Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Draymond Green. Mr Draymond Green,
Speaker 1: Welcome to The Daily Show. Thanks for having me. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Are you kidding? I'm shocked that you have
Speaker 1: time to do anything after winning your fourth NBA championship
Speaker 1: because he gonna get old. You know, this one feels
Speaker 1: different than any other one. It's like the ultimate, it's
Speaker 1: the best. Let's let's talk about let's jump straight into it.
Speaker 1: This is what I love about you. You know, there
Speaker 1: was an error in sports where you know, people would
Speaker 1: sort of say what they mean on the court, but
Speaker 1: then when they would come off the court, did an interview,
Speaker 1: what do you think about this and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: it was a good game, it was a fun game.
Speaker 1: Draymond Green says what he feels. Draymond Green says what
Speaker 1: he means. The fans love you because of this. I
Speaker 1: love watching the postgame interviews because of you. So let's
Speaker 1: let's talk about that that aspect of the game. You've
Speaker 1: been honest about it from the beginning. People wrote your team,
Speaker 1: all people say Golden State was done for Does this
Speaker 1: feel like like like vindication in the biggest way? It does.
Speaker 1: I felt like people doubted us more this time than
Speaker 1: they did prior to two thousand and fifteen when we
Speaker 1: had never won anything. And I think that's ultimately, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's like, oh why why why in the parade are
Speaker 1: y'all saying after everybody and shut up? And that's because
Speaker 1: the reality is they disrespected the work we've already done,
Speaker 1: you know, to disrespect us as if we aren't champions
Speaker 1: and just write us off like we hadn't done it before.
Speaker 1: That's why I said self, Can I tell you what
Speaker 1: else are like? This is what I like. There's there's
Speaker 1: a there's an element of of danger that's been infused
Speaker 1: into the team because I think you know this, The
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors are an amazing team, But you guys
Speaker 1: have like a bit of a like like a like
Speaker 1: a Christian youth group vibe about you, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I mean, especially like Clay and Stafford, like
Speaker 1: you're the bad boy of the group, but like Clay
Speaker 1: staff it's very much like I'll see you guys on Sunday.
Speaker 1: It's like a nice thing. And I think there was
Speaker 1: this attitude in the league where people like, man, they're
Speaker 1: the nice guys. You can say anything about them. They
Speaker 1: won't do anything. I saw you one of the post
Speaker 1: post match interviews where you said, they said, what do
Speaker 1: you think happened? You said, I thought it was too
Speaker 1: soft in that game. You changed everything after that. How
Speaker 1: do you maintain being good players, being good people, but
Speaker 1: still bringing enough hardness to the game while playing Wasston
Speaker 1: playing clean? Well? I think ultimately you follow your leader.
Speaker 1: And so when you call us a youth charge group,
Speaker 1: that's Steph Curry to the tea like he is run
Speaker 1: the ministry. But now Clay, I think everybody kind of
Speaker 1: has miss under Clay miss understood. Yeah, And what way,
Speaker 1: Clay's a little while like Clay go off the rail
Speaker 1: a little bit? Is this pre injury Clay on post injury?
Speaker 1: Has he changed? He's a little more tame after the injury,
Speaker 1: before the injury. But I think, you know, um, there's
Speaker 1: kind of the misconception of to take this disrisp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like light skinning guys like that's that's funny that
Speaker 1: you said to me, don't like, don't don't get like
Speaker 1: you don't light skin guys are really saying, like, you
Speaker 1: know what, that's like this misconception of light skinning guys
Speaker 1: being soft. Huh, And I always but like you just
Speaker 1: but yeah, like you just said, I was the soft one,
Speaker 1: Like we saw one Steph Curry was great, but I
Speaker 1: was the soft one. So I think, you know, it
Speaker 1: may be time to change the misconcept. Okay, okay, you
Speaker 1: you've got You've got four championships. You know, it feels
Speaker 1: like each championship has a story. You know, the first
Speaker 1: time is who is this team? What are they doing?
Speaker 1: Steve Kurr, this this whole mix. I would argue that
Speaker 1: your team has almost reshaped basketball. You know, the way
Speaker 1: teams play, the way you move the ball, where people
Speaker 1: shoot from, how you defended, all of that has changed
Speaker 1: because of Golden Eight. Like when you look at your
Speaker 1: fourth championship, how do you motivate yourself to do even
Speaker 1: more now? Because most would go, I've won. What else
Speaker 1: do I have to push myself on? Well, Lebron has
Speaker 1: far and if if I get five from the greatest ever, right,
Speaker 1: so honestly, like like that's the challenge, Like can you
Speaker 1: do it again? Like the moment we finished, I'm standing
Speaker 1: up on a podium and I'm like this this is crazy,
Speaker 1: Like it's wild. How do we get back here? That's
Speaker 1: it's feeling. Like my biggest fit when we want the
Speaker 1: first one was that this feeling is so great, I'll
Speaker 1: never feel this again in my life. And so you're
Speaker 1: just chasing that feeling again. And quite frankly, like I
Speaker 1: said before the season, nobody has proven that they can
Speaker 1: beat us, it still happen. So you're going into another season.
Speaker 1: The team is looking good. The spirit and just in
Speaker 1: the city, like if you're in Oakland, you know, even
Speaker 1: around San Francisco, you can feel its a pride in
Speaker 1: and around the team. I feel it changing you as
Speaker 1: well in that you know, there were some moments where
Speaker 1: it felt it felt like dreamond Green was angry. You know,
Speaker 1: people weren't giving you the respect that you deserved. Now
Speaker 1: it seems like you play with the anger, but you
Speaker 1: have like a you have like a different swag to
Speaker 1: you as a person. Now you you you laught at
Speaker 1: people's doubts. You know, you you enjoy those moments. On
Speaker 1: your podcast for instance, you you you you put it
Speaker 1: all out there. What do you think change in your life?
Speaker 1: I think, hey, um, having a fiance that I have,
Speaker 1: she's incredible. She's changed me. And I love that, and
Speaker 1: and and also my children, Um, they've changed me. And
Speaker 1: and like my mom constantly reminds me, hey, the baby
Speaker 1: is watching you, Like make sure you're all your best behavior.
Speaker 1: The babies are watching you. And so I think that's
Speaker 1: changed me and it's helped me channel a lot. Now.
Speaker 1: Another thing that's helped me is when you have that
Speaker 1: fire in that chip as a second round pick, everybody
Speaker 1: loves it, is great, But when you carry that same
Speaker 1: name chip as a four time All Stars, a four
Speaker 1: time champion, it's then distasteful because you're not the underdog anymore.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. And so what I realized was that I
Speaker 1: was carrying that same chip that allowed me to remember
Speaker 1: the thirty four guys that was drafted before me in
Speaker 1: the year five and six, and people are starting to
Speaker 1: look at it like, man, that's that's nasty, that's distasteful,
Speaker 1: And I knew that I wanted to change that. I
Speaker 1: don't want the perception of me to be a bad
Speaker 1: taste in someone. I hear what you're saying. You weren't
Speaker 1: trying to be the villain. You're just trying to be
Speaker 1: somebody who's driven, and it changes with your position of power.
Speaker 1: I hear you before I let you go. There's one
Speaker 1: thing I've I've always wanted to know about that element
Speaker 1: of the game with the players and the teams and
Speaker 1: the fans and all of that is you have this camaraderie.
Speaker 1: You guys have this drive you you you you have
Speaker 1: this this world that we don't know about as the fans,
Speaker 1: and when the fans are cussing you guys out from
Speaker 1: the sides. On the one hand, fans are there to
Speaker 1: throw you off your game. They want to say whatever
Speaker 1: to to get at you, and that's part of being
Speaker 1: their life. On the other hand, you're human beings. You
Speaker 1: have family, you know you you, you have emotions. How
Speaker 1: do you think we find that balance between what fans
Speaker 1: can say at a game and what you should or
Speaker 1: shouldn't respond to as an athlete. Well, I used to
Speaker 1: feel like fans should be stopped from saying some of
Speaker 1: the things that they say. Then Commissioner Silver comes out
Speaker 1: and say, hey man, those Boston fans are great as
Speaker 1: they're saying you Draymond. So I'm like, all right, commission
Speaker 1: is the best commissioner And like I said on my tweet,
Speaker 1: he's probably one of the best CEOs in America. Let
Speaker 1: alone commissioner of the Sports League. But he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's great. So my response to that is great, cool,
Speaker 1: Can I turn the yell them because because if I
Speaker 1: if I can, then no problem. Let them. You know
Speaker 1: what they want to year. I ye know what I
Speaker 1: want to yell, and I continue down the court. And
Speaker 1: so I think the thing for me is like some
Speaker 1: at some point you're kind of allowing them to do
Speaker 1: this and encouraging it in a way because they know.
Speaker 1: If I yell that to Draymond and he says that
Speaker 1: back to me, he's getting fined twenty five dollars. He's
Speaker 1: getting fined fifty dollars. So what I'll say the commissions,
Speaker 1: no problem. That was fun. Let them do their thing,
Speaker 1: but let me do my thing and don't hit my pocketbook. Yeah. Man,
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