The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Draymond Green - From Underdog to 4x NBA Champion

Episode Date: July 3, 2022

“The moment we finish, I’m standing up on the podium, and I’m like, this is crazy. It’s wild. How do we get back here?” Four-time Golden State Warriors NBA champion Draymond Green discusses his podcast “The Draymond Green Show,” the misconception of what makes a player “soft,” and how he responds to smack talk from fans.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Thank you. I'm today. Mr. Dreymon Green. Mr. Dreyon Green, welcome to the Daily Show. Thanks for having me, I appreciate it. Are you kidding? I'm shocked that you have time to do anything after winning your fourth NBA championship.

Does it ever get old? You know, this one feels different than any other one. In what way? It's like the ultimate, f-fee you. It's the best. Let's talk about it. Let's jump straight into it. This is, th you, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, tho, tho, I's tho, I's tho, I's, I's, I's tho, I's tho, I's tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. tho, tho, thi, thi, thi, too, tho. too. too. too. too. tooo. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. the. tho, the best. Let's talk about it. Let's jump straight into it. This is what I love about you, you know? There was an era in sports where, you know, people would sort of say what they mean on the court.

But then when they would come off the court, they did an interview, what do you thin. What do you think about this? It was athe game. You've been honest about it from the beginning. People wrote your team all. People said Golden State was done for. Does this feel like, like vindication in the biggest way?

It does. I felt like people doubted us more this time than they did prior to know, everybody's like, oh, why, why in the parade are y'all saying, F everybody and shut up? And that's because the reality is they, they disrespected the work we've already done. Right. You know, to disrespect us as if we aren't champions and just write us off like, like we hadn't done it before. That's why I also like? This is what I like. There's an element of danger that's been infused into the team.

Because I think you know this. The Golden State Warriors are an amazing team. But you guys have a bit of a, like, a Christian youth group vibe about you. Do you know what I mean? No, I mean, especially like Clay like Klan Step is very much like, I'll see you guys on Sunday. It's like a nice thing. And I think there was this attitude in the league where people like, man, they're the nice guys. You can say anything about them. They won't do anything. I saw you in one of the postmatch interviews where you say, they said, but still bringing enough hardness to the game while still playing clean? Well, I think ultimately you follow your leader.

And so when you call us a youth church group, that's Steph Curry to the T. Like, that's what he is, he may as well go run to ministry. Now, Clay, I think everybody kind of has misunderstood, Clay misunderstood. Yeah, in what way? Clay's a little wild, like, okay. Clay go off the rail a little bit. Is this pre-injury, Clay or post-injury? Has he changed his history? He's a little more tame after the injury. Oh wow, okay. He was wilder before the injury. Okay. But I think, you know, there's kind of this misconception of no to take this as disrespect. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this, is this, is this, is this, is this, is this, is this, is this, is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is disrespect, this is disrespect, this is disrespect, this is disrespect, this is this is disrespect, that's that's funny that you said that's me. No, no, no disrespect.

Don't disrespect. No, no, don't get hurt, Trouble. You know, light skin guys are really saying, like, I'm quick dribble, you'll get that to be on my shoulder. No, but there's like this misconception of, of light skin guys being soft. Huh. And I always, but like you just said, I am soft by the way, but yeah. Like you just said, I was the soft one. Like we saw a game one. Step Curry was great.

Yes. I was the soft one. So I think, you know, it may be time to change the misconception. OK, OK. You've got four championships. champions. You know, the first time is, who is this team? What are they doing? Steve Kerr, this whole mix. I would argue that your team has almost reshaped basketball. You know, the way teams play, the way you move the ball,

where people shoot from, how you defend it. All of that has changed because of golden. When you look at your fourth championship, how do you motivate yourself to do even more now? Because most would go, I've won. What else do I have to push myself on? Well, LeBron has four and if I get five I'm the greatest ever, right? Ah! What? What? Oh!

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a person now. You laugh at people's doubts, you know, you enjoy those moments. you put it all out there. What do you think changed in your life? I think A, having a fiancee that I have, she's incredible. She's changed me. And I love them. Thank you. And also my children, they've changed me.

And like my mom constantly reminds me, hey, them babies are watching you. And so I think that's changed me and it's helped me channel it a lot. Now, another thing that's helped me is when you have that fire and that chip as a second round pick, everybody loves it. It's great. But when you carry that same chip as a four-time all-star, as a four-time champion, it's then distasteful, because you're not the underdog anymore. That's interesting. And so what I realized was that I was carrying that same chip that allowed me to remember the 34 guys that was drafted before me in

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Well I used to feel like fans should be stopped from saying some of the things that they say. Then Commissioner Silver comes out and say, hey man, those Boston fans are great. That's they're saying, fuck you, Dr. Ma'am. So I'm like, all right, Commission is the best commissioner, like I, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, and like, and like, and like, and like, and like, like, and like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, thi. thi. the their. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their, their, their their, their their their their, their, their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th I said on my tweet, he's probably one of the best CEOs in America, let alone commissioner of a sports league. But he's like, oh, that's great. So my response to that is great. Cool. Can I turn and yell and yell, fuck them? Because if I can, then no problem, let them yell what I want to yell. And I continue down to court. And so I think the thing for me is like, at some point, you're kind of allowing them to do this and encouraging it in a way.

Because they know if I yelled that to Draymond and he says that back to me, he's getting fine $25,000. He's getting fined $50,000. So what I'll say to commissions, no problem. That was fun. Let them do that thing. But let me do my thing and don't hit my pocketbook. Yeah, man, I could talk to you forever. But that's what the podcast is for.

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