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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Draymond Green Show Championship Edition That's My
Speaker 1: Daughter Podcast. We are in the press room, still here
Speaker 1: at TV Guarden, a couple of hours after the game.
Speaker 1: Full time champions up here as you see, got my man, Killer,
Speaker 1: Clay Dre, the Vet, the O G the guy who
Speaker 1: guided us through all of this. Honored to be here. Man,
Speaker 1: they said we could not do it again. Talk to me, Killer.
Speaker 1: How does this one feel as a and in comparison
Speaker 1: to the other three, how does this one feel? I
Speaker 1: can't sugarcoat it. Bro us the sweetest one, just uh
Speaker 1: you know from the fifty season when Steph not on
Speaker 1: the bench, we had to watch you out there just
Speaker 1: anchoring bucks and struggle. Then the next year having to
Speaker 1: watch again and the insert myself in this line up
Speaker 1: and then just uh see the whole thing come together. Bro.
Speaker 1: It's it's like the sweetest experience I've ever been a
Speaker 1: part of, man, and it makes a journey that much
Speaker 1: sweeter just knowing what we all had to go through.
Speaker 1: So I just it's an honor to be up here
Speaker 1: for real. This is this is such a special moment,
Speaker 1: not because we just won the championship, but because it
Speaker 1: took us a championship to get Clay Thompson on the podcast.
Speaker 1: So that is such an honor. But a long is
Speaker 1: journey and which has been three years now. Um, was
Speaker 1: there ever any doubt for you, a that you would
Speaker 1: be able to come back to player that you have
Speaker 1: come back and be that we we would be able
Speaker 1: to do this again once you came back. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I doubted, man every day. I remember guarding LB September
Speaker 1: and I could not stay in front of this man,
Speaker 1: even will She he who never played in the league.
Speaker 1: I was getting busted by him. Everybody. I was just
Speaker 1: the weak link out there, and I'm just like man,
Speaker 1: I swear I used to be a great defender. I
Speaker 1: swear I used to be a great shooter. And then
Speaker 1: Rick celebrity will tell me every day, like Clay, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be up and down. But once you we just
Speaker 1: need Clay for playoffs and that's all it's gonna take.
Speaker 1: And I was like, Okay, Rick, whatever you say. So
Speaker 1: I had so many doubts. But once we got closer
Speaker 1: to the real thing though, and we actually didn't even
Speaker 1: get to play with each other until the first playoff game. Well,
Speaker 1: once I saw a YouTube on the floor with Steph
Speaker 1: and the town we had around us, I knew it
Speaker 1: was a rap, like no one can mence with us.
Speaker 1: One more question before we get Clay out of here,
Speaker 1: because I promised him this will be three questions and
Speaker 1: it is a miracle that we got him here. But
Speaker 1: for you moving forward, do we have Clay Thompson finishing
Speaker 1: his career with the Golden State Warriors. I need to
Speaker 1: notice for my own person to say, Man, I did
Speaker 1: tell Steve Kerr at the u NBA TV Little Podium.
Speaker 1: I told him, you know, I'm going full Michael Jordan'
Speaker 1: I'm inlining myself with Steve. I ain't playing for anybody
Speaker 1: but Steve, so that's the plan, and I don't it
Speaker 1: would be weird to be in another UNI, you know.
Speaker 1: So I'm just grateful to be up here and to
Speaker 1: be mentioned with the Lakers and Celtics and the Bulls.
Speaker 1: Now we're there, and it's it's I never sure when
Speaker 1: you got drafted here, Andre signed on, you never would
Speaker 1: envision this. Maybe one but four and we ain't done.
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful thing about it. We got these young
Speaker 1: bucks behind us and we got it same squad coming back.
Speaker 1: It's scary for the NBA. It is very scary, my brother.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on, of course, thank you much.
Speaker 1: We'll get a full podcast. We will. Drake come talk
Speaker 1: to us, Brother, come talk to us. And here we
Speaker 1: have a return guest, um, a guy who came on
Speaker 1: the podcast before. Like it was easy to get guests,
Speaker 1: and not that it's easy now, but once you build
Speaker 1: a reputable show, you know, then it's a lot easier
Speaker 1: to come on. I'm very thankful to this man for
Speaker 1: coming on when it was just trying to start a podcast.
Speaker 1: And guy who's taught me so much talking of us
Speaker 1: so much, How does this one feel? This one? This
Speaker 1: one's on my loss of words because I think, then
Speaker 1: then they let us get this one and we're gonna
Speaker 1: get off. We're gonna get all, we're gonna get all,
Speaker 1: you know what off. They made a mistake. Let us
Speaker 1: get this one off. No, but I was saying, because
Speaker 1: there's only so many you talk about any sport, there's
Speaker 1: only but so many that put a strangle hold on
Speaker 1: that entire league. But this long, like you talk about Brady,
Speaker 1: talk about forty niners, you know, you talk about you know,
Speaker 1: the Bulls, the Spurs had it stretched out, and you
Speaker 1: talk about the Lakers and Celtics obviously, but you know
Speaker 1: this is seventy the NBA seventy five years when we
Speaker 1: do like two hundred a year, Like it's it's just
Speaker 1: like we should really get our ship off absolutely, family
Speaker 1: for mother talk so much cash, like, oh, you know
Speaker 1: the funked up right? You know that's incredible, man. And honestly,
Speaker 1: I told you all, don't let us win a fucking championship,
Speaker 1: and y'all the fucked up and let us win a championship. Hey,
Speaker 1: but check this though we were going to run five
Speaker 1: straight finals. Um, and then Bob Myers coming to you
Speaker 1: and he said, yo, Kevin Leaves and he said, Yo,
Speaker 1: we're gonna trade you. What was that like for you?
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because I saw it. You know
Speaker 1: how you and I are like we we see before
Speaker 1: like things happened. So I knew in my contract I
Speaker 1: had an extension date, so the last year my contract
Speaker 1: I can get cut, and that that salary we spread
Speaker 1: it over three years. So something had told me called
Speaker 1: Bob and asked him wins my cut date? I was like,
Speaker 1: by with my cut eight and we've built such a
Speaker 1: great lay ship with Bob. Bob was like, come talk
Speaker 1: to me, Come in here, man. Yeah. Yeah. So Bob
Speaker 1: was like, come talk to me. So I went to
Speaker 1: Bob's office and he was like, we might trade you.
Speaker 1: And he kept it real just because we have a
Speaker 1: great report. And that's when I knew. So I wasn't
Speaker 1: surprised and you're killing our contact, young fellow, all right,
Speaker 1: but I knew, you know, there might be an opportunity
Speaker 1: on the back end. So you know, I was talking
Speaker 1: about it with the NBA media earlier that things happened
Speaker 1: for a reason, and me going to Miami and experience
Speaker 1: in the Miami Heat culture that really helped me come
Speaker 1: back and then accept the role I had, because like,
Speaker 1: I had really good days this year, but the body
Speaker 1: just wouldn't hold up. But I knew that I can
Speaker 1: still be impactful and I still knew that we could,
Speaker 1: Like you know how it is, you can't let the
Speaker 1: year get by, and you know you let one slip away,
Speaker 1: like we've been here too many times, so I just like,
Speaker 1: let me just do what I need to do. And
Speaker 1: it's just been incredible. It has been incredible. Speaking of
Speaker 1: the body now holding up, because it's actually something I
Speaker 1: was gonna ask before you just said that. But I
Speaker 1: didn't think it would be possible as an NBA Finals
Speaker 1: MVP that we probably felt your impact this year more
Speaker 1: than any year, that you were competing and playing and
Speaker 1: dominating and clamping and selling our offense down and getting
Speaker 1: us into the position. I didn't think that would be possible.
Speaker 1: I am one certain we don't do this without you
Speaker 1: and your leadership and showing us the way, But for
Speaker 1: you as a competitor, that still gotta be tough. Knowing
Speaker 1: that ultimately I am a basketball player, I'm not a
Speaker 1: coach like I played basketball. I'm on this team and
Speaker 1: yet your body not allowing you to give what you
Speaker 1: know you could give on the court. How was how
Speaker 1: was getting through that and just ultimately saying I'm working
Speaker 1: hard to get back and be available for the finals,
Speaker 1: but ultimately knowing like I may not play much. How
Speaker 1: was that for you? It was tough because I would
Speaker 1: have like good workouts, like I had to work out
Speaker 1: before or right after Game three, and we had practice
Speaker 1: and I didn't I didn't miss a shot like I
Speaker 1: look like step I did a step thing where I
Speaker 1: started the painting, went all the way back to half
Speaker 1: court and made like none straight shots. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: really ready, and Steve was just kind of like I
Speaker 1: might have to go another direction, and like, to be honest,
Speaker 1: that hurt you. We're all human. It's like, bro, I
Speaker 1: can help, like let me help. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's like, listen, man, I'm believe in these guys. Like
Speaker 1: I know if Wiggs can do what he's able to
Speaker 1: do for us, we're good. I know of g P
Speaker 1: does what he needs to do for us, We're good.
Speaker 1: I know of Otto. It's is told White, We're good
Speaker 1: Belly was. Belly was huge for us, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like Belly went out there and helped us
Speaker 1: win the championship, you know what I mean. We talked
Speaker 1: about like Nick Young came and helped us in the
Speaker 1: Houston series a couple of years ago, and then just
Speaker 1: Jordans who and just being trying to be that role model.
Speaker 1: And it's like Mike Bright Brown said, I need to
Speaker 1: put you in for one minute in game five when
Speaker 1: Loon got four quick files because I forgot what rep
Speaker 1: is calling on the files on him and he was
Speaker 1: like going for a woman. I said, damn you up
Speaker 1: with me for a woman and g like that. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's like, yo, man up, bro
Speaker 1: like man up, because commed is here. You know, he's
Speaker 1: very impressionable and you know he does whatever we say,
Speaker 1: but you gotta show him the way too, because in
Speaker 1: the eight years it might come into effect, like eight
Speaker 1: years from now. Commede is like man Andre went in
Speaker 1: he finals MVP. He went in for uh seventy seven
Speaker 1: seconds and play good minutes, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So like that those things coming to mind, you know,
Speaker 1: like that stuff comes back ten folk for sure, and
Speaker 1: I think what people don't understand is how how fast
Speaker 1: something could swing. And although that that seventies seven seconds,
Speaker 1: you know it wasn't a bunch of points or it
Speaker 1: wasn't a bunch of this. All it takes is seventy
Speaker 1: and seventy seven seconds to swing again. And so all
Speaker 1: it takes is for coach to put a guy in
Speaker 1: that he doesn't necessarily trust um and they have one
Speaker 1: turnover and that changed the entire game. And I think
Speaker 1: that's what people don't understand about this entire process, is
Speaker 1: like that's seventy seven seconds. All of us were comfortable
Speaker 1: because regardless of what you were, what what you didn't do,
Speaker 1: we knew what you were gonna do. And that's not
Speaker 1: make a single mistake. And it was such a beautiful thing. Man.
Speaker 1: And I can go on and on with this interview,
Speaker 1: as you know, but I really I want to say
Speaker 1: thank you, Um. You you came back here. You didn't
Speaker 1: have to come back here, um, and to come back
Speaker 1: here and show us the way again, you know, no
Speaker 1: matter no matter what next year holds for you, Like
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm pretty certain that you you probably
Speaker 1: want to be done because you you know, for those
Speaker 1: that don't know. I'm not even sure if I can
Speaker 1: say this. Can I say this? Well? Andre is doing
Speaker 1: um yeah at the public starting to a venture capitalist fund.
Speaker 1: Like that's that's our o G. You know, that's that's who.
Speaker 1: That's who has shown us the way you know and
Speaker 1: like I know, you have bigger and better things that
Speaker 1: waits for you, awaits you, and whether you decide to
Speaker 1: come back or not, the impact that you had on
Speaker 1: our lives and our careers and what we can continue
Speaker 1: to move on. Obviously, this brotherhood doesn't end, this is forever.
Speaker 1: But I can't thank you enough, brother, for your leadership,
Speaker 1: for your guidance and being a true definition and showing
Speaker 1: me what it meant to be a vet to someone else.
Speaker 1: I thank you, brother. I love you four times brother
Speaker 1: that they never take that appreciate you. I love you
Speaker 1: absolutely not my dog finals MVP Andre God Media. We
Speaker 1: own y'all ass yes, sir, brother, such such such an
Speaker 1: incredible journey and within our our little audience that we
Speaker 1: have here at the Draymond Green Show, we have a
Speaker 1: guy who we have a guy who playing on four
Speaker 1: NBA teams, five G League teams, which is even more
Speaker 1: impressive than the four NBA teams, five G League teams,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's a very interesting thing. When I
Speaker 1: was when I was um and we've had the pleasure
Speaker 1: in the honor of having his pops on and I
Speaker 1: remember asking them just like you know, I knowing all
Speaker 1: these interviews, they asked you about defense and being the
Speaker 1: club and all of these things. But but tell me
Speaker 1: about being a father and as someone who went back
Speaker 1: and forth with do I name do I name my son?
Speaker 1: And Jr? Not because then they have to live up
Speaker 1: to that and blah blah blah. And this guy is
Speaker 1: that way before DJ And to get it out the mud.
Speaker 1: People don't realize sometimes having the same name as as
Speaker 1: an NBA legend, it works the opposite way, you know.
Speaker 1: I know most people think like, oh, it's nepotism. No, no no, no,
Speaker 1: it actually works against you in a lot of cases.
Speaker 1: And to see him get it out the mud to
Speaker 1: be the fifteen guy to make the roster, this this
Speaker 1: is a full circle moment for us because I remember
Speaker 1: his ten day ended, and you know where that ten
Speaker 1: day ended, that that ten day ended here in Boston,
Speaker 1: and he's tapping all of us up, like yo, man,
Speaker 1: it's been great. I appreciate you all. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Like, oh my ten day up?
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, you be here, see you later. And
Speaker 1: then I called Bob. Stuff called Bob and we're like, yo, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't get rid of GP, like you gotta bring
Speaker 1: him back. You see what he's doing for you. Gotta
Speaker 1: bring him back. And that was the start of all
Speaker 1: of this. And so I'm honored to welcome the next guest,
Speaker 1: the champ Gary paid the second GP to my brother.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Trademond Green Show. Um, how does it feel? Um?
Speaker 1: First and foremost just from for me to you, just
Speaker 1: I appreciate you and you know everything you did, you know,
Speaker 1: just went for back for me, you know, through the
Speaker 1: summer and you know my first ten days and to
Speaker 1: day whatever. Uh you thirty, you know, having my back
Speaker 1: up and give me this opportunity and believing to me,
Speaker 1: that's just that alone, just you know, means the world.
Speaker 1: That's why I went to back for you just whole year.
Speaker 1: You know. Um, I ain't Jewish and me or whatever.
Speaker 1: I just for y'all and your legacy. Your legacy is
Speaker 1: bigger than you know, my career whatever. So forth, it's
Speaker 1: just I'm proud of you and you know everything you've
Speaker 1: been through and how you got it out. You know,
Speaker 1: you feel me and you know I appreciate you. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you rather than honestly, the beautiful thing about all
Speaker 1: of this is you're now a part of that legacy,
Speaker 1: you know, and the journey. The most beautiful thing about
Speaker 1: this is the journey, you know, like holding the trophy
Speaker 1: like I didn't hold the trophy on stage one time,
Speaker 1: like I didn't even want to get near it. Because
Speaker 1: it's the journey that you appreciate. It's the people that
Speaker 1: you go through it with. That's why you appreciate it,
Speaker 1: you know, that's the beauty and this it's like you
Speaker 1: go through people, you go through this with with the
Speaker 1: people that you've been in the trenches with over and
Speaker 1: over and over again, and that is the beauty and
Speaker 1: it's that's why you do this. And so for me,
Speaker 1: the thing that I've enjoyed most about each championship outside
Speaker 1: of the first one, we're seeing the guys who's winning
Speaker 1: it for the first time, because that reaction that it's
Speaker 1: almost like the innocence of a child like that does
Speaker 1: not know what it feels like. And so for me,
Speaker 1: that's what I get the most joy out of seeing
Speaker 1: you win a championship, Seeing Jordan Poole win a championship,
Speaker 1: Seeing Otto, who a guy who signed a hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars contract when it was nearly impossible to get a
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar contract and didn't go through the injuries,
Speaker 1: see him get a championship. Uh, Belly, you know who's
Speaker 1: Belly's thirty three years old and come over to the
Speaker 1: NBA until I think he was seven or something like that.
Speaker 1: To see Belly get a chance, That's that's the beauty
Speaker 1: in it. And so you know, I want to say congratulations, Um,
Speaker 1: you've earned your key. You belong here and you've shown
Speaker 1: that too. To be the man on the roster and
Speaker 1: become a vital part of that roster. It's a heard of.
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen you play one preseason game due to
Speaker 1: the injury. You're going through the preseason and you're unable
Speaker 1: to get out there and you know what's riding on
Speaker 1: this and you need to make this team. What's going
Speaker 1: through your mind through that preseason and and just trying
Speaker 1: to rehab from an injury. Um, just trying to get
Speaker 1: ready as fastest, you know, fast way I can stay ready,
Speaker 1: keep my mental right, and you know, just know that,
Speaker 1: you know you're working towards you know that moment, at
Speaker 1: one moment that might change you know, your career, your life.
Speaker 1: And they said I would have that moment, you know,
Speaker 1: keep working, stay the course and you know, keep doing
Speaker 1: my rehab. So I just kept keep they stay ready basically,
Speaker 1: uh kept my rehab up. And you know when that
Speaker 1: when that time was ready where they let me go,
Speaker 1: I had to leaven a no doubt, you know, for
Speaker 1: bothering them to make that decision, you know, and keeping
Speaker 1: such an amazing thing. Um, like I said, just only
Speaker 1: playing one game and you beat out Avery Bradley, who
Speaker 1: at that point it's like you need a defensive, a
Speaker 1: wing defender, and you beat out Avery Bradley, who has
Speaker 1: been an incredible defender in this league for a long time.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was absolutely amazing. I have a
Speaker 1: tell and this is what I could be thinking. And
Speaker 1: you may think otherwise, and you can tell me if
Speaker 1: you think I'm wrong or what you think it is.
Speaker 1: But I was having a conversation with with a young
Speaker 1: fella a couple of weeks ago um and he finished
Speaker 1: the season with with an organization and he was back
Speaker 1: working out wherever he works out in the summer. Do
Speaker 1: you see any significance in a guy who was in
Speaker 1: your position or in a position similar to yours sticking
Speaker 1: with that team throughout the summer that they ended with
Speaker 1: and training with that team and being around those coaches
Speaker 1: and being around those young guys. Do you see the
Speaker 1: benefit in that as opposed to all right, I ended
Speaker 1: with this team, I'm gonna go back to l A
Speaker 1: and training, I'm gonna go to Vegas and training. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to Miami and train. Now what is this
Speaker 1: significance and sticking with that team and training with them
Speaker 1: and going through their all season red. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: That was probably the biggest decision I made because all
Speaker 1: the other times I got cut, I went back home.
Speaker 1: That's what I did. I went back to Vegas and
Speaker 1: I got back in the gym and whatnot. But with
Speaker 1: this team and what I felt on my first ten day,
Speaker 1: you know, and going into the off season like this
Speaker 1: is this is the group. This is the formula for
Speaker 1: me like I could be, you know, a big piece
Speaker 1: in and helping you know, everything goes smooth and than
Speaker 1: what it was. So I made that decision when I
Speaker 1: got cut. Why I asked to be in the video
Speaker 1: room is to be around you'll, like I was still
Speaker 1: be in practice, still show you know, Bob and everybody
Speaker 1: that you know I can still play. I can not
Speaker 1: I can play in his lead. So that was my
Speaker 1: mindset on, you know, asking for that job. And when
Speaker 1: I decided to stay here this whole summer regardless, I said,
Speaker 1: I told myself, I said, I'm not going nowhere like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show them that I can play basketball right
Speaker 1: way and I can work in the system with y'all.
Speaker 1: So that was my mindset, and I wasn't gonna let
Speaker 1: nobody or anything, you know, tell me other way. It's amazing, brother.
Speaker 1: Before we get out of here, your pops, it's no
Speaker 1: longer the only one in the house with a ring.
Speaker 1: What you got to say to the oh, I got it?
Speaker 1: I got I think I got it. Sooner you feel
Speaker 1: me and and I'm and I'm one for one. You
Speaker 1: can't say nothing about a cent. That's so you want
Speaker 1: to talk to me? You you know where I live.
Speaker 1: O G. I'm so happy for him. Four time Champ Um,
Speaker 1: I couldn't have done it without this man. He led
Speaker 1: us throughout the year. He's had so much on his
Speaker 1: back and he's did so much for us, done so
Speaker 1: much for us, and it's for the organization, and I
Speaker 1: I can't do nothing. Thank you rather than congrats, phold
Speaker 1: time champ and you already know I appreciate, thank you
Speaker 1: for coming on. We're gonna have to do a full
Speaker 1: episode and just really get into your background and how
Speaker 1: you grew up and the the things that I want
Speaker 1: to talk about. The struggles are going. I've grown up
Speaker 1: with a father in the NBA. You know, I think
Speaker 1: you know the thing that people don't realize it is
Speaker 1: like as beautiful as that is, and like as dope
Speaker 1: as that is, you're not home. You know, you're on
Speaker 1: the road and he's not home. I'm not home all
Speaker 1: the time. And and your rock, your mom and how
Speaker 1: she held it down. And so we're gonna get into
Speaker 1: all that. Man have to have to bring you on
Speaker 1: the shop. Thank you, appreciate sir. The young gloves too,
Speaker 1: my dog man. Um, I am exhausted to say the least.
Speaker 1: Um our audience in here is starting to dwindle down.
Speaker 1: But but my beautiful wife Hazel is still sitting there
Speaker 1: and it's absolutely incredible to be on this journey with you.
Speaker 1: My love, my dog Stills and still sitting there. Director
Speaker 1: of Sports Marketing at Converse. And then my brother Torreon
Speaker 1: man Man Harris, who showed me the way we got
Speaker 1: Jackson behind the camera. We got Faves in here. Faves
Speaker 1: is the man behind the Draymond Show Instagram giving you
Speaker 1: all the content. And then we have me yours truly
Speaker 1: the new media, the champ. Four times, I tell you what.
Speaker 1: Both times, I'll tell you what, Man. I got a
Speaker 1: lot of respect for that group over there, uh led
Speaker 1: by Email Yudoka. UM incredible, incredible coach and it's ironic
Speaker 1: to go up against him. I I think back to
Speaker 1: one of my tweets UM and their series during their
Speaker 1: series against Milwaukee and Emay, they had just winning one
Speaker 1: game six on the road and I was watching Sports
Speaker 1: Center and and they they showed this feature on Buddenholzer.
Speaker 1: Just Budenholzer is a great coach, champion coach, don't take
Speaker 1: nothing away from him, but they showed this feature on
Speaker 1: him after they just had loss. And then they showed
Speaker 1: like JB talking J Jayson Tatum talking like Boodenhols are
Speaker 1: talking and they didn't show email Udoka talking and so
Speaker 1: I and when I say talking mean like the press
Speaker 1: conference um given quotes, And I tweeted, I said this email,
Speaker 1: do does he do press conferences? Because some situations people
Speaker 1: don't like to talk and they you know, they get
Speaker 1: over they hand that over to the system, maybe the
Speaker 1: assistant coach just to talk. So I said this email
Speaker 1: you dooka, does he do press conferences? Because it's baffling
Speaker 1: to me that there's a feature on the losing coach.
Speaker 1: Then there's words from the losing coach, but nothing from
Speaker 1: the winning coaches. If he didn't make any adjustments to
Speaker 1: go on the road and win Game six, And I
Speaker 1: thought that was strange and I didn't like it. And
Speaker 1: that's why I tweeted it because this is a much
Speaker 1: different team than than they've had here. So what's the difference.
Speaker 1: The difference is that a coach came in and required
Speaker 1: something different, tapped into something different. When everyone said Jalen
Speaker 1: and Jayson Tatum can't play together, and they were foolish
Speaker 1: for signing Marcus Smart to a max deal, and they
Speaker 1: were stupid for bringing out horrorback and all of those things.
Speaker 1: And you gotta get Brad Stevens' credit and some of
Speaker 1: those moves that he made. But the thing that changed
Speaker 1: was email Eudoka came in and he required something different
Speaker 1: from those guys. He required j T to play defense.
Speaker 1: He required JT to move the ball and he averaged
Speaker 1: seven or eight assists in this series. He required JB
Speaker 1: to take that next step. He required um Robert Williams
Speaker 1: to take that next step. He required Smart to go
Speaker 1: back to his Oklahoma state days and be the point
Speaker 1: guards that this team needed. Aaron Miles, who was on
Speaker 1: that bench, who was with us last year. That's the difference.
Speaker 1: The difference is those guys that came in, Damon Stodhomyre
Speaker 1: will Cherry, they commanded a different respect and you have
Speaker 1: to give him a lot of credit. That team ain't
Speaker 1: going nowhere. That team will be back. You better believe
Speaker 1: that team will be back. Give a lot of credit
Speaker 1: to Robert Williams. Most guys, especially this day and age,
Speaker 1: most guys sitting out on that knee got a knee injury.
Speaker 1: Most guys, and they're not continuing to go for what
Speaker 1: We're in the finals. I'm banged up. I got my money.
Speaker 1: No what nobody would have complained if Robert Williams decided
Speaker 1: to sit out. He didn't. He was a game changer
Speaker 1: in this This entire series cost fits. You gotta give
Speaker 1: a lot of credit to that young man with his
Speaker 1: whole entire future, A had his whole entire future ahead
Speaker 1: of him. He left it all out there on the line.
Speaker 1: You respect guys like that. There's so many guys in
Speaker 1: this league that would never do that. You respect guys
Speaker 1: like that the utmost respect for me. That's a group,
Speaker 1: that's a young group over there. Grant Williams, who was
Speaker 1: all in my grill, in my face the entire series.
Speaker 1: We had our words back and forth. I got respect
Speaker 1: for that young man. Them guys gonna be together, and
Speaker 1: they'd be crazy if they don't keep those guys together.
Speaker 1: But it wouldn't surprise me if we see this team
Speaker 1: sometime in the near future when we're done win the championship.
Speaker 1: They got it. They're not weak, they're not soft. They
Speaker 1: got scoring, they got the defense, they got the bigsday.
Speaker 1: If there's one place that they can improve, it's probably
Speaker 1: their depth. You know, if you look at this series,
Speaker 1: I feel like they just ran out of gas, like
Speaker 1: and and that was it for us. We're like, yo,
Speaker 1: they are only really playing seven guys. Sometimes it's only six.
Speaker 1: Let's just keep running these guys. Keep it by in
Speaker 1: front of these guys. Let's try to wear them down.
Speaker 1: But the thing about it is championship teams they got
Speaker 1: their guys and then they fill out with great minimums.
Speaker 1: And when you're a great team like that, you start
Speaker 1: to get the great minimums. And so you're going into
Speaker 1: next year, your bench looked totally different. You're able to
Speaker 1: rely on that bench. And so those are some of
Speaker 1: the things that I think we'll see from them. And
Speaker 1: I don't think this is our last time hearing from
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics. That's a great group. They got a
Speaker 1: great young core and they're gonna continue to get better
Speaker 1: before we get out of here because I have to
Speaker 1: go join this party. Let's talk about some of these naysayers.
Speaker 1: Before this series started, I saw ESPN power indexes. Something
Speaker 1: gave us a chance and win. Why who makes those things?
Speaker 1: What is their job? Secure? Aready liked because you're lying
Speaker 1: to people? So that is anyone held accountable these days?
Speaker 1: Anybody hell the company these days. I even saw it
Speaker 1: was like to the two and they're like, seventy are
Speaker 1: you crazy? You know who you're dealing with? Sass to
Speaker 1: count us out like that. It's just it's crazy to me.
Speaker 1: Where do y'all get these numbers from? Like are they
Speaker 1: coming from the people that sit up there and don't
Speaker 1: know what they're talking about? That's how I gotta be calculated,
Speaker 1: because it's just those numbers just don't make sense to me.
Speaker 1: They didn't make sense, and they for damn sure don't
Speaker 1: make sense. Now Nick Wright comes out and say, uh,
Speaker 1: Steph Currys, that's it. He would never see the finals again.
Speaker 1: And Andrew Wiggins three years ninety five million dollars left
Speaker 1: on his deal, why would they go do that worst trade?
Speaker 1: And blah blah blah. I hope you will understand on
Speaker 1: that word. Brother, stand on that and tell us why
Speaker 1: you thought that. Tell us why you thought that? Tell
Speaker 1: us why this whole series you've been yapping, yapping, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you want to switch to
Speaker 1: the doves. Tell us why, Because what's in question is
Speaker 1: your basketball knowledge. Some of these asking on asked statements
Speaker 1: y'all be making. That's why I speak of the new media.
Speaker 1: For those of you that don't know what the new
Speaker 1: media is, let me explain to you what the new
Speaker 1: media is. The new media is not athletes doing media.
Speaker 1: Been doing that. A lot of them turned into coons
Speaker 1: and start acting like the old media once they become media.
Speaker 1: But let me explain to you what the new media is.
Speaker 1: The new media is a stand on your word. We
Speaker 1: don't apologize for our world. We don't flip and go.
Speaker 1: You stand on your word, good battering different. We stand
Speaker 1: on that be. We're not trying to create controversy. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to align myself with a guy or two
Speaker 1: so I can feel some TV slots on the daily
Speaker 1: and create controversy. Basketball is a beautiful game. If you
Speaker 1: know the game of basketball, basketball will give you enough
Speaker 1: to talk about the problem is all of these people
Speaker 1: talking about basketball that don't know basketball, and so what
Speaker 1: do you do You chase controversy. The new media we
Speaker 1: don't do that. That's why you see J. J. Reddick flourishing.
Speaker 1: That's why you see C. J. McCullum flourishing. That's why
Speaker 1: you see me flourishing. So we don't do that. We
Speaker 1: simply talk the game that we know and embrace it. Teach.
Speaker 1: That's what these spots are about. How do you teach
Speaker 1: the game? How do you teach the fans the game?
Speaker 1: These people that think they know the game of basketball
Speaker 1: but don't really know. How does JJ ready go up
Speaker 1: there and teach the game? That's the new media. We
Speaker 1: give flowers when flowers are due. We don't have to
Speaker 1: try to build a guy up for a week to
Speaker 1: tear them down next week. So I got something to
Speaker 1: talk about. That's the new media. Respect integrity, respecting integrity
Speaker 1: on the job, about the job. I remember days when
Speaker 1: you didn't go on a on a TV show and
Speaker 1: cheer for another team. You go on and give analysis.
Speaker 1: Nobody give a damn who you're sharing for. You got
Speaker 1: foods like Kendrick Perkins, come dressing like a clown, come
Speaker 1: up hearing a jail suit, and then you lead a
Speaker 1: game early tonight. Stand on your word, brother, you gotta
Speaker 1: stand on that. One thing is for certain. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stand on my full time champ. I'm out. Vivid and livid, liver, livid,
Speaker 1: liver and liver, livid, livid, liver and liver, livid, liver
Speaker 1: and livid, li