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Speaker 1: episode of seventy Sixers Insiders. On today's one on one interview,
Speaker 1: I am joined by Danny Green. It is always a
Speaker 1: pleasure to talk to Danny. One of the most well
Speaker 1: respected veterans in this league. He has seen it all,
Speaker 1: he has three rings, and he is bringing his expertise
Speaker 1: to the seventy sixers once again. It was awesome to
Speaker 1: catch up with him. So without further ado, here is
Speaker 1: our interview from Media Day. Danny Green. A pleasure to
Speaker 1: see you, as always. The first thing I want to
Speaker 1: say is congratulations on your wedding. The last time we
Speaker 1: saw you in a jersey you weren't married, now you are.
Speaker 1: How did it feel. What was that like? Um, it
Speaker 1: was a big stress reliever. There's always a lot of hecticness,
Speaker 1: a lot of stress leading up to it, planning it,
Speaker 1: you know, but it was fun. It was amazing day.
Speaker 1: And then after that you can just kind of breathe
Speaker 1: a little bit, relax and kind of enjoy the summer.
Speaker 1: Tell me about then resigning with the Sixers. What sort
Speaker 1: of went into that decision and what excites you most
Speaker 1: about spending more time here. Oh, those are two highlights
Speaker 1: of my summer. I was very excited. We have a
Speaker 1: chance to you know, run it back. You got a
Speaker 1: chance to have a great team if everybody's healthy, you know,
Speaker 1: a contender. Also continue to you know, have a contract
Speaker 1: and make you know, a good money and be in
Speaker 1: a city with fans that you know love the game,
Speaker 1: that they're very passionate about their sports. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: about it. We have full fans from the start, hopefully
Speaker 1: stays that way, and you know, I'm excited to start
Speaker 1: the season out the right way. Having talked to most
Speaker 1: of your teammates today, it's really clear that you and
Speaker 1: Tobias are sort of the like emotional leaders of the
Speaker 1: team when it comes to the locker room, keeping everybody together.
Speaker 1: Maybe third Joe well in there as well. But tell
Speaker 1: me about what leadership means to you. If you had
Speaker 1: to define what it means to be a good leader,
Speaker 1: what would you say, um, to be a good leader,
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of different qualities you have
Speaker 1: to have. The biggest thing is it's communicating. Be able
Speaker 1: to talk and see different size of the spectrum, see
Speaker 1: all perspectives, see it from a player standpoint, coach at standpoint,
Speaker 1: kind of be able to relay messages to both parties.
Speaker 1: So the biggest thing for me is teaching, learning and
Speaker 1: communicating to a young guys of how to do things
Speaker 1: in their language. Obviously we all speak the same language English,
Speaker 1: but you know, newer generation, old generation. Sometimes the translations
Speaker 1: gets it gets lost in translations sometimes. But then my
Speaker 1: jobs are trying to kind of relay and decipher and
Speaker 1: kind of translate everything to make it simpler for the
Speaker 1: younger guys. I think I know your answer, but what
Speaker 1: would you say would be your biggest goal as a
Speaker 1: team this season in terms of winning or anything. I
Speaker 1: think for me is to go out healthy. If we're
Speaker 1: all healthy, we give it our best shot and we're
Speaker 1: you know, clicking on all cylinders and have our best chemistry.
Speaker 1: I can live with with losing that way. Um last year,
Speaker 1: we're undred percent healthy. We know we could have had
Speaker 1: better chemistry, but I think this team has enough to
Speaker 1: get it done in regardless of who's on that floor.
Speaker 1: If we have the chemistry and we're health. I think
Speaker 1: we make some things happen, and if we don't, you know,
Speaker 1: we gave it our all. We took our hats to
Speaker 1: the team that beat us. But obviously the goal is
Speaker 1: a championship for me, for everybody. So I think we
Speaker 1: get it done. But I just want us to be
Speaker 1: healthy and playing our best basketball by April, May and June.
Speaker 1: What's your personal goal for this season? To play better
Speaker 1: than I did last season collectively consistently, you know, just
Speaker 1: stay healthy again, you know, be better defensively from our
Speaker 1: group and offensively even knock down more shots if I
Speaker 1: can be a better percentage from the field, and you know,
Speaker 1: be a leader out there to help my point guard,
Speaker 1: I guess, get into the sets, Tyres, a young guy,
Speaker 1: help begin the sets, and whoever else is out there
Speaker 1: handling hand on the through ball. When we last spoke,
Speaker 1: you were talking about the excitement you feel for the season,
Speaker 1: sort of going back to normal. We're back to eighty
Speaker 1: two games, We're back to being on the road. What
Speaker 1: are you most excited about now that we know for
Speaker 1: sure that that's happening. What cities are you excited to visit?
Speaker 1: How are we feeling? Uh, Toronto teams back in Toronto,
Speaker 1: I finally get my ring. I've been two year years
Speaker 1: I have not got my ring, for those who don't know.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited about that. I'm excited about seeing the
Speaker 1: city again, but all cities, just be able to travel
Speaker 1: again and be back to normal somewhat, and playing in
Speaker 1: front of fans, all fans where you know, every renal
Speaker 1: last year didn't have fans. So playing in some of
Speaker 1: those big arenas where they have their fans and those
Speaker 1: hostile environments, that's what this game's about. So players are
Speaker 1: about it, with the seasons about so we're gonna for
Speaker 1: eighty two and playing in front of you know, fans
Speaker 1: over the world is what we know dreamed as a kid.
Speaker 1: It's to be in front of them. Speaking of Toronto,
Speaker 1: I know that you got a tattoo to commemorate your championship.
Speaker 1: There another to commemorate your championship in La Tell me
Speaker 1: about why that was an important thing for you to do.
Speaker 1: I got all three. Actually, um, it was important to
Speaker 1: commemorate all the cities that I've got a chance to
Speaker 1: play in and win in. Those cities will forever be
Speaker 1: tied to me and hopefully I'll be tied to them
Speaker 1: forever as well. But it's just something that I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say reminds me, but something that I can show people
Speaker 1: or expressed or something that has happened in my lifetime
Speaker 1: I never thought would ever happened, and it's very meaningful me.
Speaker 1: So I can put it on my body and marketing history.
Speaker 1: Does he need to go back and do that question again? Possibly? No,
Speaker 1: not because of you, because your boy came and sat down.
Speaker 1: Get off the shot. Okay, sorry, we can move on. Oka.
Speaker 1: Is there space for one that would commemorate Philly? I
Speaker 1: did leave space purposely. The story is not over. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, I said. It's kind of storybook tattoos, a
Speaker 1: former expression, a chance to express myself and other things
Speaker 1: that I've accomplished, things that I've thought dreamed about since
Speaker 1: I was a kid, and I'll be able to do it,
Speaker 1: so said, with the cities that I've played in and
Speaker 1: tied to forever, and left some space for left room
Speaker 1: for hopefully doing something that story this year. Do you
Speaker 1: have a mantra or a motto that's inspiring you headed
Speaker 1: into this season? Not necessarily? Um, not this year. I
Speaker 1: take it a day at a time. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: one year at a time, try to stay healthy as possible,
Speaker 1: but just do things right away each year, trying to
Speaker 1: be better than the last year or the last day yesterday,
Speaker 1: and just try to stay healthy, you know, coming with
Speaker 1: a positive attitude mindset. This is my favorite question I
Speaker 1: think that i'm asking today. But when you think back
Speaker 1: at your rookie self, what advice would you give that,
Speaker 1: Danny Green? Just stay the course and they'll enjoy the ride,
Speaker 1: have a lot of fun with it, and don't take
Speaker 1: it for granted. I love it. This is the last part, Danny,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do some superlatives asking about your teammates. Okay,
Speaker 1: which of your teammates is the most punctual? Wow, the
Speaker 1: most punctual. I'm probably gonna say Matisse if I had
Speaker 1: to say him, or maybe it's Tobias. I think those
Speaker 1: two guys probably lead the group. Which of your teammates
Speaker 1: is the best dancer outside of myself? Uh? Oh, we
Speaker 1: got Andre here. Now. You know, he's a big music guy,
Speaker 1: so I have to see what he's got in the store.
Speaker 1: Who's the worst dancer? The worst? That's a good guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a tough one, but that we
Speaker 1: have some good dancers. We got Peter Reid, We've got
Speaker 1: a couple of guys Tyres. You know, some of the
Speaker 1: young guys do dance. The worst dancer I have to
Speaker 1: see for a constant when he's gotten in the bag.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna say he's the worst. I want
Speaker 1: to see what George Yang got as well. So I'm
Speaker 1: putting those guys kind of towards that category, which is
Speaker 1: not sure yet. Who would you trust to get you
Speaker 1: out of an escape room? Oh? Matisse or George? George's
Speaker 1: pretty high IQ, outside the box type of thinker. I
Speaker 1: think those two guys will get it done for him.
Speaker 1: Who would you trust to make you dinner? That can cook?
Speaker 1: Not Joel Um, it's no shake No, who's a cook?
Speaker 1: Nobody's a cooker? On p read perfect. Who would you
Speaker 1: trust to babysit? So watch much? Somebody that has kids
Speaker 1: in this team? So probably Seth that just had new born.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to him. Dope name two cash U, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll trust somebody with kids. I don't think there's many
Speaker 1: other Joe kids, but I don't know if I trust
Speaker 1: them yet. I don't know who else has kids on
Speaker 1: our team besides those two guys. Who's the funniest purpose
Speaker 1: on purpose or by accident? On purpose? On purpose? Uh?
Speaker 1: To bias? Who's the funniest by accident? For sure? Who's
Speaker 1: the nerdiest? Matisse or Shake? Matie's more self? For sure Matisse?
Speaker 1: Who would you trust as your teammate in trivia? Similar question?
Speaker 1: Who probably Matis? Oh? He's a lot, he's answers. He
Speaker 1: seems like the smartest guy of the team. He's apparently
Speaker 1: doing everything. Yeah. Um, Who's the biggest morning person who
Speaker 1: brings the best energy at an early workout? I have
Speaker 1: a feeling it's gonna be Andre for some reason. Who's
Speaker 1: the biggest I feel he's gonna feel that Dwight role.
Speaker 1: If I had to guess, who's the biggest grump in
Speaker 1: the morning, Oh, maybe Joel? And last but not least.
Speaker 1: If you had to trust someone to write a poem
Speaker 1: to really move people, who would you pay? Who was
Speaker 1: a poet on our team to move the people? Read? No,
Speaker 1: I'll probably probably say I probably know what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with now. I want to go with the young guy,
Speaker 1: but I can't trust it. I wanted to say Za,
Speaker 1: but nah, Tyree's No, I's gonna say fir con call
Speaker 1: today gives a fir I think Firk got some stuff
Speaker 1: and it's usually got some hidden gems for us. I
Speaker 1: like it. Danny Green, always a pleasure to sit with you.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to the season me too. Thank you, thanks
Speaker 1: as always for listening to the seventy Sixers Insiders. Thanks
Speaker 1: to Danny for sitting down and sharing his thoughtful advice
Speaker 1: in candor and thoughts on the season ahead. Looking forward
Speaker 1: to watching Danny continue to lead this group. As always,
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