WEBVTT - Kyrie and Klay (possibly) Returning + A Gary Payton Interview 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:08.640 The volume The Draymond Green Show presented by FanDuel Sports Book. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:10.680 No better place to bet the action than on FanDuel 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:13.240 Sports Book during the football season. There's a lot of reasons. 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:17.520 It's America's number one sports book. Incredibly easy to use, 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:22.000 super safe, totally secure, super fast payouts in as quick 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.000 as two hours. You're not gonna get that anywhere. Also, 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:29.360 same game parlay bets, live betting. It's the best. There 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.400 really is no competition. Hey, if you're new, just download 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.920 the FanDuel Sports Book App. I did it in fifteen seconds. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.160 Get started now sign up. Please use the promo code 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.040 Colin so they know we sent you. Please use the 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:45.400 promo code Colins CEO l I N FanDuel sports Book App. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:51.599 Sign up. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to The Draymond 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.520 Green Show. This is episode eight, and I had the 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:59.640 opportunity to have an incredible conversation with a Hall of Famer, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:05.120 a legend, town legend, incredible defensive player of nine time 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.600 All Defensive First Team, the legend none other than the Glove. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.440 Like I said, town legend. Obviously you know my ties 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.080 to the town. Uh that's a you know, O G 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.959 who Since I came out. Here's kind of always tapped 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.280 in with me and always show love. And obviously everything 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.560 has come for a circle with with Young GP, the 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.399 Young Glove, you know, being with the Dubs and playing 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.200 incredible basketball. I know, as Pops as proud, and so 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:38.360 we had an incredible conversation, and my favorite part of 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:43.040 the conversation was the very beginning, and I think selfishly 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.160 that that was my favorite part of the conversation. So 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.880 you alway definitely had the opportunity to hear the conversation. 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.320 I think it was fantastic and as you know, you know, 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.600 we both can chatted up a little bit. That's kind 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.120 of what we do. So I'm looking forward to that 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.520 and I'm looking forward to sharing that with you guys. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.080 But first we need to talk about a few things 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:07.559 going on around the association. Uh. Starting with I think 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.959 everybody wants to hear about my thoughts on the Warriors, Uh, 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.200 the Warriors Nuggets game that was postponed when I was 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:19.359 in COVID protocol, And the reality is it probably helped 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.239 me because that was one less game that I missed 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.640 only and up missing two games and then obviously getting 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:31.440 back the other day against Miami first game back at 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.520 Chase Center. Felt good to be back with the guys 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.720 after missing a couple of games. Sitting there watching it 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.160 on TV sucks, and for me personally, I'm sitting there 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.000 watching on the TV like go plax, some go go 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.800 like feeling like I'm I'm there and those guys can 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.880 hear me. So it's definitely, definitely was great to be 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.200 back on the floor. I think I had a pretty 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.040 good first night out against Miami. I thought I was 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.919 gonna finish that game with twenty assists after having ten 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.920 assist in the first half, but it didn't quite go 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.240 that way. But nonetheless, it was a great win for us. 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.720 But uh, speaking back to the postponement of the game, 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.920 I thought it was complete bullshit. And the reason I 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.080 did was because, as my tweets said, you put certain 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.280 rules in place so you don't have to deal with that, 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:21.720 and they didn't follow those rules. Denver didn't follow those rules. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.519 You know. So you add a couple of guys here 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.440 that you say questionable, uh due to these injuries that 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.040 no one can say, oh, that guy can actually go 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.000 out there and play. But yet a night and a 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.320 half later they're out there playing, you know, so I 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.840 thought that was garbage. I thought it probably should have 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:38.640 been a forfeit because now we're going to have to 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.600 go back to Denver on the back to back. We 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.040 have a game March eight versus the Clippers at home. 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.600 Now we have to go play in Denver March seventh, 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.920 play at home against the Clippers on March eight, and 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.760 then fly back to Denver my March nine to play 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.080 against Denver March ten. So, as I said in my tweets, 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:01.040 advantage Denver and a game that we would have one, 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.160 it's now probably a scheduled loss. And and I thought 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.360 that was totally unfair. You can even look at the 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.120 Brooklyn Nets, uh that you know, a team that had 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.120 three games postponed, and you know we cut them a 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.320 little bit of slack because I don't I'm not quite 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:19.279 sure that the rules were exactly intact when the team 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.919 got hit with COVID, But you canceled three games in 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:23.640 a row, that would have been three losses for the 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.679 Brooklyn Nets. Now say it comes down to us versus 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.279 the Brooklyn's in the finals, and that and that changed 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:34.400 the home court advantage. It's unfair. And so I thought 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.719 it was garbage. I thought it should have been a 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.080 forfeit on on Denver's behind. Obviously we're not making a 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.440 thing or forfeit, but you can clearly tell they took 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.679 advantage of the rules. They added guys as questionable, said 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.159 those guys couldn't play, so they didn't meet the threshold 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:53.120 of the minimum amount of players to play a game. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.679 And then yet our team is sitting there in Denver, 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.200 would know for three days and doesn't play a single game, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.080 and then it's going to have to go back. So 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.760 I didn't think that was fair. We've had to play 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:09.320 games without our guys, with myself being one of those guys, 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.000 and yeah, you know, we could have did the same thing, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:16.920 um going to Toronto where you know some of us 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.960 didn't didn't didn't play in that game. We could have 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.479 put more guys down this questionable as well and did 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.719 the same thing. And so if you put rules in play, 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.479 stick by them. It can't be a case to case 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.360 by case basis because it changes for everyone and it's 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.039 a competitive advantage. So I thought that was totally unfair. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:37.960 I thought it was garbage, and I thought it should 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.440 have been handled away differently by the league than it was. 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:46.120 Speaking of COVID situations, Kyrie returning, and Kyrie is returning tonight, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.560 and I think we're all excited as just as a 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.000 basketball fan, you're excited to see Kyrie join that team 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.120 and and you know, bringing that team to full strength. 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.400 They prepared to play with Kyrie and so now that 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.680 he's getting an opportunity to do that only in world games, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.960 as we know, it's exciting, if you know, and Kyrie 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.720 is one of the most exciting players to watch in 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.000 the league. So you know he's gonna Kyrie. It's kind 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.960 of that, you know, six six one six to whatever 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.640 Kyrie is, but walks around with shoulders like he's seven ft. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.000 You know he's gonna come back. Uh, straight pedal to 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.680 the meadows. No trying to find a rhythm. It's not 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.680 how Kye operates. So I'm looking forward to that. I 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.480 think all basketball fans is looking forward to Kyrie getting 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:35.920 an opportunity to play. So that will happen tonight in Indiana, 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.880 and I think Indiana might want to watch out because 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.880 I know that boy is coming back. I'm sorry, that 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:46.360 man is coming back with Avengeance and it's gonna be good. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.200 So I'll be tuned in and locked in and watching 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.919 an hour before if it lines up with with with 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.920 when we play. Um, I think they play an hour 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:56.880 before we play, so maybe I'll get a chance to 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:58.360 see a little bit of it, but if not, I'll 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.039 just catch it on film because I am excited to 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.320 see Kyrie and his shifting nous get back out there 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.440 on that floor with his scoring ability. And I mean, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.960 we all know Kyrie is an incredible player, So definitely 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.880 looking forward to that Kyrie joining back with with the nets. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.120 Quinn Snyder made some comments the other day where he said, uh, 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.560 I should be in the m v P conversation, and 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.760 I actually spoke about it in my press conference the 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.440 other night. Is I agree. And the reason I agree 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.920 is because if you can't watch me play and realize 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:35.360 that scoring scoring the basketball isn't the only thing that 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.480 makes you great, as I always say, you probably just 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.280 don't understand what you're watching. And yet you know so 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.480 many people everybody in their mom I always sell football 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.240 player of friends of mine. I'm enviously you guys, because 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.440 you have eleven guys running out there on your team, 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.720 eleven guys on the other team. People can't begin to 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.520 even try to come up with what coverage you're in 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.520 or what defensive scheme you're in, what read was wrong? 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.240 You know who catches flat like a receiver for dropping 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.440 the ball, or running back for not um running the 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.320 ball well, or quarterback for throwing a pick or a 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.880 d Vegan burned. But sometimes when that dB get birth 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:20.960 is actually the free safety fall. But because there's so 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.360 much going on in the football field, people can't really 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.080 make that out. And so I always tell my football guys, 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.360 who are my friends that play football? Is I'm enviously 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.880 you guys, because everyone and their mom thinks they know 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.600 the game of basketball and it's so far from true. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.920 I always tell people I studied this game every single 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.960 day for hours on end, as most as most people 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.000 doing their cry. Yet they think they know the game 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:47.800 better than me. And this is what I do for 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.760 a living. This is what I study daily. What you 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:52.600 give your all too is what I give to the 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.960 game of basketball. And yet people think they understand the 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.920 game as good as us. And so when Coach Snyder 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:03.320 said that, I was very appreciative of it because I 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.560 do feel that way. I do feel like I'm one 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.640 of the best players in the league. I do feel 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:12.760 like every night. I am doing incredible things to make 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.920 sure my team wins the game. And obviously, you know 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.520 I played next to the ultimate m VP candidate and 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.520 Steph Curry. But I do think I should get some consideration. 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.559 And you know that consideration may not be Top three, 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.120 as there are so many great players in the running 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.120 for that award, but just to be out there on 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.200 that list, uh, in the top ten being considered for 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.560 that award, I think it's incredible and I think with 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.480 all the things that I do, I can't disagree with 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.760 Coach Snyder. I agree one, but we know how it goes. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.440 You know, you're not averaging twenty five thirty points a game, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.559 you don't really uh get any acknowledgement for that award. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.600 And it's fine, Um, it's fine. As we all know, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.840 I do have my eyes set on that Defensive Player 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.439 of the Year A War and so you know that's, uh, 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.680 that's my old and that's what I'll continue to push for. 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.600 That War really means a lot to me, and you know, 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.559 I'm trying to add that to my trophy case, add 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.600 another one to my trophy case. So I definitely agree 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.000 with Coach Schnyder, and I hope those voters agree to 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.800 and send a couple of bullshoo boy away. That's all 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.440 I ask for. And then um, before we get to 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.200 the interview with the O G. I think lastly, we 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:28.400 are all excited and anticipating Clay Thompson's return. You know, 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.920 a lot of people make something of Clay walking off 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.920 the court hold enough six fingers, um and his warm 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.199 up the other night, and a lot of people are 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.320 saying that he was holding enough six fingers that mean 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:45.120 in six days until his January knife returned. Unfortunately, guys, 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.240 I get the same information you get. I get it 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:52.120 right off the internet. Clay Thompson's possibly returned on January knife. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:53.800 What I can't tell you is this guy has been 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.600 flying around the facility and I don't just meet on 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:02.800 the basketball court. He's breathing, he's hyped, he's dr let's 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:07.080 go this that I mean, his energy is through the roof. 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:13.520 So if that takes us to a January night Clay 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:21.040 return return, then maybe those six fingers were about six days. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.160 If not, we know he's somewhere within the next couple 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.440 of weeks. And uh, I know I'm looking forward to 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.800 that just about as much as anyone, if not more 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:36.480 to reunite with my brother, uh guy who I've played 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.400 with my entire career, but that I've had the opportunity 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.480 to win three championships and go in the trenches with 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.520 every single night. I am looking forward to that. I 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.679 understand and know what he's been through over these last 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.800 couple of years, two and a half years, and you know, 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.560 just seeing all the good the good days, the bad days. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.880 It was a roller coaster. I mean it was legitimate 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.160 a roller coast. Like some days he walked in and 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.720 he doesn't he wouldn't talk to anyone, Like he just 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.880 walked in and like just sit there and like going 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.880 about his business. And then some days he walked in 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.840 and and he's like loud as hell and want you know, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.079 want Toscano Anderson and younger guys like that. Who doesn't 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.520 really know Clay? He said, Man, I don't know how 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.640 to read Clay. Like sometimes he say hi to me 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.080 and he's cool and he talks, and then sometimes he 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.160 just walked past with his head down and doesn't say 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:34.240 anything to anyone, And I'm like, well, the guy who 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.360 says hi to you, it's probably more of the guy 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.720 that Clay is. But what you do have to understand 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:41.560 is that is also a guy who's dealing with the 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:46.800 ultimate frustration, a guy who loves basketball and competing just 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.400 as much as anyone that has had that snatched away 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.599 for the last two and a half years while he 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.320 sit back and watch you and I play the game 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.360 that he loved so dearly. And so I understand it. Um, 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.640 I don't think there's any ill will to I know 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.000 there's no it will to it, because that's just not 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.880 who Klay Thompson is. But just having to explain that 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.080 to the guys, and now they're really starting to see 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.800 Clay and the energy that he brings to the facility, Uh, 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.120 the energy that he brings to the organization, into this team, 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.319 because he's just been flying through that facility over the 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:22.880 last week or a week or so, and so um, yeah, man, 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:27.680 I'm I'm hoping it's January ninth versus the cast. It's 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.959 it's long overdue, and like I said, he deserves it, 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:37.400 and so you know this is gonna be, Uh, it's 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.840 gonna be monumental. Like the basketball world is waiting for 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.800 Clay Thompson's return. It's not just the Warriors fans it's 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:50.120 not just people in California or NBA fans, the basketball world. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.000 It's a way that Clay Thompson's returning where all angels 0:13:54.040 --> 0:14:00.200 were excited. I can't wait. And uh, obviously for me, 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:05.800 that's just furthering me deeper into Pastors Paradise. So what 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.440 more can I say. I'm thrilled a body. I'm looking 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.960 forward to my brother's return, and I don't think we're 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:17.400 far away. So stay tuned. Play Thompson's return is on 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:21.960 the brink. He's coming up, and y'all better watch out. 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.840 This is going to get interested and it's gonna get 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.640 really fun. May be fun for you, maybe not, depends 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.040 on where you're staying, but I definitely think it will 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.600 be really fun for us. So that's what we got, man, 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:40.160 And you know, with without further ado, um, I would 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.560 like to welcome, as I said before, the legend, the 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:50.760 O G. The Oakland Native Seattle supersonic legend, not to 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.600 be confused with the Okay See Thunder legend, the Seattle 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:58.000 supersonic Legend none other than the Glove himself, O G. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:06.760 Gary Payton. See her man, I am honored to have 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:11.360 a Hall of Famer Uh A goat the glove man, 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.240 welcome me to his city, allowed me to come out 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.000 here and and be at home, you know, and and 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.840 do great things in this city. Uh in the town, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.240 I should say, in the town. Uh you know. Born 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:29.120 and raised Oakland, California, Scoytline High School, Oregon State number 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.200 two pick. And as I said before a Hall of Famer, 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.520 the glove Man, I am honored to welcome Gary Payton. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.960 See her, that is Gary Payton, ser gp was happening. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.120 What's going on, my young fellow man? What's happy with you? Man? 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.600 Nothing much. It's been a rough go at it, not 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.440 only for the NBA, but I see a lot of 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.720 people that I know starting to test positive. Man. So 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.400 just trying to get through that. How are you feeling. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.520 I'm feeling good, you know what I'm saying. I'm I'm 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:02.080 just staying away from all that. You know. It was 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.680 coming to company our games and then I stopped coming, man, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.320 I said. And I'm around these kids too, you know, 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:11.040 because you know, you know our coach Lincoln University, and 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.120 I'm around these kids, man. So tomorrow is gonna be tough. 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.680 Our first day coming back from Christmas break, and they're 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.640 gonna be they're gonna be tomorrow. I'm gonna get them 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.320 all tested tomorrow to make sure that we are we'll 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.640 be good. So you know, I'm just trying to be 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:28.560 stay away from that too. You know what I'm saying 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.880 is just unfortunate that you got caught up in that 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.240 and stuff with that because you don't know who comes 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:38.320 around you. You know, awesome crazy stuff like at the game. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.000 You know what I'm saying. You don't know, so you 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.680 know what happened. But I know you'll get through it 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.760 and you'll fight through what. You'd be fine absolutely. Speaking 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.640 of of your you coaching, you're coaching that Lincoln University, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.520 how's that going for you? I know you know you're 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.160 just now getting into it and coming in to change 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.280 the program program around. How's that going? Drell? You know 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.720 what the good thing about this program is, it is 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.440 what you're saying to change it. It's a starter program 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.840 coming out of COVID. You know, you don't have a 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.399 chance to go or recruit. You don't have there's nothing 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.520 to do like that. You gotta see kids off of 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.560 videos And I'm just gonna be honest, this is a 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.840 different era for me. You know, the different kids are different. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.719 You're I'm saying, it's a different era, man, because these 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.200 kids don't want to work. They think that that you 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.480 gotta give it to him. And basically, this is not 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:28.879 a U. I'm a different coach. I'm a screen i'mnna yelle. 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.399 I'm gonna get into your in your chest. I'm gonna 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.560 do that. That's just the way I am. And I 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.159 gotta have kids that can deal with that, and I 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.080 gotta recruit kids, and then you gotta worry about sometimes 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.639 kids who you gotta be sometimes don't go at him 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.040 that way. You gotta know how to talk to some 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.600 of these kids. But some of these kids gotta understand. 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.760 I'm not gonna baby. If you come what you gotta 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.480 do on the floor, I'll let you do whatever you 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.679 wanna do, but you're not gonna come in here and 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.720 have have acid and then think that. I'm gonna just say, okay, cool, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.159 know what I'm saying. So it's been it's been a progress, 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.359 but I think I'm getting through it. I got a 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.000 great staff with me, and I think we're playing. We're 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.080 playing okay for a team that we had. That's great. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.200 I know we have spoke about me coming over there 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.480 one of these days, obviously getting through this, but like 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.800 I said before, just let me know when you know, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.399 I love to come through and how I'll talk to 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.280 you about that. They don't have a privilege to meet 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.040 me guys like you right now, I think that they 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:28.760 need to work. You know what I'm saying you. You 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.680 are privileged to come and talk to them, and they don't. 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.760 They don't get that. And you know, but before the 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.160 years old, I want you to because I got two 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.200 guys here that I think that we're really benefit from 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.320 talking to you about how your journey was to get 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.800 to the NBA, how hardy and tough it was for 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.159 you to work coming up for what you did. Like 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.680 what you said this minute, though I have much worse 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.880 where I stayed at. Just hit that, man. They don't 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.880 get that to come and become who you have became 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:01.440 because you didn't went to most work, more worse things, 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.480 to see worse things, but you built yourself up to 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.320 be the person who you are now. Absolutely now I 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.399 definitely appreciate and speaking of that, uh, you know, just 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.480 kicking this thing off. I'll be remissed if we don't 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.440 talk about the young glove young g P the second. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:21.359 Uh you know, I know everyone's asking you questions about 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:23.840 him on the floor and obviously we can talk about that. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:28.520 But as a father myself, Um of Dreymond Green Jr. 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.280 Obviously I have two daughters, but it's you're a father 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:34.960 of a daughter as well. It's it's different raising girls 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:39.000 than it is boys. And for me, Um, I tried. 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.080 You know, what I struggle with daily is is what's 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.680 too much and what's not enough? You know, like what's 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.720 what's giving him too much and what's not giving him enough? 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:53.800 Because the reality is we grow up and you know, 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.040 you're growing up in Oakland, me growing up in Sacking. 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.480 All we grow up and I know, for me, my 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:03.000 goal it always has been I don't want my kids 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.280 to live the same life that I lived growing up. 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.800 But in saying that, I am who I am because 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.760 of the life that I live and and trying to 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:18.320 figure out, um that balance and like, yeah, you're not 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:20.800 going to live the life I live, and like I 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.760 can give you more, but like I still want to 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.879 teach you how to get it on your own, and 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.840 like what's hard work and what's determination and how you 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.800 push through that? Can you give me some insight on that, 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:34.439 because that's what I want to know because that is 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.679 my daily struggling life. And like I said, especially in 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:42.040 raising my son more so than my daughters, that's a 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:46.280 that's a great question, a great act of advice. You 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:50.800 do know that our our daughters are gonna be father guys. 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:53.120 They're gonna be father guys. That's just just the way 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:56.159 it goes. Our son is gonna be rebellious against us. 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.400 And I'm telling you right now, your son is gonna 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:01.800 be rebellious, can't you Because his name after you, And 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:04.920 once he goes to school, people are gonna be like, oh, 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.440 you're not your dad. You can't be like your dad, 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.639 and they're gonna tease him, and he's gonna get a 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.840 lot of he's gonna get mad about that. But because 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.719 who you are and who I was growing up, and 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:18.800 we had the life that we did, we didn't want 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:22.600 to give our kids the same lifestyle. Correct, that's very correct. 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:27.160 But I I say this, don't give him too much. 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:31.640 Make him work for stuff, give him chores, give him 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:34.480 things to do, make him go and be with his 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:36.840 sisters and pick him up or do something like that. 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:41.840 Make him have a responsibility with Gary, Gary is second. 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:45.600 He was with me all the time. He learned how 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.960 to play basketball, he learned how to do the things 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:52.640 he was around me. Uh And I compliment you from 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.360 doing that with Christmas, with your son having enter the band, 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:59.000 You're giving him an experience of what he can become 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:02.280 and get and that's what you want him to do. 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:05.720 But don't give him as much. Don't feed him, don't 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:08.679 keep feeding him. Make him work for stuff that he 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:13.040