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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, Welcome back to this Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: This is actually our first episode of the year since July,
Speaker 1: and it's been a long time coming. I resigned with
Speaker 1: the volume, which I am extremely excited about our partnership,
Speaker 1: this partnership that we started two.
Speaker 3: And a half years ago.
Speaker 1: As I said, this is our first show, there's no
Speaker 1: surprise in what has been going on with me this year,
Speaker 1: and I want to talk about those things. Number One,
Speaker 1: in coming back and working my way back from the
Speaker 1: indefinite suspension that I've been serving. I'll start from the
Speaker 1: beginning and just kind of walk you through my process.
Speaker 1: I know everyone's had their questions about what that process is.
Speaker 1: I know everyone has had their answers on what that
Speaker 1: process is, and I just want to lift up the
Speaker 1: curtain and let you in on that process. As I
Speaker 1: think for me in my life. I know it's been
Speaker 1: a very important one. And as you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: want to shy away from letting you guys in on
Speaker 1: these things. For starters, Let's go back to December twelfth.
Speaker 1: That date will be ingrained in my mind for a while.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to December twelfth in Phoenix, Arizona, playing
Speaker 1: against the Phoenix on his third quarter, and I connect
Speaker 1: with Nurkics, get kicked out of the game, do my
Speaker 1: postgame interview, all of those things, and as I said
Speaker 1: then and I'll say now, I was wrong. I was wrong,
Speaker 1: regardless of what I was trying to do, regardless of
Speaker 1: like none of that shit matters.
Speaker 3: I was wrong.
Speaker 1: I accept my faught in that, and I apologize not
Speaker 1: only from that, you know Rudy Gobert situation, I was wrong,
Speaker 1: went way too far. I am a guy who plays
Speaker 1: on the edge. I am a guy who walks right
Speaker 1: up to that line, and I have no problem with
Speaker 1: admitting I have walked over that line.
Speaker 3: And for that I apologize.
Speaker 1: I apologize to my family as they had to endure
Speaker 1: some things that As a leader of a family, you
Speaker 1: have to lead when it's good.
Speaker 3: You have to lead when it's bad.
Speaker 1: And that's as a leader of anything, very hard to
Speaker 1: lead when you've created the bad.
Speaker 3: And in doing that.
Speaker 1: And creating the bad, I am someone that's created so
Speaker 1: much good for my family.
Speaker 3: And you enjoy those times, you like.
Speaker 1: Appreciate those times, you smile and you laugh through those times.
Speaker 1: I created bad for my family and for that, I apologize.
Speaker 3: It brings pain.
Speaker 1: I have a wife, I have children, I have parents,
Speaker 1: I have grandparents, siblings, friends that I embarrassed and it hurts.
Speaker 1: It hurts, you know, my mom experienced death threats.
Speaker 3: My children.
Speaker 1: I have two children that are of school age, and
Speaker 1: so they have to go to school. They go to
Speaker 1: school in the Bay Area. Most of their friends are
Speaker 1: Warriors fans, you know, or their parents are Warriors.
Speaker 3: Fans, and so my children has has had to live
Speaker 3: with that.
Speaker 1: Joe Lacob made a commitment to me this past summer
Speaker 1: for the next four years, and the conversations that we've had,
Speaker 1: we had and leading up to I fell miserably and
Speaker 1: I apologize for that. The Golden State Warriors organization always
Speaker 1: say like that's my baby, like Steph Clay, Steve Bob,
Speaker 1: like we've been there from the beginning of what you know?
Speaker 1: The warriors asked today, and I felt them miserably, and
Speaker 1: that you know, I've heard some so oftentimes you and
Speaker 1: in what we do, you try your hardest to block
Speaker 1: out the noise.
Speaker 3: You try your best to not log.
Speaker 1: Onto this thing, or not go on to that thing,
Speaker 1: not go watch this TV station, because at times it
Speaker 1: can be very, very very overbearing on top of what's
Speaker 1: already a very stressful life and a very stressful job.
Speaker 3: And this time.
Speaker 1: I did the opposite. I dove all the way into
Speaker 1: all of it. So everything that everyone has said, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's impossible to hear everything because it's so much, but
Speaker 1: I've heard a great deal.
Speaker 3: Of what everyone has said.
Speaker 1: And and normally i'd want to say f you or
Speaker 1: watch me show you, or.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bottle all of it up and I'm going
Speaker 1: to use it to make sure I can throw it
Speaker 1: back in your face. And if I'm honest, that fuel
Speaker 1: has driven me so far, and being able to bottle
Speaker 1: those things up has driven me.
Speaker 3: To who you know today. The reason you know the
Speaker 3: name Draymond.
Speaker 1: Green, and I wouldn't say in large part because there's
Speaker 1: a lot to go into it, but a part of
Speaker 1: that is that fuel of grabbing all of those things
Speaker 1: and saying, now watch what I do to you with
Speaker 1: the fuel that you've given me.
Speaker 3: And this time was different for me. I watched them
Speaker 3: and I listened.
Speaker 1: So I took you back to December twelfth, and now
Speaker 1: I'll say we're at December fourteenth. I sat in my
Speaker 1: man cave for two days and just sat there. My
Speaker 1: kids didn't know I was home. The only person really
Speaker 1: knew I was home was my wife and my daughter,
Speaker 1: my three year old. She facetimed me and she said, Daddy,
Speaker 1: you and the man cave. I said, I am, and
Speaker 1: she just dropped the phone and came running back there
Speaker 1: and pulled me out, pulled.
Speaker 3: Me out into the yard and we played.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure how much longer I would have
Speaker 1: sat back there, but I know it wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: the fourteen. And it was special because I was just
Speaker 1: sitting back there in the dark, listening to what everyone
Speaker 1: had to say. And although I didn't stop listening that day,
Speaker 1: I realized that I had to move forward that day.
Speaker 1: And also on that day, Coach Kirk came to visit
Speaker 1: me after shoot a round.
Speaker 3: And we sat in the yard. He cried. I cried
Speaker 3: because there's a bond there.
Speaker 1: That seeing it all, seeing the highest set of highs
Speaker 1: and the lowest of the lows. And he just said
Speaker 1: to me, I want you to end this the right way.
Speaker 1: I want us to end this the right way, and
Speaker 1: you're not doing that right now. So I want you
Speaker 1: to do what you have to do to get into
Speaker 1: space to where you can do that and that we
Speaker 1: can do that. And he said to me, your press
Speaker 1: conference the other day, I was happy. I was proud
Speaker 1: of it. It was so much better than your other ones.
Speaker 1: He said, you took accountability. You apologize, and I thought, wow,
Speaker 1: Draymond's moving in the right direction. He said, because you've
Speaker 1: apologized before, but there's always a butt, or maybe you
Speaker 1: kind of apologize and there's a butt. He said, no butts,
Speaker 1: and I started laughing, and he said, what I said,
Speaker 1: My wife told me that last night. She told me
Speaker 1: last night, whenever you are ready to move forward, whenever
Speaker 1: you're ready to speak, whenever you're ready.
Speaker 3: To do whatever you need to do.
Speaker 1: I've heard you apologize, and obviously I've spoke to you,
Speaker 1: so I know you're willing to apologize, but no butts,
Speaker 1: no butts. And I said to Steve coach Kerr, I said,
Speaker 1: Hazel told me the same thing.
Speaker 3: That's why I laugh because it's so true.
Speaker 1: I said, And I'll get to explain, and you know,
Speaker 1: you go through these things and you start explaining maybe
Speaker 1: what you were thinking or and it comes off as
Speaker 1: like but this, but that. And so I told both
Speaker 1: of them, whenever I do speak, there won't be a butt.
Speaker 1: I let the Warriors organization down, I let the NBA down,
Speaker 1: my family, myself, my partners. I've always been one that said,
Speaker 1: your responsibility is what you make of it. Just because
Speaker 1: you're in this position don't mean you have the responsibility
Speaker 1: they say you have.
Speaker 3: And a part of me still believe that.
Speaker 1: But in going through what I've gone through, one thing
Speaker 1: that I do realize is the responsibility is much greater.
Speaker 3: Than I realize.
Speaker 1: And so I said, I said that to say, the
Speaker 1: responsibility that's been placed upon me as a father, as
Speaker 1: a husband, as.
Speaker 4: As as a podcaster, as a business owner, as a
Speaker 4: television personality, as a black man in America, I I've
Speaker 4: handled him miserably, terribly. And in sitting through those first
Speaker 4: days and just listening, I heard so many people say
Speaker 4: he needs help. And as I sat and listened to
Speaker 4: those people, quite naturally, the ones that I saw saying
Speaker 4: I needed help, I'm like, who said that?
Speaker 1: This person said that the way this person said that.
Speaker 1: But you go through stages of understanding things, you go
Speaker 1: through stages of how you may feel, you go through
Speaker 1: stages of thoughts, and so my initial thought was he
Speaker 1: said that, And and what I realized is you're headed
Speaker 1: back down the same path you've been allowing yourself to
Speaker 1: go down with that mindset.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 1: I made a commitment to myself, to the Warriors organization,
Speaker 1: to the NBA, to my family, to the volume, to
Speaker 1: all of my partners, that I'm going to listen to
Speaker 1: what they say. I'm going to make my own decision.
Speaker 1: But what do I want to do about that? And
Speaker 1: so I made a commitment in those days to be
Speaker 1: a champion of change. What does that mean, Draymond? What
Speaker 1: are you talking about? What does that mean? That means
Speaker 1: accepting that there's a place for growth, accepting that.
Speaker 3: You fucked up and you were wrong.
Speaker 1: So as opposed to listening to what these people are,
Speaker 1: as opposed to listening to how these people are saying things.
Speaker 1: Let's listen to what they're saying, and then you do
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do with the information. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you it really pissed me off when Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: said he wasn't like that when I was around. I
Speaker 1: hope he get the help he needs. And I start
Speaker 1: going into this deep dive like how this all that?
Speaker 1: But then it's like, wait a minute, what do you
Speaker 1: want the world to know about you? And so I
Speaker 1: sat with myself and thought about that, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: interestingly enough, the world still thinks I'm the same Draymond
Speaker 1: as I was in twenty seventeen, and the reality is
Speaker 1: is I'm not. I'm not even close to the same
Speaker 1: Draymond that I was in twenty seventeen. But I quite
Speaker 1: frankly have not allowed anyone in the world to see
Speaker 1: that growth, to see that change. And I've had my
Speaker 1: reasons why. Again, we live a very public life and
Speaker 1: sometimes you just want to try to cut that off.
Speaker 1: And what I realized in that moment is in me
Speaker 1: cutting that off, I have not allowed myself to be
Speaker 1: vulnerable when it's okay.
Speaker 3: To be vulnerable.
Speaker 1: I have not allowed myself to grow in certain areas
Speaker 1: that quite frankly, I need to grow. And even if
Speaker 1: I have grown in those areas, I definitely haven't showed it.
Speaker 1: And so then I went back to Kevin Durant's statement
Speaker 1: and I said, he said he was not like that,
Speaker 1: And so as I sat with myself, I said, I
Speaker 1: think it's time that the world get to know me
Speaker 1: who I am. And if I can look at Kevin's
Speaker 1: statement the right way, through the right mindset, through the
Speaker 1: right lens, he's acknowledging essentially.
Speaker 3: What I want the world to know about me.
Speaker 1: And then he spoke about help, and I'm like, how
Speaker 1: he gonna say I need help? And when I went
Speaker 1: back through it with another lens, I was like, maybe
Speaker 1: you shouldn't hear help so negatively, Like maybe you're listening
Speaker 1: to the word help with the same mindset that the
Speaker 1: word help meant when you were fifteen years old, So
Speaker 1: maybe you shouldn't hear that negatively, so negatively, And maybe
Speaker 1: he's not saying that as negatively as you're taking And
Speaker 1: even if he was, I made a decision in that
Speaker 1: moment that I wasn't going to take it it that way.
Speaker 1: And for me, it was a very problem moment for
Speaker 1: me because I said, you're ready for growth. That's a
Speaker 1: step in the right direction. And I am one who
Speaker 1: celebrates small wins like I don't I used to take
Speaker 1: wins for granted. I celebrate small wins, and so for me,
Speaker 1: that was something to talk to those that are very
Speaker 1: close to me about, like, Hey, I feel like I
Speaker 1: had a breakthrough and just a small breakthrough in my
Speaker 1: mindset because I was able to look at this differently
Speaker 1: and bottle it up differently and package it differently. I
Speaker 1: feel like that's a breakthrough for me. Let me build
Speaker 1: on that. And once I did that, I felt, Okay,
Speaker 1: now I can start to put together what I think
Speaker 1: this process should look like. Now I can start to
Speaker 1: put together the areas of growth that I really truly
Speaker 1: believe that I need to grow in. Because in sitting
Speaker 1: and listening to those things, and what I also realized.
Speaker 3: Is people can say anything.
Speaker 1: People can say what they want, but unless you're in
Speaker 1: a space of saying I need to grow here, here,
Speaker 1: and here, it never works. And so I said, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's definitely one area that I need to grow great
Speaker 1: and then I'm able to start putting these pieces together
Speaker 1: of the areas that I need to grow.
Speaker 3: And start along my journey.
Speaker 1: Of growing, not taking things so negatively, not looking at
Speaker 1: the word help from the mindset of a fifteen year
Speaker 1: old Draymond. Because Draymond at fifteen had no resources.
Speaker 3: So to hear the word help in saging on.
Speaker 1: Michigan with no resources, it's a very foreign thing. And
Speaker 1: then you hear how much people shit on it, and
Speaker 1: you move yourself as far away from it as you can.
Speaker 1: And I realized, what's the point of having all the
Speaker 1: resources if you're not going to use them. It is immature,
Speaker 1: It is quite frankly stupid. And if you know anything
Speaker 1: about me, one of my biggest pepeeves is for somebody
Speaker 1: to take me for stupid.
Speaker 3: It's very stupid. And so.
Speaker 1: I started to talk to some different people that I
Speaker 1: trust and started to lay out a plan. And trust me,
Speaker 1: what's it been since December twelfth, three weeks, three and
Speaker 1: a half weeks. I am still the same Draymond you
Speaker 1: knew before. You don't just change the spots on the leopard.
Speaker 1: But what I do realize are there are some things
Speaker 1: that I can leave behind, the antics I can leave behind,
Speaker 1: And it's okay that won't change the dray mind that
Speaker 1: the world has gotten to know. That won't change the
Speaker 1: way I play the game of basketball. Stop taking the
Speaker 1: excuse and running with it and saying I can't play
Speaker 1: the way I play if I don't do this. Eh,
Speaker 1: that's not true. And so I'm no longer going to
Speaker 1: use the excuse. And so as I started off, I
Speaker 1: was going to walk you through my journey. I had
Speaker 1: a conversation with Adam Silver, commissioner our league, and I
Speaker 1: just told him, Adam is too much for me, like
Speaker 1: it's too much, Like this is too much. It's all
Speaker 1: becoming too much for me, and I'm going to retire.
Speaker 1: And Adam said, ah, you're making a very rash decision,
Speaker 1: and I won't let you do that. And I'm like, no, Adam,
Speaker 1: like not really sure, it's a rash decision. It's just
Speaker 1: all too much. And you know, we had a long,
Speaker 1: great conversation, very helpful to me, very thankful to play
Speaker 1: in the league with the commissioner like Adam, who's more
Speaker 1: about helping you than hurting you, or helping you than
Speaker 1: punishing you, or you know, he's more about the players.
Speaker 1: And so I'm very lucky to have or to be
Speaker 1: in a position to be under the guidance of an
Speaker 1: Adam Silver, of a Joe Dumars, of someone who's been
Speaker 1: really close to me hand in hand through as I've
Speaker 1: been walking through this, Bob Myers. And for the first
Speaker 1: five seven days of this thing, I talked to him
Speaker 1: two times a day. And I've always said, like, Bob
Speaker 1: is our relationship go far past him being our general manager.
Speaker 1: And I said that when he was our general manager,
Speaker 1: And like, going through things like this shows what it
Speaker 1: means to be a true friend. I only hope to
Speaker 1: be as good as a friend as he is to me.
Speaker 1: Then when I first talked to Adam, I was like,
Speaker 1: Bob's called me so many times, Like Bob's called me
Speaker 1: a million times. I keep talking to Bob, and it's
Speaker 1: just like this dude is like he just cares so much.
Speaker 1: Like Bob's working ESPN, home with his family, what does
Speaker 1: he care?
Speaker 3: So thankful.
Speaker 1: Again, it's not oftentimes in life that you have people
Speaker 1: like that in your corner. Steve Mike Dunlevy. The amount
Speaker 1: of people that's reached out to me during this current players,
Speaker 1: past players, GMS, coaches, owners.
Speaker 3: Was one of the.
Speaker 1: Things that really made me think, Wow, you can't just run.
Speaker 1: You can't just like say this is it and run
Speaker 1: into retirement. There's actually people that care, but you walk
Speaker 1: through this journey and you're not really sure how many
Speaker 1: people really do care. Sometimes you can fill alone. It's
Speaker 1: okay for it to be too much, but it really
Speaker 1: just brought me to a space of no, you can't
Speaker 1: just run. Do what it is that you need to
Speaker 1: do and figure it out and do it the right way.
Speaker 1: And so I'm very thankful. And I won't mention everybody
Speaker 1: by name, but you all know who you are. I'm
Speaker 1: very thankful family friends, I'm grateful. I am grateful for
Speaker 1: the time that I've had.
Speaker 3: To grow.
Speaker 1: And again I'm not going to sit here and act like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: like this guy is a totally different person in three
Speaker 1: and a half weeks, never going to be that guy.
Speaker 1: But in three weeks a lot can happen, and a
Speaker 1: lot for me has happened. I came to some some
Speaker 1: spaces and going through this, I totally put my phone down,
Speaker 1: not texting, not on the phone, not having to worry
Speaker 1: of whatever it is that the outside world bring. And
Speaker 1: I've been home with my family and It's funny because
Speaker 1: it brought me to a realization. I became a husband
Speaker 1: as an NBA player, I became a father as an
Speaker 1: NBA player, and everything around and in between an NBA player.
Speaker 1: How much did my schedule has been the same the
Speaker 1: past twelve years? Yeah, you tweak something here, you tweak
Speaker 1: something there, but overall the schedule has been the same.
Speaker 1: And then putting my phone down and being so present
Speaker 1: with my family and being so present in those moments.
Speaker 1: I missing texts, I'm missing calls, and I realized I
Speaker 1: had no time to talk on the phone, I had
Speaker 1: no time to text, but the busiest part of my
Speaker 1: life was removed. How is it that I have no
Speaker 1: time now? And it was a very eye opening experience
Speaker 1: for me because it made me realize, or just open
Speaker 1: my eyes to what are your priorities? What do you prioritize?
Speaker 1: Where can you be better? You think you're giving X
Speaker 1: amount of time to this or X amount of focus
Speaker 1: to this, but are you really? And so, as I
Speaker 1: said three and a half weeks, don't change the spots
Speaker 1: on the leopard, I'm not saying that, but what I
Speaker 1: also understand is I also don't need the spots on
Speaker 1: me changed. What I need is to grow, and I've
Speaker 1: embraced that growth and know the growth don't end now,
Speaker 1: the growth is just beginning. But I'm embraced in the growth.
Speaker 1: I'm embracing this. I'm embracing every moment of it. And
Speaker 1: I can't necessarily say I've always done that. I can't
Speaker 1: even necessarily say I've always felt the need to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful to the organization for this time. I
Speaker 1: know everybody's like, oh, he hasn't been around a team,
Speaker 1: So great for me, so great for the team. Incredible
Speaker 1: because I'll be better from it in all fastest in
Speaker 1: my life, and that I'm excited about. I would always
Speaker 1: talk you know, we had these business of Basketball meetings,
Speaker 1: and we have meetings. We have so many meetings that
Speaker 1: you all will never know aside from like film, like
Speaker 1: therapists come and talk, uh, sports psychologists come and talk,
Speaker 1: like you have security, meaning you have all these different meetings,
Speaker 1: but one in particular we'd have every year is like
Speaker 1: where you know, every NBA team has a therapist and
Speaker 1: a sports psychologist that you can use.
Speaker 3: It's your choice.
Speaker 1: And we be in those meetings and I'd always tell
Speaker 1: guys in those meetings like, yo, I want to like,
Speaker 1: I think I need therapy, and not for the reasons
Speaker 1: that everyone would think you need therapy.
Speaker 3: And I have childhood traumas, I have this thing like.
Speaker 1: And I would tell our say and to our team
Speaker 1: and that me not be very outspoken about it, but
Speaker 1: I say, Yo, I need therapy.
Speaker 3: I'm so afraid.
Speaker 1: I'm so afraid though, because the things that you may uncover,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'm in a space to handle them.
Speaker 1: I'm so afraid. But one day I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: And I tell the guy I'm gonna do it. I
Speaker 1: don't wonder, and I'll be honest. I just I didn't
Speaker 1: just start therapy with this like I've that been therapy
Speaker 1: before and no pun intended has been so therapeutic.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: To speak to someone it's not judging you, I mean
Speaker 1: that's my life being judged. To speak to someone that's
Speaker 1: not judging you, to freely speak to work through things.
Speaker 1: What you end up realizing is you do most of
Speaker 1: the talking, and sometimes you need to.
Speaker 3: And so I'm not going to hide from that.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to let the negative connotations. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to let how negatively. I saw people speaking about
Speaker 1: me and throwing those things out there.
Speaker 3: Run me away. I'm a champion it. I'm a champion
Speaker 3: to change. And so.
Speaker 1: Again, no, this is not Oh, he went to some
Speaker 1: therapy and in three weeks he's great. No, I still
Speaker 1: have a lot of things to work on, but I
Speaker 1: am enjoying that work and the work that I was
Speaker 1: so afraid to do. I'm happy this brought me to
Speaker 1: it because there's also things that you can go to
Speaker 1: and for therapy and not uncover, right, Like, there's different
Speaker 1: things you can go to therapy about. And this helped
Speaker 1: me just dive in, like just just go all in.
Speaker 3: Whatever comes of it, comes of it. I needed to push.
Speaker 1: I needed that push because it's something that I had
Speaker 1: wanted to do anyway, I just didn't have the balls
Speaker 1: to do it. And yes, I say the bass to
Speaker 1: do it because it's hard work, takes a lot, it's exhausting.
Speaker 3: Work, but it's rewarding. And so.
Speaker 1: That's been my journey. For the first time in sixteen years,
Speaker 1: since two thousand and seven, seventeen years, I got to
Speaker 1: spend the holiday weeks with my family for the first
Speaker 1: time in eleven years, ten years ten eleven years, I
Speaker 1: didn't walk in an arena on Christmas Day. And sometimes
Speaker 1: you just don't realize how much you may need that.
Speaker 1: And so as I said, I'm thankful for this time,
Speaker 1: and not because I didn't do anything wrong, because I did.
Speaker 1: And for those of you out there that have faith,
Speaker 1: there are you know about blessings and disguise, and I
Speaker 1: think this has been a blessing in disguise for me,
Speaker 1: for me to center myself, for me to recalibrate, for
Speaker 1: me to grow, and for me to champion this change.
Speaker 3: Be a champion of this change. And no, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Gonna not mix things up on the court because I
Speaker 1: love this game and I love to compete and you
Speaker 1: just don't get to turn that off. But I am
Speaker 1: also smart enough to know what an antic is and
Speaker 1: what is and I can get rid of the antics.
Speaker 1: I'm more than capable of doing that and I look
Speaker 1: forward to it. One thing throughout this process that really
Speaker 1: hurt me. I turned on the TV screen and someone
Speaker 1: stephen A was like, Steph is a bad leader because
Speaker 1: Draymond did X. And it pissed me off. But it
Speaker 1: crushed me. It crushed me because how is Steph enduring
Speaker 1: being a bad leader, like this guy doesn't give us
Speaker 1: anything to tear him down about. This guy does everything
Speaker 1: the right way, and yet he's being tore down because
Speaker 1: my actions crushed me. That was a tough one, this
Speaker 1: one that was a tough blow to deal with, and
Speaker 1: because he got crushed publicly for that, I'm gonna apologize publicly.
Speaker 1: I sincerely apologize to Stephan for my actions because that
Speaker 1: was a tough pill to swallow. Very thankful for Steph
Speaker 1: as i've been out on this time, talk every every day,
Speaker 1: every other day, just checking in. He's like, Yo, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be right here with you through this. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: help you through this. And he's been very much so
Speaker 1: that all my teammates have reached out.
Speaker 3: At different points too, like Yo, I'm just checking on you.
Speaker 3: How you doing.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for those guys, CP who you are. No,
Speaker 1: we had our things. We've infamously talked about checking in
Speaker 1: every day every other day. Thankful for those guys. Bron
Speaker 1: checking in.
Speaker 3: YO.
Speaker 1: Just wants you to know we with you, We love you, Champ,
Speaker 1: like we're riding with you. Do whatever you gotta do.
Speaker 1: Know that we with you. Tom is Oh I told
Speaker 1: you all about putting my phone away, and so by
Speaker 1: the time I'll get to my phone, it's one thirty
Speaker 1: two o'clock and me and it is tried catching up
Speaker 1: for ten days and couldn't. And then we finally got
Speaker 1: on the phone and we talked for an hour and
Speaker 1: he's been texting me every day since. Still, you don't
Speaker 1: get people like that in your corner, especially not no
Speaker 1: college coach. And I know I've said this before, you
Speaker 1: don't get people like that. I'm so thankful to have
Speaker 1: those people in my life and lucky to have those
Speaker 1: types of people in my corner.
Speaker 3: If you even just sent the text like I could,
Speaker 3: I didn't even I didn't.
Speaker 1: I still haven't gotten a chance to respond to all
Speaker 1: the texts because there were so many.
Speaker 3: But I thank you because it's special and it doesn't
Speaker 3: go unnoticed, and.
Speaker 1: It's like when the world is slipping on you, to
Speaker 1: know that those that's really in your corner are still
Speaker 1: standing there.
Speaker 3: I can't thank all of you enough.
Speaker 1: For the first few games on my suspension, i'd hie
Speaker 1: from my kids to watch the game because that's a
Speaker 1: tough conversation to have. And I remember the first game
Speaker 1: that I watched with them, or that they saw me watching.
Speaker 1: They were like so confused, like that.
Speaker 3: Is why you know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, you know, Like it's a tough conversation
Speaker 1: to have, but it's one that I had to have
Speaker 1: and I grew through it. I've grown because of it.
Speaker 1: But that was tough. I said, I'd walk you through
Speaker 1: this journey. I didn't touch a basketball for a week
Speaker 1: ten days, just got away from everything, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, let me get back on the court,
Speaker 1: let me start back working out. And I did that,
Speaker 1: and I've been doing that, and I've had calls with
Speaker 1: Rich my agent, the league office, the Warriors organization on
Speaker 1: those calls. That's been the process, and the process don't
Speaker 1: end today or tomorrow or the next day, because it's
Speaker 1: something that I've decided. You have turning points in life,
Speaker 1: you have turning points and careers, and I've decided for
Speaker 1: this to be a turning point for me, and so
Speaker 1: it's not something that ends today, because if it's a
Speaker 1: turning point, you must keep going or you end up
Speaker 1: back there. And so I look forward to continuing to
Speaker 1: grow as a person. One of the reasons I consider
Speaker 1: quitting basketball is I'm like the worst of me come
Speaker 1: out on the basketball court, Like the worst of me
Speaker 1: don't come out in my life. If you talk to
Speaker 1: anybody who's around me, I hardly talk. I know there's
Speaker 1: this coming misconception. And like Draymond's super outgoing, Traymond always
Speaker 1: has something to say. Draymond don't talk if he's not comfortable,
Speaker 1: I'll sit there and not say a word. And I'm
Speaker 1: not going to sit here and say, oh, I'm changing this.
Speaker 1: I'm changing that, I'm growing, and I think it's time
Speaker 1: that I allow you to see the growth. I look
Speaker 1: forward to the opportunity. I'm thankful for the opportunity. Not
Speaker 1: many times do people get a second or third or
Speaker 1: fourth chance, but I get a chance to show my growth,
Speaker 1: and I'm thankful for that. As I said, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to sit here and say this is the change
Speaker 1: and that's the changing to that, because it's not really
Speaker 1: about that. For me, simply about growing. It's about representing myself,
Speaker 1: representing the brands that I represent, what I stand for,
Speaker 1: my family, It's about representing that the right way. I'm
Speaker 1: excited to get back with my teammates. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: get back in the arena and do what I love
Speaker 1: to do, because not every day do people Not every
Speaker 1: day do people get to do what they love to do.
Speaker 1: And I want to do all that I can to
Speaker 1: not fuck that up for me. It's a very interesting
Speaker 1: time in my life. Also, when this first happened December twelfth,
Speaker 1: I was closing this deal like.
Speaker 3: For a nice amount of money and it was like some.
Speaker 1: Video game or something, and I hadn't signed the deal
Speaker 1: yet and they came back like, oh, we want to
Speaker 1: lord the terms, we want to do this, we want
Speaker 1: you to do more, we want to lord the money.
Speaker 1: And I was just like I'm okay, I'll pass. And
Speaker 1: I'm very thankful to my partners in bringing you this podcast,
Speaker 1: the Volume because also a deal that was not closed
Speaker 1: that we have been working on for a year and
Speaker 1: a half, Like we had actually been working on this
Speaker 1: deal for or a year and a half, And ironically
Speaker 1: this happens right before the deal closes, after a year
Speaker 1: and a half of working on this deal, myself, Dana
Speaker 1: working with the Volume team, Jamie Colin, Logan Jackson. After
Speaker 1: a year and a half of working on deal, this
Speaker 1: happens right before our signing the deal and you talk
Speaker 1: about seeing who's standing in your corner, they still right there, Like, no,
Speaker 1: we're here, We're not going anywhere. By the way, I mean,
Speaker 1: you all saw the media press on December thirteen fourteen,
Speaker 1: actually met, we had a meeting scheduled December thirteenth, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, do you want to announce right now
Speaker 1: that you resign with the Volume and this point in
Speaker 1: the deal and that point in the deal. You want
Speaker 1: to announce these things right now because the press on
Speaker 1: you is so bad.
Speaker 3: We can put this out right now and just like.
Speaker 1: Change it up a little bit. Obviously, we did it,
Speaker 1: which I think was best to not do it for
Speaker 1: multiple reasons. So number one, I needed to sit in that.
Speaker 1: I needed to sit and listen to that, not try
Speaker 1: to change it, not throw bandaid over it, because hey,
Speaker 1: here's this great thing that Draymond has going on. I'm
Speaker 1: happy we did it, but to know that, Jamie Colin Logan,
Speaker 1: we're willing to do it. Man, That's the stuff when
Speaker 1: you take a step back and you look and you're like,
Speaker 1: those are the things that matter, those are the people
Speaker 1: you want to go onto. Fox Oway. So to my
Speaker 1: Volume family, I'm thankful to call you all a partner.
Speaker 1: As I've said from the beginning, working with the volume
Speaker 1: has been special. To see the growth of the company
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years has been special. I
Speaker 1: don't take that for granted, and I also don't take
Speaker 1: the support for granted.
Speaker 3: Very thankful. Then we gonna continue to give you these episodes.