring the basketball.
Speaker 1: Next one from at not Max heinrichs, what's your favorite
Speaker 1: restaurant in SF? Slash Oakland. My favorite restaurant in San
Speaker 1: Francisco slash Oakland, and I don't want to spend any
Speaker 1: Bay or your residence. I know those are different places,
Speaker 1: but that's just the question that at Max asked. Okay,
Speaker 1: definitely two totally different places. I think. For me, I
Speaker 1: don't eat out a ton. I have a chef, and
Speaker 1: so when I eat out, I mostly eat out on
Speaker 1: the road. It's funny because I was just having a
Speaker 1: conversation with a couple of my homies last night and
Speaker 1: we were talking about restaurants, and one of one of
Speaker 1: my homies was telling me, there is this new tie
Speaker 1: restaurant out in water the Creek, like I think you
Speaker 1: like it. The vibe is nice, like good food, like
Speaker 1: I think you love it, and I'm like And then
Speaker 1: we started talking about restaurants, and I actually said to
Speaker 1: them last night, like I can't I have a few restaurants,
Speaker 1: Like if you come into town and you asked me
Speaker 1: where should I eat? Like I have a few go
Speaker 1: twos that like I can point you in a great direction.
Speaker 1: But most of the time when someone coming to San
Speaker 1: Francisco or into the Bay and they asked me, like
Speaker 1: where should I go eat? I hit up Mark Spears
Speaker 1: Because Mark Spears he knows every restaurant around here. He
Speaker 1: has relationships with the owners like Mark Spears, and he
Speaker 1: will never leave wrong like you, I can hit Mark
Speaker 1: Experience and be like Mark, I'm looking for such a
Speaker 1: such type fool with such a such type vibe, this,
Speaker 1: that another, and right off back he like go here
Speaker 1: or send them here? And like every time I asked Mark,
Speaker 1: whether I go or I send someone rave reviews and
Speaker 1: so like Mark Sperience is the guy out here if
Speaker 1: you need to know, like he knows everybody, He knows
Speaker 1: all the spots. Chill spots. Restaurants like Mark Sperience just
Speaker 1: has a great feel for and a great like he
Speaker 1: just knows everyone and so um, I always go to
Speaker 1: Mark Sperience. But if I had to say which one
Speaker 1: is my favorite? Hum, that's such a broad question because
Speaker 1: like you got favorites for different reasons, right, Like my
Speaker 1: favorite breakfast spot may not be my favorite raw spot,
Speaker 1: but like how do you find the overall? You know,
Speaker 1: I'm going for like different things at different times. But
Speaker 1: if I had to pick one and say my absolute favorite,
Speaker 1: m hm as someone who doesn't eat all the time,
Speaker 1: because I do have a chef and I try to
Speaker 1: at least when I'm at home, I try to be
Speaker 1: eating the right way. You get on the road and
Speaker 1: get dicey, so at least when I'm at the crib,
Speaker 1: I try to be eating the right way. If I
Speaker 1: had to pick one restaurant that's a my favorite, I
Speaker 1: would have to pick Lamon. Um. I really love Lamon.
Speaker 1: They got like these fries with like chicken and like
Speaker 1: this dressing on them with some cheese is fire. They
Speaker 1: got the impanadas, which is amazing. Uh, the rotisserie chickens great.
Speaker 1: So if I had to pick one restaurant, I would
Speaker 1: probably say, lamon, okay, I'll give it to you. I've
Speaker 1: never been, so I can't can't talk to you about it.
Speaker 1: The shout out Mark Sperience that has that as an
Speaker 1: earned reputation right there. Absolutely. Mark has never ever, I said,
Speaker 1: Mark been giving me spots for like five five six
Speaker 1: years now. Never once steer me wrong, not one time,
Speaker 1: not once, whether it was for myself or me giving
Speaker 1: it to somebody else, because somebody will hit me like, Yo,
Speaker 1: what should I go eat? Or what's open? Late? Like?
Speaker 1: That's the thing too. Stuff in the Bay closed early,
Speaker 1: restaurants closed early. There's only a select few of spots
Speaker 1: that you can go too late. Mark, where can I
Speaker 1: go that will stay open? And if they won't stay open?
Speaker 1: Mark knows somebody there that I can get them to
Speaker 1: stay open. Experience is the guy al right from at
Speaker 1: Bear Your Brett shout out. Shout out to two. I
Speaker 1: always confuse the name because of several of them, b Stroke,
Speaker 1: Buddha and Incredible. Um. It's on a pier. I like
Speaker 1: their food a lot. It's good. Shout out to them.
Speaker 1: Shout out to them. Next question is from at Bay
Speaker 1: Area Brett. This is a question that a lot of people,
Speaker 1: a lot of different people asked, But Barrier Brett was
Speaker 1: the one that I saw first. Who are your Draymond
Speaker 1: Green's top five defenders of all time? My top five
Speaker 1: defenders of all time? Um, Gary Payton. And by the way,
Speaker 1: when I started talking top five defenders all times, I'm
Speaker 1: not naming Bill Russell. And no disrespect to Bill Russell.
Speaker 1: We all have the utmost respect for Bill Russell. But
Speaker 1: I I know I'm not old enough to see Bill
Speaker 1: Russell play, So I can only speak from like the
Speaker 1: very small sample size that I've had the opportunity to see.
Speaker 1: And so the all time conversation it I hate it
Speaker 1: because how many people can really talk to you from
Speaker 1: a place of experience when talking all time something like?
Speaker 1: It's a very hard thing to do. So this is
Speaker 1: going to be more so from people that I've had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to witness play, whether I was younger or
Speaker 1: you know currently today. But I didn't get to have
Speaker 1: the opportunity which I wish I could have. I didn't
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to see Bill Russell play. UM. With
Speaker 1: the consistency that you need to see someone in order
Speaker 1: to put them on a list like my all time defenders.
Speaker 1: That's no disrespect to Bill Russell or anybody else at
Speaker 1: that time or or a time that comes from before
Speaker 1: me that I haven't really been privy to seeing a
Speaker 1: bunch of Like I've seen what mostly everyone has seen,
Speaker 1: but like, let's just face it, back then, the recordings
Speaker 1: and all of those things weren't where they are today,
Speaker 1: you know. So I can't say Bill Russell just to
Speaker 1: say it because I know Bill Russell was a great defender.
Speaker 1: Because I didn't see enough does not mean I doubt
Speaker 1: that Bill Russell would be top five. I just personally
Speaker 1: can't say that. I would be very hypocritical of me
Speaker 1: to say that and saying that Gary Payton, Tony Allen,
Speaker 1: Ben Wallace, and as much as Ben Wallace was a
Speaker 1: shot blocker, Ben Wallace played during the time period where
Speaker 1: they was dumping the ball into the post, and I
Speaker 1: watched Ben Wallace guard shock. I watched Ben Wallace guard
Speaker 1: David Robinson. I watched Ben Wallace guard Tim Duncan, I
Speaker 1: watched Ben Wallace guard I mean, the list goes on
Speaker 1: and on, like that's during the time where Biggs was
Speaker 1: like getting the ball and they was posted and like
Speaker 1: offense was was ran through the Biggs. I'm absolutely so.
Speaker 1: I want people to understand it's not Ben Wallace, because
Speaker 1: Ben Wallace block shots does not make you a great
Speaker 1: defender because you block some shots. So Ben Wallace yours, truly.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you're gonna wait till the end
Speaker 1: of the night, and I want to go with Scotty,
Speaker 1: but Scotty has been pissing me off and all this
Speaker 1: stuff he's been doing. Later, alright, Scott or is it
Speaker 1: not Scott? No, I can't go with Scotty. Man, Scott,
Speaker 1: he come on Scotty like Scotty's a legend, Scotty a legend,
Speaker 1: Like well, we don't need all that from Scotty, Like
Speaker 1: you are a legend, m J a legend, like man,
Speaker 1: we grew up on Scotty. So I'm a little upset
Speaker 1: with Scotty right now because Scotty is allowing people Scotty
Speaker 1: allowing people to drag his name through the mud, and
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I don't like it at all.
Speaker 1: Necessary Like yeah, he's I feel like he's allowing people
Speaker 1: to drag his name through the mud, and I don't
Speaker 1: like that one bit. Because Scotty names shouldn't be drunk
Speaker 1: through anymore. But when you start comparing yourself to Michael Jordan's,
Speaker 1: you get left up Draymond's top five US. That's what happens.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like, come on, So I'm struggling
Speaker 1: with Scotty just because that that that's been bothering him. Uh.
Speaker 1: But another great defender, UM, a guy who I have,
Speaker 1: Like I think guys a great defender, My number five
Speaker 1: would be this fifth one is important. So I'm taking
Speaker 1: a lot of options. The absolutely, absolutely absolutely. And you
Speaker 1: know what's crazy is each guy you've name has come
Speaker 1: across my mind. Each guy you just named a lot
Speaker 1: of great guys out there, and I think for me, honestly,
Speaker 1: I have to go with Dennis Robmin. And the reason
Speaker 1: I have to go with Dennis Robman is because Dennis
Speaker 1: Robman can guard anyone like he could like Dennis Rodman
Speaker 1: could match up with anybody. It's one thing to be
Speaker 1: able to guard anyone, but can you get matched up
Speaker 1: with anyone? And a lot of guys in this league
Speaker 1: they can't be just matched up with anyone. Dennis robin
Speaker 1: matchup could be anyone. And I think that was incredible.
Speaker 1: I see that. I see see something that with myself. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you come up and dammage your match up.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you come out of a d is you match up?
Speaker 1: You know what happens? So much love of Dennis robin ton,
Speaker 1: of respect for Dennis robin Um and just the way
Speaker 1: he guarded everybody like and rebound it. It's incredible. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll go a little well after that very serious basketball question,
Speaker 1: well we'll do it something a little bit weird here
Speaker 1: from at Sir A r W. You are tasked to
Speaker 1: sing one song to save the world. What song are
Speaker 1: you picking? I gotta get every lyric right, I guess.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't really clear what what. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's I don't know if it's It could be
Speaker 1: either get every lyric right or just like you put
Speaker 1: on the best performance that you can put on. You know,
Speaker 1: you're trying to impress the aliens to try to save
Speaker 1: the world. Um, what song would that be for me? Uh?
Speaker 1: All my life about Casey and Jojo. It's my favorite song,
Speaker 1: my absolute favorite song. I can I get very passionate
Speaker 1: about that song and I could probably get every single
Speaker 1: lyric in the song correct, So I mean every you
Speaker 1: name it, I could get everything right in the song,
Speaker 1: and I would be really passionate about it, which means
Speaker 1: my best was shining through. See people, when you're passionate
Speaker 1: about something, do that you know. Don't be chasing what
Speaker 1: you think make the most money. Don't be chasing like, oh,
Speaker 1: this looks like I saw such and such. Me do
Speaker 1: what you're passionate about. So just a little lesson from
Speaker 1: a question that has absolutely nothing to do with what
Speaker 1: we're talking about. I'm passionate about Casey and Joe Joe
Speaker 1: all my life, so which means I would give you
Speaker 1: my best performance. If you have something you're passionate about it,
Speaker 1: you question and go forward regardless of who questioned, who
Speaker 1: doesn't think it has the it's possible to be this.
Speaker 1: If you are passionate about it, you're gonna give y'all
Speaker 1: do that. So I got Casey and Joe Joe all
Speaker 1: my life. Life lessons from the Draymond green Shaw mail back. Um,
Speaker 1: let's see what's the video next. How about from at
Speaker 1: hersh who is the most hitting young player in the league.
Speaker 1: You don't have to take one. Let you pick like
Speaker 1: a couple, but Anthony Edwards as I mean, that goes
Speaker 1: without question the most exciting young player in the league.
Speaker 1: Anthony Ewards. I mean, come on, he the guy can
Speaker 1: give you forty as we know, He's done that multiple time.
Speaker 1: The guy can put anybody in the room, as we know.
Speaker 1: I mean, part of the reason you don't see Anthony
Speaker 1: Edwards dunk on more people is because people move when
Speaker 1: they see him about to take off. Now at this point,
Speaker 1: like you don't want to be on the wrong end
Speaker 1: of that. So Anthony Edwards, for sure, I think he
Speaker 1: has star potential. I actually thought this pre him getting drafted.
Speaker 1: He has star potential. He's extremely athletic and exciting and
Speaker 1: fun to watch because at any point you can get
Speaker 1: dunk of the year, highlight of the year, he can
Speaker 1: fill it up with the best of him. I mean he's,
Speaker 1: you know, in the second year, so he's still getting
Speaker 1: to that point of like doing that whenever he wants to.
Speaker 1: But Anthony Edwards for short, the most ex sighting young
Speaker 1: player in the league in my opinion. I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that, and also just unbelievable press conferences every time.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I was telling him the other day, he
Speaker 1: literally dem with him yesterday. I said, you are the
Speaker 1: funniest interview in the league, so funny, gotta have you
Speaker 1: on the podcast. He like anytime and just let me
Speaker 1: know anything. So I'm telling y'all, we would definitely have
Speaker 1: a man on the pot. I think it would be
Speaker 1: a funnier if you can't watch Anthony Edwards interviews and
Speaker 1: get a good laugh. I mean it is the most
Speaker 1: It's like it's raw, like it's his it's him just
Speaker 1: being his true self, which I think is beautiful. You
Speaker 1: get so see so many people getting interviews and change
Speaker 1: their voice or change uh you know, don't really speak
Speaker 1: how they speak. Like man Anthony Edwards one of the
Speaker 1: best interviews in the NBA. I absolutely love watching his interview.
Speaker 1: So I definitely will have him on as a as
Speaker 1: a guest of the Pot. But or now definitely my
Speaker 1: most society young player in the league. I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that from at Warriors Go or Where's Underscore Go?
Speaker 1: How many Defensive Player of the Year Awards do you
Speaker 1: think you should have won? I should have three? Um,
Speaker 1: I should definitely have three two for certain, but in
Speaker 1: my opinion, I think I should have at least I
Speaker 1: should have three. What's cool, let's get one more this
Speaker 1: year and then we want step closer to three. But
Speaker 1: I always be too behind where I should be. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, let's do from at young x c V.
Speaker 1: Do you miss playing an Oracle slash? How's the energy
Speaker 1: and chase? Is it bringing the same sort of energy
Speaker 1: that you're used to from Oracle? No? Um, it does
Speaker 1: not bring the same energy as Oracle. Oracle was a
Speaker 1: different place, UM, very special place and a fan base
Speaker 1: that was built initially. Um. When we first moved into
Speaker 1: this building, I'm like, this is just not the same,
Speaker 1: Like it's like I don't love it. And what I
Speaker 1: had to take a step back and realize it's home
Speaker 1: environments are created, you know, like home court advantages are created.
Speaker 1: They just don't happen just because you're at home, Like
Speaker 1: you create those teams. And it took me to that,
Speaker 1: to this year to really check myself and realize, like, no,
Speaker 1: we have to recreate what we created at what had
Speaker 1: been created at Oracle. Like Oracle's environment have been created.
Speaker 1: This environment has not been created. It's now starting to
Speaker 1: be created and it's starting to get louder, but it
Speaker 1: just doesn't like, oh, well you take that team from
Speaker 1: Oracle and moved them to Chase Center and it was
Speaker 1: as loud. You know it's gonna be as loud as
Speaker 1: it was, or louder and Chase Center than Oracle because
Speaker 1: it's the same team and Black don't work like that.
Speaker 1: You have to go recreate the environment. I think we're
Speaker 1: now doing a good job of recreating the environment now
Speaker 1: with some excitement, with an exciting team, with a good team.
Speaker 1: I think we're now starting to recreate the aura and
Speaker 1: the vibe in the arena. But it's not the same, No,
Speaker 1: no chance too. Totally different places um one very well
Speaker 1: established home court and energy and one not so much
Speaker 1: that has to be established. And I think now we're
Speaker 1: doing a great job at that. And it's start and
Speaker 1: it's picking up. Now, let's do a couple more and
Speaker 1: then we'll wrap this mail back up. First one will
Speaker 1: do I like this one from at t J Underscore Savaro.
Speaker 1: When do you truly feel confident and comfortable playing with
Speaker 1: new young players slash teammates? What do they have to
Speaker 1: do in order to gain that trust from the core
Speaker 1: guys like you, Steph Clay, Iggy, et cetera. I think
Speaker 1: I don't think there's one part two cular answer. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's one particular thing that can happen. And
Speaker 1: I don't think there's one particular thing that can happen.
Speaker 1: And you're like, oh, I'm comfortable with that guy now, Like,
Speaker 1: I think it's an accumulation of things, and I think
Speaker 1: you start to realize those things over over the course
Speaker 1: of time. You start to realize them in practice, you
Speaker 1: start to realize them in in games and different things
Speaker 1: in different games, right, Like, in order to be comfortable
Speaker 1: with somebody, like, you have to see them in different situations,
Speaker 1: Like I can't. I can't bring someone to my house
Speaker 1: and say hey, man, like whatever, whatever, whatever, we chop
Speaker 1: it up. And then now I'm going to take you
Speaker 1: to a foxhold, and I'm supposed to have the same
Speaker 1: comfort with you in the foxhold and I did at
Speaker 1: my house. I've never seen you in this environment, you know.
Speaker 1: And so the different environments that said game can produce
Speaker 1: or practice or whatever, like, you have to see guys
Speaker 1: in different situations. And so I don't think there's one
Speaker 1: particular thing that can happen. And you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with that guy. Know, you see that guy,
Speaker 1: and you're like, Okay, that's kind of a check off,
Speaker 1: you know. All right, you can check that off the list.
Speaker 1: Oh I saw him and this, you could check that
Speaker 1: off the list, you know. And then you kind of
Speaker 1: get to the space of like, all right, you know
Speaker 1: all these things that you appreciate or that you approve
Speaker 1: of or don't approve of, Now where does that leave you? Right?
Speaker 1: Like this guy, it's great at all these things, these
Speaker 1: things over here, not so much. Do these things outweigh
Speaker 1: these two where you feel comfortable with that guy you know,
Speaker 1: or that teammate or not. And I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of um what it boils down to. But I think
Speaker 1: the number one thing, and that's that's a non negotiable
Speaker 1: is you have to compete, Like, regardless of what the
Speaker 1: situation is. Um, that's a nonnegotiable. And and that's just
Speaker 1: the starting point, Like you have to compete. If you
Speaker 1: don't compete, we can't even begin to even think if
Speaker 1: I approve of you. That's the non negotiable. You've got
Speaker 1: to compete. All right, let's let's wrap it up here
Speaker 1: in the spirit of the of the holidays from at
Speaker 1: B McKinney underscore twelve. Who is your biggest idol and
Speaker 1: how have they motivated you? My biggest idol is my
Speaker 1: my mother and my brother. My mother, because she's motivated
Speaker 1: me to be who I am, stay true to Draymond,
Speaker 1: be a leader, be who you are, no matter what,
Speaker 1: speak your mind. And she's done that since I can remember.
Speaker 1: You know that's and so my mom has always spoke
Speaker 1: her mind whatever she believed in, regardless of what it
Speaker 1: may cost, how someone may feel, she speaks her mind
Speaker 1: and I respect that. Uh. And so that is more
Speaker 1: that has been a keep part in me being who
Speaker 1: I am and staying true to Draymond and not altering
Speaker 1: who I am because of what people may think. Uh.
Speaker 1: So I have to say my mother for that reason
Speaker 1: it uh And as hard as she worked to provide
Speaker 1: for us. And then my brother, my brother, because you know,
Speaker 1: he's always been an incredible example. Uh, super smart dude.
Speaker 1: I'm six six. My brother's five ten, five eleven. Let
Speaker 1: him tell her he's six one six too, but I
Speaker 1: think he's let we'll give him six ft. But uh,
Speaker 1: it never mattered, you know in basketball, it never mattered.
Speaker 1: You know, his presence and doesn't matter things that he's
Speaker 1: he was faced with through life, uh, and just watching
Speaker 1: how he overcame things my brother had, like this lump
Speaker 1: on his leg that they thoughts tumors growing up and
Speaker 1: like he should never play basketball again, he should blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blahl. Like just to see him persever through
Speaker 1: that as kids, like always on time, you know, like
Speaker 1: a guy who taught me to be punctual. You know,
Speaker 1: like he's a very focused human being. You know, when
Speaker 1: there's something that needs to be done, he's going to
Speaker 1: get it done. And so I think I think, uh,
Speaker 1: for that reason, my brother, you know, just for those
Speaker 1: reasons I should say my brother. So, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: those were I grew up in the household with them,
Speaker 1: and so you know, I didn't have to look far
Speaker 1: for the things that they gave me. And the things
Speaker 1: that they gave me are so vital and who I
Speaker 1: am that I can't like that it's irreplaceable. So my
Speaker 1: mother and my brother, that's my mom too. Respect that
Speaker 1: shout out. Shout out. Mom's absolutely got a wrap on
Speaker 1: the mail bag. Thanks to everyone for the questions. We'll
Speaker 1: do We'll do another one. Yeah, we will definitely do
Speaker 1: another one. We'll do another one. I mean, we may
Speaker 1: even get to the point of where we can do
Speaker 1: this thing like with some live questions coming in, and
Speaker 1: that would be fire, you know, So we'll get there.
Speaker 1: But like Jackson said, we thank you all for the questions.
Speaker 1: We thank you all for tuning in. That's a rap
Speaker 1: for this episode or the Draymond Green Show. We got
Speaker 1: the New year coming up. Everybody enjoy their new year,
Speaker 1: stay safe, enjoy your people. Make your New year's resolution,
Speaker 1: but don't make it a new Year's resolution. Making something
Speaker 1: that you want to do for yourself and something that
Speaker 1: you're going to dedicate yourself to whatever, if it's a
Speaker 1: change or whatever it is you have to dedicate yourself
Speaker 1: to that, don't make it no New Year's resolution because
Speaker 1: you're gonna break it in two days. Making something that
Speaker 1: you're dedicating yourself to change or that you feel you
Speaker 1: need to be better at. Attack it. Don't even really
Speaker 1: use the new year to do it. But if you
Speaker 1: want to and you're like, that's what I'm turning my leave,
Speaker 1: then that's when you turn your leaf. But whatever that
Speaker 1: is for you, lock in on it, go after attack
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Happy twenty two. I love y'all. We'll
Speaker 1: talk soon. I said, for this episode, Draymond Green show
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