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Speaker 1: Lauren Rosen and this is a seventy Sixers Insiders one
Speaker 1: on one interview from the seventy Sixers Podcast Network. My
Speaker 1: guest today is none other than mister three Rings himself,
Speaker 1: Danny Green. When Danny came to the facility to sign
Speaker 1: his contract just days before his wedding, congrats of course
Speaker 1: to Danny. By the way, we sat down to discuss
Speaker 1: returning to Philadelphia, unfinished business from last season, his wedding,
Speaker 1: his dogs, and his favorite spots to eat around Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Danny was thoughtful as always, and it was great to
Speaker 1: hear some of the tricks of the trade from one
Speaker 1: of the league's most respected vents. So, without further ado,
Speaker 1: here's our conversation. Danny Green, Hello, welcome back to Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. I'm excited. How are you feeling
Speaker 1: on this fine Saturday. Oh so it's early, got testing,
Speaker 1: so I'm doing well though. It was also I'm back
Speaker 1: here in the city. We had a chance to do
Speaker 1: some special we were one game away with you. Not
Speaker 1: everybody healthy, myself included in that conversation. So, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. I would say a lot of teams
Speaker 1: were stacking up, a lot of teams are trying to rebuild.
Speaker 1: But I thought we had a good foundation, a great
Speaker 1: you know, I guess year last year in the East.
Speaker 1: So we get a chance to run it back and hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know, bring the same group of guys back with
Speaker 1: a you know, a little bit more experience and a
Speaker 1: better mindset. So tell me about these last few weeks
Speaker 1: as you made a free agency decision. How did you
Speaker 1: land on the decision that you made. It's interesting. So
Speaker 1: I'm never usually in the country when free agency starts.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. It's not usually by choice or
Speaker 1: planned out. But the last couple of times I was
Speaker 1: out the country. This time I was out the country.
Speaker 1: I was in Columbia. I have a wedding coming up
Speaker 1: in two weeks or in a week now, but I
Speaker 1: was in Columbia for a Baschel weekend, and I was
Speaker 1: a lot of my friends and I had a chance
Speaker 1: to talk to him about certain things. Obviously, Philly was
Speaker 1: always a priority because you know, I had we had
Speaker 1: a great group, I had a great team, had a
Speaker 1: chance to win. That's always the the deal. They have
Speaker 1: my bird rights, so they're able to, you know, offer
Speaker 1: more than other teams. But there were some other teams
Speaker 1: that were interested, they just didn't have space. It's that
Speaker 1: another but said, the prior is always to come here.
Speaker 1: So you've mentioned it a couple of times. But the
Speaker 1: end of last season obviously didn't go the way that
Speaker 1: anybody hoped. But I think it was particularly tough for
Speaker 1: you because you had to watch from the bench. How
Speaker 1: does an ending like that now drive your motivation as
Speaker 1: you return to the same group. Well, I think it was,
Speaker 1: even though it sucked to end the way it did,
Speaker 1: but I think it was great for us coming into
Speaker 1: this year and have the same group. For the guys
Speaker 1: that played leave a bad taste in the mouth to
Speaker 1: come back stronger mentally with a chip on their shoulder,
Speaker 1: and myself to try to prove myself a proof that
Speaker 1: I can bring some value to help us get over
Speaker 1: that hump for this upcoming season. So yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: a kind of similar to us the years that when
Speaker 1: I was in Santonio, we played Miami be lost and
Speaker 1: came back got another opportunity to play them again in
Speaker 1: the finals. So I'm really hoping that we played well
Speaker 1: this year and also get an opportunity to play Atlanta
Speaker 1: in the playoffs again, you know, to change in there
Speaker 1: of that story. When you did your exit interview at
Speaker 1: the end of last season, you talked about there being
Speaker 1: sort of small areas where you guys could have been
Speaker 1: a little bit of better, a little bit better or
Speaker 1: focused on more. So when you think about those small
Speaker 1: things that you could do that could make the difference
Speaker 1: this year, what are those things to you? It's just
Speaker 1: continue to build the maturity in the team. Let's set
Speaker 1: the professionalism, and that takes time. It's hard to do
Speaker 1: in one year. But I think those guys are a
Speaker 1: year older, year smarter, more mature be in that situation.
Speaker 1: But me being around. We're missing George and Dwight this year,
Speaker 1: so it's a little different. But me being around and
Speaker 1: hopefully having some other vets around helped them, you know,
Speaker 1: build the right habits so that if I'm not that
Speaker 1: situation happens again. You know, I'm not saying they don't
Speaker 1: need me, but they can carry on and follow suit
Speaker 1: with me off the floor of you know, doing things
Speaker 1: the right way and being professional to build close out
Speaker 1: games regardless of who's on the floor. So before you came, Tobias,
Speaker 1: at least in my time here has been sort of
Speaker 1: like the figurehead leader of this team, sort of the
Speaker 1: guy that kept everybody together. What was your experience like
Speaker 1: playing with Tobi last season, What do you like about
Speaker 1: him and how do you see your chemistry developing. Oh,
Speaker 1: it was amazing. It was great because I've known to
Speaker 1: buy it since he was a kid. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this. We grew up in the same areas,
Speaker 1: so I've known him since he was a youngster, and
Speaker 1: we've known each other for a long time. We've always
Speaker 1: competed against each other and a chance to play with
Speaker 1: each other. So this year to actually finally get a
Speaker 1: chance to play with each other, it was great. It
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. Got a chance to know
Speaker 1: each other and see what each other brings to the table,
Speaker 1: and we use that to our strengths, to our team
Speaker 1: and help keep the team together. So having him by
Speaker 1: my side, having those other guys, other veterans by my side,
Speaker 1: made it easier for my job on the court, but
Speaker 1: also mainly off the court and keeping the locker room
Speaker 1: together and keeping those young guys and teaching them. So
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun learning, had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun watching them, you know, become the player he is now.
Speaker 1: He had a great year, should have been an All
Speaker 1: Star and hopefully, you know, you get sit this year
Speaker 1: coming up. But it was amazing to see how he
Speaker 1: operated on and off the court and how he helped
Speaker 1: not only me but his teammates understand what the goal
Speaker 1: is and keep things in order. You mentioned growth, development, fashionalism.
Speaker 1: You've mentioned your young guys, and I remember, for me
Speaker 1: at least watching that Atlanta series, the way that you
Speaker 1: were constantly in their ear where they were talking Tyrese
Speaker 1: or Matise or Shake. What do you think about those
Speaker 1: young guys? What do you see in their future? Why
Speaker 1: are you excited to play with them again? I see
Speaker 1: a bright future. I get excited mostly because the young guys.
Speaker 1: I want to see them do well, and I think
Speaker 1: they have the potential to do great things. You know,
Speaker 1: they have a lot of talent. Tyrese is very talented,
Speaker 1: Paul Reid is very talented, Shake is very talented. Matisse furk.
Speaker 1: I'm glad they brought him back. All these guys are
Speaker 1: very good and I see them carrying this organization to
Speaker 1: the next step if they're here years after that, some
Speaker 1: of these guys are gone, but I can see them,
Speaker 1: whether it's here or another spot, them being a big figure,
Speaker 1: a big piece to a very important puzzle in different
Speaker 1: organizations or if not this one. So I said, I
Speaker 1: think they have a lot of potential, a lot of talent,
Speaker 1: and I think they have a bright futures league and
Speaker 1: being in this league for a long time, and I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see how they grow and what kind of
Speaker 1: players they turn into. You mentioned furkn and I'm curious
Speaker 1: from a player's person backtive what free agency is sort
Speaker 1: of like, because you said you're excited he's coming back,
Speaker 1: So for me, I'm also excited that folks coming back.
Speaker 1: I was pumped when I saw the tweets. That's how
Speaker 1: I find out. I understand that's usually how y'all find
Speaker 1: out as well. But what's it like as you're sort
Speaker 1: of waiting and anticipating, trying to make your own decisions,
Speaker 1: watching your friends make their decisions. What's that experience like.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a it's a lot of I think
Speaker 1: it's more fun seeing that than anything else seeing the
Speaker 1: other pieces fall or the chips fault in different errors.
Speaker 1: So it's obviously you're excited about your situation if you
Speaker 1: get to choose where you want to go, but you
Speaker 1: want to see what guys go where, who gets what,
Speaker 1: what teams improve, um, what your other ex teammates get,
Speaker 1: or what kind of deals they may get. Um. Instead,
Speaker 1: I found out I wouldn't speak the FIRLK, but I
Speaker 1: found out through the internet as well that he was
Speaker 1: coming back, So it was exciting. UM. So yeah, during
Speaker 1: that process, I think that's the most fun exciting part
Speaker 1: is to see what guys get, what deals, who goes where,
Speaker 1: what teams change, and you know what big changes happen,
Speaker 1: which might you know, erupt the league or you know,
Speaker 1: make the internet Internet, you know, blow up. Um. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's many of those this year stuff obviously
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook to LA that made the whole Internet blow
Speaker 1: up a little bit. But there's always some type of
Speaker 1: move or some type of contract that people are like
Speaker 1: whoa or you know some of them that it kind
Speaker 1: of confuse you. So that's the interesting part and what
Speaker 1: makes the league unique. You mentioned it a couple of times.
Speaker 1: You feel and literally you guys were obviously one game
Speaker 1: away from from advancing, from going farther than this team
Speaker 1: has gone recently. And you've talked about openly about the
Speaker 1: fact that you feel if you weren't injured, you could
Speaker 1: have made the difference there. You could have pushed them
Speaker 1: along because of the impact that you made all year.
Speaker 1: So how much do you look forward to sort of
Speaker 1: getting another swing with at least largely the same group.
Speaker 1: How confident are you in the group that you're going
Speaker 1: to get to you reunite with now. I'm very said,
Speaker 1: I'm very much looking forward to it because I just
Speaker 1: know the narrative here and I feel like, even though
Speaker 1: I'm older and I feel like people think I have
Speaker 1: nothing to prove, we all have some to prove every
Speaker 1: year of what kind of player we are. But not
Speaker 1: just as an individual, but as a group. What can
Speaker 1: you do to for a group with the group and
Speaker 1: this opportunity to bubble, you know, change the narrative here
Speaker 1: in Philly is everybody's going to doubt us, everybody's going
Speaker 1: to think that we're a fool's gold. We're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to get it done. You know, Philly's
Speaker 1: always had this curse or whatever it is that they
Speaker 1: think that we're gonna lose all the time. It's able
Speaker 1: to come in and try to change that or be
Speaker 1: able to achieve that. I think it, you know, I
Speaker 1: guess make people look at this organization differently and also
Speaker 1: us individually differently. You know, these guys came together and
Speaker 1: did it, and they have some pieces here and some
Speaker 1: people here that helped this group get over the edge
Speaker 1: and achieve something that they never achieved before. So that's
Speaker 1: always the goal, not just not just this year, but
Speaker 1: every year. Every time you's up on the floor, we
Speaker 1: going to win a game wherever we're at. I think
Speaker 1: everybody's competitive one once they won with that organization, but
Speaker 1: it's been a long time since Philly's gotten one, and
Speaker 1: I want to be a part of that group that's
Speaker 1: able to get it done. I think this is my
Speaker 1: last basketball specific question. I'm sure you'll get to call
Speaker 1: me out on that later when I come up with
Speaker 1: another one. But you've accomplished a ton. We know your
Speaker 1: teammates call you mister three rings. We know you've been
Speaker 1: to the mountaintop right. So now looking at the next
Speaker 1: few careers a few years, this phase in your career.
Speaker 1: What is still driving you to come in and be
Speaker 1: as excited as you are right now. I just think
Speaker 1: everybody in this league that's lasted longer than a couple
Speaker 1: of years, and you know, not just one contract is
Speaker 1: they're never satisfied and they want to be great. It's
Speaker 1: not about the money, it's not about all the you know,
Speaker 1: accolades and the fame. Um. They just want to be
Speaker 1: I was respected by their peers and just be the
Speaker 1: greatest at what they do. And some people just want
Speaker 1: to be the greatest player ever. Um competitive, But I
Speaker 1: just always want to win. I always want to be
Speaker 1: the greatest at what I do and when remembered in
Speaker 1: this game and leave some type of legacy behind. But
Speaker 1: I'd just like to win. I love to play the sport, um,
Speaker 1: you know, regardless of how many Championships've won, no matter
Speaker 1: how contracts I've gotten, Um, it's all about, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to leave a mark and leave I said to
Speaker 1: the respect and respect of my peers and the people
Speaker 1: that also watch us, you know, the fans. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, just leaving this game with you know, knowing
Speaker 1: that I gave everything to it because I know it's
Speaker 1: giving me so much in return. Um, it's given me
Speaker 1: a lot more return than I've given to it. So
Speaker 1: I've enjoyed it thus far, having fun with it, but
Speaker 1: just knowing that I I did everything I could to
Speaker 1: be the greatest at what I do in my position.
Speaker 1: So let's start to zoom out just a little bit.
Speaker 1: And I think it's fitting actually for those of you
Speaker 1: who have not been well. No one is where we
Speaker 1: are right now. Danny and I are at the Sixers
Speaker 1: training complex. We're literally sitting between the court and the
Speaker 1: locker room. So let's move from the court to the
Speaker 1: locker room. Okay, have you talked? I know it's only
Speaker 1: been a little bit of time, but have you connected
Speaker 1: with any of your teammates who's excited? How are we feeling? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Tobias one of the first guys that called me.
Speaker 1: I mean, Joel was talk texting me throughout the process
Speaker 1: a little bit. Tobias is calling me NonStop throughout the process.
Speaker 1: So he's one of the first guys that faced tom Me.
Speaker 1: He had a cigar in his mouth, he get his
Speaker 1: hair braided. You know, he's in a different element and
Speaker 1: he was relaxed. I think he had a Nike wife
Speaker 1: beater on or something like he just finished working out something.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's he's in San Diego, Tom lem no One.
Speaker 1: I was back out west, so I talked to him.
Speaker 1: I talked to Paul Reid. Surprisingly, he's funny. He's asked
Speaker 1: me about the wedding. He's like, are you ready to
Speaker 1: you know, did you write your your writing wedding vows.
Speaker 1: I'm like, now, we're not doing like what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So he was just asking about that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: He asked I was going to come a summer league
Speaker 1: and see them plasts. I'm try if I can, but
Speaker 1: so I do have a wedding to prepare for, you know, Paul,
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be tough. But I did connect and
Speaker 1: talk to a lot of them. I still communicate with
Speaker 1: those guys before free Toency. Happened during free adency, and
Speaker 1: even after I talked them, they were happy for me.
Speaker 1: They were congratulating me, and you know, it was all
Speaker 1: love and I'm sure all good. Chance to see him soon, said, hopefully,
Speaker 1: allow of them show up to the wedding. If not,
Speaker 1: I'll see them during the season or when I go
Speaker 1: back to San Antonio. Sie Georgie he lives there. I'll
Speaker 1: see Dwight when I'm in LA, so I'll get a
Speaker 1: chance to connect and see all those guys throughout the summer.
Speaker 1: We talked about it a lot last season, but among
Speaker 1: the group, the vibes were very strong. Something you guys
Speaker 1: have told me, but it's something that even if I
Speaker 1: hadn't spoken with you, it was just very clear. Like
Speaker 1: people saw it on TV. People could tell when they
Speaker 1: came to the games. You guys really did get along
Speaker 1: and had a good energy among you. I talked to
Speaker 1: Isaiah Joe yesterday at Summer League about the big energy
Speaker 1: chain and the competition between the two of you. Specifically,
Speaker 1: when you think about about last year's group, what about
Speaker 1: that energy and what about those bonds are you hoping
Speaker 1: to bring forward? Like what made that part of the
Speaker 1: cheap special? I just think that it was kind of
Speaker 1: fresh and new, and we kind of fell into a family,
Speaker 1: a brotherhood, very easily and quickly. It just wasn't forced,
Speaker 1: and guys were excited. Guys enjoyed it, and we understood
Speaker 1: each other well and we got along well. I's said,
Speaker 1: all the things you just mentioned happened, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of organically, so I'm hoping to carry that over, hoping
Speaker 1: to carry that energy over. We know each other a
Speaker 1: little better, so it makes it easier to have certain
Speaker 1: uncomfortable conversations to hold each other accountable. But we want
Speaker 1: to continue and bring that same energy, that same positivity
Speaker 1: and guys having fun, regardless of what the outside noise
Speaker 1: is saying, without the media is saying, with these people saying,
Speaker 1: our groups are group and whoever we bring back, we
Speaker 1: believe we can win a title with. And it starts
Speaker 1: with us and and us being believing each other and
Speaker 1: also just being there for each other. Also take some
Speaker 1: time with us holding each other accountable. So hopefully we
Speaker 1: can continue that energy, hopefully continue to carry that over
Speaker 1: and have fun, but hopefully we get able to have
Speaker 1: said the conversation we need to have to hold each
Speaker 1: other accountable and make each other better. Last season was
Speaker 1: obviously super unconventional for a lot of reasons, but mostly
Speaker 1: because of the pandemic and all the extra hoops you
Speaker 1: guys had to jump through on a day to day basis.
Speaker 1: So when you reflect on how that all went, do
Speaker 1: you think that any of that adversity that you guys
Speaker 1: were facing as a league, as a group of NBA players,
Speaker 1: but within the sixers, you guys were really facing it together.
Speaker 1: There were new guys here that had never played here
Speaker 1: and then also had to deal with all that stuff
Speaker 1: Like how do you think that that very strange ecosystem
Speaker 1: that you guys were placed in influenced those bonds. I
Speaker 1: think it was a strange year all around for a
Speaker 1: lot of groups. Obviously me and Dwight had a quick
Speaker 1: turnaround coming from had six weeks off, but coming from
Speaker 1: a bubble to half the season no fans, half the
Speaker 1: season with fans so many games back to back, short
Speaker 1: and season starting later. It was just different. A lot
Speaker 1: of injuries happened, excuse me, COVID happened a lot of
Speaker 1: times throughout the year. We had times we had seven players,
Speaker 1: sometimes we had eighteen, sometimes we had six. You know,
Speaker 1: it was strange. So we had half a half of
Speaker 1: a roster, no roster or a third of a roster.
Speaker 1: Being able to play through that and fight through that
Speaker 1: was different. Traveling was different. Um, playing teams twice in
Speaker 1: a in the same you know road trip. Um, so well,
Speaker 1: I'm shouldn't see how the schedule comes out this year. Um,
Speaker 1: it was a it was a different year, and I
Speaker 1: think everybody adjusted pretty well. But I think the fact
Speaker 1: that because of so many of those things, it's so
Speaker 1: much adversity with all those groups is why you saw
Speaker 1: such a weird playoffs, such a weird finals situation. A
Speaker 1: lot of people couldn't predict the teams that were gonna
Speaker 1: come out. Um, And you know, it makes it, it
Speaker 1: makes it spontaneous, it makes it fun and great. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, um, you know, it just made
Speaker 1: it a little weird for not just the fans, but
Speaker 1: you know, people inside of the organization, inside of the
Speaker 1: fraternity of the NBA. UM. But hopefully we keep that spontaneity.
Speaker 1: We still have the playing games next year. Next year
Speaker 1: should be a lot of fun um, even though some
Speaker 1: of the teams don't like it. The league was very
Speaker 1: different this year, and I think it was a year
Speaker 1: for everyone to adapt. I think we're gonna adapt in
Speaker 1: the just fine. I think the rest of the teams
Speaker 1: will kind of get used to this format and then
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully, you know, excel from here. I remember
Speaker 1: Tobias saying right when the because you guys had some
Speaker 1: time off getting that one seed, not having to play
Speaker 1: in those planes, and Tobias said, I love it because
Speaker 1: we don't have to play in it. Was that sort
Speaker 1: of the vibe you had with the players pretty much
Speaker 1: who it is. If you're not playing it, you're you're
Speaker 1: fine with it. Once you're in that situation. Guys hate it? Oh,
Speaker 1: you guys should We should never did this, We should
Speaker 1: never agree to it. And I get it, trust me,
Speaker 1: I do. Um. It's exciting basketball, though the fans love
Speaker 1: to see it. Um, it's a tough position to put
Speaker 1: yourself in, a tough position to be in when you're
Speaker 1: fighting for a playoff spot. But is it also like
Speaker 1: the fact that we had rest, But I didn't like
Speaker 1: the fact that it was too much rest, But I
Speaker 1: think we needed it. We got it. Even with the
Speaker 1: much rest of we had, we still had injuries and
Speaker 1: it was tough to bounce back from. So something, let's
Speaker 1: let's make a big pivot. It's you mentioned it a
Speaker 1: couple of times and I was excited to ask you
Speaker 1: about it. You are getting married, Yes, how are we
Speaker 1: feeling about it? It's just a tough situation to explain
Speaker 1: in words, because it's one of those things that you're
Speaker 1: excited for, really hard to get excited for it because
Speaker 1: there's so many moving parts, it's so hectic going, it's
Speaker 1: so much invites, this, this, and that. It's always you
Speaker 1: feel like you always somewhat behind. Whether we haven't been
Speaker 1: this done. Then there's a bunch of invoices that people
Speaker 1: don't care to pay. So with all the stresses of that,
Speaker 1: it's hard to be excited for I think most people
Speaker 1: are excited for it, but really excited to get it
Speaker 1: over with because they just want to make sure everything's perfect.
Speaker 1: It's never gonna be perfect. I've been to wedding one
Speaker 1: wedding this year, Mark Williams got married, and I talked
Speaker 1: to a lot of my Carolenda guys who've gotten married
Speaker 1: to something's gonna go wrong. Just be prepared for it,
Speaker 1: just you know, fight through you laugh at it later,
Speaker 1: but just let it, let it happen, and roll with it.
Speaker 1: And I have another wedding I go to after mine.
Speaker 1: So yeah, learning from those instances, learning from those guys.
Speaker 1: I know it's not gonna be perfect, but you always
Speaker 1: want it to be perfect because it's your days, her day.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm looking forward to it. But it said,
Speaker 1: I can't wait till it's over said, we can actually
Speaker 1: breathe and not be, you know, stressed about all everything
Speaker 1: that we need to do with invitations, with people, emails, invoices.
Speaker 1: You know. It's just it's a lot, and I see
Speaker 1: why a lot of people are stressed. Even when you
Speaker 1: say I'm gonna jump on it ahead of time, like
Speaker 1: we start a year ago, it still it comes up
Speaker 1: quick and there's always a lot of decisions to make
Speaker 1: every day. I don't envy you at all. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's hectic, but it's not that's It was a
Speaker 1: lot more going on, which made it even tougher for me.
Speaker 1: So the free agency thing, not knowing where it was
Speaker 1: going to be moving to. We just finished building a
Speaker 1: house in California, so that's taken a little while. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, so so many other moving parts that that
Speaker 1: was was happening during the time. So just moving from here,
Speaker 1: I don't know where I'm moving to, finding another place here,
Speaker 1: other people's weddings that I had to prepare for, so yeah,
Speaker 1: making sure my brothers, my family was good. Just just
Speaker 1: a lot going on that it was hard to uh
Speaker 1: to put just focus on just the wedding and actually
Speaker 1: just enjoy that part of it because there's so many
Speaker 1: outside things happening. So take me through the timeline. As
Speaker 1: we wrap up your hair in Philly, now signing your contract,
Speaker 1: getting excited about this next phase, he said, you have
Speaker 1: to go back to the West Coast. You have to
Speaker 1: go get married, You have to come back to Philly. Like,
Speaker 1: talk to me about what does Danny Green's life looked like.
Speaker 1: Hectic still said, the weddings gonna have hopefully slows down
Speaker 1: after that, but it's more so finding another place here.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I have dogs. Those are my kids
Speaker 1: for right now. I don't have any kids yet, so
Speaker 1: I'm making sure that they're good. Have to go back
Speaker 1: and forth. They're in New York right now, so fourth
Speaker 1: on a place to drive up to find when we
Speaker 1: have find a place to bring them to a place here.
Speaker 1: So that said, fixing up the house in californiating furniture there,
Speaker 1: you know, figure out My brother said, he's in the
Speaker 1: summer league. The wedding situations. There's so many other things
Speaker 1: going on. I'll say a lot of investments and people
Speaker 1: doing you know, stocks day trading, that type of situation.
Speaker 1: So there's so much going on that trying to figure
Speaker 1: out where to go from here, where to do this,
Speaker 1: where to do that, but mostly just invoices. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of bills this summer. And once I'm done with
Speaker 1: this summer, I don't plan on spending money for the
Speaker 1: duration of my contract, so that I I can just save
Speaker 1: up and and not. You know, during the year, I
Speaker 1: don't do any shopping and stuff like that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this summer was it was hectic for me. And I'm
Speaker 1: not a big spender like that. So you're telling me
Speaker 1: you're not gonna spend any mone for the next two years,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say any Are you gonna eat? I'll eat,
Speaker 1: But I don't consider that spending money. So I me
Speaker 1: spending money like buying clothes, gifts and extravagant things or
Speaker 1: or events planning events. I'm not doing any more of
Speaker 1: that for a while. Okay, fair enough, Um, tell me
Speaker 1: about what you you're you're looking for a place in Philly.
Speaker 1: What do you like about Philly the city? Like how much?
Speaker 1: First of all, yeah, how much were you able to
Speaker 1: even immerse yourself? I was in it, Um. I lived
Speaker 1: in the Northern Liberty area, like that area. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about moving some I mean, but I liked it.
Speaker 1: Surprised you. This thing is surprised me of what it
Speaker 1: can offer. You know, just so many great restaurants, good people.
Speaker 1: Is a good quiet neighborhood, a dog dog friendly neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Um so, yeah, I enjoyed being the city. I think
Speaker 1: I'm kind of looking for something like that similar to that.
Speaker 1: If not h you know, so with the dogs, similar
Speaker 1: in the suburbs would be would be cool too. But
Speaker 1: just the biggest important thing in Philly if you're staying
Speaker 1: in Phillies if they have parking, um so final place
Speaker 1: with par making. That helps. But outside of that, so that,
Speaker 1: the city was great. You know, I had a good time,
Speaker 1: you know, operating around the city, seeing fans, meeting people,
Speaker 1: and them showing a lot of love. I love the fans,
Speaker 1: I love the people here. It was an amazing time.
Speaker 1: They treated me like a long time six or even
Speaker 1: though I was here for only a year. So I
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun and they all showed me
Speaker 1: a lot of love throughout the city. I am coming
Speaker 1: up on three years in Philly, and this is the
Speaker 1: first time I moved right at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 1: This is the first time I have parking and It's
Speaker 1: changes the game. It changes a lot. It changes a lot.
Speaker 1: I feel so grown with a parking spot, like it's
Speaker 1: out of control. I can leave, come and go as
Speaker 1: I please, not worry about it. The street is something different.
Speaker 1: Parking on the street and knowing the rules and make
Speaker 1: sure you're not gonna take it. One time, I got
Speaker 1: to take it outside of my house in front of
Speaker 1: my own garage, which is kind of crazy because you know,
Speaker 1: I use the garage of parking sometimes if there's no
Speaker 1: parking spots, I tell people can parking from my garage,
Speaker 1: So I'll leave right because you're not gonna call the
Speaker 1: parking authority. Oh yeah, just avoiding tickets and finding a
Speaker 1: spot is very tough in the city. You mentioned restaurants.
Speaker 1: Do you have any favorites that you're most excited to
Speaker 1: go back to. Um, well, there's a lot of them
Speaker 1: that were very good. I mean, Cathie Lamada is one
Speaker 1: of my my go to so good. Yeah. I wanted
Speaker 1: to try to have which was really good. Park was good.
Speaker 1: Um we did a team dinner at was it was
Speaker 1: it Steak forty eight? Visit that? Yeah, I'm broad and
Speaker 1: I think it was Steak forty it's a very good
Speaker 1: There's a lot of great ones here. So those are
Speaker 1: the top of the list that I've been to. There's
Speaker 1: some at the top of the list that I haven't
Speaker 1: been to. I'm going to try out um. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm excited about Manet to get a chance to check
Speaker 1: out all the museums, either the history I see some
Speaker 1: of us. At most of the time that we were here,
Speaker 1: everything was closed down, so we didn't a chance to
Speaker 1: experience Philly um the way I would like to. So
Speaker 1: we talked to Philly. We talked food. What do you
Speaker 1: like to do off the court? Like for fans that
Speaker 1: don't know as much about you as a dude, like
Speaker 1: what's Danny Green doing when he's not playing. I'm usually
Speaker 1: with my dogs. I enjoyed my dogs. I enjoy my
Speaker 1: TV series. I like to relax and sleep. I'm a
Speaker 1: big t so traveling throughout the years enough for me.
Speaker 1: I travel. I like to relax with my family. Um.
Speaker 1: But also I don't have many major hobbies during the season.
Speaker 1: It's really just taking care of the body and changing
Speaker 1: trying to trying to change my eating habits, my diet
Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm not taking I'm not being vegan
Speaker 1: or vegetarian just yet, but I have cut back on sweets.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, it really just just relaxing
Speaker 1: out and enjoying my family and friends around me, enjoying
Speaker 1: life because I don't have many years left in this game,
Speaker 1: many years of traveling and playing, so just taking it
Speaker 1: all in and enjoying the process of being in the
Speaker 1: NBA and going through the step I step with my
Speaker 1: family and my friends allow them to enjoy it as well.
Speaker 1: I'm not really a dog person, but I know that
Speaker 1: if I don't ask you, the dog people are going
Speaker 1: to come for me. What types of dogs? How many like?
Speaker 1: Give us the run down too. I have two palm skis,
Speaker 1: and I mean if you've never owned the dog, I
Speaker 1: mean I wasn't a big dog person here until I
Speaker 1: got them. I like dogs, I like animal, like all animals.
Speaker 1: My grandma had a bunch of animals growing up throughout
Speaker 1: our household, from birds to fish, to snakes to dogs, cats,
Speaker 1: all types of animals. So I've seen every single type
Speaker 1: of animal. We've taken care, we've cared for song, and
Speaker 1: we've seen have litters. But dogs were cool. I had
Speaker 1: a dog grown up, but not I was a kid,
Speaker 1: so I didn't know how to take care of the dog.
Speaker 1: When I got them, you realize why people do some
Speaker 1: of strange things with the dogs they do. They become
Speaker 1: family members. Um. So, yeah, I have two dogs, the
Speaker 1: two Palmerin hug pomskis the Palmerin Husky mix about medium size,
Speaker 1: about between thirty and forty pounds, and I have a
Speaker 1: lot of fun go to dog park with them, kicking
Speaker 1: with them, relax out and you know they make coming
Speaker 1: home regardless of good good day, bad day, or good
Speaker 1: game or bad game, they make home a lot more,
Speaker 1: you know, warmer and happy. They're always excited to greet you,
Speaker 1: and you know they could change the whole day. So
Speaker 1: they bring a lot of positive energy and a lot
Speaker 1: of um, you know, good vibes when I come to
Speaker 1: the house. Yeah, I don't think the dogs know how
Speaker 1: you're playing. But I don't think dogs don't care. They're
Speaker 1: just excited to see you. They don't talk back, you know.
Speaker 1: So you know, I always compare that to kids and
Speaker 1: my dad. Dad he's like, I don't like dogs and
Speaker 1: I have more kids. At least dogs don't talk back,
Speaker 1: not saying that I do want kids but I'm taking
Speaker 1: my time and I'm enjoying the dogs right now. What
Speaker 1: are the dogs names Gizmo and Duke? Any story behind those?
Speaker 1: Or Gizmo looks like he's like red brown fur. He
Speaker 1: kind of looks like Gizmo from Gremlins. With those who've
Speaker 1: seen in the movie Nuke, he had like a camo fur,
Speaker 1: and we couldn't think of like military names. He has
Speaker 1: blue eyes and is like nuclear weapon. He just was
Speaker 1: explosive and he was just all over the place, so
Speaker 1: we just call him Nuke for like like nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1: So it's Gizmo and Nuke, all right. Well, Danny Green,
Speaker 1: We're so happy to have you back. Happy to have
Speaker 1: the dogs back, Billy, looking forward to running it back
Speaker 1: with you exactly an amazing season coming ahead. Awesome, Thanks Danny,
Speaker 1: Thank you. A big thank you to Danny, of course
Speaker 1: for sitting down and sharing some stories and insights with
Speaker 1: us from his offseason, his career, and his hopes for
Speaker 1: the season ahead. Make sure you're on the lookout for
Speaker 1: more of these one on one interviews from the seventy
Speaker 1: six ers podcast network as the run up to training
Speaker 1: camp continues. It is almost that time, I know, I
Speaker 1: say it every podcast, but the season creeps closer and
Speaker 1: closer by the day. I for one, am very excited
Speaker 1: about it. Keep listening along and thanks as always for
Speaker 1: tuning in. I'm Lauren Rosen. Have a good one, guys,