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Speaker 6: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 6: We got them this next guest, I'm honored to have.
Speaker 6: It's been a long time coming. Sometimes hard to pin
Speaker 6: the Sea Captain down, but nonetheless let me get into
Speaker 6: this intro. As I said, we got to see Captain
Speaker 6: join it today. Draft about it with the eleven picked
Speaker 6: by the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2: In twenty eleven.
Speaker 6: Four time NBA Champion, five time NBA All Star, two
Speaker 6: time All NBA thirteen NBA All Defensive Second Team, which
Speaker 6: is I love? That was a big one. That was
Speaker 6: a big one right there. Also twenty sixteen Olympic gold medalist,
Speaker 6: none other than my brother, the one and only Klay Thompson.
Speaker 2: What's up.
Speaker 4: Well, it's good to be back.
Speaker 6: Well, it's great to have you on the show for
Speaker 6: y'all out there. We have been trying to put this
Speaker 6: together now for about a year. But you know, I've
Speaker 6: played with Clayton now for twelve years, and I know, like,
Speaker 6: you don't overly bother Clay. So I just been kind
Speaker 6: of like throwing the jab every now and they're like, yo,
Speaker 6: we gotta do the pot. And then Clay committed, and
Speaker 6: then he decommitted, and then he committed again and.
Speaker 2: We're here, so I appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no problem, man.
Speaker 2: Let's let's get into it. Though.
Speaker 6: You know, I always always say, you know, I get
Speaker 6: questions most about you and stuff, what stuff like, what's
Speaker 6: Clay like?
Speaker 2: And the reality is is.
Speaker 6: People don't think you talk really, So I'm I'm super
Speaker 6: excited to get you on the pod and see if
Speaker 6: I can get you to talk a little more than
Speaker 6: these people think you talk.
Speaker 4: Well, I just talk as much as I have to.
Speaker 6: First off, just just getting right into it, man, What
Speaker 6: was it like getting drafted by the Golden State Warriors?
Speaker 2: But growing you grew up as a lifelong Laker fan.
Speaker 6: Dad played for the Lakers, grew up as a Laker fan,
Speaker 6: and then you get drafted by the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2: What was that like? Did your dad kind.
Speaker 6: Of needle you a bit when that happened about going
Speaker 6: to a losing franchise?
Speaker 2: I know how competitive y'all are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I was actually a Blazer fan and a
Speaker 1: Laker fans simultaneously because my dad played for both teams
Speaker 1: and great success with both franchises. So very conflicting because
Speaker 1: the Lakers stood at everybody's way, but growing up in Portland,
Speaker 1: Blazers were everything.
Speaker 4: Rose Garden was everything.
Speaker 1: And what it was like being drafted by Golden State
Speaker 1: it was a dream really because moving to SoCal and
Speaker 1: going to high school down there and knowing I'd be
Speaker 1: close to my family and I was still in California,
Speaker 1: I was on the West Coast. It was Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a dream really.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: It was as close to home as you could really get.
Speaker 1: And uh, all my expectations that have been exceeded in
Speaker 1: my time here. Uh just you know, listing off those
Speaker 1: accolades you did made me realize how blessed I am.
Speaker 1: Especially Yeah, growing up watching a lot of NBA and
Speaker 1: it's Yeah, exceeded everything I ever thought would become of
Speaker 1: being a Warrior.
Speaker 6: When you when you first got drafted to the Warriors
Speaker 6: and twenty eleven, Steph is starting his third year, but
Speaker 6: at the time dealing with ankle injuries and the whole
Speaker 6: nine being questioned on if he'll actually pan out and.
Speaker 2: All of those things.
Speaker 6: When you get drafted to the Warriors that year, what's
Speaker 6: your thought of Steph Curry?
Speaker 2: You don't know much about him.
Speaker 6: You're excited or you don't even know to get to
Speaker 6: excitement or get excited because you don't know so much
Speaker 6: about him at the time.
Speaker 2: What was your understanding Steph at that time?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Well, Steph was already a superstar in my eyes because
Speaker 1: I was a big college basketball fan, and the tournament
Speaker 1: run he had in two thousand and I think eight
Speaker 1: or nine was so special, and that's when I think
Speaker 1: he really elevated himself to having a national following. And
Speaker 1: I was one of those followers. So I was already
Speaker 1: very familiar with his game and just did on top
Speaker 1: of the I mean, I almost had a chance of
Speaker 1: playing in college and then I t my freshman year.
Speaker 1: We lost to Saint Mary's, who then played Davidson the
Speaker 1: second round. So that yeah, that's been a very cool experience.
Speaker 1: But it didn't happen, so it's all good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's been cool.
Speaker 2: Know who was who.
Speaker 6: Earlier in your career and I'm taking you back, who,
Speaker 6: if any, was a vet for you that took you
Speaker 6: under their wing that you look back on because and
Speaker 6: the reason I asked that question is this, And we'll
Speaker 6: get into that a little later, but I see what
Speaker 6: you're now doing for the young fellas on our team, Uh, sacrificing, teaching,
Speaker 6: instilling confidence. Who was the vet for you when you
Speaker 6: first came in the league that kind of took you
Speaker 6: under their wing?
Speaker 2: If any?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, my rookie year, I would say Darrell drell
Speaker 1: Wright was was great. I mean Darrell had the record
Speaker 1: for most three pointers made in a Warrior season at
Speaker 1: the time. And he was from southern California as well,
Speaker 1: and we said a lot of common you know, big
Speaker 1: lanky wings who loved to shoot the three ball.
Speaker 4: He enjoys baseball just like I do. So d Wright
Speaker 4: was a great vet to me.
Speaker 1: He would take me out to dinner, he would look
Speaker 1: after me and just teach me what the NBA life
Speaker 1: was like, So d Wright was great. I mean, David
Speaker 1: Lee was a great VET. D Lee was like a
Speaker 1: superstar my eyes, because I'm a rookie and he's already
Speaker 1: an All Star, one of the best players on the
Speaker 1: Knicks team, double double machine. So I looked up to
Speaker 1: those two guys just being them, so establishing their careers.
Speaker 1: And I mean Monte was great as well. Mante I
Speaker 1: just always admired his talent. You know, I was to
Speaker 1: be able to average twenty five plus in the NBA.
Speaker 1: I really was enamored by that.
Speaker 4: I aspire to do that.
Speaker 1: So I always watched Mante closely, just how he you know,
Speaker 1: acted in practice or what his game day rituals were.
Speaker 1: And then my second year, I thought, or third year,
Speaker 1: I thought Jermaine O'Neil was a great VET. Jermaine I
Speaker 1: grew up in Portland, so I knew him from his
Speaker 1: rookie year and on. He was straight out of high school,
Speaker 1: and jo was just even beyond basketball. He was the
Speaker 1: first player to really teach me about business and entrepreneurship,
Speaker 1: and he was talking that off the court, investing long
Speaker 1: before it was ever mainstream and popular amongst players.
Speaker 4: These days, and jo was really.
Speaker 1: Opened my mind when I to so many new things.
Speaker 1: And that's why so much respect for Jail because he
Speaker 1: didn't go to university and he still became am an incredible,
Speaker 1: incredibly savvy business person and he kept learning and educating himself.
Speaker 1: And that's the type of leader I love to be around.
Speaker 1: And so I give Jail a ton of credit for
Speaker 1: talking about things outside of hoop that really expanded my horizons.
Speaker 6: You spoke with Monte, and obviously Monte was was traded away,
Speaker 6: your second year, first first year, first year in the league.
Speaker 6: Monte gets traded away. That's all this almost in a
Speaker 6: sense kind of thrusting you and Steph ahead right away. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Did you feel any added pressure or anything of that
Speaker 6: nature when when Monte was traded away or did that
Speaker 6: more so fall onto Steph at that time?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do remember when Mante was traded. I give Mante
Speaker 1: a ton of credit because you know, he could have
Speaker 1: not given paid me no mind, and you know, he's
Speaker 1: established the best player on our team. He's established playing
Speaker 1: in the same position they drafted two guard in the lottery.
Speaker 4: He could have had a.
Speaker 1: Bad attitude about it, but he was a great vet
Speaker 1: in that sense and always looked out for US rookies.
Speaker 1: But when he got traded, I did. I didn't feel
Speaker 1: the pressure, but I knew that I had an opportunity
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget. You know, after he did get traded,
Speaker 1: we were playing the Kings at Arco Arena and Steph
Speaker 1: might have been out that night, but he did come
Speaker 1: up to me pregame and gave me a really good
Speaker 1: pep talk, like, look, this is your time to seize
Speaker 1: this moment and be yourself because it's right there for
Speaker 1: you to take. And that meant a lot to me.
Speaker 1: He went out his way to tell me that, especially
Speaker 1: as a twenty one year old rookie, and Steph Curry's
Speaker 1: telling me that I could be the future too guard
Speaker 1: of this team that is stilled a ton of confidence
Speaker 1: in me. I think I went six for nineteen that night,
Speaker 1: but we got the w and but then I had
Speaker 1: a great run after that, and that's because you know,
Speaker 1: the team gave me so much confidence making those moves
Speaker 1: to allow me to kind of fail my rookie year
Speaker 1: and play through mistakes, and that experience did so much
Speaker 1: for me being able to play thirty five minutes against
Speaker 1: the Celtics or the Lakers, and against guys that I
Speaker 1: grew up idolizing. So my rookie year was one of
Speaker 1: the best times of my life.
Speaker 6: Really, Mark Jackson said very early on, I'll never forget
Speaker 6: it because I remember everybody saying, like, Yo, he's crazy,
Speaker 6: what is he talking about? Blah blah blah. He said
Speaker 6: very early on a couple of things. He said, I
Speaker 6: got the two baddest shooters on the planet. I got
Speaker 6: the baddest backcourt in the game, best backcourt ever. And
Speaker 6: when he said that early on, everybody's like, ah, what's
Speaker 6: wrong with what is he talking about?
Speaker 2: What does he see? And yeah, you guys go on to.
Speaker 6: Completely change the way the game of basketball is played,
Speaker 6: like completely. But at that time, when Mark Jackson goes
Speaker 6: on live television, national television to.
Speaker 2: Say that.
Speaker 6: What did that do for you or what did it
Speaker 6: do to you? How did you feel about it?
Speaker 4: Well, I knew Steph was in that realm at the time.
Speaker 4: I did not know if I was there yet I
Speaker 4: knew I could be. What's funny is.
Speaker 1: When I was really active on Twitter back then, I
Speaker 1: put my bio even before I ever played an NBA game,
Speaker 1: I put I'm chasing Ray Allen as far as trying
Speaker 1: to break that record or whatever, right, so to kind
Speaker 1: of follow that mold of being a Ray Allen Reggie
Speaker 1: Miller type player. And then for Mark to say those
Speaker 1: things and him not even budge about it, when you
Speaker 1: know the experts and analysis were dogging him for it
Speaker 1: gave me so much confidence. And Mark isn't just going
Speaker 1: to gas you up like that. He's seeing the best
Speaker 1: ever play he's played against, the best ever played. So
Speaker 1: when someone like Mark Jackson says that, it did so
Speaker 1: much for me, especially eternally, and I'll never forget another
Speaker 1: time when this one knew I had another chance to
Speaker 1: be special or do some cool things. Was Donnie Walsh
Speaker 1: for the Knicks. I worked out for the Knicks, and
Speaker 1: I had a good workout. I was like twenty two
Speaker 1: or twenty five in spot shooting, and then Donnie comes
Speaker 1: up to me and he's like, Clay, you remind me
Speaker 1: so much of Reggie Miller. And when he said that,
Speaker 1: I was like, man, that's really cool because I watched
Speaker 1: so much of Reggie's film as him just coming off
Speaker 1: flopy action pinned downs, his game winning highlight reel shots.
Speaker 1: So those two instances as far as just give me
Speaker 1: confidence from Mark to Donnie Walsh, I knew if I
Speaker 1: kept working that despite what the naysayers say, I would
Speaker 1: be able to do some really cool things in this league.
Speaker 6: What do you think about like and no one speaking
Speaker 6: of that, think the confidence that Mark Jackson, coach Mark
Speaker 6: Jackson instilled in you. And I always speak about that,
Speaker 6: like I think back to those days and like, if
Speaker 6: there was one thing that he did, is he, like
Speaker 6: Mark would put confidence on the plate and just hand
Speaker 6: it to you like he That's what he did, Like
Speaker 6: he could give you confidence, like I think that was
Speaker 6: one in strong suits. And then you look he was
Speaker 6: a point guard. It's in a sense of what point
Speaker 6: guards do. They make you feel good, They get you
Speaker 6: the ball in your spots and all those things. And
Speaker 6: Mark had that ability as good as anyone I've ever seen.
Speaker 6: I think he was absolutely special in that department. And
Speaker 6: saying that, when you look at all of these teams
Speaker 6: around NBA young teams in particular, like we were when
Speaker 6: Mark instilled that confidence.
Speaker 2: Coach Jackson, I call him, but we're speaking on.
Speaker 6: Here, and Mark instill in the confidence that he did,
Speaker 6: and you look at all of these young teams around
Speaker 6: the NBA who can't get a win, suck year in
Speaker 6: and year out, and knowing and understanding the confidence that
Speaker 6: he gave us at that point when the Warriors is
Speaker 6: coming off winning twenty three games in the season, what
Speaker 6: do you make of none of those teams hiring them
Speaker 6: knowing what he did for us at that point in
Speaker 6: our careers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's strange.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't add up because without Mark, there's no
Speaker 1: foundation for what was to come, especially defensively. I mean,
Speaker 1: we had the top rated defense in consecutive years with Mark,
Speaker 1: and then for him to you know, let Steph and
Speaker 1: I shoot the shots we would shoot. That was kind
Speaker 1: of taboo back then. But now I'm watching all levels
Speaker 1: of basketball and you're seeing dribble packages, step backs, transition threes,
Speaker 1: You're seeing crazy pulls from all levels, which is great.
Speaker 1: It's the evolution of the game. But if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for Mark, this would never have happened. So it does.
Speaker 1: It does not make very much sense how he has
Speaker 1: not had another shot to lead a franchise, But I
Speaker 1: hope he really does because he man, he was great
Speaker 1: and those were really special memories for not only me,
Speaker 1: but when you were young, and Steph and all the
Speaker 1: guys we play with can't freaking hb fest.
Speaker 4: We were a young team.
Speaker 1: And without that kind of false bravado that Mark provided,
Speaker 1: we would never believe we could beat Tim Duncan led
Speaker 1: Spurs or go to Denver and win a playoff series
Speaker 1: being twenty three years old. Twenty two, Yeah, some young
Speaker 1: twenty year olds. So I'm I don't know why that
Speaker 1: hasn't happened. But Mark was great, and I really think
Speaker 1: he should get another shot because he was such a
Speaker 1: joy to play for, and he was such an incredible
Speaker 1: motivator and I just love picking his brain about the
Speaker 1: times he faced Michael or what was like running the
Speaker 1: pick and roll Patrick Ewing and I grew up playing
Speaker 1: NBA jam and watching so much Soop, so it was
Speaker 1: really cool just to you know, learn from him.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: I second that I always talk about just the confidence
Speaker 6: that he instilled in us, especially in you two guys
Speaker 6: like you said at the shots that they'd allow y'all
Speaker 6: to take, like it started the transition in basketball of
Speaker 6: what we see today, no question.
Speaker 2: And then take you far back again.
Speaker 6: I remember Steve first coming in and Steve is implementing
Speaker 6: his offense, and we're going through training camp and he's
Speaker 6: like Clayton, swing the ball, Steph, swing the ball, move.
Speaker 2: The ball, and like every time we come down the court,
Speaker 2: he's just like moving, move and move it. And I
Speaker 2: remember asking.
Speaker 6: Him, Yo, Stephan clay like they get the shots here,
Speaker 6: how are they going to get these shots and him saying,
Speaker 6: the ball will find who the ball.
Speaker 2: Is supposed to find. But we're going to move the ball.
Speaker 6: We're going to be a ball moving team with Steve
Speaker 6: coming in to implement his office, and it's just ball movement,
Speaker 6: ball movement, And originally we don't quite understand which is
Speaker 6: out the like oh man, Like I remember the grunts
Speaker 6: and like everybody's like, yo, this is trash. Like he
Speaker 6: just keep telling us to pass the ball, Like I mean,
Speaker 6: like I remember that that happens Steve's implemented his new
Speaker 6: At that time, what are you thinking, Are you at
Speaker 6: all worried that you won't have the same freedom, that
Speaker 6: you won't get the same shots At that time, what
Speaker 6: are you thinking with coach kirkr coming in and none
Speaker 6: of us could even see like remotely close to the
Speaker 6: vision that he had our offense.
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't know Steve Kurt the Blazer because I
Speaker 1: was a Blazer fan, so you know, knockdown shooter, I think,
Speaker 1: all time leader in three point field goal percentage. So
Speaker 1: being a young gunner, I knew he was going to
Speaker 1: utilize my skill and appreciate my skill of being a
Speaker 1: perimeter player. And I'll never forget Steve first week of
Speaker 1: training camp. One of his biggest emphasis was last year
Speaker 1: we were the last team in passes may per game,
Speaker 1: and then that year in twenty fifteen, we were with
Speaker 1: a team with the most passes may per game, and
Speaker 1: I think that just unlocked a whole new dimension of
Speaker 1: basketball I never really seen before as far as the
Speaker 1: shooting and the athleticism combined. What we had it was
Speaker 1: special and I think it kind of blitz the NBA
Speaker 1: by storm just with the small ball and the pace
Speaker 1: and the space. It was an incredible time to be
Speaker 1: a Warrior. So I do give Steve a ton of credit.
Speaker 4: He didn't He would.
Speaker 1: Always give coach Jackson credit, especially for laying the foundation.
Speaker 1: But he just did a few tweaks and a little
Speaker 1: couple modifications to the offensive system that just did wonders
Speaker 1: from my game and obviously Steph, but it did so
Speaker 1: much for me as far as just being an off
Speaker 1: ball cutter and a mover and a floor spacer that
Speaker 1: I've kind of still played in that same role now
Speaker 1: and it's kind of just it's been good to me.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, No, I think, uh, you know what, Like I said,
Speaker 6: what it did was it Not only did it was
Speaker 6: at the beginning of a dynasty that we we we've
Speaker 6: all taken part in creating and building, but it was
Speaker 6: the beginning of the way basketball is played. Yeah, and
Speaker 6: that to me, like I always look back on that
Speaker 6: and like I always say, like I had the opportunity
Speaker 6: to play with in my mind, the greatest team ever
Speaker 6: as symbol. And one of the reasons I feel that
Speaker 6: way is, yes, we were dominant, Yes we won championships,
Speaker 6: all that way, all that was great, but it changed
Speaker 6: the way the game was played in around the world.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta give yourself credit to Dre. I
Speaker 1: mean there's not Steve came in, you know, to allow
Speaker 1: you to bring the ball off the rim, have me
Speaker 1: and Steph flyoff picks. The traditional power forward was I
Speaker 1: just remember that year, like the typical power forward is
Speaker 1: not able to stay in front of you, and they're
Speaker 1: not used to like you gotta pick this guy up
Speaker 1: at half court, and then we got to guard the
Speaker 1: ball screen the dho it's just so dynamic, and then
Speaker 1: you hit the lob threat, there's the backside shooter and
Speaker 1: just kind of so without you, the whole thing would
Speaker 1: never have worked, and it kind of just unlocked a
Speaker 1: whole new way to a positionally style of basketball, which
Speaker 1: is I think the most fun to be a part of.
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Speaker 6: always say, like, man, the match couldn't have been better
Speaker 6: made in Heaven with my with my skill set and
Speaker 6: what I excel at, what I love to do on
Speaker 6: the basketball court.
Speaker 2: I don't care to shoot the basketball like I will shoot.
Speaker 6: I'll take the shot if it's there, But like my
Speaker 6: whole life, I've never really cared to shoot.
Speaker 2: And I've spent many years of my life as a scorer.
Speaker 6: I have the ability, but it never like I never
Speaker 6: got off on shooting the basketball. I always felt better
Speaker 6: getting an assist, and we know that you are the
Speaker 6: total opposite that you must try to get the.
Speaker 2: Buckets, but I'll pass.
Speaker 6: But I always said, like the pieces couldn't have fit
Speaker 6: better together, and your skill set my clays, I mean
Speaker 6: Stephs skill set and my skill set, but not only
Speaker 6: the skill sets are meters could have never fit better together.
Speaker 6: Like I am more outspoken, I'm more in your face.
Speaker 6: You're more like, this is what I'm doing. Follow me here.
Speaker 6: If I get pissed off, I'm gonna let you guys know,
Speaker 6: because ultimately I want to win. Steph is more lead
Speaker 6: by example. I'll speak up, and you know, as it's
Speaker 6: he's grown, both of you guys speak up more and more.
Speaker 6: But I'm not gonna be in your face about it.
Speaker 6: And and what it did is you know, Bob always
Speaker 6: will say, man, it's incredible that you guys still sit
Speaker 6: together like But I think one of the biggest components
Speaker 6: to that is because we were so different than those aspects.
Speaker 6: It created a larger appreciation for each other, a space
Speaker 6: where or we never bump ass because I'm not in
Speaker 6: your lane, You're not in steph lane, He's not in
Speaker 6: my lane. So there's never like any situation where there's
Speaker 6: a bumpheads and like there's never any pressure for you
Speaker 6: to be me, for me to be Steph, for Steph
Speaker 6: to act like you, like it's all no. I know
Speaker 6: who you is, you know who Steph is, he know
Speaker 6: who I am, and vice versa, and with that there's
Speaker 6: an appreciation for that, and that to me is what
Speaker 6: I feel like has been more.
Speaker 2: Special of this whole Agree.
Speaker 4: I agree. You look at teams where it's like so
Speaker 4: much time together it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Like y'all, y'all too.
Speaker 6: In particular, I've seen you too, more than anybody I've
Speaker 6: seen in my life in the past twelve years. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, with the time that we've spend together, the
Speaker 6: success that we've at and it's been an absolutely incredible journey.
Speaker 6: I'm going to ask you a question that it's not
Speaker 6: on it's not on any of this, but i want
Speaker 6: to ask you this question, and I want to ask
Speaker 6: it because I'm afraid of the answer, and I've never
Speaker 6: asked the question. There'd be two people I've asked the
Speaker 6: question too, in particular, and it'd be you and step
Speaker 6: not really anyone else. But I'm very afraid of the answer.
Speaker 6: But be brutally honest with you. When I get ejected
Speaker 6: or something of that nature or suspended, what do you feel,
Speaker 6: how do you feel?
Speaker 2: What like? What are your thoughts?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 4: When dre well, please.
Speaker 2: Be brutally honest with me. It's going to crush me,
Speaker 2: but I need to hear it.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it happens. I mean, you know, Andre,
Speaker 1: you're kind of a kind of a throwback player. Not
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, not a lot of guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, the the NBA is very different than it was, say,
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, thirty forty years ago, where back then
Speaker 1: it felt like a nightly thing, where it was just
Speaker 1: so physical. Now in the twenty twenties, times have changed.
Speaker 1: We see each other so much. The basketball world is small,
Speaker 1: from the grassroots level through college all the way to
Speaker 1: pro kind of know everybody, and I know, I always
Speaker 1: know your intentions are good. You're one of the greatest
Speaker 1: winners in the history of basketball at every level, So
Speaker 1: that trumps any statistical output you could ever have, whatever,
Speaker 1: triple double, whatever record. The one that means the most
Speaker 1: of me is that winning percentage playoffs regular season, one
Speaker 1: of the greatest winning percentages of NBA history. So when
Speaker 1: you're not out there, it's like a piece of us
Speaker 1: is gone. And me and Steph are really nice guys,
Speaker 1: like probably too nice, you know, and we could never
Speaker 1: be ourselves and have the freedom that we do on
Speaker 1: the court without you. So when you're not out there,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a huge kinking on armor. And
Speaker 1: I know the other team is very happy you're not
Speaker 1: out there. I just know that for a fact. They're like,
Speaker 1: they can they relax a little bit, they let their
Speaker 1: hair down, they they feel a little bit more like
Speaker 1: they pump their chest up a little more because you know,
Speaker 1: our muscle's gone on. Enforcer, the guy, the heartbeat of
Speaker 1: our team is not out there, and so it does hurt.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, we've been through
Speaker 1: so many battles, reached the mountaintop, been down the mountain,
Speaker 1: had to climb back up, got there again, and now
Speaker 1: we have another real shot at this and it's been
Speaker 1: like a couple of tough years, but still we're still fighting.
Speaker 4: We're still we're still in the mix. So it does hurt.
Speaker 1: It could be disappointing in the moment, but it will
Speaker 1: never take away from what's ahead of us and what
Speaker 1: we've done.
Speaker 4: So at the end of the day, we just need you.
Speaker 1: And that that that like disappointment and that feeling of
Speaker 1: just like shaking your head, that just comes from dang, man,
Speaker 1: we can't do this without you. So we uh, we
Speaker 1: love you and we need you so badly, and these
Speaker 1: young guys need you too, because Steph and I are
Speaker 1: we're leaders, but we don't talk the game like you do.
Speaker 4: We don't inspire these young guys like you do.
Speaker 1: And even when Kenny calls on you in film and
Speaker 1: there's there's gonna be a void there always if you're
Speaker 1: not out there, and we're not the Warriors without Money Green.
Speaker 4: That's just a fact that you can ask.
Speaker 1: Anybody in the Bay around the world who's followed this team.
Speaker 1: We would not be the does without you. So that's
Speaker 1: where that like like dang not again, that's where that
Speaker 1: comes from. And just like, man, it's just hard to
Speaker 1: start to do it without you.
Speaker 2: Bro. I appreciate that.
Speaker 6: Man. Oh that took a lot from me. Yeah, but
Speaker 6: I appreciate that. And you know, I think for me,
Speaker 6: like you know, you go through these moments, you know, like.
Speaker 1: And I don't think this would be that big a deal,
Speaker 1: say like four or five years ago. But there's just
Speaker 1: such a magnifying glass in our team nowadays. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we're the highest value basketball team in the world.
Speaker 1: So with that comes credible media coverage, sensational.
Speaker 4: At times, and.
Speaker 1: When you're a Hall of Fame player like yourself, people
Speaker 1: are gonna love to tear you down.
Speaker 4: You know, that's gonna.
Speaker 1: I've seen that in every generation of basketball, whether it
Speaker 1: be Dennis Robmin, my favorite player, Rashid Wallace, you, the
Speaker 1: media and fans, the pundits, they just love to point
Speaker 1: the finger, especially when you're at your weakest. So can't
Speaker 1: we just can't let that to tear us from what
Speaker 1: we got to do, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Rather than that, That's where I'm at with it obviously.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I.
Speaker 6: I think for me personally, when these things happen, like
Speaker 6: the thing that I think about the most is you
Speaker 6: and Steph. It's like, fuck, I can't help those guys,
Speaker 6: Like I can't be out there with them, like that's
Speaker 6: all I care to do, you know.
Speaker 2: It's like be out there with you guys.
Speaker 6: Set screens, defend, find you guys like with great passes
Speaker 6: to get you all shots, but more importantly just be
Speaker 6: out there with my brothers, like competing with the guys
Speaker 6: that I've competed with my entire NBING career for the
Speaker 6: last twelve years, one championships with And I'm a work
Speaker 6: in progress and work continuing to working to better myself.
Speaker 6: But I appreciate you and stuff, you know, for always
Speaker 6: sticking with me, being right by my side no matter what.
Speaker 6: That brotherhood I don't take for granted at all. And
Speaker 6: speaking of which myself, you have a free agency coming
Speaker 6: up this summer, and you know, and speaking of plan
Speaker 6: with you know you for the last twelve years, with
Speaker 6: Steff for the last twelve years and what we've built here.
Speaker 6: Things change, you know, the NBA changes, cap situations changed,
Speaker 6: this thing changed, that thing change. As you go into
Speaker 6: free agency this summer, what's a priority to you as
Speaker 6: you look at you know, the next three, four or
Speaker 6: five whatever you decide you want to play, as you
Speaker 6: look at kind of the last segment of your career,
Speaker 6: if you will, what's important to you as you embark
Speaker 6: up on that.
Speaker 1: I just can't believe it's here. Like when you're in
Speaker 1: your mid twenties, it's so crazy. You think you're going
Speaker 1: to play forever, really, and you think you just maintain
Speaker 1: that athletic level that seems effortless, But then as time
Speaker 1: goes on, you really do realize how demanding this job
Speaker 1: really is, and it's so physically demanding. And I was
Speaker 1: actually struggling with that a lot at the beginning of
Speaker 1: this year because of the unknown, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I might have led contract situations or playing time or
Speaker 1: using making up a lot of excuses rather than just.
Speaker 4: Appreciating what is in front of me.
Speaker 1: And it took me and Steve like four real heart
Speaker 1: to heart talks to finally break my shell, being like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I gotta have fun this year. I
Speaker 1: deserve to have fun, Like we worked so hard to
Speaker 1: freaking win these games and play into June and.
Speaker 4: Have fans on the road. I mean, my first couple
Speaker 4: of years, there might be a few staff Curry jerseys
Speaker 4: in the crowd. Now it's like a whole contingent in
Speaker 4: the Warrior fans on the road. It's insane. So I
Speaker 4: was kind of grappling with that a lot this year.
Speaker 4: It's almost like your own own mortality is an athlete
Speaker 4: like man, I might not be able to elevate like
Speaker 4: I once did, or I might not slide my feet
Speaker 4: left and right like I once did. But I can
Speaker 4: still be a heck of a player if I just
Speaker 4: give gratitude and keep that perspective, like I'm out here balling,
Speaker 4: because that was hard for me these last few years,
Speaker 4: when you're when you go through injuries and you're so
Speaker 4: used to playing at a certain level, guarding a certain guy,
Speaker 4: shooting certain shots, and.
Speaker 1: Then you have to adjust all of that. That was
Speaker 1: the hardest part of my career. And it's still hard
Speaker 1: for me, you know, when I'm used to scoring twenty
Speaker 1: five in a quarter, locking.
Speaker 4: Up the best player.
Speaker 1: Now I gotta be pick my spots a lot more,
Speaker 1: just precisely, which is fine. I've finally come to accept, like, look,
Speaker 1: I can still be a heck of a player. I
Speaker 1: can still be incredibly efficient and as long as I'm
Speaker 1: having fun and being a good tea. And you actually
Speaker 1: helped me a tone when you're like, lean into these
Speaker 1: young guys, lean into the fact you're a vet, you
Speaker 1: made X amount of money, you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about nothing, Like you're playing for the love of the game.
Speaker 1: And I think once I realized that, and I relaxed
Speaker 1: a little bit, rather than trying to play for a
Speaker 1: contract or an All Star not or some accolades, but
Speaker 1: rather just play for the love of the game and
Speaker 1: the fact they get to play cards with the guys
Speaker 1: on the plane. We're playing ping pong last night after
Speaker 1: the game. We're having fun. That's the beauty of the
Speaker 1: game right there. Not trying to get another Max deal
Speaker 1: or another endorsement, but just smelling the roses and appreciating
Speaker 1: all the work took to get here and saying that
Speaker 1: when it comes to free agency in July, I just
Speaker 1: got to keep that in mind, like, yes, I want
Speaker 1: to resign with the Doves, but I also have to
Speaker 1: prioritize my mental health and you know, lay out what
Speaker 1: is important to me at this point in my career.
Speaker 1: And I know we have so much basketball ahead that
Speaker 1: I haven't given it much thought, really, because if I
Speaker 1: start thinking about July first, then I'm just doing myself disservice.
Speaker 4: I'm not here.
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about the Horns tomorrow and these muscling
Speaker 1: games this weekend. So for me, it's just about staying present,
Speaker 1: as simple as that is. Stay in present and appreciating
Speaker 1: being the NBA because my uncle Andy always told me,
Speaker 1: is like Clay, your careers can go by and snap
Speaker 1: of fingers. So just appreciate this life you live. It's
Speaker 1: not a right, it's.
Speaker 4: Really a privilege.
Speaker 1: And you know, Uncle Lenny, he been around the game
Speaker 1: since the last Dance, so that helped me a lot
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, in twenty nineteen, if you don't get hurt, do
Speaker 6: you approach your free agency, your whole free agency process
Speaker 6: differently at that point.
Speaker 4: That's a big one. If that's a wow, Yeah, that was.
Speaker 1: That could have been a definite possibility just because you're healthy.
Speaker 1: But at the same time too, if I don't get hurt,
Speaker 1: and let's say we do win a we do three pete,
Speaker 1: it's like you're not walking away from that par You're
Speaker 1: not going to that hasn't been done since Shaq and Kobe.
Speaker 1: So I never would have walked away from a chance
Speaker 1: to stacking rings And uh man, that was a crazy time.
Speaker 1: That was the worst, man, You freaking you know how
Speaker 1: long it is to play the old the finals. It's
Speaker 1: such a long grind and then like tear a ligament
Speaker 1: and then you got to go right back to the gym.
Speaker 1: There was no vacation, So that was a I was
Speaker 1: very grateful for my family during that time because I
Speaker 1: was just kind of lost without basketball and you know,
Speaker 1: being on crutches and just having to build all that
Speaker 1: muscle back in my quad and the atrophy.
Speaker 4: That was not fun. Especially after that five year Finals run.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of It's a lot of just
Speaker 1: mental and physical wear and tear. And I don't think,
Speaker 1: when I really think about it, if I was healthy
Speaker 1: and I don't think I would have really tested it
Speaker 1: that hard, just because like it's hard to walk away
Speaker 1: from a dynasty that's.
Speaker 4: Doesn't happen too often.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 6: Twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, right after this, you see Captain
Speaker 6: Clay's born.
Speaker 2: Yes he is.
Speaker 6: You're you're kind of away from the team doing your rehab,
Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden you come back around
Speaker 6: and you're like, yo, y'all got.
Speaker 2: To come on the boat.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And we're like what, You're like, yeah, y'all got
Speaker 6: to come on the boat. Like I got the boat
Speaker 6: up here, I got a boat. When you got the boat,
Speaker 6: was that always in your plans to get a boat
Speaker 6: or was that kind of like I'm hurt, I need
Speaker 6: something else to do to kind of take my mind, like,
Speaker 6: what was the process.
Speaker 2: Of that for you?
Speaker 1: Oh, there was always a plan to get a boat,
Speaker 1: and believe it or not, there's a San Francisco Chronicle
Speaker 1: article from twenty fourteen or fifteen. Well, I'm quoted saying
Speaker 1: my dream one day is to own a fishing boat.
Speaker 1: And it just so happened. I had some free time,
Speaker 1: I got healthy enough where I was mobile again in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen and I pulled the trigger.
Speaker 4: I got a big, old sport fishing, closed cabin boat.
Speaker 1: And everyone was all my family and my friends were like,
Speaker 1: you don't need a boat, you don't know how to
Speaker 1: drive a boat. But I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 1: take the courses. I'm going to take all the steps.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to make any shortcuts because I love
Speaker 1: the ocean. I love having that freedom, the freedom to go,
Speaker 1: you know, to Catalina or to freaking Sam's Anchor Cafe
Speaker 1: and Tibron. There's just a whole new world out there
Speaker 1: when you get on the water. So I was doubted,
Speaker 1: but it happened, and I'm so grateful because I've seen
Speaker 1: a whole new side.
Speaker 2: Of the bay.
Speaker 1: Being able to get on the water and get out
Speaker 1: to stints In or go up to Delta.
Speaker 4: There's just so many cool waterways.
Speaker 1: And now it's a lifelong skill I have as well.
Speaker 1: So it was always a dream of mine ever since
Speaker 1: I was a kid on a boat and become a
Speaker 1: skilled fisherman. That part, I'm not there yet, but I
Speaker 1: got the captain skills down.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 6: My first time on the boat, I told y'all my
Speaker 6: first time on the boat, I can suspend it for
Speaker 6: coming in grabbing dude because he was grabbing clay And
Speaker 6: ironically I.
Speaker 2: Couldn't get to the bay the next day.
Speaker 6: Two days later, I was trying to get across San
Speaker 6: Francisco Chase Center.
Speaker 2: The bay bridge was shut down.
Speaker 6: Captain clay E Howesing and CD came across the water
Speaker 6: to Jack London. It was a beautiful day. It's a
Speaker 6: beautiful day pulling up to Chase by the way to.
Speaker 2: Go to work like that.
Speaker 1: It's nice, isn't it. It's fire, It's nice. It's the best.
Speaker 1: Besides like getting shots up and winning basketball games, the
Speaker 1: best part of my day is really just like getting
Speaker 1: the coffee, going to Harbor and making my way down
Speaker 1: south to Chase Center. It's so beautiful, man. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the best.
Speaker 6: It's absolutely amazing. A couple more questions before we get
Speaker 6: out of here. And you spoke about Jermaine O'Neill and
Speaker 6: teaching you about the business of basketball, and I've learned
Speaker 6: a tone through the business of basketball. Jermaine o'nill was
Speaker 6: represented by Washerman. Uh throughout his career. You are represented.
Speaker 6: You are Washerman athlete as well.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: I've had three agents. My third agent is Ris Paul
Speaker 6: Clutch Sports. UH. In my career, learning different things along
Speaker 6: the way and feeling the need for something different.
Speaker 2: You've had two agents in your career.
Speaker 6: What was the turning point for you when you decided
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go in a different direction, Like what knowledge
Speaker 6: did you gain up until that point to where you
Speaker 6: felt confident enough to say, I think I want something
Speaker 6: different at this point in my career and representation, What
Speaker 6: was some of the things that you picked up at
Speaker 6: that time to make you make a decision like that?
Speaker 2: Because I feel like representation today you get so.
Speaker 6: Many kids like I'm like my mom going to represent me,
Speaker 6: my dad going to represent here, this person. It's like, Yo,
Speaker 6: there's a whole business out here that they don't have
Speaker 6: a clue what it means, and it kind of goes
Speaker 6: by the wayside. What was that for you at that
Speaker 6: time to make you make the decision? Who's you know now,
Speaker 6: your current agent Grady that you've been with since two
Speaker 6: thousand and what eighteen somebody?
Speaker 4: Yeah, seventeen, maybe sixteen around there. Wow, it's a good question.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean I give credit to Bill Duffy as well.
Speaker 1: Bill was an incredible agent. He's been a super agent.
Speaker 1: He's been around the NBA forever.
Speaker 6: I mean.
Speaker 1: Bill was a freshman when my dad was a senior
Speaker 1: at the University of Minnesota, So that was easy for me.
Speaker 1: My dad been around the game so long. He's like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go with Bill. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Love Bill, and we did great things together.
Speaker 1: He's based out of Walnut Creek and he's still a
Speaker 1: really close friend. I know, he's Beatp's agent, so I
Speaker 1: still get to see him and chopping up with him.
Speaker 1: But uh, I think there came a time, you know,
Speaker 1: my sixth year where I was like, you know, we've
Speaker 1: done we've done greatness. We've done great things together. But
Speaker 1: maybe uh, I can explore some new avenues, like and
Speaker 1: just trying, you know, grow my brand, I guess. And
Speaker 1: uh I met with Greg and I mean we just
Speaker 1: kind of had someimilar thoughts of what the KT line
Speaker 1: could become or my interests what I could grow those
Speaker 1: into that, whether that be business or philanthropy. And that's
Speaker 1: the hardest part of this business is having to have
Speaker 1: those difficult conversations.
Speaker 4: And it hurt, like separating with BDA. But at the
Speaker 4: end of the day, like I was just thinking, like.
Speaker 1: I kind of want some more control over just.
Speaker 4: Just just a company just for me in a sense,
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 1: But it's still awkward to even talk about because I
Speaker 1: feel bad in a sense like dang, it was never personal,
Speaker 1: Like I never really meant knew what that meant as
Speaker 1: a teenager or college kid when someone's like, it's not personal,
Speaker 1: it's business because you know, emotions are evolved, But that's
Speaker 1: really what it was. And you know, I love Build
Speaker 1: of Death. I mean that guys like my dad's one
Speaker 1: of his best friends. They played college ball together and
Speaker 1: it was just a tough switch up really and.
Speaker 4: Had great success since had some back then.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 4: I don't I'm not the most hands on person.
Speaker 1: So it helps when have so many in my corner
Speaker 1: who like will vet a lot of deals or bring
Speaker 1: to the table what they think is worthy of my time.
Speaker 1: And it takes a lot to get to that point.
Speaker 1: I wasn't really worried about the other ventures until we
Speaker 1: started winning and people started noticing us, when we got
Speaker 1: some national notoriety, and then like, Okay, I can kind
Speaker 1: of manage.
Speaker 4: My time a little better.
Speaker 1: I've been in the league five six years now, I
Speaker 1: know what I want my future to look like.
Speaker 4: And that was that.
Speaker 1: It was still it was hard, and it was a
Speaker 1: good lesson for what was to come. If I do
Speaker 1: want to keep continuing to do investing in business after basketball,
Speaker 1: you're going to always have to have those difficult conversations.
Speaker 1: And that was the first one in my career that
Speaker 1: was really like dang, that was hard to do and
Speaker 1: it didn't feel good, but kind of had to be done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I respect that the conversations is tough. Yeah, man, those.
Speaker 4: Conversations do so much together. It's just hard.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Like I said, a couple more we get out
Speaker 2: of here.
Speaker 6: You and Steph's admiration for each other's jump shots.
Speaker 2: I think it's such an honorable thing. Steph is worldly
Speaker 2: known as the greatest shoot ever.
Speaker 6: And I personally think and I think Steph feels the
Speaker 6: same way. I know Steph feels the same way because
Speaker 6: I watch him speak on your jump shot, and like
Speaker 6: the way when he speaks about your jump shot, the
Speaker 6: appreciation that he has for your jump shot and for you,
Speaker 6: like it just like oozes through his answers, like like
Speaker 6: you just like you can feel how much he admires
Speaker 6: your jump shot. And so I don't even want to
Speaker 6: ask this question as far as in the sense of today,
Speaker 6: because the reality is we're old and like we kind
Speaker 6: of got our routines now, and you know, we don't
Speaker 6: have a million shooting competitions anymore like we used to have.
Speaker 2: Like we used to have shooting competitions.
Speaker 6: I used to beat you guys all the time, you know,
Speaker 6: and that just don't happen to him, Like we don't
Speaker 6: do that anymore. But like just going back to the
Speaker 6: days and when we used to put play put it
Speaker 6: on the board, you know, and and like all these
Speaker 6: different games, and you guys used to go back and forth.
Speaker 6: You win, he win, you win, he win, you win,
Speaker 6: you win, you win. He went he went like and
Speaker 6: that was it, and like then you got hurt. That
Speaker 6: probably took a part in everybody putting their routines together.
Speaker 6: Now everything is so calculated on how much you're doing
Speaker 6: and all these different things.
Speaker 2: That has changed.
Speaker 6: But like, talk to me about Yes, his admirations, his admiration,
Speaker 6: but your admiration for his jump shot. Like you, jump
Speaker 6: shots are completely different. Yours is tighter and more compact
Speaker 6: and probably more textbook than anybody in the world I've
Speaker 6: ever seen. And yet you know, Steph's is more motion
Speaker 6: in it, but shoots a million different types of ways.
Speaker 6: Just talk to me about his jump shot and what
Speaker 6: is it that you see as one of the greatest
Speaker 6: shooters ever? If they say Steph is one, god damnage
Speaker 6: you too, what is it that you see and his
Speaker 6: jump shot that just makes it so special?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: I think it's like the force he generates. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: STEP's like maybe a buck ninety two hundred max. And
Speaker 1: how I'm just like, how you able to shoot from
Speaker 1: thirty five feet so accurately and easily. I think it
Speaker 1: comes from the legs, but he's incredibly strong, And then
Speaker 1: how quickly he loads his jumper from whether it be
Speaker 1: from the dribble, off the catch, it's insane. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what I admire, just his ability to shoot from
Speaker 1: all different angles and feet positions, Like as long as
Speaker 1: STEP's shoulders are square to the basket, it's got a
Speaker 1: chance of going in. And uh, that's where I'm really
Speaker 1: impressed with him, is like you can't plan from the drive, obviously, but.
Speaker 4: Just how quickly he gets it off.
Speaker 1: One thing I do have on Steph, though, this is
Speaker 1: probably one of the best moments in my life, is
Speaker 1: when we were at the White House in twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: and mister Obama, mister President Obama said my jump shot
Speaker 1: was a little prettier than Steph.
Speaker 4: So that was the one win I have over him.
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, here that Steph, mister president likes
Speaker 1: my jumper more. So that was the one time where
Speaker 1: I felt like I had a good win against Steph.
Speaker 1: I was like, nice, you might have a higher three
Speaker 1: point percentage of more makes but you know number forty
Speaker 1: four likes mind a little bit more.
Speaker 2: By the way, I.
Speaker 6: Know that still stinks him. When when where President Obama
Speaker 6: said that I'm gonna tell you something else, I think
Speaker 6: still stinks how bad.
Speaker 2: Do you think Steph wants to beat you at fourteen tah?
Speaker 1: Uh, probably badly. I mean, Steve Wan is such a
Speaker 1: good sport. You know, I could have ran that thing
Speaker 1: up with like sixteen seventeen threes, but maybe eighteen. You know,
Speaker 1: I could have even twenty shooting. Making twenty threes in
Speaker 1: a game be insanez but uh yeah, I know he
Speaker 1: wants to beat it bad, but he's number two, So
Speaker 1: him and Zach.
Speaker 4: A number two, they can stay there.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that record will be broken. No records are meant
Speaker 1: to be broken. So I'm enjoyable. I got it, but
Speaker 1: it's gonna be broken one day. But I just hope
Speaker 1: they've put asterisk next to mine, like did it in
Speaker 1: three twenty seven minutes?
Speaker 6: Who breaks it? If you can say right now who
Speaker 6: breaks that record? Who breaks it? Or do we not
Speaker 6: even see that person?
Speaker 1: Man, that's a great question. I mean, who shoots a
Speaker 1: high enough volume of threes? Shot twenty four threes that game?
Speaker 1: That's insane?
Speaker 2: Yead?
Speaker 1: I mean, could be Staph could be uh, I mean
Speaker 1: Dame Lillard's had multiple games, you have twelve three point
Speaker 1: game in the playoffs, could be Dame. I mean can't
Speaker 1: sleep on Zach. He has thirteen freaking Booker. That guy's
Speaker 1: going for sixty a few times this year. Devin could
Speaker 1: do it. Uh, that's probably shortlist. Maybe Kyrie not. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of threes, man, I don't know. Murray was close.
Speaker 1: Keegan Murray was close. I remember watching that game. He
Speaker 1: was very close. He's like twelve or fourteen maybe or something.
Speaker 1: So I think it's gonna happen. I just op it
Speaker 1: stands for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, last one, number one. I appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no problem.
Speaker 6: This is exciting for me just getting here to sit
Speaker 6: here and chop it on with you. But like I said,
Speaker 6: the beginning more importantly for the world, did you see
Speaker 6: you talk? You know, these they don't get the opportunity,
Speaker 6: and I always appreciate that opportunity.
Speaker 2: So I wanted them to hear that.
Speaker 6: But before we get out of our last guest on
Speaker 6: the show was Drew Holliday. Obviously, Drew comes from a
Speaker 6: family that has multiple NBA players in it, and you
Speaker 6: come from a family your dad, yourself. Mikey t multiple
Speaker 6: NBA players in it, obviously saying everyone's in their prime.
Speaker 2: Drews say, there's no chance any NBA family.
Speaker 7: Who winning these games? Who winning these games? Y'all taking
Speaker 7: them easy?
Speaker 4: Oh, it ain't easy because they the NBA players.
Speaker 1: But come on now, we've got dogs over here.
Speaker 6: My dad and everyone's in there pro Wow.
Speaker 2: What does the Thompson's have to say about that?
Speaker 1: Don't sleep on Trace either. Tracer is a really good player.
Speaker 1: Trace got recruited play D one in high school. We
Speaker 1: want to stay titled together, but he decided to go
Speaker 1: to the MLB route. It's worked out great for him.
Speaker 1: Traces would be a great sub man. Me and my
Speaker 1: dad will be a nice two man game, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was twenty and ten. Guy was a bucket on
Speaker 1: the block, great defender, quick for a big man. Then Mikey,
Speaker 1: you know, Mike and his prime great athlete, had a
Speaker 1: couple of coffee in the league, played overseas national team
Speaker 1: for the Bahamas, and we got to play the Holiday brothers.
Speaker 1: They are definitely more They're quicker than us between Aaron,
Speaker 1: Drew and Justin.
Speaker 4: But I think with my.
Speaker 1: Dad on the block, I think we could beat him
Speaker 1: up a little bit on the block.
Speaker 4: And he's got me and Mikey kicking out for threes.
Speaker 4: That'd be a good one. The Lopez twins would be
Speaker 4: tough too.
Speaker 1: The Griffin brothers, a lot of the Right brothers, a
Speaker 1: lot of great NBA brothers.
Speaker 4: The kurt are too little, just got too little. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: they got Dell too. I forgot. I got a lot
Speaker 4: of shooting.
Speaker 1: Huh hmm, the Nance Larry and his father. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: taking the Thompsons just just for family's pride sake. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry Holiday family and all the other NBA families.
Speaker 4: I'm taking the Thompsons. We have the most versatility.
Speaker 2: I think I respect that. Yeah, probably the most rings too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, between I think so six between my dad and I.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Pretty much, Mike, he got one in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: Did Yeah, you got a league cruise, the only time
Speaker 1: the NBA team and the G League team won a
Speaker 1: title in the same year.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's rings in there.
Speaker 2: The hardware, man, my brother.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you coming on the show, man, It's been
Speaker 6: a long time coming. I can't thank you enough, and
Speaker 6: not just for coming on this show, but what you've
Speaker 6: meant in my life for my career. You know, I
Speaker 6: never imagine uh becoming who I've become in this league,
Speaker 6: and I do not take for granted at all. Like
Speaker 6: you know, I oftentimes get like, if you ain't playing
Speaker 6: with Stephan Clay, like you wouldn't be shit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm like, well, you can't rewrite the history books.
Speaker 1: People like, what are we doing? Okay, great? I know
Speaker 1: the Chief and Kevin Kale you know.
Speaker 2: So I'm always like, okay, cool.
Speaker 6: But the reality is is regardless of how much someone
Speaker 6: can say that, someone will say that, I would agree
Speaker 6: with them every time.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 6: Uh, it does not make me feel a way at
Speaker 6: all because I'm so thankful because the reality is regardless
Speaker 6: of what people have to say about me. And if
Speaker 6: I didn't play with y'all, we had to work to
Speaker 6: make this shit happen. It just wasn't like, oh, I'm
Speaker 6: this player and you're that player and stuff this player great.
Speaker 2: It worked like now.
Speaker 6: We had to work and go through the wringer to
Speaker 6: actually make it happen. And I'm forever grateful for you
Speaker 6: two guys and the journey that we've been on for
Speaker 6: the last twelve years. And I hope nothing more than
Speaker 6: for us to finish this whole thing altogether and be
Speaker 6: sitting there when you get your statue at Chase, when
Speaker 6: Steph get his statue at Chase, and when they come
Speaker 6: sit the Bible ahead of me, right next to y'all.
Speaker 6: I look forward to those days, man, because right next
Speaker 6: to y'all just super bow it to the ground so
Speaker 6: nobody can take my biblehead away and it will be
Speaker 6: just fine with my brother.
Speaker 2: I can't thank you enough, man.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that yes reminisce sometimes Yes, sir.
Speaker 6: That's a rap from this episode of The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 2: From the Champs Peace