Speaker 1: The volume.
Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Sloan and I know the NBA. Today's guest
Speaker 2: needs no introduction. He's a four time NBA champion and
Speaker 2: in all stuff, he's one of the best defenders in
Speaker 2: the league, a successful podcaster, and part of the core
Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors. We are live from Chase Center with
Speaker 2: the one and only Draymond's Cream.
Speaker 3: Dre.
Speaker 2: I'm sixteen years old and you're thirty three, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I feel like I try to make you feel old
Speaker 2: a lot, and you're not old. But in the league
Speaker 2: of the NBA, I mean, like, you know, thirty three, now,
Speaker 2: sixteen was a long time ago.
Speaker 4: You know absolutely, I remember sixteen years ago or seventeen
Speaker 4: years ago. Would take me to see I remember that.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, because that was a lockdown. I'm about to
Speaker 2: ask you a lot of questions about that. So at
Speaker 2: sixteen years old, what were you like as a basketball player?
Speaker 4: At sixteen years old as a backasketball player is when
Speaker 4: I first kind of started to come into my own.
Speaker 4: I was kind of freshman I mean sophomore or junior year,
Speaker 4: and my junior year season is when I really took off.
Speaker 4: My freshman year, I played freshman basketball my sophomore year,
Speaker 4: I was on varsity. I started every game on varsity,
Speaker 4: but I was a role player for sure, like I
Speaker 4: kind of have my role. And I did that my
Speaker 4: junior year, like the team became on and that we
Speaker 4: won our first st AID championship. So that was really
Speaker 4: my first experience of winning a school championship. Like I
Speaker 4: lost in sixth grade, I lost in seventh grade. I'm lying.
Speaker 4: I did win in eighth grade, but we didn't have
Speaker 4: in my city. We didn't have like a tournament, so
Speaker 4: you have like twelve regular season games and the best
Speaker 4: record won a championship. So it wasn't like you actually
Speaker 4: had to go win a championship.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: And so that was my first experience sixteen of truly
Speaker 4: winning a championship. You wanted like an AU tournament, but
Speaker 4: like really winning a real championship.
Speaker 3: That's what I was doing at sixteen.
Speaker 2: It's like you were manifesting your life in the future,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like all those shifts.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 2: So speaking of AAU, I know a lot of the
Speaker 2: guys that have interviewed have told me really cool stories
Speaker 2: about when they were playing AAU. They were able to
Speaker 2: play against other NBA players and create really special bonds
Speaker 2: with these future guys that they were going to continue
Speaker 2: to have a career with. Do you have any guys
Speaker 2: like that that you've just been friends with since you
Speaker 2: were really young.
Speaker 4: I know I have a few guys that I've played
Speaker 4: against since I was young. I was actually on Instagram
Speaker 4: the other day Manny Harris, who played with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 4: He played with the Los Angeles Leakers for a short
Speaker 4: amount of time. Manny Harris grew up in Detroit, Michigan,
Speaker 4: and Manny I remember growing up like as a young kid,
Speaker 4: like fifth and sixth grade, seventh grade, We're coming from
Speaker 4: saging On, small city. We go down, we play those
Speaker 4: guys from Detroit, and like, you get a toe different
Speaker 4: feel from who we play back at home, you know.
Speaker 3: And Manny was one of those players.
Speaker 4: He was absolutely incredible, and he used to destroy us
Speaker 4: when we were younger, and then we played against each
Speaker 4: other in the state championship of high school.
Speaker 3: He went to Michigan. I went to Michigan State, And
Speaker 3: so I would say, if there.
Speaker 4: Was one guy that I remember from that I remember
Speaker 4: playing against from elementary on through college and even in
Speaker 4: the NBA. That guy for me and who was like
Speaker 4: motivation for me growing up because we couldn't He played
Speaker 4: for the Cobras when we were growing up. We could
Speaker 4: not beat them, and so it was always motivation for
Speaker 4: me to try to beat him.
Speaker 3: So I think I'd say the one guy.
Speaker 2: For me was man here, okay, and do you think
Speaker 2: you know? I know we talked a little bit about
Speaker 2: Michigan State, like did you come out of the woman
Speaker 2: You were like, I'm going to go to Michigan State
Speaker 2: like that, how did that go down?
Speaker 4: So ironically, my aunt played at Michigan State. And I'm
Speaker 4: born in nineteen ninety old. The fact that you think
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety is old.
Speaker 2: I was born in two thousand and seven, so you know.
Speaker 4: I remember two thousand and seven like it was yesterday.
Speaker 4: I graduated high school in eight But the fact, like
Speaker 4: I get laughed at by people for being born in
Speaker 4: the nineties and I'm at the very beginning of the nineties,
Speaker 4: and the fact that you think that it's old, it
Speaker 4: is just mind bodying to me.
Speaker 3: But Michigan State. My aunt went to Michigan State.
Speaker 4: I think in like ninety three, ninety two, ninety she
Speaker 4: was there when Steve Smith was there, so maybe ninety
Speaker 4: one ninety two somewhere in there, I would go down
Speaker 4: like and we would go see her play. I had
Speaker 4: been to my aunt's dorm, which in full circle moment
Speaker 4: ended up being the dorm that I also lived in
Speaker 4: when I got to Michigan State. But I used to
Speaker 4: be terrified as Party. Loved to Michigan State, loved the green.
Speaker 3: And white, creepy, terrified of s party.
Speaker 4: I go to these games. I was also the kid
Speaker 4: that was terrified of Chuck E Cheese like, and so
Speaker 4: I would go to these games see my aunt, and
Speaker 4: I thought that was absolutely incredible. I would always say
Speaker 4: then like I'm gonna go to Michigan State. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: go to Michigan State. Then you start ninety eight, ninety nine,
Speaker 4: two thousand, I am eight nine, ten years old and
Speaker 4: the Flintstones matteen, Clees, Morris Peterson, Charlie Bell, Antonio Smith,
Speaker 4: Jason Richardson from Saginaw.
Speaker 3: They're playing at Michigan State.
Speaker 4: They win a national championship in two thousand and so
Speaker 4: for me growing up as a young kid, and I
Speaker 4: remember I can always place Michigan State from when I
Speaker 4: was three, four years old, and then to see them
Speaker 4: at ten years old winning.
Speaker 3: The National Championship. I thought that was everything. Flint. Flint,
Speaker 3: Michigan is twenty minutes away from sagan On.
Speaker 4: Jason Richardson being from saganaw to watch those guys and
Speaker 4: be like, Wow, they're on it. They're playing in the
Speaker 4: National Championship, They're being Florida in the National che I
Speaker 4: want to go to that school. And me and my
Speaker 4: brother from that time it was like, yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 4: go to Michigan State.
Speaker 2: Yeah on Michigan.
Speaker 4: Though. You know what's funny, I this is gonna get
Speaker 4: you going in the state of Michigan. You grow up,
Speaker 4: you're you're a Michigan fan, or you're a Michigan State fan.
Speaker 4: As I'd imagine in LA you're the U C, l
Speaker 4: A or USC. Most people maybe not you Sloan because
Speaker 4: you pick your own teams, like you didn't picked the
Speaker 4: Lakers and pick the Warriors, but you usually pick one
Speaker 4: of those schools. And so for us, it's like all right, Michigan,
Speaker 4: Michigan State. Michigan State is a no brainer. Like the
Speaker 4: colors are better, Like the school is better, the coach
Speaker 4: is better, the program is better, you know, like it's
Speaker 4: time is though it's a hall of fame.
Speaker 3: Nobody can stand that but I.
Speaker 4: And then then, like I said, it was also something
Speaker 4: that I could see though at a young age and say, oh,
Speaker 4: those guys are like men, Like they come from a
Speaker 4: similar place that I that I come from.
Speaker 3: And so and then I'm not gonna lie. I like
Speaker 3: teams that win.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is football, but like eleven and oh,
Speaker 2: you know, like this.
Speaker 3: Year, but like they were still in signs and you know.
Speaker 2: Like okay, so you're gonna okay, so you're a you're
Speaker 2: a believer in the steeling.
Speaker 4: I mean it's obvious clear as day, and everybody's like,
Speaker 4: oh you know, they they still signs, everybody still.
Speaker 3: But you can't be that egregious, like to place.
Speaker 4: Someone on the other sideline of another team dressed up
Speaker 4: as their coach.
Speaker 3: Do we really want to talk about them being came.
Speaker 2: Out that Michigan State did the same thing. You would
Speaker 2: deny it though, right.
Speaker 3: No, Michigan State is going through their fair share of.
Speaker 2: Ok so you're gonna allow them, Okay, So you're just you're.
Speaker 4: Fair mich But I think you also have to be fair,
Speaker 4: like you can't. You can't just kind of say, oh,
Speaker 4: they accepted this, were sweeping it under rugg like you
Speaker 4: still gotta be fair to people.
Speaker 3: But that was I mean, that's that's some intense signs stealing.
Speaker 2: It's a little crazy, for sure, and it definitely does
Speaker 2: not give a good message to anyone else out there. Like,
Speaker 2: it's also a school, you know, like people go there
Speaker 2: like if I was a Michigan student now, like the
Speaker 2: football teams cheating, Like I don't know what's happening in
Speaker 2: those classes.
Speaker 4: You know, well, you know, this is also a school
Speaker 4: that really prides themselves on trying to make us went
Speaker 4: to Michigan State for like we're done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know.
Speaker 4: It's just I think it's pretty ironic that they're so
Speaker 4: smart and they had caught like this, like.
Speaker 3: Badly, like branhanded.
Speaker 4: Real, it's a little ironic to those of us that
Speaker 4: they try to they try to make feel less than
Speaker 4: I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 2: Yes, I feel like you almost what's really cool about
Speaker 2: you is that, in a way, you've been an underdog
Speaker 2: for so long and you just continuously continuously prove people wrong, right,
Speaker 2: And I'm curious being a second rounder does that Do
Speaker 2: you think that that's shaped who you are now?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Do you do you remind yourself constantly like that many
Speaker 2: teams passed up on me, and yet I was this good.
Speaker 2: You know, I am this good for.
Speaker 3: A long time.
Speaker 4: For a long time, I will remind myself that because
Speaker 4: to your point, I was the underdog. And you know
Speaker 4: what I've tried to learn throughout my journey is I
Speaker 4: was the underdog for a very long time. I'm no
Speaker 4: longer the underdog, and I think I think it's very
Speaker 4: important that you can identify those stages because the mentality
Speaker 4: that you have to have as an underdog. If you
Speaker 4: have that same mentality and you're not the underdog, it's distasteful.
Speaker 4: And so for me, I've always tried to and like,
Speaker 4: don't get me wrong, it's hard to do because you
Speaker 4: go so long with this mindset of I just need
Speaker 4: to get it out the mud. I need to get
Speaker 4: it anyway I can. And you go so long with
Speaker 4: this mindset and then you get to a space where
Speaker 4: the world no longer view you that way. And that's
Speaker 4: when it gets interesting, because when you're the underdog, the
Speaker 4: world is rooting for you and they want to see
Speaker 4: you do well. Everybody loves a good underdog, everybody loves
Speaker 4: a good Cinderella story, and so it's all fine and
Speaker 4: Danny the moment they no longer see you as the underdog,
Speaker 4: where now they say, oh, well, what I think of
Speaker 4: him is this. I no longer view him or her
Speaker 4: as this.
Speaker 3: This is where I placed him at.
Speaker 4: And that's when it starts to get interesting because again,
Speaker 4: those same things that you did as an underdog, now
Speaker 4: that they no longer look at you that way, it's
Speaker 4: not viewed totally different.
Speaker 3: And so I think, for me.
Speaker 4: An interesting adjustment that I had to make, and I
Speaker 4: must be honest, you still like it's a never ending thing,
Speaker 4: like you never really get to the space of life.
Speaker 3: I'm not the underdog.
Speaker 4: I never do underdog things like there are still times
Speaker 4: where you do those things because it was such a
Speaker 4: part of you for so long, you know, And so
Speaker 4: I think just identifying when you're no longer the underdog
Speaker 4: is as important as having the underdog mentality when you
Speaker 4: need it.
Speaker 2: And what advice do you think you would give sixteen
Speaker 2: year old Dre to be like in that time when
Speaker 2: I mean you said you played freshman basketball as a
Speaker 2: freshman and then you were a role player your sophomore
Speaker 2: year on varsity. But what would you tell that sixteen
Speaker 2: year old kid, like, I'm a four time NBA champion, Like,
Speaker 2: what do you think you would think?
Speaker 4: Think? I think what I would tell that kid is
Speaker 4: I would tell him the things that he need to
Speaker 4: understand about the journey along the way, because you go
Speaker 4: through so much on this journey, and some of the
Speaker 4: things you go through with people, and some of the
Speaker 4: things you have to go through alone.
Speaker 3: And it's.
Speaker 4: I think it's it's very it's very interesting because what
Speaker 4: you end up realizing is so many people can't do it, Like,
Speaker 4: so many people can't walk through those things alone or
Speaker 4: walk through those things with somebody and the one, but
Speaker 4: the but the very few. Like it's it's a reason
Speaker 4: it's only four hundred and fifty guys in NBA, like,
Speaker 4: because the few that can go through those things, the
Speaker 4: few that can come out on the other side of
Speaker 4: that are the ones that you see and they make
Speaker 4: it and you know the world knows them and you
Speaker 4: know the world can appreciate their craft.
Speaker 2: I think there's one anomally to that, and that's Patrick
Speaker 2: mccau because, like, you can't win three championships in like
Speaker 2: your three years in the league and then just like
Speaker 2: dip and then be like I did it, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like I really went through it, you know.
Speaker 3: One percent.
Speaker 4: But even that, like I think, like I love Pat
Speaker 4: by the way, like Pat was my teammate, we won
Speaker 4: two championships with one championship together, we won one championship together.
Speaker 2: I think you want too and then you want to
Speaker 2: one here.
Speaker 3: One with the raptions, okay, but but Patrick.
Speaker 4: Is an anomaly, and I think it's a little different feeling, right,
Speaker 4: Like you're such a basketball fan, you'll remember that.
Speaker 3: I think I.
Speaker 2: Loved Patrick McCaw. I was like ten years old and
Speaker 2: I was like, that is the most beautiful man I've
Speaker 2: ever seen at ten years old. Let him know, Like
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: Uh, I think with Patrick, you didn't look at the
Speaker 4: way the career ultimately ends up panning out. And I
Speaker 4: think if there were a lot of things that Patrick
Speaker 4: would change, I think, but there's also things that along
Speaker 4: my journey that I was yeah, you know, and so
Speaker 4: I just think, uh, and looking back at the sixteen
Speaker 4: year old and saying, what what that has to be?
Speaker 4: Along the way, you just have to understand the steps
Speaker 4: of the journey because it's it's it's brutal. There's times
Speaker 4: where you want to quit, and I think it's it's okay.
Speaker 3: To fill those feelings, right, Like, we go through it.
Speaker 4: And as a basketball player, you're taught as an athlete,
Speaker 4: you're taught like, no, you just gotta keep going, keep going,
Speaker 4: like get through it, keep going, and.
Speaker 3: That bils you out to be a certain type of way.
Speaker 4: But I think in going through it, you have to
Speaker 4: understand that, like try not to ride the roller coaster
Speaker 4: because it's and by the way, it's still a roller coaster.
Speaker 4: Like I'm thirty three years old, I'm playing at the
Speaker 4: highest level you can play.
Speaker 3: And it's still a roller coaster. You know.
Speaker 4: But as you get older, as you've been in it,
Speaker 4: you learn like that, I can't ride.
Speaker 3: This roller coaster.
Speaker 4: Like sometimes you experience the highest of highs and you
Speaker 4: experience the lowest of lows, and to ride that wave
Speaker 4: the entire time, it's impossible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a mental game too, one hundred.
Speaker 4: So that's what I would just tell the sixteen year
Speaker 4: old men, is like, okay, great, there's four championships, there's
Speaker 4: these things in college. There's these things in high school
Speaker 4: in the conference. Don't ride away, don't like just do
Speaker 4: not ride away?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So now I want to move on because
Speaker 2: I've been so lucky. One of the privileges of my
Speaker 2: life has been to get to know you. And I
Speaker 2: think what I think is so special about you is
Speaker 2: the way that, even though it is so many you
Speaker 2: are probably such a god right, so untouchable, we feel
Speaker 2: like we know you right, Like you make your opinion known.
Speaker 2: You make who you are known to everyone, which I
Speaker 2: think is so special, especially as a kid, because you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to name names, but there's people out
Speaker 2: there where I admire them, but I don't know them,
Speaker 2: you know. And with you, I think that people really
Speaker 2: understand who you are. People know your opinion, which is
Speaker 2: so cool, Like you know, you really got it. You
Speaker 2: have to use your voice, and so I know you.
Speaker 2: I think the world knows you, but I want to
Speaker 2: get to know Sloan knows Dre a little better. All right,
Speaker 2: What was the most memorable play of your career?
Speaker 4: The most memorable play of my career, I would have
Speaker 4: to say is as memorable as it is. I can't
Speaker 4: recall the exact years, either twenty seventeen or eighteen, who
Speaker 4: were playing against the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 3: And Damian Liller gets the ball on the wing.
Speaker 4: After we turn the ball over, Clay turned the ball
Speaker 4: over and Damian Lilla gets the tracks the ball down.
Speaker 4: He gets the ball on the wing. If you know,
Speaker 4: Damian lillar like, you better get out there. He's shooting it.
Speaker 4: So I run out there and I take this shot
Speaker 4: away and then no Avan is coming running down the court.
Speaker 4: He hears no advante and I circle back around to
Speaker 4: the rim and I just go vertical. And when I
Speaker 4: realized it, I'm like, oh man, I'm dunked on Because I.
Speaker 3: Circled, I'm right under the rim.
Speaker 4: This dude got a full he has a full head
Speaker 4: start coming downhill at me, and I gotta jump straight
Speaker 4: up and go vertical. And I just jumped and went
Speaker 4: vertical and I got the block. That to me, I
Speaker 4: would say was the most play. Like I had a
Speaker 4: great series that series, but that play, like I felt
Speaker 4: like I locked their whole offense down myself, and that
Speaker 4: play was like a microcosmo.
Speaker 2: That is what I always say. My dad and I
Speaker 2: talk about this all the time where sometimes you'll I'll
Speaker 2: watch your highlights and people don't understand that you stop
Speaker 2: the whole team by yourself. Like that's a really hard
Speaker 2: thing to understand because you're like, oh, You're like, oh no,
Speaker 2: you know they just threw the wall out of bounce
Speaker 2: and you're like no, no, no, no, no, dream on one hundred
Speaker 2: percent force that, whether it was mental, whether it was physical,
Speaker 2: Like if you really watch those highlights every single time
Speaker 2: something happens, like I swear your name, your fingerprint was
Speaker 2: on there, it is true. And I also think that
Speaker 2: is the same with Gary Payton the second big shout out,
Speaker 2: that's my guy. I love him so much. And I
Speaker 2: just noticed this. I mean, every time the other team
Speaker 2: messes up, I'm like, it was either Gary or Drey.
Speaker 4: I definitely appreciate it. And and reality is it's like,
Speaker 4: in order to do what we do on the defensive end,
Speaker 4: I always say people people don't value or approach the
Speaker 4: defensive end the same way that they do the offensive
Speaker 4: and the same way. You have to have spacing on
Speaker 4: on offense. You have to have one defense, like and
Speaker 4: there's so many little nuances to where if one guy
Speaker 4: isn't on the same page, it all falls down, you know.
Speaker 4: And so I do understand the importance of like having
Speaker 4: everybody on the same page and trying to lead that.
Speaker 4: But as far as defense goes, like again, just like offense,
Speaker 4: there's things that you want to get to as a defender,
Speaker 4: there's things that you want to get to when you
Speaker 4: understand what they're trying to get to. And I think
Speaker 4: for me as as just always trying to be a
Speaker 4: step ahead of the play, knowing like, oh man, they
Speaker 4: want to get there with if I can get to
Speaker 4: that spot before they get there, it throws off the
Speaker 4: entire time and.
Speaker 3: Of their play.
Speaker 4: And that's and that's what I try to do and
Speaker 4: and and focus on. And I try to cause the
Speaker 4: same havoc for opposing offenses as great offensive players cause
Speaker 4: for opposing defenses.
Speaker 2: For sure. And on the topic of defense, as obviously
Speaker 2: the defensive player of the year, can you give me
Speaker 2: two defenders currently in the NBA that are just extremely underrated?
Speaker 3: Well A Sloan knows alone.
Speaker 4: And I feel like everyone always says I feel like
Speaker 4: everyone always say this guy is underrated. And I think
Speaker 4: the reason everyone always says he's underrated is like because
Speaker 4: he doesn't have a Defensive Player of the Year. He
Speaker 4: hasn't been on as many all defensive teams for as
Speaker 4: good of a defender as he is. And it's Drew Holliday.
Speaker 4: Drew Holliday is like I was watching the game the
Speaker 4: other day, Al Horford went out, Porzingis was out, like
Speaker 4: not playing at night.
Speaker 3: Al Horford goes out the game and like.
Speaker 4: Boston's matchup, Like you can tell in their shoot around
Speaker 4: in their game that the matchup is now Drew Holliday
Speaker 4: and Joe l Embiid And yeah, they're throwing the double team.
Speaker 4: But if you know anything about defense, Drew has to
Speaker 4: keep embating a position for or the double team to
Speaker 4: be able to get there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Drew is outsized by Joe.
Speaker 4: L and b by at least one hundred pounds, at
Speaker 4: least at least six inches, probably more. And he's just
Speaker 4: holding his.
Speaker 2: Own Me and Drew and absolutely facts.
Speaker 4: And by the way, one of the like Joel is
Speaker 4: an incredible player, like MVP. One of the most impressive
Speaker 4: things about that is Joel's a dog. Joel will embarrass
Speaker 4: you if he can. He will go right at you him.
Speaker 4: It wasn't like he saw Drew and it was like
Speaker 4: I smell blood, And I think that is one of
Speaker 4: the most incredible things, Like when it's no better feeling
Speaker 4: as a defender, when you're like, say, I'm running up
Speaker 4: and my guy's going to set a screen and the
Speaker 4: guards like, nah, man, you get out of here, bring
Speaker 4: that guy up, And as a defender, you just feel
Speaker 4: accomplished because it's like, oh, he don't even want to
Speaker 4: face me right now. And so I think Drew is
Speaker 4: one and the second one is an underrated defender. I
Speaker 4: think the second one is Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2: Really okay. Also for the real ones out there also
Speaker 2: a slow nose alum to like a certain extent. I
Speaker 2: did like a cute little interview with him, but it
Speaker 2: was like a minute but with the help of Dre,
Speaker 2: I know Adie will be sitting in that chair one.
Speaker 4: Day, absolutely. But ad Ad is a is. Ad can
Speaker 4: switch onto a guard and keep a guard in front
Speaker 4: of him if he needs to. He can play in
Speaker 4: the drop and he's one of the most devastating players
Speaker 4: playing in a.
Speaker 3: Guarden, picking and rolling and drop.
Speaker 4: He's a versative defender, Like you can put ad in helpside,
Speaker 4: and you put him in help side and he'll cover
Speaker 4: the whole week side up. You put him in the action,
Speaker 4: he can guard the action, no problem. So uh very
Speaker 4: My second one would be Anthony.
Speaker 2: Davis crazy that they were teammates, you know, like that
Speaker 2: New Orleans team.
Speaker 3: Is special, we beat them.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you're more special. So one clip of
Speaker 2: mine that went viral on TikTok was I was talking
Speaker 2: to Drew and I asked him, I said, you know,
Speaker 2: I also agree that I think Drew's a very underrated defender.
Speaker 2: And I said, it's such a talented defender yourself. Who's
Speaker 2: someone that you've guarded that probably the outside world doesn't
Speaker 2: realize how difficult it is to guard them. And he said.
Speaker 2: Bobby Portois and all these people were like, why didn't
Speaker 2: you say Steph Curry? And we were like, the question
Speaker 2: is underrated, Like people need to listen to the context.
Speaker 2: And I think, like you were saying earlier, like there's
Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty guys plus in the NBA, Like
Speaker 2: I mean, every kid has played basketball at one point
Speaker 2: in their life, and four hundred and thirty around that
Speaker 2: number guys make it to the league. These guys are special,
Speaker 2: even if they're not Steph Curry. They could drop sixty
Speaker 2: on anyone's head that's not in the league, you know,
Speaker 2: and like, who's a guy like that to you that
Speaker 2: you're like, people don't understand, but he's good.
Speaker 3: Every guy in the NBA.
Speaker 2: Okay, every guy.
Speaker 4: Though, I always tell like, you know, people see guys
Speaker 4: in the NBA and they're like, oh man, that guy
Speaker 4: suck and to your points, like that guy that you
Speaker 4: thinks up will destroy you so badly, Like you have
Speaker 4: to like you just there's a certain level of player
Speaker 4: that you have to be the player. Then yeah, Now,
Speaker 4: don't get me wrong. I know you probably saw like
Speaker 4: pg's podcast where PG and Tomorrow was talking about guys
Speaker 4: in the NBA that suck. Now that's to an NBA level,
Speaker 4: Like there are some guys in the NBA that you
Speaker 4: don't quite feel should be here. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 4: Joe Bloke can just beat them at basketball, Like, no,
Speaker 4: they'll destroy Joe Blow. However, there's I always say that
Speaker 4: there's guys like everyone has a guy or two in
Speaker 4: the league where when you play that guy, he causes
Speaker 4: you fits like nobody tomorrow, but it's the guy that
Speaker 4: no one would expect, Like I have a couple of
Speaker 4: people and it just shows you how good they actually are.
Speaker 3: One was TODJ. Gibson. For me, TODJ. Gibson.
Speaker 4: I played against Todge Gibson as a freshman in college.
Speaker 4: We played against him and Demargar Rose and they were
Speaker 4: at USC ron Lewis. They had enough Daniel Hackett. We
Speaker 4: played them in the second round, I think the first
Speaker 4: or second round in the NCAA tournament in Minneapolis, and
Speaker 4: Goran Suton got in foul trouble. Another one of our
Speaker 4: big men got in foul trouble, and so I had
Speaker 4: to go in the game and.
Speaker 3: Guard Tashe Gibson.
Speaker 4: If you remember anything about Todge Gibson at USC, he
Speaker 4: was a problem. And I'm garden TODJ. Gibson, and I
Speaker 4: go in and I do an incredible job. All our
Speaker 4: upper classmen is in foul trouble and I.
Speaker 3: Caused fits for TODSH Gibson.
Speaker 4: And that was the end of Todge Gibson's career because
Speaker 4: he didn't goes on and go to the NBA.
Speaker 3: I stay, I finish out my next three years of college.
Speaker 3: He goes on to the NBA.
Speaker 4: When I get to the NBA, I now have to
Speaker 4: guard Taje Gibson. At this time, Todash Gibson's in Chicago,
Speaker 4: and I remember vividly my second year Jermaine O'Neill, one
Speaker 4: of my OG's on the team, and we're playing Chicago
Speaker 4: and I'm trying to guard Tage Gibson and he hit
Speaker 4: me with an up and under boom, step through bucket,
Speaker 4: shimmy shake bucket, and the game goes on. And now
Speaker 4: the only way I can get on the court my
Speaker 4: first year and a half was to stop somebody. And
Speaker 4: I am like, I can now get a stop on
Speaker 4: this dude. So I tell Jermaine O'Neill it is one
Speaker 4: of the very few times in my career, really, the
Speaker 4: only one that I can really point to why I
Speaker 4: actually got Yo. I need you to switch with me,
Speaker 4: like I'm gonna take your match up. You gotta go go.
Speaker 4: I cannot stop this guy.
Speaker 3: One of them was.
Speaker 4: Toash Gibson, and then the other guy that no one
Speaker 4: would ever guess, incredible player that give me fits. I
Speaker 4: actually have the.
Speaker 3: Honor of being a teammate with him.
Speaker 2: Now, is it a slow nose alone?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, but maybe he will be one day. Okay,
Speaker 2: Dario sorrye wow, Okay, he is a silent killer.
Speaker 4: He would give me fits no matter if he was
Speaker 4: at Philly, Minnesota, Phoenix.
Speaker 3: Okay. See, Dario Sarge every time I played against him
Speaker 3: would give me a fit.
Speaker 4: And it's like if you just go and you tell
Speaker 4: someone like they're like, yo, who's the guy in the
Speaker 4: league like that you struggle with the guard? No one
Speaker 4: would ever guess that I'd be like Dodge Gibson and
Speaker 4: Dario Sarge.
Speaker 3: And that just goes to show you how good guys Arena.
Speaker 2: Do you tell Dara.
Speaker 3: That I have not but he'll figure it out now.
Speaker 2: But then, like you know, that's a really I guarantee
Speaker 2: that that shoots up his self esteem a little bit.
Speaker 3: Darrio's my guy. I love Dario.
Speaker 4: He's incredible teammates have but I don't like sharing my
Speaker 4: weaknesses with people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm really glad to see this is the thing,
Speaker 2: Like I get to bring this out of you, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. It's good to talk about your emotions.
Speaker 2: So m hmm. Okay, So Draymond, when I first met you,
Speaker 2: you talk to me a lot about positivity and how
Speaker 2: the idea of what I do that differentiates me from
Speaker 2: other people and you as well. Is the idea of
Speaker 2: speaking positively because a lot of what the NBA media
Speaker 2: is is it's asking people, Oh, you know, who's a
Speaker 2: player in the league that annoys you?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: And like, what's the purpose of that question?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Like, yes, you can probably get a lot of likes
Speaker 2: on that, but it's not I mean, at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, who has that helped?
Speaker 4: You? Know?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 2: That hasn't improved anyone's life really, And so I decided
Speaker 2: that I wanted to, you know, create a segment where
Speaker 2: instead of that, I basically asked those questions in just
Speaker 2: a way, nicer way, okay, and instead of the player
Speaker 2: in the league who annoys you the most? Who is
Speaker 2: your favorite player? You know? Stuff like that. So I
Speaker 2: want to I want to talk about that a little
Speaker 2: bit with you, and I want to start off talking
Speaker 2: about Clay and Seth the Splash bros. I mean, you
Speaker 2: guys have been through thick and thin together and the
Speaker 2: world knows how incredible they are. But is there something
Speaker 2: specific that we don't see behind the scenes that makes
Speaker 2: both of them so uniquely special?
Speaker 4: I think, I think something that people don't get to
Speaker 4: see with Stephan Clay is how competitive they are. You know,
Speaker 4: you don't win at the rate that we've won with
Speaker 4: guys that aren't competitive. And you know, because they shoot
Speaker 4: the ball the way they shoot the ball, because they
Speaker 4: play with the flash that they play with. I've seen
Speaker 4: so many teams and guys make the mistake of thinking, Oh,
Speaker 4: I'll just bully him, I'll just get physical with him,
Speaker 4: and like.
Speaker 3: It'll be no problem.
Speaker 4: And they run up against those guys and they quickly realize, like, ah,
Speaker 4: what that.
Speaker 3: Approach doesn't necessarily work to me?
Speaker 4: The most like two of the greatest shooters ever that
Speaker 4: we've ever seen. In my book, the two greatest shooters
Speaker 4: we've ever seen, their number one attribute, their number one
Speaker 4: skill is not their shooting. Their number one skill is
Speaker 4: their competitive nature. Wow, And that's something that doesn't get
Speaker 4: any credit. No one ever says. But Klay Thompson is
Speaker 4: one of the fiercest competitors I've ever seen. No one
Speaker 4: ever says Steph Curry is one of the most competitive
Speaker 4: guys I've ever seen. Did you see him in this moment?
Speaker 4: Did you see how he stood up in that moment?
Speaker 4: No one ever talks about that because the shots so beautiful. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but that's the reason behind the four championships. It is
Speaker 4: not the shot.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love that. And now that we're moving on from
Speaker 2: Stephan Clay, you know, they were people that people understand
Speaker 2: why they're amazing. But can you tell us something incredible
Speaker 2: about a young Warrior that you've been able to play
Speaker 2: with in the past few years, maybe instead of sharing
Speaker 2: something new like you shared Stephen Clay, something maybe that
Speaker 2: we just haven't been able to see yet, but that
Speaker 2: we will see about a young guy and the Warriors.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 4: Is I think we've had quite a few young guys
Speaker 4: over the last few years, but I can speak about
Speaker 4: the ones that that we currently have. I think when
Speaker 4: I look at the Warriors, the Warriors are in good hands.
Speaker 4: When you look at young guys like BP, Brandon Potjemski,
Speaker 4: Trace Jackson Davis, like those are guys that are coming
Speaker 4: to the NBA right now and they're ready to play
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: Yes, And.
Speaker 4: That's how we were coming in to them. Like when
Speaker 4: we came in, we were ready to play. It wasn't like, oh,
Speaker 4: you need two years, you need three years to try
Speaker 4: to figure like yeah, you still had to figure things
Speaker 4: out for sure for the next two three years, but
Speaker 4: you can put us in the game right away and
Speaker 4: we be just fine. And those are the rookies that
Speaker 4: we have right now, and I think they are incredible.
Speaker 4: The energy that they bring to the team absolutely amazing.
Speaker 4: And I think, like BP, that kid is like a gamer.
Speaker 4: You just put him in the game. He figured out.
Speaker 4: And by the way, we realize that playing this summer
Speaker 4: and like we're playing pickup and we're getting together for
Speaker 4: like we got together for a little team mini camera
Speaker 4: and you're like, yo, no.
Speaker 3: This dude is like he's gonna play. And so I
Speaker 3: can appreciate.
Speaker 4: Those guys, and I don't think the world has gotten
Speaker 4: a chance to really see how good those young guys
Speaker 4: are and what they will be for this organization. You
Speaker 4: got young guys like Jonathan Kaminga and Moses Moody. Kaminga
Speaker 4: has no clue how good he is, yeah, And I
Speaker 4: think that's so incredible because he believes he's good. It's
Speaker 4: like a weird thing. He doesn't have a clue of
Speaker 4: how good he is. But he actually he's a confident kid,
Speaker 4: so he believes he's good.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: It's not even that he doesn't have the right level
Speaker 4: of confidence because he is as confident as they come. Ok,
Speaker 4: but he doesn't know how good he is yet, because
Speaker 4: he's still figuring it out right, Like he's still figuring
Speaker 4: out Oh man, I got this.
Speaker 3: Smaller guy on me.
Speaker 4: I don't need to speed up and go faster him.
Speaker 4: I need to slow down and just get him to
Speaker 4: the spot I want to get to. Now, I can
Speaker 4: just raise up over and make the game simple, you know,
Speaker 4: more easy for myself. And so when I say Kaminga
Speaker 4: doesn't like he has the confidence, but he doesn't know
Speaker 4: how good he is, it's just because he hasn't even
Speaker 4: really tapped into yet all of the things that he's
Speaker 4: capable of tapping into. That for someone who's been in
Speaker 4: for twelve years, I see, Oh, he's going to get
Speaker 4: to this and he'll figure that out.
Speaker 3: The game will slow down for him in this area.
Speaker 4: He'll do that. And absolutely special. Moses the most professional
Speaker 4: guy I've ever been around. Next to Kavon Looney. When
Speaker 4: you're talking about a young guy who coming in and
Speaker 4: just gets it, gets how to work, gets how to
Speaker 4: how to carry themselves. Moses is one of those special
Speaker 4: people that like you look back into an organization thirteen
Speaker 4: years from now, and you're like, man, he's just been
Speaker 4: there the entire time, and that's because they want to
Speaker 4: have him around, like he's great for your team. And
Speaker 4: then obviously none of that matters if you can't play.
Speaker 4: And he continues to grow as a player, shooting, competing
Speaker 4: one of the best winging offensive rebounders in the NBA.
Speaker 2: With as much knowledge and experience that you have in
Speaker 2: this league, do you feel responsibility to take a guy
Speaker 2: like Jonathan Kaminga under your wing and you're like, I
Speaker 2: just know he can be that much better? Do you
Speaker 2: feel that responsibility? Were like, I want to let him
Speaker 2: know this. I want to help him become that good.
Speaker 4: That's something that I rode that I try to really
Speaker 4: take on this mentoring young guys. I'll never forget my
Speaker 4: rookie year. One of our assistant coaches, his name is
Speaker 4: Pete Myers. Pete told me two things that will always
Speaker 4: I would always keep with me forever.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 4: Number one, Draymond, you get paid. If you ever fortunate
Speaker 4: enough to get paid in this league, you get paid
Speaker 4: for the next young guy to get paid.
Speaker 3: So oftentimes you see like.
Speaker 4: Guys like, oh man, that guy got this, I need
Speaker 4: to do that or like, and it's like, no, actually, like,
Speaker 4: if you think about the lifespan of the league, when
Speaker 4: one gets paid, it only makes it better for the
Speaker 4: next person, you know. And so he told me that,
Speaker 4: and then he also would say to me, Draymond, you
Speaker 4: owe it to the game to lead a game in
Speaker 4: a better place than it was when you found it.
Speaker 4: And what that meant to me. The only way to
Speaker 4: do that is to give the game back to the
Speaker 4: younger guys so that they can then take that to
Speaker 4: another level and give it to the next young guy.
Speaker 4: And that's how we keep this thing going. That's how
Speaker 4: we keep it growing, that's how we continue to feed
Speaker 4: our families better than any of us could ever imagine
Speaker 4: we would be able to do playing the game with basketball.
Speaker 4: And so I think those are a couple of principles
Speaker 4: that I stand by. And what's a absolute byproduct of
Speaker 4: that is mentoring young guys because I think it's important
Speaker 4: to lead a game in a better space than it.
Speaker 2: Was when I got for sure. And speaking of that
Speaker 2: mentorship process, what I've loved to see and what's been
Speaker 2: so fun for me is to follow accounts like sports Center,
Speaker 2: next right, and to see the mini Lebron's right, and
Speaker 2: the many Carlos Boozers, and the many Gilbert Arenas's and
Speaker 2: all these guys where their sons are. You know, many
Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony's and like their sons are continuing to like
Speaker 2: build on their legacy. And obviously everyone knows you have
Speaker 2: a son. He's so adorable. But do you also I know,
Speaker 2: like you said, you have feel responsibility to guide the
Speaker 2: guys in the league, But have you ever found yourself
Speaker 2: talking to some players sons about what they can do
Speaker 2: to really make it to the next level.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't necessarily say talking to other guys' sons about
Speaker 4: making it to the next you know they have that.
Speaker 4: I think one thing that I do get a lot
Speaker 4: of pleasure out of is just talking to kids in
Speaker 4: general about making it to the next level. But I think,
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's it's kind of a phenomenon in
Speaker 4: the NBA of seeing NBA players children coming to the
Speaker 4: NBA and having success. But when when when I when
Speaker 4: I look at that phenomenon that's largely driven by the
Speaker 4: success of Stephan Clay because you see these these guys
Speaker 4: at a young age with fathers, their their sons of
Speaker 4: NBA players and you actually see them become superstars. See,
Speaker 4: those are one of the few that you know, you've
Speaker 4: seen guys come into the NBA.
Speaker 2: Are a team literally full of Trace Jackson Davis's dad
Speaker 2: played in the league, Andrew Wiggins. Obviously Stephan Clay is
Speaker 2: there of course.
Speaker 4: Champion and the Superstars as well. But I think like that,
Speaker 4: like that's largely driven by a success of Stephan Clay
Speaker 4: because it's like, oh, these guys dads were in the
Speaker 4: NBA and you see the growth and like the progress
Speaker 4: of those guys and so I think, you know, they
Speaker 4: don't get enough credit for that, but that's that's a
Speaker 4: check mark on your list, as is an All Star parents,
Speaker 4: like cause it's changing NBA and now we're starting to
Speaker 4: see more and more kids coming to the NBA. And
Speaker 4: like for me, like you mentioned DJ, Like I would
Speaker 4: love to see DJ playing the NBA. I think that's dope,
Speaker 4: But I'm not I'm not the parent who's gonna push him, Like, Yo,
Speaker 4: I want you to play basketball. I think you should
Speaker 4: like if he wants to play basketball on Marlon right,
Speaker 4: and I'm Marlin gonna help you on Marlin helping GUIDs you.
Speaker 4: But I don't want I never want my son to think, Man,
Speaker 4: my dad played basketball.
Speaker 3: I gotta play basketball. I don't like that.
Speaker 2: I like that. I like that view as we know,
Speaker 2: Like the name of this show is Sloan Knows, right,
Speaker 2: So Sloan knows your game and I do, Dre. I
Speaker 2: you don't understand, Like every day after school whatever, I'm
Speaker 2: always reading random stats, like I follow every single weird
Speaker 2: basketball account to find like the most random facts about everyone.
Speaker 2: When I watch Warriors games, I lay out jerseys, you know,
Speaker 2: to manifest like I'm all in. So I do know
Speaker 2: your game, but what I want to know is do
Speaker 2: you So I'm gonna ask you some trivia about yourself
Speaker 2: and I'd like, I'd like to know what you have
Speaker 2: to say about it. I know that I just interviewed
Speaker 2: DeAndre Jordan and he actually beat Chris Paul in this
Speaker 2: game and texted him about it, and I think like
Speaker 2: it got a little chippy, like everyone was very like,
Speaker 2: so this is a thing, Like people are very interested
Speaker 2: in this. So okay, I just want to let you
Speaker 2: know that to like bring out the competitive signing you.
Speaker 4: Okay, what's the scoring because I need to understand.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh wow, Okay, so this is a prime example
Speaker 2: of Draymond's competitiveness. Okay, so there is Okay, let's see
Speaker 2: how many questions there are. There's six seven, Okay, there's
Speaker 2: seven questions, and I am the greater. So like it
Speaker 2: makes me really annoyed, right when like a teacher is like, oh,
Speaker 2: like you got half credit on this math question but
Speaker 2: not the other one, And I'm like, why did it
Speaker 2: really matter? Like where I put the multiplication sign right,
Speaker 2: So I'm grading it, okay, And I like you, so
Speaker 2: I may give you half credit. I may not. Let's see,
Speaker 2: so you'll get full credit. But then also like some
Speaker 2: of them are really hard or your answers could be close,
Speaker 2: and I'll consider, but you can't bribe me, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: Like I'm I'm like tough, Like you can't get through this,
Speaker 2: so like I don't, I don't care what you have
Speaker 2: to say. It's gonna be rough.
Speaker 3: And one last question, what was Deandre's score and what
Speaker 3: was Chris pauls scor?
Speaker 2: I think DeAndre got like like something like I don't
Speaker 2: know the exact but like I need to start like
Speaker 2: actually keeping count of this but it was like really bad,
Speaker 2: like it was like two and like three and a half,
Speaker 2: like it was not it was not impressed, is it really?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Let's see, Draymond, what was your high school GPA?
Speaker 4: My high school gpa? I finished high school with a
Speaker 4: three point two GPA.
Speaker 2: Three point four. Okay, already one question wrong, but I
Speaker 2: I'll consider my scoring on that.
Speaker 3: It's four.
Speaker 2: Tough.
Speaker 3: Wow, I did finish with a three point four?
Speaker 2: Are you proud of yourself knowing that that's better than
Speaker 2: you thought?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 4: It's actually better than I thought. But it's good because
Speaker 4: I bombed my my fresh my second semester freshman year,
Speaker 4: I had to go to like summer school to correct
Speaker 4: a couple of grades.
Speaker 3: So it is good to know that I got it
Speaker 3: back to the three point four.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll consider the scoring in my head if I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give you because half credit on that. Next, out
Speaker 2: of the sixty members of the twenty twelve NBA draft,
Speaker 2: how many played in the NBA, And then, for a
Speaker 2: bonus point, how many of them were All Stars?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not easy. I'm a very this is
Speaker 2: a tough test.
Speaker 3: How many actually played in the NBA?
Speaker 2: Yes, out of sixty.
Speaker 4: This is interesting because I can't recall if Royce White
Speaker 4: ever played a regular season game.
Speaker 2: That's the thing, right, It's didn't not counting preseason, it's
Speaker 2: counting an actual game.
Speaker 3: All right. So one.
Speaker 4: One through thirty all played, except I'm not certain if
Speaker 4: Royce White, Royce White actually played a regular season game,
Speaker 4: so I'm gonna put an ashtraight by him. But one
Speaker 4: through thirty, one through thirty definitely played. Thirty one, thirty two,
Speaker 4: thirty three, thirty four, thirty five, or truly thirty six,
Speaker 4: thirty seven, thirty eight.
Speaker 1: I did not think you were like this, But okay,
Speaker 1: forty one, ty Sean Taylor, what forty two?
Speaker 2: Well, you can name every single per I can.
Speaker 3: Still name them for sure.
Speaker 2: That is crazy.
Speaker 4: We had quite a few guys from our draft actually play,
Speaker 4: so how many.
Speaker 2: Actually it's a high number.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's like fifty eight out of the sixty guys.
Speaker 2: That was insane, though, that okay, you get you get
Speaker 2: half credit for that. Like see, when the teacher wants
Speaker 2: you to show work, that's exactly what you did.
Speaker 3: You asked it.
Speaker 2: I love it. Are you going for the bonus question
Speaker 2: of how many of them were All Stars.
Speaker 3: How many of them were All Stars? Let's see.
Speaker 4: Number one pick was an All Star, Anthony Davis, Brad Bill, myself,
Speaker 4: Andre Drummer. M. That's for Chris Middleton.
Speaker 2: The one that you're missing you spoke about earlier in
Speaker 2: this episode.
Speaker 3: I mean think that's the top team.
Speaker 2: Is you're running out of times?
Speaker 3: Oh it's a time limit.
Speaker 2: No, that is a hint.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, of course, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Dollar yeah, Okay, that was okay, you got so you've
Speaker 2: revived yourself from that one you got. You got the
Speaker 2: bonus point. You were drafted thirty fifth, who was drafted
Speaker 2: thirty fourth? And who was drafted thirty six?
Speaker 4: Thirty thirty six? Wait, thirty four let's see, So it
Speaker 4: was thirty one was Jeff Taylor, thirty two was Tomy Sadaronsky. Uh,
Speaker 4: thirty three and thirty four it's the same team, but
Speaker 4: it's Jay Crowder or Bernard.
Speaker 2: Yes, Jay Crowder crack like.
Speaker 3: But they were thirty three and thirty four.
Speaker 4: I always flipped them too because it's the same team,
Speaker 4: but it's.
Speaker 2: Like the same Yes, thirty six.
Speaker 3: Is wow, I'm a bombness, but I think it's Quincy Ace.
Speaker 2: No, it is all okay, do you want one? More guests,
Speaker 2: I do want one, Okay. His name is the name
Speaker 2: of a city.
Speaker 3: His name is the name of a city, and it's
Speaker 3: not Quincy Acy.
Speaker 2: Like a city. We're an NBA team place.
Speaker 3: A city that where an NBA team.
Speaker 2: And recently had a first pick, like last year had
Speaker 2: the first pick and draft that team. Ah, Orlando Johns correct,
Speaker 2: I helped you out so much on that that I
Speaker 2: am not giving you any points.
Speaker 3: I think it's still impressive that I can land.
Speaker 2: It is so impressive. It is so impressive.
Speaker 4: I played with Orlando Johnson USA, though, so that's kind
Speaker 4: of Orlando.
Speaker 2: This is sort of awkward. Raymond didn't remember. On February tenth,
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, you had ten steals in a game, the
Speaker 2: sense steal set of Warriors record for most steals in
Speaker 2: a game since nineteen seventy four? Who had that record previously?
Speaker 3: I don't know the answer. I'm gonna guess mante ellis
Speaker 3: rick Berry?
Speaker 4: Oh the record the previous Ah, all right, I miss interpret.
Speaker 3: I was thinking, like, who's since? Like Rick Berry is
Speaker 3: seventy four.
Speaker 2: I mean, you do have to read the instructions better.
Speaker 3: I didn't get to read though I just listen.
Speaker 2: Well, you have to tell us.
Speaker 3: You gotta listen, learn to listen, listen to learn. I've
Speaker 3: messed that up.
Speaker 2: You were listed as six six today on like Google
Speaker 2: or whatever. What was your listed height in your final
Speaker 2: year at Michigan State?
Speaker 3: Six seven?
Speaker 2: So did you shrink? Like what happened there?
Speaker 4: They start hating on me when you said I'm getting old.
Speaker 4: They say you shrink when you get old?
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, there it is.
Speaker 2: I hope that that does not happen to me, considering
Speaker 2: I'm five four, so if I shrink, I'd basically become
Speaker 2: Like really, that would be really bad.
Speaker 4: Problem is, like some someone in the NBA a few
Speaker 4: years ago like took it up on themselves, like we
Speaker 4: want to put everyone's real height, and like who tells.
Speaker 3: Their real height?
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone's lying.
Speaker 3: No one tells their real height.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know what, I'm sixty, I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: that I'm six feet It's fine. Ever, no one knows
Speaker 2: that's a stretch.
Speaker 3: Like you get a couple of inches, get a take like.
Speaker 4: Actually i'm six six, Like six seven is a stretch,
Speaker 4: but six seven school exactly six eighths a stretch?
Speaker 3: Six seven, I can get.
Speaker 2: Away with Draymond. You have two more questions, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna put it upon us because I feel like we're
Speaker 2: both bad at this. We got to go fast, Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: really fast? Okay, dreamond what is the total number of
Speaker 2: technical fouls you have been assessed in your career?
Speaker 4: That's impossible to know, teacher, Can I get? Can I
Speaker 4: give you a ball? Like that's a lot of student.
Speaker 3: You can give you a park figure.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's see. I mean you're twelve now, so that
Speaker 4: would be eleven years worth of text. I would saying.
Speaker 3: Sixteen lash year. I would say I definitely ninety two.
Speaker 2: That is very generous. So it's actually one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty three. And it was one hundred and sixty three
Speaker 2: two weeks ago.
Speaker 4: That's so it may be one hundred sixty sixty three.
Speaker 2: Wow, it's your goal two hundred.
Speaker 3: I'll blow through that. I want sixty three.
Speaker 4: I mean you figure, I got four years, three years
Speaker 4: left on this contract.
Speaker 3: You can average me out at about I won't. I
Speaker 3: won't get to two hundred.
Speaker 2: Okay for me, I will not get this is the
Speaker 2: new media kindness.
Speaker 3: I will not You heard it here?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 3: Thank you so oh no, So that gives.
Speaker 4: Me about thirty, like forty texts last in your career.
Speaker 2: Who'll think about it?
Speaker 4: All right, God, that's tough.
Speaker 3: Okay, thirty one.
Speaker 2: You are my favorite Green? Okay, yeah, you're welcome. But
Speaker 2: how many players in the NBA currently have the name Green?
Speaker 2: And can you name them? Considering we're a little bit
Speaker 2: of a time crunch, I'm going to tell you currently
Speaker 2: it is five total? Can you name those? Five Greens?
Speaker 2: Meaning yourself and four others?
Speaker 3: Myself?
Speaker 1: Danny Green is not currently on an MBAs he was
Speaker 1: a week ago.
Speaker 2: Was a week ago. He is not currently now. I
Speaker 2: am very update with my statistics as you can see. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I told you this is not going to be easy.
Speaker 3: Jamichael Green isn't anymore.
Speaker 4: Nope, uh, Jalen Green correct, Josh Green from Dallas crracked.
Speaker 3: So that's what that's three me, Jalen Green, Josh Green.
Speaker 2: You're left with a player on Jalen Green's team, and
Speaker 2: then a player who is just drafted out of Northern Iowa.
Speaker 3: Jeff Green. And there's someone just drafted out of Northern You.
Speaker 2: Just totally ripped that from me. You sounded so smart
Speaker 2: when you said that You're like he was drafted out
Speaker 2: of Northern Iowa, Like you knew that. I said that
Speaker 2: one minute ago.
Speaker 3: But no, I don't know who that is drafted out
Speaker 3: of Northern Yes to.
Speaker 2: The Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 3: Oh that's the shooter.
Speaker 2: Okay, his name I don't really know.
Speaker 3: Is it Joe Green? Maybe? No?
Speaker 2: No, Okay, I'll give you a hint. It's like two letters,
Speaker 2: but it's like a like a I don't know what
Speaker 2: the word is, j R. Green or close. I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna give it to you a J.
Speaker 3: Green. All right. That's that's fair.
Speaker 2: Remember when you said before this that you were going
Speaker 2: to beat everyone. I don't think you got one question
Speaker 2: completely right, but I got all of the all of
Speaker 2: them partially credit. Okay, congratulations. I consider the scoring and
Speaker 2: I will let everyone know at a later time. But
Speaker 2: thank you very much Draymond for coming appreciated.
Speaker 3: These are tough questions. By the way, they are rapert fires.
Speaker 3: They're usually easy.
Speaker 2: No, not on slow nose. It is not easy on
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