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Speaker 1: I have the honor of having a guest today, a
Speaker 1: guy who I've wanted to talk to for a while
Speaker 1: has a chip on his shoulder larger than the planet Earth.
Speaker 2: And I love that. And we're going to get off.
Speaker 1: Into that chip and how it's judged and how it
Speaker 1: is viewed. But I'm honored to have this next guest,
Speaker 1: a two time NBA All Star, one time All n
Speaker 1: B a h NBA All Rookie First Team none other
Speaker 1: than the Great Treyyon.
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 1: Can we please get a better welcome than that? Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: it's up, y'all, what's up?
Speaker 2: Thank you? Welcome to the Draymond Green Show, my brother.
Speaker 1: Like I said, you're someone who I've wanted to have
Speaker 1: on the show for a while, and I'm happy that
Speaker 1: it happened this way where we can do it live,
Speaker 1: we can do it in person, because I feel like
Speaker 1: you're raw and everything that you've done, and you're the
Speaker 1: way you've come up, the way you speak, it's organic
Speaker 1: and it's natural, and I wanted to have this moment
Speaker 1: where it's just natural and and I'm extremely excited about this.
Speaker 2: So thank you for joining me.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you having me, Bro I'm excited about.
Speaker 1: It absolutely, So I mean, let's get right into it though.
Speaker 1: Growing up in Oklahoma Number one, Talk to me about
Speaker 1: the basketball culture in Oklahoma because for me, growing up
Speaker 1: in Michigan, we all see Oklahoma and what's the first
Speaker 1: thing we think.
Speaker 2: We all think Oklahoma Sooner football.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about the basketball culture and growing up
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: Well, first off, I appreciate you having me again, but
Speaker 4: for me growing up like I was, I grew up
Speaker 4: in Oklahoma. But like a lot of people don't understand,
Speaker 4: like I'm a Texas kid, like I was born in Texas,
Speaker 4: Like my dad played in Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: And I was born there and I kind of grew up.
Speaker 4: I have a lot of family in Texas, so I
Speaker 4: think a lot of what it is built inside of me,
Speaker 4: is built from like my family roots in Texas, and
Speaker 4: even though I grew up in Oklahoma, I'm still the
Speaker 4: Texas boy at heart. So I just think, like, for me,
Speaker 4: I kind of stood out that way as far as
Speaker 4: like my competitiveness and what I like, how I thought
Speaker 4: every day and how I.
Speaker 3: Like attacked everything. It was just a different approach.
Speaker 4: I even played football like second grade till about eighth
Speaker 4: grade until I had to really give it up and
Speaker 4: make a choice.
Speaker 3: But I'm really a Texas boy.
Speaker 4: I mean, I grew up in Oklahoma, so I'm gonna
Speaker 4: claim that and I'm always gonna ride for my state.
Speaker 4: But I got a lot of Texas blood in me too,
Speaker 4: So I feel like that's where I got a lot
Speaker 4: of that toughness from too.
Speaker 2: And you definitely got a lot of that.
Speaker 1: Be careful, man, you may not be able to go
Speaker 1: back to Oklahoma and talking about it.
Speaker 4: No, No, because I grew up No, I mean because
Speaker 4: trust me, everywhere I go I read Oklahoma. It's on
Speaker 4: my signature shoes, It's on I mean, it's on my pages,
Speaker 4: It's on everything I read Oklahoma. But I think a
Speaker 4: lot of people forget, like I think that's the part
Speaker 4: of the reason why I stand out separately. I'm trying
Speaker 4: to add that type of DNA to everybody in Oklahoma,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. But like that's that's kind
Speaker 4: of like how I was kind of up. I mean,
Speaker 4: my upbringing brought me to.
Speaker 2: Now that's incredible. Talk to me about you're growing up.
Speaker 1: You're coming up in the era where Blake Griffin gold
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma, Russell Westbrooks playing in Oklahoma, Kevin Durantz playing
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma, James Harden for a short stint playing in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about the impact that that had on you.
Speaker 1: Having those guys in that state playing basketball at the
Speaker 1: level they were playing.
Speaker 2: It that why you're coming up.
Speaker 3: I mean it was big for me.
Speaker 4: Like I'll never forget being a I was a ball
Speaker 4: boy at the University of Oklahoma when I was in
Speaker 4: like fourth fifth grade, when Blake was at school, So
Speaker 4: I was a ball boy. I wasn't that specific game
Speaker 4: whenever Blake played Steph in college and everybody knows about
Speaker 4: Davison coming Oklahoma, and.
Speaker 3: I wasn't a ball boy that game.
Speaker 4: But that year I was ball boying too, So I
Speaker 4: had a lot of ties to that university, even when
Speaker 4: I was back a kid.
Speaker 3: But Blake was a big role model for me.
Speaker 4: And then obviously when the Thunder came, it was like
Speaker 4: the biggest thing in Oklahoma for us. We don't have
Speaker 4: an NFL team, we don't have a hockey team, we
Speaker 4: don't have anything else.
Speaker 3: We do have an NBA team and.
Speaker 4: So, but even before that, when it was Oklahoma City
Speaker 4: Hornets and Chris Paul was there, like before the Thunder
Speaker 4: got there, I was a big fan and a big
Speaker 4: admirer of his.
Speaker 3: And like, so I've been a student of the game
Speaker 3: since back then.
Speaker 4: But when Russ and KT and they were rookies and
Speaker 4: second year players in the league and Oka see, it
Speaker 4: was like my eyes was focused on them and how
Speaker 4: can I be at that level?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So, like they've been big role models for me from
Speaker 4: a distance ever since then. And so Blake, I mean,
Speaker 4: like you said, Katie and Russ, I tried to take
Speaker 4: a little bit from from every one of those guys.
Speaker 2: That's incredible.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: When I when I introduced you, I talked about the
Speaker 1: chip on your shoulder being larger than life, larger than earth.
Speaker 1: As someone who came through this league and had to
Speaker 1: have a chip, second round pick, undersize, too too fat
Speaker 1: to play this position, too slow to play that position,
Speaker 1: too small to play this position.
Speaker 2: I had to have that chip.
Speaker 1: And so when I watch you, I feel like I
Speaker 1: can understand you a lot more than most can, because
Speaker 1: although you're a point guard, you're undersized. When we start
Speaker 1: talking about the NBA, talk to me about how important
Speaker 1: having that chip is and what's done for you in
Speaker 1: your career coming this far.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean to be honest with you, I've been
Speaker 4: undersized my whole life, Like seeing like I used to
Speaker 4: want to go play with my dad and like he
Speaker 4: would go to the y like six thirty seven thirty
Speaker 4: in the morning, go.
Speaker 3: Play pick up with the older guys.
Speaker 4: I'd be twelve thirteen year old and want to go
Speaker 4: play with those guys and just jump in and just
Speaker 4: play with the older guys. And so I've always played up,
Speaker 4: Like even on my AU teams before I got to
Speaker 4: high school, I was playing up against older guys. So
Speaker 4: I was always a smaller guy. So I'm kind of
Speaker 4: used to that type of thing. But as I started
Speaker 4: playing my age and it was started level out a
Speaker 4: little bit more I was able to.
Speaker 3: Show my skills and be better.
Speaker 4: But I've always kind of like used that undersize that,
Speaker 4: I mean, you're too small to your game to translate
Speaker 4: to the next level. It's kind of like a motivation.
Speaker 4: Like you said, that chip on my shoulder, but I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think about it too much anymore. But because
Speaker 4: I know who I am, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But I definitely remember as a kid being that smaller guy,
Speaker 4: being on the sidelines waiting for my dad's team to
Speaker 4: lose so I could try to get on his team
Speaker 4: on the next one. Like I just remember always playing
Speaker 4: up and being that smaller guy. So it ain't never
Speaker 4: been nothing new to me.
Speaker 1: So that's interesting because I I what you just said,
Speaker 1: I try not, like I know who I am, I
Speaker 1: try not to really have that anymore. And I think
Speaker 1: that's a very interesting thing because and I'll talk to
Speaker 1: you from my experience, and I'm asking if yours is
Speaker 1: the same. So you come into this league and underdog
Speaker 1: chip on his shoulder. I came in a little differently
Speaker 1: than you. I was the thirty fifth pick. He was
Speaker 1: the fifth pick. So but like I said, some of
Speaker 1: those similarities and the same things they were saying about
Speaker 1: me in a much different way about you. You use
Speaker 1: that chip every day to get you going, every day,
Speaker 1: to push you past this guy.
Speaker 2: I want to destroy this guy in front of me.
Speaker 1: You use that chip on your shoulder, and while you're
Speaker 1: climbing up, everybody love it. Everybody's like, oh man, you
Speaker 1: see you see him. He he has passion. You know,
Speaker 1: he don't take no shit from nobody at this and
Speaker 1: that thing, and everybody applauded. And then when you and
Speaker 1: what it seems like to me, once you get to
Speaker 1: a space of you've had success as far as accolate
Speaker 1: it's all Star on NBA. But most importantly, as we
Speaker 1: all know, people in the world, when they talk success,
Speaker 1: they just success by money. And so then you get
Speaker 1: the max contract and all of a sudden and they
Speaker 1: don't really accept that chip anymore because they're now looking
Speaker 1: at you like, wait, you're not an underdog. You're making
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars like you mean, you're an underdog.
Speaker 2: And so now that.
Speaker 1: Very thing that helped you succeed, they're now trying to
Speaker 1: use against you. That has that been your experience and
Speaker 1: if it has, how have you tried to adjust to that?
Speaker 4: That's definitely I mean, that's definitely been my experience from
Speaker 4: looking at it from like it what it is, but
Speaker 4: like I thought, weird saying like with Spider Man, like
Speaker 4: with great power comes great responsibilities, Like I think me
Speaker 4: getting that mass contract came with a lot of responsibilities,
Speaker 4: and like for me, that's how I look at it,
Speaker 4: Like no matter what other what someone else says about
Speaker 4: me or what they expect for me to do for
Speaker 4: myself and for my team, like nobody has higher expectations
Speaker 4: than me, you know what I'm saying of myself and
Speaker 4: for my team. So whether I get the All Stars
Speaker 4: of All nbas or whatever, I mean, like I did
Speaker 4: get the next Like my mindset never changed, Like I
Speaker 4: want more, you know what I'm saying. And I know
Speaker 4: once I get that, what came with it? You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, The more scrutiny, the more the expectations rise,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, when you get that type
Speaker 4: of stuff, So I understand that and I accept it,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Like I feel like if
Speaker 4: you're in my position, you have to either accept it
Speaker 4: or or just turn it down. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: because when you get it, you know, it all comes
Speaker 4: with it. So I tried to learn to really just
Speaker 4: accept it and then try to move each day, I
Speaker 4: mean the right way.
Speaker 3: So I just just had to accept it.
Speaker 1: For with being the face of the franchise as you are.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've been a face of a franchise since
Speaker 1: you walk into the NBA, which is tough. Then most
Speaker 1: people have a chance to grow to that. You know,
Speaker 1: you've been that from the beginning. Talk to me about
Speaker 1: some of the difficulties of that, because I think people
Speaker 1: just look at it and they think, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's just basketball, like how you perform at seven pm
Speaker 1: on Tuesday night, on Thursday night, Friday night. People have
Speaker 1: this idea in their mind, Oh that's what a face
Speaker 1: of a franchise is. Talk to me about the difficulties
Speaker 1: of being the face of a franchise that most people
Speaker 1: don't even have a clue comes with with that.
Speaker 4: I mean for me being like the face of the franchise,
Speaker 4: it's like it was a lot tougher for me coming
Speaker 4: into the league.
Speaker 3: Obviously being nineteen.
Speaker 4: When you're young in that facing franchise, you don't necessarily
Speaker 4: know everything, and if you don't have a vet around you,
Speaker 4: that's really putting that into your ear and how you
Speaker 4: need to move, how you need to talk to your teammates,
Speaker 4: communicate with your teammates, spend time with them, because that
Speaker 4: stuff goes a long way. And I feel like for me,
Speaker 4: I was able to learn, thankfully through a situation where
Speaker 4: we I mean, we were rebuilding and so we weren't
Speaker 4: really expected to win, So it was a place for
Speaker 4: me I can go and I can really learn through
Speaker 4: the through the thicket things and play through games and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. So I just I think people don't
Speaker 4: understand when you're nineteen, you come in, you're leading, trying.
Speaker 3: To lead grown men.
Speaker 4: You're thirty year olds, twenty eight year olds who have
Speaker 4: family kids. You've playing video games in your dorm room
Speaker 4: all year, your freshman year of college. You just all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, now you got to go spend time
Speaker 4: and dinners and nice dinners and all these things.
Speaker 3: With these with these dudes. Just like it's an adjustment period.
Speaker 4: And so for me, like, thankfully I was able to
Speaker 4: go through that justin period early on rather than now.
Speaker 4: And now I'm still relatively young and I'm able to
Speaker 4: learn a lot more.
Speaker 3: And I've had vets that came around, like Rondo, like
Speaker 3: lou Will, like Jeremy Lynn.
Speaker 4: When I was a rookie, he had been through insanity
Speaker 4: and everything about him and everything. So I was able
Speaker 4: to pick their brains and ask them questions. And so
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just thankful out of baby. I was
Speaker 4: able to learn through some struggles early on to be
Speaker 4: where I'm at now, and so it's supposed to only
Speaker 4: be better from here on out.
Speaker 1: Speaking of rebuilding, I think you guys did something that
Speaker 1: a most people didn't give you a chance or didn't expect.
Speaker 1: You all went to the conference finals, like really ahead
Speaker 1: of time in that process of rebuilding. Do you think
Speaker 1: that changed the expectation and narrative on you because all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're rebuilding and you're leading this rebuild,
Speaker 1: and then you go to the conference finals, and now
Speaker 1: there's an expectation the next year and the reality is
Speaker 1: you're really still in that same window that you were in.
Speaker 2: You just had some success. Do you think that that
Speaker 2: changed things for you?
Speaker 3: For sure?
Speaker 4: I think that definitely like changed the outlook of our
Speaker 4: team and where we were supposed to go and where
Speaker 4: we were headed, because we were like we were on
Speaker 4: the track of just continue to get better. We I mean,
Speaker 4: like we weren't the most talented team and left in
Speaker 4: the playoffs, but we had some talented guys, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. But we had guys that clicked at
Speaker 4: the right moment and it happened. But going into the
Speaker 4: next season, obviously the expectations are higher because you you
Speaker 4: went to the conference finals.
Speaker 3: We went further than what we were expected to be
Speaker 3: and so.
Speaker 4: If we don't get better as a team, like everybody's
Speaker 4: gonna be coming for us, everybody's gonna catch us. And so, uh,
Speaker 4: I think that's what happened that next year, being knocked
Speaker 4: out in the first round. But uh, like I just
Speaker 4: it definitely changes things when you go that far. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, you you win championships, you're expected to win
Speaker 4: championship the next year, where you ain't supposed to be
Speaker 4: knocked down in the first round. So it's like you, uh,
Speaker 4: you have to learn through it, and you go through it.
Speaker 4: And that's definitely something that I've I've learned through the
Speaker 4: process of whenever you get that far, you're expected to
Speaker 4: go that that's that same route or even further than
Speaker 4: next year.
Speaker 3: So I don't.
Speaker 4: I'm not mad at it, because that's that's my expectations.
Speaker 4: I expected to go further that next year. I feel
Speaker 4: down when we didn't. So I'm never mad at a
Speaker 4: fan of our team that that feels that we should
Speaker 4: be better than what we were the year before, because
Speaker 4: that's that's my expectations too.
Speaker 2: Incredible. I have a question for you all.
Speaker 1: Do you think I spoke about this earlier I don't know,
Speaker 1: many many weeks and months ago, about European players being
Speaker 1: judged differently than American players.
Speaker 2: Do anyone here agree? Disagree?
Speaker 1: Nobody agree that Americans are judged harder, right, Okay, I
Speaker 1: agree to I said all of that to say, Luca
Speaker 1: is incredible. One of the guys I absolutely hate Garden
Speaker 1: like yourself, great player, you've been all NBA, he's all NBA.
Speaker 1: You've been All Stars, he's an All Star. Neither has
Speaker 1: won MVP. Both has led their team to the conference finals,
Speaker 1: yet they have a playing game which.
Speaker 2: His team didn't make the playing game.
Speaker 1: Your name's being thrown around in trade talks the day
Speaker 1: of the game, thrown around in trade talks.
Speaker 2: Have not heard anyone ever.
Speaker 1: Say Lucas should be traded. Anybody else ever heard that.
Speaker 1: I've never heard it. But you've done some of the
Speaker 1: same things. How does that make you feel or do
Speaker 1: you even think about that?
Speaker 2: When?
Speaker 1: Because you two are always compared because of the draft
Speaker 1: day trade and so everybody's always comparing you to guys
Speaker 1: whereas he and his career, whereas he and the reality
Speaker 1: is when you take a step back, you're very close
Speaker 1: in points. You probably I think you probably lead and assist.
Speaker 1: But the narrative out there is that the say talk
Speaker 1: to me about that and just living that.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's I mean, it's to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: I don't even I don't even stress of it no
Speaker 4: more like I just I know the real ones get
Speaker 4: it for really, you know what I'm saying, Like I
Speaker 4: feel like for me, once I win a championship, they'll
Speaker 4: even open up more more eyes to what I've really
Speaker 4: done and what I've I mean, especially to some of
Speaker 4: my peers that I'm compared with and compared to. So
Speaker 4: to be honest with you, I have no hate towards nobody,
Speaker 4: especially Luca.
Speaker 3: Me and him talk.
Speaker 4: We talk all the time, like we got a lot
Speaker 4: of love for each other, a lot of respect for
Speaker 4: each other. But I mean, I do agree with you.
Speaker 4: It's different agendas and different and the way people look
Speaker 4: at certain people is different.
Speaker 3: But to be honest, I don't get caught up into it.
Speaker 3: I feel like.
Speaker 4: Eventually people are going to understand what it is and
Speaker 4: Mike realize that it's not It's not that far off.
Speaker 4: Obviously he's a really good player, hell of a player.
Speaker 4: But it's like we kind of do the same things.
Speaker 4: He's six' eight, I'm six six two sixty three. Like
Speaker 4: we just were different sides. But I mean he can
Speaker 4: play like I can play.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. We can we can both
Speaker 3: hoop so at the same time, that's just what it is.
Speaker 2: I respect that.
Speaker 1: And speaking of which, I want to roll this clip
Speaker 1: from earlier this year.
Speaker 2: I went on Taylor Rook Show.
Speaker 1: And I said something about you, and I really appreciate
Speaker 1: it the way you responded to it. Because people people
Speaker 1: get in their feelings about a lot of shit. I mean,
Speaker 1: I used to get in my feelings about Charles Barkley,
Speaker 1: so I understand.
Speaker 3: That I really get it too.
Speaker 1: But people really get in their feelings when you say
Speaker 1: something like sitting on this media side, and so I
Speaker 1: always can appreciate the way guys respond to it, and
Speaker 1: I love the way you responded. But I said something
Speaker 1: and it's right along those same lines of what you
Speaker 1: just said.
Speaker 2: So can we roll that clip?
Speaker 1: I personally think Trey has in his mind he's taken
Speaker 1: on this villain role.
Speaker 2: And he's bought into it, and he is dove head
Speaker 2: first in. He's good enough to take it on.
Speaker 1: And still play well and still betray young and still
Speaker 1: being All Star and be fine.
Speaker 2: But I personally think it's the wrong approach.
Speaker 1: So what brings me to this is, you know, speaking
Speaker 1: about the agendas because and I, by the way, when
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, I've been wrong before in situations, as we
Speaker 1: all know, I'll be the first to raise my hand
Speaker 1: and say I'm wrong. I don't need you to tell
Speaker 1: me i'm wrong. I'm the first to know, trust me.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't appeal technical files anymore. I mean
Speaker 1: to first tell you when I'm wrong. And I actually
Speaker 1: said this wrong here. I said, you're diving into this
Speaker 1: villain role. And the reality is I feel like where
Speaker 1: that all was birth really was the series versus the Knicks,
Speaker 1: where everybody in New York Knicks fans are fucking delusional
Speaker 1: and miserable. And I love New York, so don't pay
Speaker 1: me from y'all city, but they're hard.
Speaker 2: They are hard fan base.
Speaker 1: You go in the garden, you're hitting the shots, you
Speaker 1: bowing every timely shot you need to make, you make,
Speaker 1: You're making every play.
Speaker 2: And what I actually think.
Speaker 1: Now and continuing to watch and continuing to pay attention
Speaker 1: to it is you are very much so a showman.
Speaker 1: But yet that's been flipped and again talking agendas into
Speaker 1: being this villain. And I'll be the first to say it,
Speaker 1: being a villainous such like it's no fun when you
Speaker 1: but but when it's up against you, you either fold
Speaker 1: or you stand up to it. You go into it.
Speaker 1: And so I've stepped right into it. And people have
Speaker 1: now made you out to be this villain when in fact,
Speaker 1: the way you shoot the ball, the way you play
Speaker 1: the game, they don't vilify guys that do that, but
Speaker 1: they've done that to you. Talk to me about that,
Speaker 1: how you feel about that? Like do you do you
Speaker 1: embrace it at times?
Speaker 3: Well, like first off, like you said, like.
Speaker 4: Shit ain't really fun being a villain, Like you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like I don't like in that video
Speaker 4: I commented letting you know, like I didn't. I don't
Speaker 4: dive into that, Like I just I kind of feed
Speaker 4: off the crowd.
Speaker 3: Like if you were listening to the game.
Speaker 4: In the ten minutes left in the first quarter of
Speaker 4: Game one, the whole arena was yelling f tray Young
Speaker 4: like two minutes until the Boston Yeah, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So it's like, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 4: Like I'm just hooping out'm playing. I ain't said nothing
Speaker 4: to the cry I ain't boad, I ain't say as
Speaker 4: quiet as effing here. I ain't say none of that yet.
Speaker 4: Like I just really played off of played off of
Speaker 4: how they they I mean they guarded me and how
Speaker 4: the fans reacted. Like I just I come out playing,
Speaker 4: trying to win, trying to put on a show. And
Speaker 4: I mean, if the fans want to get into it,
Speaker 4: like in the with the Boston thing, like they started
Speaker 4: yelling it in game five late in the game. So
Speaker 4: it's like I didn't say nothing to any Boston fans.
Speaker 4: I think they was all cool with me. The whole time,
Speaker 4: and then Game five when they were up three to one,
Speaker 4: that's what happened, and then we hit the game winner,
Speaker 4: and that's why I'm looking at them. But it's like
Speaker 4: I just I really just feed off of the crowd,
Speaker 4: Like I really don't like being that way, but like
Speaker 4: it's been like way since high school when I was
Speaker 4: averaging forty my senior year in high school, going.
Speaker 3: To different very but that's that's kind of what it was.
Speaker 4: Like I was going to other arenas and they was
Speaker 4: chatting overrated if I wouldn't scoring, and.
Speaker 3: I was people loved it.
Speaker 4: And then I was scoring and finishing the game off,
Speaker 4: and so that's just how I kind of was looked at.
Speaker 4: And then videos of highlights when I come back in
Speaker 4: the NBA, that's how fans just gravitate towards that. And
Speaker 4: then it's just it's just what it is. But I'm
Speaker 4: not like that that type of person, Like I'd rather
Speaker 4: just go out there, put on a show, have fun,
Speaker 4: smile and get to win. So but if it happens
Speaker 4: that way, like you said, I ain't about to turn
Speaker 4: down from anything.
Speaker 2: So who is Trey Young?
Speaker 4: I mean really just a family person like I'm a
Speaker 4: when it comes to basketball, like I'm just I'm just
Speaker 4: so competitive, Like I've just been competitive my whole life.
Speaker 4: If you win, like I'm gonna make sure we run
Speaker 4: it back, make sure we can play again.
Speaker 3: Give me a chance to run it back.
Speaker 4: But I'm just super competitive, and I just in everything
Speaker 4: I do, and I just I try to bring my
Speaker 4: people with me and make sure my friends and my
Speaker 4: family is with me throughout the whole journey.
Speaker 3: And but that's that's pretty much it.
Speaker 5: New father, which I can relate to, Yeah, soon to
Speaker 5: be married next week, appreciate.
Speaker 1: It, which I can also relate to.
Speaker 2: I've almost been married a year now.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about having your first kid and what
Speaker 1: that has done for you as a man and as
Speaker 1: a basketball player, because I know when I my son
Speaker 1: is actually here somewhere, there is up DJ there you go.
Speaker 1: I know for me and having kids, it gave me perspective.
Speaker 1: Especially you come home from a bad game. Everybody you
Speaker 1: turn on your phone, everybody say you suck, you're this,
Speaker 1: You turn on the TV, you're the worst, You're that,
Speaker 1: And like you walk in the house, kids like.
Speaker 2: What's up that? Yeah, you been up to daddy? Like
Speaker 2: all love.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, I guess I don't suck as bad
Speaker 1: as everybody said. I must be pretty cool. But talk
Speaker 1: to me about the person. Just what having your first
Speaker 1: child has doffinite?
Speaker 4: H No, Like for me, like I said at the beginning,
Speaker 4: when I don't worry about like my height and my
Speaker 4: my height when I'm playing anymore, like I just I
Speaker 4: don't focus on too much of the negative attension and
Speaker 4: negative things that are said about me, or the false
Speaker 4: rumors that come out about me. Like I'm I'm focused
Speaker 4: on my team and my family and really my family first,
Speaker 4: especially with my son now being born, Like ain't nothing
Speaker 4: like it, you know. It's just especially having a son,
Speaker 4: like you just want to you want to make sure
Speaker 4: you're doing the right thing. So eventually when he gets
Speaker 4: older and he's seeing everything that you're doing now, it
Speaker 4: helps him become who he needs to be. So I'm
Speaker 4: just just trying to focus on every day living the
Speaker 4: right way and making sure I'm a great role model.
Speaker 4: So whenever he does see this type of thing, whenever
Speaker 4: he gets older, he he knows that I was doing
Speaker 4: doing the right things and that he can follow it.
Speaker 1: So speaking of his son, ole model those words can
Speaker 1: only help me or make me think of the word legacy.
Speaker 1: You're assuming be on your third signature shoe, and you
Speaker 1: recently just started a podcast, which I think is incredible.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about those couple of things and how
Speaker 1: those things can add to your legacy and what you
Speaker 1: leave behind.
Speaker 4: No my sinners, Like you said, legacy is important to me,
Speaker 4: especially in my family, like me and my dad talked
Speaker 4: about that all the time.
Speaker 3: It's about building that legacy.
Speaker 4: And having my third shoe is so surreal to me,
Speaker 4: Like just knowing like my favorite players growing up and
Speaker 4: having their own shoes, going to the stores making sure
Speaker 4: I got those. So I went to the court and
Speaker 4: felt just like those players, like I need to I
Speaker 4: need you to have that type of feeling. So to
Speaker 4: have my third shoe coming out here soon before the
Speaker 4: season starts, this unbelievable feeling, and then obviously started my
Speaker 4: own podcast. Is I mean influenced by I mean guys
Speaker 4: like you, Those guys like speaking their mind and had
Speaker 4: certain things come out about them that's not really true,
Speaker 4: but you don't really want to go to the media
Speaker 4: because they may take it a certain way.
Speaker 3: So now you have Now I have my own platform where.
Speaker 4: I can I can speak the truth, I can speak
Speaker 4: my mind, I can speak on what's real and what's not.
Speaker 4: And I mean there's been times on my podcast where
Speaker 4: I said I messed up in certain situations.
Speaker 3: So I just I get on, I get on, and
Speaker 3: I just I speak the real.
Speaker 4: So it's just a platform for me that I can
Speaker 4: do that, but also break break certain news and certain things.
Speaker 3: So it's definitely a.
Speaker 4: Good space now that I have a place and platform
Speaker 4: I can go and I can just chop it up
Speaker 4: and speak the real.
Speaker 2: For I think it's incredible.
Speaker 1: Man. When I first started this podcast, like I did
Speaker 1: not realize the voice that it gave me, and not
Speaker 1: that it's just like, oh, you start a podcast, you
Speaker 1: get a voice, like don't work like that, but people
Speaker 1: knowing where to find you speaking have like speaking on
Speaker 1: the topics that you wanted to speak on, the things,
Speaker 1: covering the things that you wanted to cover, Like it's
Speaker 1: been absolutely amazing. So I wish you were if I
Speaker 1: can give you one word of advice, it's one of
Speaker 1: the most important things that I've done. Colin Kyle Hurd
Speaker 1: is here who I'm partners with, and Colin asked me.
Speaker 1: He was like, like, you have a day job.
Speaker 2: Why do you work like this?
Speaker 1: Like you're doing all of these episodes, no matter what happens,
Speaker 1: you're doing this. And the reality is is because one
Speaker 1: thing stuck with me. Jj Reddick told me when I
Speaker 1: first started the podcast, because I had tried it before
Speaker 1: and I was so inconsistent, like I've do a podcast
Speaker 1: and then five weeks later.
Speaker 2: Do another one. It's awful.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I was doing. And he said,
Speaker 1: if you're going to do a podcast, one of the
Speaker 1: most important things you can do is deliver your content
Speaker 1: to your fan base, to your listeners, your subscribers when
Speaker 1: you're supposed to deliver it. You may be off a day,
Speaker 1: you may be off too, but every week you have
Speaker 1: to give you up listeners and your subscribers what they're
Speaker 1: looking for, because if not, they're gonna leave your podcast,
Speaker 1: and when they leave, they don't come back. They're on
Speaker 1: to the next podcast and that's their thing. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna then leave that podcast and say, huh, let me
Speaker 1: go back and see what Tray's doing over here.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Once they leave, they don't come back. So it's very important.
Speaker 1: We have very busy schedules. So if it's for fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: twenty minutes, making sure that my listeners and my subscribers
Speaker 1: get what they've gotten on a weekly basis. If I
Speaker 1: can give you one word of advice, it's extremely important,
Speaker 1: and to work as hard. And so back to what
Speaker 1: Colin Colin said for me, it was like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: all I know. Like as hard as you work at basketball,
Speaker 1: you have to work at the podcast. So the days
Speaker 1: that you don't want to get up and go to
Speaker 1: the gym, there's gonna be days you don't want to
Speaker 1: do the podcast. But if you're doing it, you have
Speaker 1: to commit to it because then that's how you make
Speaker 1: it great. That's how you build your fan base, that's
Speaker 1: how you build the audience. That's how your podcast gives
Speaker 1: you a voice that can be taken away because I've
Speaker 1: built a fan base that wants to hear what I
Speaker 1: have to say, and I've built that by being consistent
Speaker 1: in delivering them content that they want.
Speaker 3: Now you've done it the right way. You've done it
Speaker 3: the right way. We trust me. We all following. So
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: No doubt, And before we get out of here, I'd
Speaker 1: be remiss if I didn't speak on this.
Speaker 2: I've had two coaches.
Speaker 1: In my career, Mark Jackson, who is absolutely incredible for us,
Speaker 1: and and I've had Steve Kerr, who is one of
Speaker 1: the most win one of the most winningest.
Speaker 2: Somebody winning winning people in NBA history.
Speaker 1: And that's what I've had to learn from.
Speaker 2: It hasn't quite been that same path for.
Speaker 1: You yet, and being a franchise player, people blame you,
Speaker 1: Oh Man, Lloyd Pierce, this it's Tray Young Falk. Nate
Speaker 1: McMillan is it's Tray Young Falk. Now it's Quinn Snyder,
Speaker 1: who I think is incredible coach, incredible basketball man. Happy
Speaker 1: you will have the opportunity to work with him. But
Speaker 1: just walk me through what that's journey, that journey has
Speaker 1: been like and what you're looking forward to it, Quinn,
Speaker 1: Because by the way, we are who we say we are,
Speaker 1: and we are the narrative that we want to push.
Speaker 1: And so people try to push this coach killer narrative
Speaker 1: funk out of here. Like the people that push the
Speaker 1: coach killer narrative never had a coach, but they say
Speaker 1: you're a coach killer, which I don't quite understand. And
Speaker 1: yet coaches are getting fired all around the league every day.
Speaker 1: But then people try to come label you as that
Speaker 1: we're not rolling with that. That's ridiculous. But just talk
Speaker 1: to me about what that journey has been like and
Speaker 1: what you're looking forward to with Quinn Snyder.
Speaker 4: Ah that Okay, this journey has been tough, like because
Speaker 4: to be honest, I ain't have very many coaches growing up,
Speaker 4: like I've every year, Like I didn't really had too
Speaker 4: many different AU coaches, So like being labeled a coach killer.
Speaker 3: Was crazy to me.
Speaker 4: But I mean Lloyd coming in, he was my first coach,
Speaker 4: and uh having him like he was perfect for us,
Speaker 4: like we were a young team.
Speaker 3: And the thing is is LP would tell you.
Speaker 4: He was brought in to develop guys, like he was
Speaker 4: a development guy from Philly, like was getting everybody right.
Speaker 3: This is his first job.
Speaker 4: His first day on the job was basically my first
Speaker 4: day on the job too, So we came in together.
Speaker 4: I got nothing but love for LP. A lot of
Speaker 4: people want label it me versus him like he had. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we had some we butted heads a couple of times
Speaker 4: and certain things, certain situations, but we always had respect
Speaker 4: for each other. And so people don't always want to
Speaker 4: label that part and mention that part. But with Nate,
Speaker 4: like we got to the conference finals and he was
Speaker 4: Nate McMillan was our assistant coach at the time, or
Speaker 4: he had taken over halfway through the year, and he
Speaker 4: wasn't even guaranteed to.
Speaker 3: Go further on. He didn't know how longer he would
Speaker 3: he wanted to coach.
Speaker 4: But we went to the Eastern Conference finals and we
Speaker 4: were winning, and it got him his juices flowing. He
Speaker 4: wanted to keep coaching and keep coaching us, and we
Speaker 4: were all excited and doing that, and we wanted to
Speaker 4: keep rolling with him. And then obviously he was let go.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it was right after that next
Speaker 4: year or the year after, but uh, people wanted to
Speaker 4: use me again as a as a crutch for that
Speaker 4: and for real, like we had a really good relationship
Speaker 4: to begin with. That's always why he stayed and stuck around.
Speaker 4: So people lay with me as coach killer. Two of
Speaker 4: my coaches in the league, like, to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: it is I don't I don't really feel about it anymore.
Speaker 1: Like me tell you something, brother, you mad Miller like
Speaker 1: an extra ten fifteen million, but they say you killed them. Now,
Speaker 1: that's a hell of a sword to die on. Extra
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got some money. But nah, I definitely like
Speaker 4: I like, but I think Quinn, hopefully Quinn for me
Speaker 4: is my Steve curR, Like I hope, I hope Quinn
Speaker 4: is the guy that we win three four championships with.
Speaker 4: Like I just, I mean that's my plan, Like I don't,
Speaker 4: I don't see it. Further, I don't look. I'm not
Speaker 4: looking past Quinn. Like if something happens with Quinn tomorrow,
Speaker 4: Like if it happens, like people going to say it's me,
Speaker 4: but it's not, Like I just I want Quinn to
Speaker 4: be the next Steve Curve for me. So I just
Speaker 4: I've used and learned everything from all my coaches coming up.
Speaker 4: It's including LP and Nate, and so with whatever anybody
Speaker 4: has to say, like I know where my heart is
Speaker 4: on my head is I got a lot of love
Speaker 4: and respect and I've learned so much from both of
Speaker 4: those two. So I ain't got nothing but love for them,
Speaker 4: and hopefully Quinn is my Steve Kurr going forward.
Speaker 1: So by the way, I've bumped hands with Steve Kerr
Speaker 1: a million times.
Speaker 3: Oh we know.
Speaker 1: People say, oh, you bump hands with this guy, so
Speaker 1: now he's fired, it's your fault. It's not true. You're
Speaker 1: going to bump hisss. It's a very intense job. You
Speaker 1: have the coach and his star player. They're going to
Speaker 1: go at each other at times. That's what the job requires.
Speaker 1: We've seen that over and over and over again. It's
Speaker 1: not going to go away.
Speaker 4: And y'all still and you still fight through it, like
Speaker 4: y'all y'all butted his throughout the year, or something's happening
Speaker 4: like you've seen, it's been been public and then y'all
Speaker 4: find a way to get back together and go win
Speaker 4: a championship.
Speaker 3: Like sometimes you gotta go. You can't. It's not easy.
Speaker 4: Like anybody who's been in this business they know, like
Speaker 4: win the championship. Getting past the first round is hard.
Speaker 4: Like so winning the championship is it a whole another level,
Speaker 4: So like it's not easy. Like so I mean obviously,
Speaker 4: like I salute you all the guys, bron all those
Speaker 4: guys that be winning championships all the time, Like that's
Speaker 4: not that's not hard, that's not that's not easy.
Speaker 3: So I mean people.
Speaker 4: When people say you don't have to go through anything
Speaker 4: stuff like that, I mean confrontation with your coaches and
Speaker 4: players like sometimes it's good and it's what's needed to
Speaker 4: get better and push forward to be at the be
Speaker 4: at the end.
Speaker 2: One percent.
Speaker 1: I tell you what I look forward to you silence
Speaker 1: and everybody, because there's no better way to silence all
Speaker 1: the noise than to win. And you've won in your career. No,
Speaker 1: you haven't won a championship, but to get to the
Speaker 1: conference finals, that's so hard to do. And now you
Speaker 1: know what it feels like. Now you know how to
Speaker 1: work towards that, which showed this past year. You know
Speaker 1: you're getting the play in game, tough situation. What do
Speaker 1: you do you come out of it right away? Team
Speaker 1: who ends up going on playing the NBA Finals. No,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come in your house and I'm gonna beat
Speaker 1: you by the way on the day that they say
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get traded, you know, and that takes a
Speaker 1: special person. Like I said, but this will be it
Speaker 1: before we get out of here. I just want to
Speaker 1: know one of my favorite guys in the NBA. I
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of friends in this league.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: Probably self inflicted wounds, but hey, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: I also like a lot of people, but I got
Speaker 1: a lot of love and respect for Dejohnte Murray and
Speaker 1: traded to you guys last summer. Just signed an extension,
Speaker 1: well deserved. But you know that's paring y'all up in
Speaker 1: this backcorner. Now, talk to me about what Dejohntay has
Speaker 1: brought to the team and you know how that's going
Speaker 1: to be moving forward for y'all.
Speaker 4: Man, He's brought a lot to us, Like I mean,
Speaker 4: it's crazy fun fact our birthdays on the same day.
Speaker 4: He's two years older than me, he said to Himer nineteenth,
Speaker 4: so we already got a connection that way. But he's
Speaker 4: just like he's just a real dude, like you just
Speaker 4: what she sees, what you get. Like when you around him,
Speaker 4: you hear him talking. He talks about family, he talks
Speaker 4: about wanting to win, wanted to get better. I mean,
Speaker 4: him signing that deal for us now, I mean, just
Speaker 4: shows how much he wants to win. Like, it just
Speaker 4: shows how much he wants to because he could have signed,
Speaker 4: he could have signed next year and got way more.
Speaker 4: I means, still a lot of money. But that's I mean,
Speaker 4: that's the type of person he is. He wants to win,
Speaker 4: he wants to he wants to make our team great.
Speaker 4: And I just know from us, like we talk all
Speaker 4: the time, and so like we knew that it was
Speaker 4: gonna be an adjustment period last year with two pgs
Speaker 4: who are used to having the ball in our hands,
Speaker 4: so one of us going to play off each other
Speaker 4: and play on the wing, Like we got to learn that.
Speaker 4: So now we've been through a year now we're going
Speaker 4: to our second year together. We've we've kind of got
Speaker 4: some chemistry together, and we've been working throughout the summer
Speaker 4: too and talking and texting, so we I'm looking forward
Speaker 4: to what we we got going forward because he means
Speaker 4: the hell of a person before he is player too,
Speaker 4: So I'm glad he's on our team for sure.
Speaker 1: And when it's all said and done, we get to
Speaker 1: the end end of your career, what will Trayon be
Speaker 1: remembered as? And what do you does Trayon want to
Speaker 1: be remembered as? Because those could be two different things.
Speaker 3: Not on the top of my head though right now,
Speaker 3: Like what will and what is going to happen is
Speaker 3: the same thing.
Speaker 2: There go that chip. I love it.
Speaker 4: But for me, I just I pray and I hope
Speaker 4: that I'm just looked at as one of the best
Speaker 4: pgs to ever play this game. And I know if
Speaker 4: I'm one of the best pgs to ever just played
Speaker 4: this game, I'm one of the best players, and I've
Speaker 4: won championships and I've won certain things like it's and
Speaker 4: it all comes to winning. Like I remember my AU
Speaker 4: coach telling me when when it takes care of everything.
Speaker 4: So I remember being unranked and being winning PCHGM and
Speaker 4: becoming a top three point guard in my class.
Speaker 3: Like I just I just know winn will take care
Speaker 3: of everything.
Speaker 4: And so hopefully at the end of my career, I
Speaker 4: looked at as one of the best pgs to ever
Speaker 4: play this game, one of the greatest players that ever
Speaker 4: played this game. And that means I've I've won some championships,
Speaker 4: I've helped some some lives along the way and my
Speaker 4: communities and things like that, and I looked at as
Speaker 4: a as A as one of the best players.
Speaker 2: For sure, y'all give it up for my clutch brother, Trey.
Speaker 1: Y thank you brother, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Oh, y'all better appreciate it over.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that. Just oh yeah, I'm headed out.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wrap yourself for y'all. I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I respect guys who get it out
Speaker 1: the mud, who got a chip on their shoulder, who
Speaker 1: it's all not lined up for you to succeed, and
Speaker 1: Trey the challenges that Trey face that they'll never change
Speaker 1: being that size in the NBA, Like you're already a
Speaker 1: step behind, Like you already have so many uphill battles
Speaker 1: to fight and to become the player that he's become,
Speaker 1: but not only become, continuing to grow into. I think
Speaker 1: it's special. And I love when a guy's battle test.
Speaker 1: I love when a guy have to go through some
Speaker 1: ship and that's what he has, he's had to go through.
Speaker 1: Like we discussed people saying he's a coach killer and
Speaker 1: talking about trading him on the day he's going into
Speaker 1: a playing game and all these different things, and yet
Speaker 1: he just keep tracking along, tracking along, getting better each year.
Speaker 1: It's hard to get better. Every year you come to
Speaker 1: the NBA. Scouting reports changed, the way defenses are guarding you,
Speaker 1: change the way you're officiated, change, Like I think people
Speaker 1: don't realize officials are like, they're human beings. They have feelings,
Speaker 1: they're feeling. This may change shorts you. You may not
Speaker 1: get that call you once got, you know. And those
Speaker 1: are all of the things that he's been up against.
Speaker 2: And that's just to name a few.
Speaker 1: And to watch how he's continued to go and continue
Speaker 1: to carry a franchise. It's not hard, it's not easy
Speaker 1: to carry a franchise, and he's doing it, and he's
Speaker 1: doing it at the highest level. So I'm honored to
Speaker 1: have him as a guest. I'm honored to come up
Speaker 1: here and host The Draymond Green Show in front of
Speaker 1: you all.
Speaker 2: I thank you all for coming out. Until next time.
Speaker 1: That's a rap from The Draymond Green Show uninterrupted.
Speaker 2: Thank you Peace,