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Speaker 1: to the first episode of The Draymond Green Show. I
Speaker 1: am super excited to bring this to you guys, to
Speaker 1: bring my raw, unfiltered self and let you guys see
Speaker 1: a different side of me that you may not always see.
Speaker 1: Get get to know more of me, more about me.
Speaker 1: Then you may know, I know most people think when
Speaker 1: you think of Draymond Green, you you know you think
Speaker 1: it is hard nose, tough playing guy that plays basketball
Speaker 1: that may talk a lot of ship, get a few
Speaker 1: technicals here and there, but news slash, I'm a little
Speaker 1: more interesting and a little deeper than that. So this
Speaker 1: will be fun. There will be a lot of fun segments.
Speaker 1: You will have some very interesting people coming on to
Speaker 1: the show, whether it's basketball players, football players, maybe some
Speaker 1: football coaches, some basketball coaches, possibly some gms, but there
Speaker 1: will be some some venture capitalists, some CEOs. We'll go
Speaker 1: all over the map. So this this podcast will be
Speaker 1: for you, and no not just you the basketball fan.
Speaker 1: It will be for you who likes interesting, people who
Speaker 1: like sentistering conversations, and most importantly just want to learn
Speaker 1: new things and have fun. This week my guests will
Speaker 1: be coach of Michigan State Spartans football team, Coach Mail Tucker.
Speaker 1: I am extremely excited about having Coach Tucker on the show. Obviously,
Speaker 1: my Spartans are rolling. Coach Tucker has come in. He's
Speaker 1: taking our program back to where it needs to be
Speaker 1: and also the new heights. So I'm excited about that,
Speaker 1: And of course I'd be remiss if I didn't talk
Speaker 1: last night's game, the Golden State Warriors versus the Brooklyn Nests.
Speaker 1: Hell of a game, Hell of an atmosphere. Um, super fun. Man. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, somebody the other day was trying to build
Speaker 1: this game up. It's like, man, this is your first
Speaker 1: game playing k D under normal circumstances. Get the hell
Speaker 1: out of here, man, Like, is this the new storyline now?
Speaker 1: As normal circumstances? Last year Katie starts time back to
Speaker 1: the Bay, but there were no fans, you know. So
Speaker 1: it's always something build up. But nonetheless, when you're playing
Speaker 1: against a brother, um, a guy who has shared in
Speaker 1: the successes that we've had as an organization, a guy
Speaker 1: who was as important as anybody in our quest to
Speaker 1: two championships. Um should have been three. But things happening,
Speaker 1: and that is what it is. But to take the
Speaker 1: court and play against Kevin who was one of the
Speaker 1: greatest players ever pick up a basketball, uh, to to
Speaker 1: take the court alongside Steph Curry was one of the
Speaker 1: greatest players to pick up a basketball, James Harden, one
Speaker 1: of the greatest players to dribble the basketball, and then myself,
Speaker 1: as you know, the greatest defender to grace the basketball court.
Speaker 1: It was fun. It was a lot of fun, and
Speaker 1: obviously we got to win. Interesting enough, I thought we
Speaker 1: could have done a lot of things better. I thought
Speaker 1: we had twenty two turn overs. We could have done
Speaker 1: that a lot better. We put those guys on the
Speaker 1: file line a lot, especially in the first half. First quarter.
Speaker 1: I think they shotted Levin free throws. And our goal
Speaker 1: is to keep teams at twenty or below, so we're
Speaker 1: already over halfway there. Through the first quarter, you got
Speaker 1: James getting into the tea for our defense getting filed.
Speaker 1: Kevin is always tough to guard, and then Bruce Brown
Speaker 1: was getting off. And one thing we said at halftime
Speaker 1: is James Harden is going to get off, Kevin Durant's
Speaker 1: going to do what he does. That's just just the
Speaker 1: nature of the game we play. When you have a
Speaker 1: great score, it's hard to just completely shut those guys down.
Speaker 1: Now you can, you have your nights, and you can
Speaker 1: also make them take tough shots, but just to lock
Speaker 1: those guys down, it's tough to do. They had James
Speaker 1: with sixteen points a half, No Kevin was sixteen and
Speaker 1: a half James with fourteen, and then we have Bruce
Speaker 1: Brown with fourteen, and those are the ones you can't survive.
Speaker 1: So out of there, what fifty eight points they at
Speaker 1: a halftime. That's three guys with forty four of them. Like,
Speaker 1: so we needed to take Bruce Brown out of the game,
Speaker 1: and coming out in that second half, we did that.
Speaker 1: We took Bruce Brown at the game, and then we
Speaker 1: also were able to make a tough one on James
Speaker 1: and Kevin, which isn't always possible. But our defense has
Speaker 1: been incredible. I think our defense has been great all year.
Speaker 1: That's the reason we had the number one defense in
Speaker 1: the NBA. It's the reason we are twelve and two
Speaker 1: because our team is built on our defense. And that
Speaker 1: really showed up there in that third quarter last night.
Speaker 1: And you know, we went on the run and start
Speaker 1: the quarter, we went up thirteen points. Then we end
Speaker 1: up with Wiggins and Steff with four files and the
Speaker 1: game could have shifted there. I think that was kind
Speaker 1: of the moment where everybody's like, oh man, you got
Speaker 1: Wiggins off the court, you got stuff off the court.
Speaker 1: They're a thirteen points here, Collins Brooklyn run and it
Speaker 1: went the opposite away. I think we took that thirteen
Speaker 1: point lead and made it a twenty two point league
Speaker 1: and it was great. UM. I thought Luney's defense was
Speaker 1: incredible during that stretch. Gary Payton's defense was incredible during
Speaker 1: that stretch. My goal was to anchor our defense and
Speaker 1: try to be incredible during that stretch. I was able
Speaker 1: to make Kevin take some tough shots. De Lee was
Speaker 1: all over the court during that stretch, and Jordan's Poole
Speaker 1: was active on the defensive end. But even more importantly,
Speaker 1: we ran our offense through him and with with Stephan
Speaker 1: Wiggins out. UH. That was important and and it's very
Speaker 1: important for a young guy who's just kind of coming
Speaker 1: into his own who that's really his like one of
Speaker 1: few big games that he's playing in the NBA. Due
Speaker 1: to the lack of success we've seen over the past
Speaker 1: two years. He stepped up in that moment. He took
Speaker 1: great shots. Didn't make all of them, which is basketball
Speaker 1: and it happens, but he took great shots. We were
Speaker 1: able to get good things on the offensive end, and
Speaker 1: we were able to take our lead to twenty two points.
Speaker 1: And that was kind of Uh. I was kind of it. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're guys came back in after that point,
Speaker 1: or that maybe they were. They had a few guys
Speaker 1: in the start the fourth quarter, and then they kind
Speaker 1: of pulled the plug at the nine minute mark, and um,
Speaker 1: I was shocked because you know when when you have
Speaker 1: a score and like Kevin Durant, a score like James Harden,
Speaker 1: I personally feel like you always have a chance. And
Speaker 1: so I was a little shot, but you had an
Speaker 1: understanding the landscape of the NBA. They have a role
Speaker 1: in Cleveland team coming in today and you're down twenty
Speaker 1: two points, you expend a ton of energy in that
Speaker 1: fourth quarter trying to make a comeback. What if you
Speaker 1: fall short. If you do fall short and you have
Speaker 1: a tough, young, confidence Cleveland team coming in the next
Speaker 1: day and you're running on fumes, now you're risking losing
Speaker 1: two games. And so I definitely do understand um the
Speaker 1: logic behind uh Steve Nash to consultant who's now the
Speaker 1: head coach, pulling the plug and just moving on to
Speaker 1: the next day, because you know that's the NBA. You
Speaker 1: got eighty two games. Every game won't be your day.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously being on the team that was seventy
Speaker 1: three and nine. It may feel like every day was
Speaker 1: our day, and yet there were still nine times that
Speaker 1: it wasn't, and maybe another ten times that we just
Speaker 1: were able to squeak games out now more and so
Speaker 1: every day won't be your day. So I do understand, uh,
Speaker 1: Steve Nash pulling the plug and just moving on to
Speaker 1: the next day, which is today, and those guys take
Speaker 1: on a young, hungry Cleveland team that we actually take
Speaker 1: on tomorrow and the back to back in Cleveland. So
Speaker 1: I was an incredible game. I was really proud of
Speaker 1: the way our guys stepped up in that moment. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of people I've been talking a ton
Speaker 1: of ship, like, oh, their schedules week and they haven't
Speaker 1: played anybody, and that's why their record is this and that,
Speaker 1: And you know, I thought that was much of a
Speaker 1: statement game as a regular season game can be. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, no statements are truly made in the regular
Speaker 1: season because none of the ship matters once you get
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. But if there was a statement game,
Speaker 1: where if there is a such thing as a statement
Speaker 1: game in the regular season, I thought that was one,
Speaker 1: just because of the noise surrounding coming here to Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: playing against Kevin and James, which is always tough. Young team,
Speaker 1: coming off a loss, coming from Charlotte and having to
Speaker 1: bounce back from that, starting the road trip with a loss.
Speaker 1: I thought it was really, really, really a huge step
Speaker 1: in the right direction for our young team. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say we're that young. It's kind of a mixture of
Speaker 1: old and young. But I also thought we could have
Speaker 1: played a lot better, which is encouraging because in order
Speaker 1: you know, to to beat one of the best teams
Speaker 1: in the NBA with two of the best players in
Speaker 1: the NBA and such, you know, such a young point
Speaker 1: of the season for us coming on the road. I
Speaker 1: thought it was. I thought it was a big deal.
Speaker 1: But they encouraging part is we can play so much
Speaker 1: better and we and we beat that team the way
Speaker 1: we did, so some beautiful things. I had. Man, we
Speaker 1: gotta continue to build, continue to grow. Starting to hear
Speaker 1: all the noise about, oh man, the Warriors will winning
Speaker 1: championship and blah blah blah, that ship is not real.
Speaker 1: We have a long, long, long way to go. But
Speaker 1: I am enjoying and embracing the process of getting there
Speaker 1: and trying to help bring our young guys up to
Speaker 1: speeds as fast as possibly can. And I think we're
Speaker 1: starting to see that with young guys like Jordan Pool
Speaker 1: turned the corner, Johnathan Commen, guys in the last week
Speaker 1: starting to get minutes and really giving great minutes. And
Speaker 1: I can go down the list, but the reality is
Speaker 1: those young guys are coming along and we're twelve and
Speaker 1: two because of it. You know, when you when you
Speaker 1: think about the of the landscape of the Golden State
Speaker 1: Warriors and you look at the past, say seven years,
Speaker 1: those first five of those even years were brilliant, like
Speaker 1: r It was the championship, followed by Games seven lost,
Speaker 1: an NBA Finals, followed by two championships followed by a
Speaker 1: Game six loss after we lost two of the top
Speaker 1: players ten players in the world to injury UM in
Speaker 1: a matter of forty eight hours. But then you go
Speaker 1: past that, and you have two years in between that
Speaker 1: up until today. In those two years, we're not so pleasant.
Speaker 1: They were. It was a ship season where obviously Clay
Speaker 1: was out UM due to an a c L injury,
Speaker 1: Kevin had left, Andre had been traded away, and Steph
Speaker 1: broke his hand from not mistaken two or three games
Speaker 1: into the season. It's funny because I was looking at
Speaker 1: Steph showed me a clip. Uh. The other day, I
Speaker 1: have a lineup that I was on the court with
Speaker 1: that year in film. It was myself at the point,
Speaker 1: Glenn Robinson the third at two, Eric Pascal at the three,
Speaker 1: a Marii spellman at the four, and Willie cary Sign
Speaker 1: at the five. I think Glenn Robinson the third is
Speaker 1: is a very good player. I think Eric Pascal is
Speaker 1: a very good young player. A mari Uh in his
Speaker 1: time in the league, I thought he had really promising talent.
Speaker 1: And Willie Carliston is a very good young player. And
Speaker 1: then obviously I think I'm pretty decent myself. None of
Speaker 1: those pieces fit, though, and yet you will see lineups
Speaker 1: like that all the time. That's just what we had
Speaker 1: to row with. And during those times, a lot of
Speaker 1: people wrote us off. The Dynasty's over Draymonds. Why he
Speaker 1: can't do this, he can't do that. Steph Curry has
Speaker 1: no help. He can't carry a team. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he always needs help from He needed help from Kevin Duran.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. He can't carry a team. Plays while
Speaker 1: She's this, that another. They'll never be the same. Steve
Speaker 1: Kirk can't coach Bob Myer. This is a terrible GM.
Speaker 1: You go down the list, and the disrespects unbelievable. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have to know the disrespect is unbelievable by the
Speaker 1: way Clay keeps speaking out on it. Clay doesn't talk
Speaker 1: about any fucking thing. Clay doesn't even talk and yet
Speaker 1: this guy keeps fucking going insane about the lack of
Speaker 1: respect that that we we are getting as an organization,
Speaker 1: that we are getting as a dynasty. He just keeps
Speaker 1: going ape shit about it. But I get it because
Speaker 1: everyone wrote us off and yeah, here we are, um
Speaker 1: two years later, sitting in first place, uh in the
Speaker 1: in the NBA, and hey man, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: basketball left to be played. Like I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and act like, man, we're sitting in first place
Speaker 1: at game sixty, like it's game fifteen. Let's not get
Speaker 1: ahead of ourselves. But as a champion, I know what
Speaker 1: it takes to be a champion. So I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about getting ahead of myself because I know how hard
Speaker 1: it is to win the champion ship. But what I
Speaker 1: do know is we have a damn good team and
Speaker 1: we will continue to grow. We will get Clay back,
Speaker 1: we will get Wiseman back, and those are two more
Speaker 1: important pieces to what we're trying to rebuild here. And
Speaker 1: I think it can and it can and will be
Speaker 1: really special. But all the fucking doubt over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. It's funny. I called my fiance late
Speaker 1: last night and I was talking to her about all
Speaker 1: the doubt and just like all the ship, and she
Speaker 1: said some good things to me. It was it was
Speaker 1: actually beautiful to hear. But the doubt has been insane
Speaker 1: over the last two years. And two come back and
Speaker 1: be right back there at the top of the league
Speaker 1: with with the good teams in the league today, with
Speaker 1: hopes are competing for a championship. It's a beautiful filling
Speaker 1: And I still think, you know, we get ourselves there. Um,
Speaker 1: we know what it takes to win, We know how
Speaker 1: to get it, John, But we're a long ways away,
Speaker 1: and we got a lot of improvements to make as
Speaker 1: the course of the season goes on. But if we
Speaker 1: stay dedicated to the process of reaching of getting the championship,
Speaker 1: dedicated to to the what it takes daily to win
Speaker 1: a championship. You can, we can put ourselves in contention,
Speaker 1: and that's all you can ask for is to give
Speaker 1: yourself a chance to be in contention. And I think
Speaker 1: if we continue to work, continue to stay committed obviously, uh,
Speaker 1: stay healthy and get healthier, um, we can give ourselves
Speaker 1: a real chance. And I like that. And boy, don't
Speaker 1: let us win a fucking championship because you gotta hear
Speaker 1: from me. So those are my thoughts about the Warriors
Speaker 1: possibly compete and winning the championship. As I know, as
Speaker 1: I said before, the noises out there, man, we all
Speaker 1: hear it now that the Warriors are gonna win and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But tossing into another guy who I
Speaker 1: think is going to win the championship, the first guy
Speaker 1: who would be an assistant coach with coach Nick Saban
Speaker 1: and take Coach Saban down, Coach Meil Tucker extremely excited
Speaker 1: to have him on the show, obviously, it's this is
Speaker 1: a near and dear one to my heart. I think
Speaker 1: it's very well documented my love and affinity for my
Speaker 1: alma mater, Michigan State University. I couldn't be more proud
Speaker 1: and thrilled to have Coach Tucker on this show for
Speaker 1: the first episode, and such a huge week. We got
Speaker 1: Ohio State this week, which I'll be at the game
Speaker 1: and I am fucking pumped about go support my Spartans.
Speaker 1: The Heisman of two thousand twenty one, they say, candidate,
Speaker 1: I say the Heisman. Kenneth Walker, the butliting a cough
Speaker 1: winner too thousand one. Jaden Reid Peyton Thorne continues to
Speaker 1: grow as a quarterback. I am looking forward to him
Speaker 1: being the next great quarterback out of Michigan State. We all,
Speaker 1: sir saw Kirk Cousins doing and what he's doing, and
Speaker 1: here we are Coach Tucker and built this thing up.
Speaker 1: So tossing it over to Coach Tucker. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: first episode of the Draymond Green Show. Coach Tucker. What's uping?
Speaker 1: How you doing, Draymond? I'm doing great, man, Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me. Man, I can't complain. How are you doing? Brother?
Speaker 1: I am fantastic, I am incredible. I appreciate you coming
Speaker 1: on here. Obviously. You know my my smarting blood run
Speaker 1: deep as yours do as well. Um, and I you
Speaker 1: know when you you've brought that energy back to the program,
Speaker 1: which we are all excited to see and and extremely appreciative.
Speaker 1: How how are you feeling so far about this season?
Speaker 1: I know we all see it from one perspective and
Speaker 1: we're excited, but you know, coaches sometimes can have a
Speaker 1: different respect. So how are you feeling about it? You
Speaker 1: know what, I feel like we're moving in the right direction.
Speaker 1: I really like this team. They're fine group to coach. Uh.
Speaker 1: They play extremely hard. Uh, they played for each other.
Speaker 1: You know, they played with toughness, mental and physical toughness.
Speaker 1: Got a great staff here to work with. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not a one man show over here. And you
Speaker 1: know we're building something special and you know it's it's
Speaker 1: a process. Um. We shifted the culture. We're cementing the
Speaker 1: culture right now, you know, every day, and I really
Speaker 1: I really enjoy the process. And I'm proud of what
Speaker 1: our guys have accomplished so far. But we're not done yet.
Speaker 1: That's that's beautiful to hear. Um. Obviously as a fan.
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, Uh, we we had a
Speaker 1: huge weekend in beating Michigan, and as as it should be.
Speaker 1: I know, you're tooling all against against the guys up
Speaker 1: the Highway, which is beautiful. But then we had to
Speaker 1: slip up, slip up against Purdue, and I personally love
Speaker 1: the way the team bounced back, But how do you
Speaker 1: as a coach go in and getting the guys refocused
Speaker 1: and understanding that, all right, we had our slip up.
Speaker 1: Now it's back to ask you, Well, the first thing
Speaker 1: is is to own it. You know, we have to.
Speaker 1: We can't allow to ourselves. You know, we have to
Speaker 1: take a hard look at ourselves as a staff and
Speaker 1: as players and go to the truth and go to
Speaker 1: the facts and say, hey, what happened. What happened? And
Speaker 1: you know it was death by inches. You know, mistake here,
Speaker 1: Mrs Simon here, miss block here, and miss taco, mental era,
Speaker 1: lack of communication, all those things add up and you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't beat good teams. You can't win road games.
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't do that when you when you
Speaker 1: when you beat yourself, you know is the margins are
Speaker 1: too slamming. So we went to the truth. We were
Speaker 1: honest with ourselves and uh, we learned our lessons and
Speaker 1: then we went back to world Uh, and it was
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing. And uh, you as a big team guy, man,
Speaker 1: you've been all over the big team coach. Obviously a
Speaker 1: Wisconsin graduate going on in Michigan State. You eventually ended
Speaker 1: up at Ohio State and then on through the NFL
Speaker 1: as you major round student NFL and to Colorado and
Speaker 1: now we're lucky to have you back at Michigan State.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, as a as a black man,
Speaker 1: as a black um African American donor UH to a
Speaker 1: predominantly Um Caucasian university, it was very refreshing for me
Speaker 1: to see an African American head coach come on and
Speaker 1: and take over for our program. You know, we have
Speaker 1: all these all of you know, so many students student
Speaker 1: athletes that are African American, and yet you know, it
Speaker 1: sometimes come off as if our African American men aren't
Speaker 1: worthy of coaching are our athletes? And I think it
Speaker 1: was very refreshing for me and a huge of the
Speaker 1: university and bringing you in as the head coaching and
Speaker 1: our football program. That's something that I think is great
Speaker 1: and now obviously followed up by an African American athletic director,
Speaker 1: which is also beautiful. So UM, you know, how do
Speaker 1: you feel about UH, the inclusion that it's taken place
Speaker 1: at our university and adding more people of color into
Speaker 1: positions and decision making positions and positions of leadership. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's important. It's it's a great those great
Speaker 1: points that you that you that you highlight. You know,
Speaker 1: Michigan State has always been a place of diversity, equity
Speaker 1: and inclusion. You know, I'm not the first black head
Speaker 1: football coach here. You know, Bobby Williams obviously was that.
Speaker 1: Um going back to the sixties, you know, Duffy Doherty
Speaker 1: in the football program, you know, integrated college football. There
Speaker 1: was twenty plus players black players on the national championship
Speaker 1: team in nineteen sixty six. And so it's always had
Speaker 1: a history of diversity, equity and inclusion. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's all there's always a work in progress, and UM,
Speaker 1: you know it's it's it's you've never arrived, You're never there.
Speaker 1: And so I know that, uh, my hiring here it's
Speaker 1: not just about me, you know, it's about it's about
Speaker 1: all of us, you know. And you know with a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty Division one football programs and maybe twelve
Speaker 1: or thirteen like head coaches, I know that that you know,
Speaker 1: I'm carrying the mantle and leading away. Um, for a
Speaker 1: lot of coaches, uh in the country, you know, young coaches,
Speaker 1: experienced coaches, you know. Uh, you know, I curate out
Speaker 1: responsibility and I know that you know, every one was watching.
Speaker 1: Everyone wants to see, uh you know how we do.
Speaker 1: You know how much success you know we have here
Speaker 1: as a program. And UM, you know, I don't take
Speaker 1: that responsibility lightly. And so it's something that I think
Speaker 1: about constantly. UM, that's just part of my experience and
Speaker 1: and part of my existence. But you know, I'm grateful
Speaker 1: for the opportunity, and UM, you know my you know,
Speaker 1: my my desire would be that more African American coaches, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, men and women, we'll get opportunities to be
Speaker 1: head coaches, UM, in the the major college level at
Speaker 1: all levels, and and also in the professional ranks. Speaking
Speaker 1: speaking of men and women getting an opportunity, we just
Speaker 1: saw done Stately getting incredible contract extension, which is well deserved.
Speaker 1: Extremely happy for her. I had the time the opportunity
Speaker 1: to spend some time with her this summer at Olympics
Speaker 1: because we were trapped into this hotel, couldn't go anywhere,
Speaker 1: and she's incredible. So I wurs extremely happy to hear
Speaker 1: that Um. I am also extremely happy to hear rumblings
Speaker 1: uh that that Tuck no longer come and Tuck staying.
Speaker 1: And you know, I heard some rumblings last week and
Speaker 1: that kind of put me on a learning Now there
Speaker 1: are some reports coming out, uh that that you hear
Speaker 1: to stay and you will be with us for a
Speaker 1: long time. Well that's that's my goal. And I came
Speaker 1: here um And I made it clear um in my
Speaker 1: initial press conferences that I thought the Michigan State was
Speaker 1: a destination job and not not a not a stepping stone. Um.
Speaker 1: And obviously I had big tim roots and played at Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: I'm from going on how my parents have three hours
Speaker 1: and fifteen minutes away. My wife was from Chicago. UM
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I know the big Tim last cake.
Speaker 1: This is where I started my career in as a
Speaker 1: graduate assistant for Nick Saber. So this Michigan stay, it's
Speaker 1: a special place for me. And so there was never
Speaker 1: my intention to come here, uh and just passed through. UM.
Speaker 1: I believe that we're building something special here. Um and
Speaker 1: and uh I've had two minutes support here uh to
Speaker 1: do that and we're on the right track. And it's
Speaker 1: it's beautiful to see. Um. I also noticed when you
Speaker 1: took over the job that you brought some former players back. Um.
Speaker 1: And I personally think that that's beautiful. Is I think
Speaker 1: it's it's important and keeping that culture. You know, it's
Speaker 1: important that guys embody Michigan State. And so I thought
Speaker 1: that was a beautiful thing. Can you share with the
Speaker 1: world how many form of players that you brought back
Speaker 1: onto the staff and how important that it is to
Speaker 1: you to have those guys? We'll shoot, I got, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's very important because uh, you know spartan dogs are
Speaker 1: those are the guys who built this program and if
Speaker 1: weren't for them, it'd be no me, you know. And
Speaker 1: so you know Courtney Hawkins uh is here as ours
Speaker 1: coaching our wide receivers. Um. He was at Flint beat
Speaker 1: Of High School and was head coach and athletic director.
Speaker 1: There was a great player here at Michigan say and
Speaker 1: all American played in the NFL. Great leader of of
Speaker 1: of men, Harlan Barnett was here previously. Whereab to get
Speaker 1: him back after a simile for the state is coaching
Speaker 1: our defensive backs again. You know a great player here,
Speaker 1: great leader, great family, family man. Uh just a great
Speaker 1: role model. Wessell. Have Kevin Bickerson here on our support staff.
Speaker 1: We're going on the defensive up side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Got Lorenzo Guests who played was on football scholarship but
Speaker 1: also played basketball. Uh here when I was here and
Speaker 1: in ninety ninety eight, he's in our he's in our
Speaker 1: he's in our weight room. Just finish his PhD. Darren
Speaker 1: Harris started, Yeah, it's amaz I mean these great spartans. Um.
Speaker 1: Darren Harris, uh wash is our director of player engagement.
Speaker 1: You know, he was a captain on the Rose Bowl
Speaker 1: team not too not too long ago. And so uh
Speaker 1: and I'm they're gonna be it. They're gonna be many
Speaker 1: more as many former players that we can get back here.
Speaker 1: Uh you know that, you know, we're gonna do that
Speaker 1: in whatever role. Uh, that that that we can that
Speaker 1: we can find. Um, I think it's important. Uh and uh,
Speaker 1: those guys they believe Green and White. I mean they
Speaker 1: it was blood, sweat and tears. I mean they were here,
Speaker 1: they lived at on the campus going to class. You know,
Speaker 1: they were they've done what our current players are doing
Speaker 1: right now, so they who better to show them the way?
Speaker 1: You know, the big examples to be role models, to
Speaker 1: to help leave these guys and help help show them
Speaker 1: the path to success. And I have a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for all of our former players, all of our
Speaker 1: spartan dogs. And that's as beautiful as as a former player.
Speaker 1: I say thank you to just have to see guys
Speaker 1: I was in school with Darren. We spent a ton
Speaker 1: of time together. Obviously know Bennie Fowler, Drell Worthy, those guys,
Speaker 1: Denzel Drone like that with those guys. So I spent
Speaker 1: a bunch of time around football players and and it's
Speaker 1: it's special to see guys coming back and Austin Thornton
Speaker 1: going back to the basketball team. I'd be remissed. Uh
Speaker 1: if if coaches O didn't come up and you and
Speaker 1: I talking, I see you guys are building up a
Speaker 1: real strong relationship. Someone who is a friend to me,
Speaker 1: a brother to me, a father figure to me, a
Speaker 1: coach and a mentor. I a extremely appreciative of that relationship.
Speaker 1: How how is that relationship growing growing with y'all, but
Speaker 1: also has grown since the time you come to the
Speaker 1: Michigan back to Michigan State. I'll tell you what man coaches,
Speaker 1: he's the best he's the best. And you know, I
Speaker 1: can see why all of this uh former players as
Speaker 1: current players while they love him to die. And I
Speaker 1: will run through a wall for him, because he'll run
Speaker 1: through a wall for you. You know, that's the type
Speaker 1: of guys. He's he's real. You know, everything is black
Speaker 1: and white, there's no gray. And if he tells you something,
Speaker 1: you can take it to the bank, you know. And
Speaker 1: he was he was here um when I was when
Speaker 1: I was a graduate assistant. You know, he had just
Speaker 1: been uh recently named the head coach, um and he
Speaker 1: was in the sensed to building build the program. And
Speaker 1: so I remember it was you know, Cleves and Mopete
Speaker 1: and and fail and and uh Antonio Smith and all
Speaker 1: those guys were you know and uh and there was
Speaker 1: always it was always here, always a very close relationship
Speaker 1: with the football program and the basketball program, which and
Speaker 1: it was coach Saban was really close with coaches. Oh,
Speaker 1: they han't known each other for a long time, um,
Speaker 1: And it was just it was for something. It was
Speaker 1: just it's very special that the football team and the
Speaker 1: basketball and men's basketball team here. It's it's like a family.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's something that you don't normally see.
Speaker 1: And there's no animosity between the programs and between the coaches,
Speaker 1: you know, which is a beautiful thing. And so when
Speaker 1: I when I was presented with this, this opportunity here
Speaker 1: in Michigan, say, one of the things that I wanted
Speaker 1: to know. The first thing is I want to know
Speaker 1: was where how they coach? It's a film about me,
Speaker 1: you know, I said, I wanted to know, like, where's
Speaker 1: where where's whereas that is on this you know. And
Speaker 1: and and I got a call from you know, I
Speaker 1: got a call from him and he said that he
Speaker 1: would you know, he was looking forward to working with me,
Speaker 1: and and uh and uh and he you know, he
Speaker 1: was he wanted me to be a spartan and things
Speaker 1: like that, and and that went a long way with
Speaker 1: me because he's been here at thirty plush years, you know,
Speaker 1: and he bleeds green and white, um and uh. The
Speaker 1: greatness of Michigan State Athletics, a lot of it is
Speaker 1: is due to him and and what he and what
Speaker 1: he's done and what he continues to do on a
Speaker 1: day to day, on a day to day basis. And
Speaker 1: it's he's he's not just the head basketball coach and me.
Speaker 1: He's an ambassador for the university. He cares about all
Speaker 1: the sports, all the other coaches, all the other coaches
Speaker 1: in the athletic department, I mean, all the owners. I
Speaker 1: mean he is he is, he is everything to all people.
Speaker 1: And so as a as it's coming in the door. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he would. He has been a tremendous asset
Speaker 1: to me. He has been a friend. Uh, he's he's
Speaker 1: counseled me. Um, you know, he's supported me, he's helped me.
Speaker 1: He's helped introduced me to to donors. Uh and uh
Speaker 1: and we and we talked about we talked about football,
Speaker 1: we talked about basketball, we talked about toughness, we talked
Speaker 1: about practice, we talked about all those all those things,
Speaker 1: former players, family. I mean, it's not a day that
Speaker 1: goes by that I don't talk to him, or we
Speaker 1: don't text back and forth. And um, and I just
Speaker 1: it's just it's been a blessing to me to have
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame coach, you know, right here with me,
Speaker 1: side by side, and I tease and all the time,
Speaker 1: I say, because we live in the same neighborhood, I said,
Speaker 1: I'm always pinching myself even Steven out to this day
Speaker 1: that I drive home and I get I get a
Speaker 1: chance to drive past Tomazo's house, because what mortgage jail
Speaker 1: for life is good? Right? Absolutely? Life is great. Man.
Speaker 1: I I definitely under if there's anyone that understands him
Speaker 1: and that relationship, I do because it's been you know,
Speaker 1: he always say to me, Draymond, You've done so much
Speaker 1: for me. But the reality is is he's done so
Speaker 1: much for me and and and teaching me what what
Speaker 1: it was to work hard, Like I didn't I got
Speaker 1: to Michigan State, I didn't have a clue what working
Speaker 1: hard was, you know, like teaching me how to carry myself,
Speaker 1: holding me accountable, teaching me further understanding my my understanding
Speaker 1: of the game of basketball, um, how to watch film,
Speaker 1: like all these things that matters. And yet will still
Speaker 1: call me to this day and say, what the funk
Speaker 1: are you doing? Why are you out there atvention? Blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. If I get in trouble with
Speaker 1: our general manager, our head coach, Steve Kerr, I'm getting
Speaker 1: a car from coaches though, And that's what I truly
Speaker 1: appreciate about him, you know, it's it's it's much further
Speaker 1: than just that those four years, and it's way further
Speaker 1: than just deeper than just the game of basketball. So
Speaker 1: I'm truly appreciative of that, and I understand, like y'all relationship. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I don't understand from a coach's perspective, but I do
Speaker 1: have an appreciation for it. Uh, speaking of of mentors,
Speaker 1: um as you say, you you worked for coach Saban
Speaker 1: at Michigan State, but you also worked for him at Alabama,
Speaker 1: and I think an incredible status. And I know you
Speaker 1: noticed that, and we all know it, and having I
Speaker 1: have a fund appreciation for and I'm sure you do
Speaker 1: as well. None of his assistant coaches has been him.
Speaker 1: And and it's it's funny because Smithy, Steve Smith as
Speaker 1: you know, he said, Draymond, I have a I have
Speaker 1: a lakehouse on the same lake is Nick, and Nick
Speaker 1: say Draymond, and Nick say, Steve ain't. None of the
Speaker 1: motherfucker's gonna beat me. I always speaking my sister coaches,
Speaker 1: so here we are obviously not to get to a
Speaker 1: too far ahead of things, but that could possibly be
Speaker 1: a matchup in the playoffs. And I'm sorry, Coach Saban,
Speaker 1: but you gotta go down this time. Ball. Tell you
Speaker 1: what coaches? Uh. I know Coach Savan since I was
Speaker 1: since I was senior in high school. He recruited me
Speaker 1: when he became the head coach of Toledo. Remember getting
Speaker 1: a phone call after school wanted Dad picked up the
Speaker 1: phone and it was Coach savan And saying, Hey, this
Speaker 1: is Nick saving from the use of oilers. I'm like
Speaker 1: used to oilers. I'm in high school. What's the deal
Speaker 1: he said? He said, he just got the job, the
Speaker 1: head job of Toledo where my dad played football and baseball.
Speaker 1: And UH. And that's when I got to know Coach
Speaker 1: Saban and and he gave me my starting coach and
Speaker 1: I usually coach. I was just his defense best coach
Speaker 1: at l s U his first year there, and then
Speaker 1: I went back there with him in h two thousand
Speaker 1: and fifteen. We won a national championship UM there and
Speaker 1: so he's he's he's taught me. He's taught me everything.
Speaker 1: He laid the foundation for me in coaching. Three of
Speaker 1: my first four years in coaching, I was with Coach
Speaker 1: saban And whether it was goach from recruiting UH to
Speaker 1: the player development to defensive scheme, uh you name it,
Speaker 1: you know, just running the entire organization, strength and conditioning,
Speaker 1: you know, operations. I mean he from A to Z,
Speaker 1: he knew what he knows at all. He's a great explainer.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing I love, one of the things
Speaker 1: I love about coach Saban. You know, he's very demanding, uh,
Speaker 1: in which he should be. And he's very detailed organ
Speaker 1: and he has since urgency. But he will always tell
Speaker 1: you why he wants things done a certain way. Give
Speaker 1: you He'll he'll give you great detail, explain to you.
Speaker 1: You know, he'll give you an example, he'll tell your story,
Speaker 1: and he'll tell you why so so. Uh. You know
Speaker 1: it's on you if you don't get it done, because
Speaker 1: he's gonna tell you exactly what he wants, how he
Speaker 1: wants and why he wants it that way. UM and
Speaker 1: and there and there's a reason why you know he's
Speaker 1: uh he's undoutedly the greatest uh coaching it in the
Speaker 1: game right now. And uh he's extremely tough to beat.
Speaker 1: Um whether you were a former, whether you're assistant or not.
Speaker 1: Because he's a relentless recruiter. You know, he's he's a
Speaker 1: great coach. UH And he never slows down. Um, and
Speaker 1: he's the first competitor. And it doesn't surprise me when
Speaker 1: I hear when I uh, when I hear that you
Speaker 1: he said that not his his assistance won't ever beat
Speaker 1: him because you know he's uh. He's an extreme, he's
Speaker 1: extremely kemp petitive, extremely and uh, losing is not part
Speaker 1: of his deal. I respect that. I had a couple
Speaker 1: more questions, and I'm gonna let you go as I
Speaker 1: know how huge this week is. And um, as I
Speaker 1: want to let you go for your own personal sake,
Speaker 1: I want to let you go for my personal sake too,
Speaker 1: because Michigan State win, I win. But I'm speaking of
Speaker 1: an important week. Um we we we got Ohio State
Speaker 1: this week. There's it's no secret of how big this
Speaker 1: game is, what this game means our season. And you know,
Speaker 1: as as an athlete, I always say, people say what's
Speaker 1: the best feeling as an athlete, and I always say,
Speaker 1: for me, it's going on the road winning a big game.
Speaker 1: And you can hear a fucking pencil drop in the stadium.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to this game. I'll I'll be
Speaker 1: there uh supporting and and the Green and White. So
Speaker 1: I'm definitely excited about that opportunity to be there. But up,
Speaker 1: what what do you feel we need to do as
Speaker 1: a team in order to go in there and and
Speaker 1: put Ohio State down and make our way onto this playoffs.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. We have to play compmentary football.
Speaker 1: You know. We have to have our offense and our
Speaker 1: defense and our special teams clicking on all cylinders for
Speaker 1: sixty minutes, four records in the game in order to
Speaker 1: get it done. We can't leave it up to one
Speaker 1: player one side of the ball. Um. We have to
Speaker 1: play conferentary football. We can't give them anything, you know,
Speaker 1: so we gotta play smart, uh, mistake free. You know,
Speaker 1: execution is going to be paramount. You know, do your job,
Speaker 1: trust your training, do your job and come on the
Speaker 1: man next next to you to do his um. And
Speaker 1: it's got It's going to be a physical game, you know.
Speaker 1: We have to bring the physicality. You know. We have
Speaker 1: to win a line of scrimmage on the offensive side
Speaker 1: and the defensive signing on special teams. We have to
Speaker 1: have some momentum players and we gotta win the failed position.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna you know, it's gonna take all of
Speaker 1: us we're gonna have a great plan. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: a great week of preparation. Uh and you know we're
Speaker 1: gonna go in there and we're gonna play Michigan State
Speaker 1: football and uh. And that's you know, that's rugged. It's physical.
Speaker 1: You know, it's uh, it's not necessarily uh fresh pastry
Speaker 1: is more meeting potatoes. Um. But you know that's how
Speaker 1: we that's how we play the game. UM. And that's
Speaker 1: where it's gonna take it. That's that's how that's how
Speaker 1: we love it. I I lied, I got, I got
Speaker 1: two more questions for your coach, Um. And as as
Speaker 1: a former football player myself who played in the spring game,
Speaker 1: it was terrible coaching. It's seth me off of failure.
Speaker 1: Is there any guys on our team currently that you think?
Speaker 1: I mean? And obviously and going out there for two
Speaker 1: days and playing two players in the spring game, I
Speaker 1: learned so much much and just more so, Um, how
Speaker 1: steep to learning curve is and why so many freshman's
Speaker 1: rant shirt because it's the learning curve at that level
Speaker 1: is insane. The physicality at that I was insane. So
Speaker 1: take this question with a grain of salt. I don't
Speaker 1: really think anyone could go out there and do it.
Speaker 1: But do you see some guys on our team or
Speaker 1: anybody for that sake, on our basketball team that could
Speaker 1: have made a great football player today. Man, you know what?
Speaker 1: Uh that's that's a that's a that's a very interesting
Speaker 1: question because it is. When I talked to high school
Speaker 1: UH football coaches. One thing that always comes up as
Speaker 1: they say, they say, I got I got all these
Speaker 1: guys on the basketball team, the thing they're gonna be
Speaker 1: NBA players. They would just come out here and play football.
Speaker 1: I mean if you around, you know that around and
Speaker 1: uh so like when I when I when I've gone
Speaker 1: over and I've and i've uh I watched uh the
Speaker 1: basket of the basketball practices and I see these big
Speaker 1: guys I mean six or six five six six six
Speaker 1: a six nine getting up and down the court. I
Speaker 1: mean like just flying up and down the court. Man,
Speaker 1: change the direction, ball skills, leaping ability, explosive initial quickness,
Speaker 1: all that. I can't help but to look out. They're saying, Man,
Speaker 1: I wonder what that guy was like. I I on
Speaker 1: the uh I on the out on the football field.
Speaker 1: I actually when I was at Ohio State and I
Speaker 1: was at Ohio State. UM. I remember sitting in a
Speaker 1: we were in the staff in the staff meeting. We're
Speaker 1: on a recruiting meeting and they put the film on
Speaker 1: of Akron st v uh when we're watching the player
Speaker 1: and we were like, man, who's that we need to
Speaker 1: offer that guy? It was Lebron James, you know, and
Speaker 1: us said, don't worry, but he won't be he won't
Speaker 1: be playing any football. This guy, he's got the first
Speaker 1: round picked. Uh NBA guy was at while you know,
Speaker 1: so I have I have seen that, you know, that
Speaker 1: type of greatness you know, on the on the field
Speaker 1: in terms of at the at the at the high
Speaker 1: school though. But yeah, there's no gut in my mind
Speaker 1: that the way the way the way coaches running this
Speaker 1: program and the toughness that that uh that those guys
Speaker 1: play with and what's requiring those prices, there's no doubt
Speaker 1: in my mind that those guys can come out here
Speaker 1: on the football field and uh it makes some places.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. I think. I think when I look at
Speaker 1: our squad, the person who jumps out at me is
Speaker 1: Malik Hall. Kids six seven, got all the physical tools,
Speaker 1: jump out to general run like a Deer. I think
Speaker 1: it's definitely Malik Hall. But before I before I let
Speaker 1: you go coaching, and again, I want to say thank
Speaker 1: you for being the first guess that the Draymond Green show. Uh.
Speaker 1: This this is extremely special to me, Man, and I
Speaker 1: can't thank you enough. But um, in that same spirit, UM,
Speaker 1: I'd also be remissed if I didn't mention the two
Speaker 1: thousand and twenty one Heisman candidate who I think is
Speaker 1: the two thousand twenty one Heisman, Kenneth Walker, who is
Speaker 1: coming transfer from from Wake Forest. Uh, and he's come
Speaker 1: to Michigan State. Man, and I don't know how long
Speaker 1: he'll be there with the way he's playing, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna enjoy him this year and what he's been able
Speaker 1: to do and what he's done for our football team
Speaker 1: is incredible. I just really wanted to hear from your
Speaker 1: perspective what's making him special and also his work ethic,
Speaker 1: Like what's his work ethic? Like? Oh, Man, So there's
Speaker 1: no doubt, there's I mean, it's obvious. Way is physical talent,
Speaker 1: talents are what I mean. He's an easy elite athlete. Um.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, he is an outstanding human being. I
Speaker 1: mean He is a great person hig I mean high character, tremendous.
Speaker 1: He's a humble guy, you know, not a real talkative guy.
Speaker 1: Is a great teammate. Um, I mean just a I
Speaker 1: mean just a prince of a of a man. When
Speaker 1: the day that I mean from the day, guy here
Speaker 1: and he goes in that weight room, he went that
Speaker 1: way room. I mean the strangth coaches were going nuts
Speaker 1: and man, this guy was walking in the door. Is
Speaker 1: one of our most explosive athletes. And he is a
Speaker 1: tireless worker. I mean he is a grinder. He works.
Speaker 1: He works like a guy who was a walk on
Speaker 1: who was trying out. He's just trying to get on
Speaker 1: the team. That's how he works every single day. And
Speaker 1: I mean we were really big until the sports science
Speaker 1: and the GPS units and and all that stuff. And
Speaker 1: we have to we have to closely monitor his loads
Speaker 1: and his reps because he does not loath, and we
Speaker 1: have to we have to back him down. We have
Speaker 1: to monitor his reps. Make sure we may say, hey,
Speaker 1: he's got twelve reps to the eight team reps are
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, and and or the rest of
Speaker 1: his walk or whatever, because when he goes he is going.
Speaker 1: And the reason why he's able to, you know, hit
Speaker 1: up a fifty yard run and sit and not because
Speaker 1: when he gets the ball in practice, he takes into
Speaker 1: the house. I mean that's what he does. I mean
Speaker 1: he he finishes everything and and he works on his
Speaker 1: past protection. Uh. In terms of his work ethic, he
Speaker 1: is um. He is a guy that you you point
Speaker 1: to and say, this is how you do it. That's
Speaker 1: how you this is approach that you're taking away room.
Speaker 1: This is how you that's how you need to do.
Speaker 1: That's how you need to run. This is how you
Speaker 1: how you need to uh, how you need to take
Speaker 1: care of your body, That's how you need to practice.
Speaker 1: I mean he he's that guy. So if you take
Speaker 1: a guy with a tremendous amount of talents like that,
Speaker 1: and and you take a guy with very very high
Speaker 1: character and you put an elite level work ethic with that,
Speaker 1: then what you have is you gotta you gotta hydsman candidate.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely that is and it's beautiful to see. UM.
Speaker 1: I definitely hope he get his due and obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: as as great as that will be for him, great
Speaker 1: for you, great for the program, great for all of
Speaker 1: US coach Tucker Man again, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: coming on being the first first guest at the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Show. I truly appreciate it. Looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: you Saturday. Let's get it done, coach. Yeah, well, I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to say you man, it's an honor and
Speaker 1: a pleasure to be on this this first podcast with you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna add this to my resume, man, I added
Speaker 1: to my bio and bowl letters man. And but I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, man. I appreciate, uh, everything you've done from
Speaker 1: Michigan State. I know you've you've given, You've given back
Speaker 1: in major ways. I know you you you spoke to
Speaker 1: our team a couple of summers ago when we were
Speaker 1: attempting to register all our guys a vote and talk
Speaker 1: talk about cilic engagement. Um, you know, you're just such
Speaker 1: a great role model for for you know, all of
Speaker 1: our student athletes here. I know coaches Oh talks about you,
Speaker 1: you know all the time, and um, you're just You're
Speaker 1: just one of the greatest spartans we've had. We've had
Speaker 1: a lot of great ones and you're certainly, uh one
Speaker 1: of those. And I just appreciate you and what you
Speaker 1: mean to Michigan State, What you mean to all of
Speaker 1: our all of our all of our players. Who I
Speaker 1: mean when you when when when your name is mentioned,
Speaker 1: guys odds light up, man. I mean, they just they
Speaker 1: just because they know they know what you stand for,
Speaker 1: You know how hard you play. They know the toughness
Speaker 1: and know that you care about people and it's more
Speaker 1: than just basketball with you. So it was certainly an
Speaker 1: honor and the pleasure to come on with you. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, absolutely, thank you coach for the first
Speaker 1: installment of Commissioner Dre. I am extremely excited and bringing
Speaker 1: uh this this kind of my vantished point of how
Speaker 1: I see things, uh decisions that I would make if
Speaker 1: I wash the commissioner um. Today or yesterday. We found
Speaker 1: out some huge news and it's huge because it is
Speaker 1: when when when you touch historical monuments, it's a real thing,
Speaker 1: like it's you know, people associate such great times or
Speaker 1: bad times or just times with historical things, and when
Speaker 1: you touch those things, you kind of shake ship up
Speaker 1: a bit. And so coming out of l A today, UM,
Speaker 1: we had such huge news that Staples Center will no
Speaker 1: longer be the Staples Center and it will be the
Speaker 1: Crypto dot Com arena interesting, very interesting because sometimes in
Speaker 1: life and especially in sports, certain things outgrow the actual
Speaker 1: thing that sits above it. And so, for instance, the
Speaker 1: Staples Center. The Staples Center severely outgrew the store Staples. Like,
Speaker 1: if you're anywhere in the world and you say I'm
Speaker 1: going to Staples, and especially in l A. But if
Speaker 1: you're anywhere in the world and you say I'm going
Speaker 1: to Staples, people are going to think you are headed
Speaker 1: to l A to go to a Lakers game at
Speaker 1: the Staples Center, to go to a concert at the
Speaker 1: Staples Center, to do something at the Staple Center. If
Speaker 1: you say I'm going to Staples, I think another example
Speaker 1: of that it's Oracle Arena, where I had the luxury
Speaker 1: of winning three championships or playing in that building and
Speaker 1: winning three championships. Most people doesn't even know what the
Speaker 1: company Oracle does. But yet if you say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to Oracle, They're never gonna think you're going
Speaker 1: to the company headquarters or something for the company. They're
Speaker 1: gonna think you're going to Oakland, California and go into
Speaker 1: the stadium that the Warriors play that And so sometimes
Speaker 1: you have those situations happen. And if fucking sucks, it sucks.
Speaker 1: It absolutely sucks when all of a sudden it comes
Speaker 1: up and there's a name change, because those names grow
Speaker 1: with those places. But the reality is, for instance, the
Speaker 1: Lakers signed a twenty year deal. In twenty years, who
Speaker 1: knows if Crypto dot Com will be the place and
Speaker 1: there will be some other big company that can afford
Speaker 1: the name and rights. And that's where Commissioner Dre comes
Speaker 1: in that, because what's the solution? Like, again, people tie
Speaker 1: like all these memories to these places. I mean one
Speaker 1: we are, we can all tie to two Staples. Is
Speaker 1: Kobe played there? You know, like Kobe played at Staples.
Speaker 1: Kobe didn't play at Crypto dot com arena, And so
Speaker 1: like just that whole thing. It's it's just like a
Speaker 1: it really does suck. So what is the solution. It's
Speaker 1: interesting because you ask yourself, well, should these arenas be
Speaker 1: named after companies because they're forever changing the landscape of
Speaker 1: America and our finances and Wall Street and companies and
Speaker 1: new companies and startups and the next Facebook and all
Speaker 1: of these companies, I guess, forever constantly changing and so
Speaker 1: we'll see more of this is just the late latest, greatest,
Speaker 1: huge announcement that we've seen, but we'll see mortists and
Speaker 1: more people will lose that sacred name that has grown
Speaker 1: with this place and with the successes of these teams
Speaker 1: and events that take place in these certain stadiums and arenas.
Speaker 1: And so the solution, I don't know, is it the name?
Speaker 1: Is it to name arenas after players? Well, Commissioner dre
Speaker 1: you can't do that because the player is in playing
Speaker 1: twenty seven seven million dollars for twenty years. As a commissioner,
Speaker 1: your number one job is to grow this lead, to
Speaker 1: grow the pot, to grow the revenue, to take this
Speaker 1: this league to new places. And so you're kind of
Speaker 1: faced with the task of do we change something that's
Speaker 1: so sacred and that's become so big and like a
Speaker 1: a staple, or do we stay with the name and
Speaker 1: not capitalized on seven hundred million dollars of revenue. As
Speaker 1: a commissioner, you must capitalize on the seven hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars revenue, as it is nearly impossible to make up
Speaker 1: seven dred million dollars revenue. But it's tough and it
Speaker 1: never since well with anyone. No one wants to say
Speaker 1: they're going to Crypto dot com arena because Crypto dot
Speaker 1: Com is bad, but because Staples and Staples it's it's
Speaker 1: it's historic. I grew up watching Code Me and Shock.
Speaker 1: When Championships at Staples, it sucks. And but as commissioner,
Speaker 1: you must take to seven hundred million dollars. So kudos
Speaker 1: to the Lakers and Genie Buss and Linda Rambis and
Speaker 1: getting a seven hundred million dollar name and rights for
Speaker 1: a stadium, because it is extremely impressive. So shout out
Speaker 1: to those two women continuing to do great things with
Speaker 1: that organization. It's a beautiful thing. But as a fan,
Speaker 1: the fan in me, I step outside, take my commissioner
Speaker 1: had the fan of me. You hate to see Staples go.
Speaker 1: You hate to see the name Oracle go because they
Speaker 1: just become so important to the makeup of these teams,
Speaker 1: to the history of these teams. You just hate to
Speaker 1: see it go. So you've heard of mean tweets. We've
Speaker 1: all seen them, We've all laughed about him in the
Speaker 1: same vein the guy who you know as the man
Speaker 1: who gets the technical files, who gets into the ship
Speaker 1: on the court, who tossed the ship on and off
Speaker 1: the court. I am going to give blind compliments. And
Speaker 1: what blind compliments will be That will be me hearing
Speaker 1: a random name from from my incredible producer Jackson. He
Speaker 1: will pull the name out the hat and it'll just
Speaker 1: be a random name for me. And I have to
Speaker 1: give a nice I have to give a nice compliment
Speaker 1: to that guy. I have to just say something nice
Speaker 1: right off the top of the head blind compliments, bringing
Speaker 1: this to you first episode of the Draymond Green Show, Jackson,
Speaker 1: who's our first person in the spirit of having Melt
Speaker 1: Tucker as the first guest on the show, the first
Speaker 1: blind compliments name Jim Harbaugh, Michigan head coach. Oh my god, um,
Speaker 1: oh man. He Jim Harball. He with us. He's our
Speaker 1: biggest He's Michigan State as biggest. Ally. We love you, Jim,
Speaker 1: I love you. Keep bringing those wins the East Lands
Speaker 1: and Jim, that was pretty good. I was close to
Speaker 1: not being compliment but I was a slide. The next
Speaker 1: one Rodney McGruder. Rodney McGruder. Rodney McGruder was a hell
Speaker 1: of a basketball player at Kansas State UM and he
Speaker 1: carved out a decent NBA career for himself. I definitely
Speaker 1: didn't like what happened when our team was the last year.
Speaker 1: But Rodney and Gruder I've always respected as a basketball player,
Speaker 1: hard nosed, he got it out the mud. So I'll
Speaker 1: always have a respect for that any any guy who
Speaker 1: gets it out the mud. So that's my compliment for
Speaker 1: Rodny McGruder. Ya one more, absolutely Okay, So this one
Speaker 1: very infamous singer of the national anthem. Some of you
Speaker 1: may have heard this rendition. We're going FURGI I feel
Speaker 1: terrible laughing out a legend like Fergie. Legend, legends, a legend.
Speaker 1: Fergie is a fucking legend. That's it. She's a legend.
Speaker 1: We all miss we all missed, but Fergie is a
Speaker 1: fucking legend. All right, I accept it. That's good. That's good.
Speaker 1: I want to thank everyone for tuning into the first
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Speaker 1: I love you, guys. Thanks for tuning into the first
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