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Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show. This is episode.
Speaker 1: This is not an episode. What this is is a
Speaker 1: very imprompt two episode, And so I take that back. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's an episode, but it's not your typical uh, once
Speaker 1: or twice a week that we go. I know, uh,
Speaker 1: this is probably gonna pop up on your notification, like, uh,
Speaker 1: the Draymond Green Show just released a podcast, and you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna look like what is this and then you're
Speaker 1: probably look and see that it's five or ten minutes
Speaker 1: or fifteen minutes long, and you're like, I really don't
Speaker 1: understand what this is. And so what I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what this is, and I'll explain to you why you're
Speaker 1: getting this impromptu episode of The Draymond Green Show, and
Speaker 1: that is because this is one thing that when I
Speaker 1: speak on new media, the number one thing about the
Speaker 1: new media is accountability. And you can't speak accountability if
Speaker 1: you can't hold yourself accountable and if you can't be
Speaker 1: held accountable. And that's what I'm all about, That's what
Speaker 1: I stand for. So I am going to hold myself accountable,
Speaker 1: but I also am going to recognize the accountabilities that
Speaker 1: others are holding me too, and that I extremely appreciate.
Speaker 1: And so here's what this episode is about. This episode
Speaker 1: is about the episode that we release UM Sunday, which
Speaker 1: was right before the day before we recorded the episode
Speaker 1: with the Old Man in the Three with JJ and Tommy.
Speaker 1: I released the the episode that kind of set everything
Speaker 1: on fire, and I absolutely enjoyed during the episode and
Speaker 1: I thought it was an absolutely great hit. I thought
Speaker 1: I brought great content because for me, this is all
Speaker 1: about bringing great content to our audience, UM, sharing whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you feel, getting things off your chest.
Speaker 1: And so I'm extremely excited to have this platform and
Speaker 1: due to this platform, I'm able to give this impromptu message.
Speaker 1: And this platform does not happen without you, without our audience.
Speaker 1: So again, as always, I say thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 1: The other day, when I was speaking, I used the
Speaker 1: word that carries a racial connotation. And when I used
Speaker 1: the word, I could have very well replaced the world
Speaker 1: with clown. I could have very well replaced the word
Speaker 1: with um, idiot, mora, I could have replaced the word
Speaker 1: with anything and continued and stride. And the word that
Speaker 1: I'm speaking of is I used the word coon. As
Speaker 1: you know, for me, I don't hide behind anything. I
Speaker 1: don't stand behind and I don't I don't. I stand
Speaker 1: on what I mean and what I say. And so
Speaker 1: the reason being or the reason being for this episode
Speaker 1: is for me to come and address that. And the
Speaker 1: reason I want to address it, like I said, as
Speaker 1: you know the new media, we stand on what we say,
Speaker 1: we stand on what we believe, and so the reason
Speaker 1: I want to address that is because I think an
Speaker 1: understanding and growing in this lane. For me, I'm still
Speaker 1: a rookie in this lane. I don't take that for granted.
Speaker 1: I know that I understand that, which is why I'll
Speaker 1: reach out to a Stephen A. Smith and and ask
Speaker 1: his thoughts on something, which is why I'll reach out
Speaker 1: to Mark Spears and asks their thoughts on something, or
Speaker 1: the list goes on and on. I think those relationships
Speaker 1: are important and then growing in their space. I think
Speaker 1: it's important that you have guys that you can turn
Speaker 1: to and ask questions too. So I'm very appreciative of
Speaker 1: those guys and and their tutelage that they've given me
Speaker 1: along this journey. Now, I said all of that to say,
Speaker 1: I use the word coon, and when I use the
Speaker 1: word and understanding, I think the area of growth for
Speaker 1: me is understanding that and having this platform there comes
Speaker 1: a responsibility, and the responsibility there's several responsibilities, and to
Speaker 1: each his own. I have a different responsibility in this
Speaker 1: platform than Stephen A. Smith had, and Steven A. Smith
Speaker 1: has a different responsibility with his platform than Colin Calhurd has.
Speaker 1: And I totally understand that, and so I'm taking full
Speaker 1: responsibility because, like I told, I had a long conversation,
Speaker 1: uh the other day yesterday last night with Commissioner Adam Silver,
Speaker 1: maybe forty five or fifty minutes prior to that, I
Speaker 1: went in to see. Went into the League office yesterday
Speaker 1: here in New York to visit Joe Dumars who raised me,
Speaker 1: who's like a father to me, who the guy who
Speaker 1: showed me that there was a life outside of sacking
Speaker 1: a that I never imagined was that that I could reach,
Speaker 1: that that I never imagine could be my life. Due
Speaker 1: to my relationship with Jordan Dumars I, Joe's son, I
Speaker 1: was able to see totally different things that I had
Speaker 1: ever seen in my life, from sixteen or seventeen years
Speaker 1: old on through the draft and and to now. And
Speaker 1: to see Joe d and how successful he was and
Speaker 1: how he's going about his business has been so important
Speaker 1: to me and my growth. And so I went in
Speaker 1: to meet Joe the other day at the office, who's
Speaker 1: not the executive VP of NBA Operations, and we're just
Speaker 1: sitting there chopping it up and we're talking. We probably
Speaker 1: sat there for two and a half hours, and it
Speaker 1: was so great to catch up as I hadn't seen
Speaker 1: him to catch up in a year or two, and
Speaker 1: so so great to catch up. And we called up
Speaker 1: on a lot of things, but we spoke about the
Speaker 1: word and I was sharing with Jody like Wow, that
Speaker 1: is that's very interesting because I didn't think about it
Speaker 1: and that perspective. And although no, I'm not like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm no idiot, Like I do understand that the word
Speaker 1: kon is used in a racial way. However, I also
Speaker 1: think growing up culturally, things are different, and we all
Speaker 1: grow up in different places, we all all use words
Speaker 1: different um. And so for me, when I used the
Speaker 1: word like I said, I could have very well replaced
Speaker 1: it with clown growing up the way I grew up,
Speaker 1: or not even the way I grew up, but where
Speaker 1: I grew up. When you use you know, you may
Speaker 1: say to one of your boys, like, yo, you like,
Speaker 1: stop acting like a coon, And for me, it's like
Speaker 1: stop acting corny, like you're on some some weird type
Speaker 1: stuff like that's why, Like you don't have to do that,
Speaker 1: that's why. And so for me and using the word,
Speaker 1: that's what I was implying, however, and understanding that everyone
Speaker 1: didn't grow up in sacking On, Michigan. Everyone didn't grow
Speaker 1: up with my friends, this is such a huge moment
Speaker 1: for growth and learning for me, as I said, and
Speaker 1: being a rookie in this business, and understanding that that
Speaker 1: word does not mean the same thing to everyone. And
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people out there who's going
Speaker 1: to see that and be like, ah, that's a racial thing.
Speaker 1: And that's someone who stands against racism, who you know,
Speaker 1: has stood against it for years, who and it's not
Speaker 1: afraid to get out in front of it. I can
Speaker 1: admit right here that I was wrong, and regardless of
Speaker 1: how I may use the word with my friends or
Speaker 1: how um you know, that word may be perceived anywhere
Speaker 1: else in the world, it was wrong here and that
Speaker 1: I will acknowledge. And I'm so appreciative of the conversations
Speaker 1: that I had with Joe d and that I had
Speaker 1: with Adam. It's still so much further than just using
Speaker 1: this word. I mean, it ended up about the league
Speaker 1: and about the growth for the league and so many
Speaker 1: different things, and it was absolutely incredible. But I wanted
Speaker 1: to acknowledge this because I play in the league, and
Speaker 1: I represent and not only an organization, but a league
Speaker 1: that stands out against racism, bigotry, that stands up for Britain,
Speaker 1: grind that supports players and anything that they want to support.
Speaker 1: I don't take that for granted. I don't take for granted. Um,
Speaker 1: the NBA support of this podcast and how well this
Speaker 1: podcast is done, and how important the support of the
Speaker 1: league is. I don't take any of those things for granted,
Speaker 1: and so this impromptu episode is to speak on those
Speaker 1: It's to speak on that, and it won't be long.
Speaker 1: It's something that I wanted to get out to you guys,
Speaker 1: UM to share the way I feel I feel and
Speaker 1: felt in the moment and moving forward, the growth and
Speaker 1: learning experience that that this was for me. I told
Speaker 1: Adam last night. I said, Adam, it's frustrating for me
Speaker 1: because I felt like that was such a good episode
Speaker 1: and to know that it's been marred by the use
Speaker 1: of one word, it's very frustrating for me. It's also
Speaker 1: very excit fighting for me, because, like I said, this
Speaker 1: is an opportunity for me to grow. And so what
Speaker 1: I told Adam was, I said, this reminds me a
Speaker 1: lot of my first time on the arena when I
Speaker 1: was UM when we were interviewing Messiah Jury and I
Speaker 1: asked him the question about black lives matter on their
Speaker 1: bus and what I meant to say didn't quite come
Speaker 1: off that way, and it was such a huge learning
Speaker 1: experience for me. I felt that I grew so much
Speaker 1: from that particular instance, and this is another one of
Speaker 1: those instances for me to grow and continue to learn.
Speaker 1: And I don't take that for granted because ultimately what
Speaker 1: I want in this space is the same thing I
Speaker 1: wanted the space of basketball, and that is simply to
Speaker 1: be great. That is, simply to bring something great to
Speaker 1: people homes, to bring something great to your radio, to
Speaker 1: bring something great to your phone, your iPad, wherever it
Speaker 1: is that you watch your content, that you take your
Speaker 1: content in. My goal is to bring something great to you.
Speaker 1: And so this is an opportunity for me to improve.
Speaker 1: And so, like I said, as someone who represents the league,
Speaker 1: who has a very powerful voice in a league that
Speaker 1: stands against all of those things, I am doing this
Speaker 1: to make it known that I stand on the ice,
Speaker 1: stand on the use of that of the word that
Speaker 1: I use, and although it wasn't used for me and
Speaker 1: the way that it came off, I acknowledge that it
Speaker 1: meant that to you. And because it meant that to you,
Speaker 1: that's ultimately what matters at the end of at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, is what you took it as.
Speaker 1: Because ultimately this is for you, and so I wanted
Speaker 1: to come here and say for those out there that
Speaker 1: are supporters of this show, supporters of the NBA, supporters
Speaker 1: of basketball as a whole, or athletes or whatever, because
Speaker 1: I am someone who represent all those groups. My intent
Speaker 1: just word to never offend you in any way. And
Speaker 1: so this is I wanted to bring that to you.
Speaker 1: I wanted to let you know that that wasn't my intentions.
Speaker 1: I was wrong for that. I will be better there,
Speaker 1: I will continue to grow, I will continue to learn.
Speaker 1: I'm not asking for some type of oh, man, you're okay,
Speaker 1: or it's no big deal, or if you're gonna go
Speaker 1: crazy and say, ah, I don't believe you, or this
Speaker 1: is whatever it is. I take that in stride because again,
Speaker 1: the word came out of my mouth, not anyone else's,
Speaker 1: and so I can stand on that. I appreciate everyone's support.
Speaker 1: I appreciate everyone who reached out on Twitter and said
Speaker 1: something about it, because I don't read Twitter. But then
Speaker 1: I was scrolling and I saw one person say, man,
Speaker 1: that was great, and then they mentioned the word and
Speaker 1: died I and I'm like, and so that was the
Speaker 1: first time it actually caught my attention. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: the people really think. That's why I start scrolling. I
Speaker 1: wanted to see more and I'm like, that's interesting. And
Speaker 1: so then I went to talk to Joe de and
Speaker 1: we had the conversation and it was absolutely incredible. And
Speaker 1: so again I want to say thank you for your
Speaker 1: your subscriptions, thank you for your listens, your views, for
Speaker 1: your support, thank you for your understanding. I don't take
Speaker 1: that for granted one bit. And I want to send
Speaker 1: a big thank you to Adam Silver and Joe Dumars
Speaker 1: and Michael Levine who I also had a conversation with,
Speaker 1: and just the opportunity and helping me grow in a
Speaker 1: space that I want to be great, but more importantly,
Speaker 1: helping me grow as a young man as because that
Speaker 1: is important. If you're not growing, you're declining, and for me,
Speaker 1: growth is important. And most importantly, it's important that I
Speaker 1: continue to bring you what it is that you want
Speaker 1: here and that means the world to me. I know
Speaker 1: that means the world to Jackson. So I want to
Speaker 1: say thank you for listening to this impromptu message, taking
Speaker 1: the time out of your day. I don't take that
Speaker 1: for granted. Live from the Draymond Green Show. That's a
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