The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Draymond Green Show - T-Wolves “annihilate” Nuggets, Luka Doncic back for Mavs, Bronny’s draft stock

Episode Date: May 17, 2024

Draymond Green breaks down the Minnesota Timberwolves crushing the Denver Nuggets in Game 6 to force a Game 7 in the NBA Playoffs, and what adjustments Anthony Edwards, Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and each team could make. Then, Dray breaks down Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks facing Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6, why the Boston Celtics’ expectations are championship or bust, and Bronny James’ NBA Draft stock.00:00 - Start02:30 - Nuggets-Wolves13:00 - Biggest Adjustments24:00 - Game 7 Prediction28:00 - Mavericks vs. Thunder34:00 - Championship or bust36:00 - Bronny’s draft stock Produced by: Jackson Safon #Volume #herdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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See dkng.com slash B-Ball for eligibility and deposit restrictions, terms, and responsible gaming resources. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Dremont Green Show. We haven't had an episode in a while, and that's on me. As some of you may have seen, I was in a way doing Inside the NBA, which also led to a pretty amazing interview in my, the inner child in me is still, like, ecstatic on a whole other level with this interview that was done.

I can't wait for you all to check it out It was absolutely incredible fun to do I wanted to go at that interview with a little different twist than most interviews you may have seen with this person or what you may have thought the conversation would have been

but it was a fun, fun interview I hope you all enjoyed that when we drop it as much as I enjoyed it when it was happening absolutely incredible And as always, in great interviews, I learned a ton. And that was amazing for me. So make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel so you don't miss that.

And some other things we may have coming down to pipeline during these playoffs. But let's get into it. Timberwolves absolutely annihilated the Denver Nuggets. 115 to 70. Enforces a game 7. in Denver. And the game was pretty much dominated by a couple runs that the Timber Woods went on.

Denver started off great. I think they went up 9 to 2, 11 to 2, something of that nature. And then from that point on, the Denver Nuggets went on a 22 to zero run in the first quarter. And that kind of took control of the game. And I thought that was very interesting to see

because usually when you're going into a game like that, a game six close-out game on the road, you expect the team that's facing the close-out to punch first. And I saw where Coach Malone said they punched first, second, third, and fourth, and I actually disagree. The Nuggets actually punched first with their first start, 9-21, whatever it was,

because the goal is always, you want to make them take the first. time out. And so the Nuggets did that. They made them take the first time out. And Minnesota came out, poised, calm, and they fought back. And not only did they fight back, but once they cut the lead and they tied the game, you're like, all right, now let's see where it go from here, right?

Like, Denver got to punch back. And then Minnesota punched again. and Minnesota punched again and again and again and again and again and again. And I thought that was very interesting and it said a lot about the Minnesota Timberwolves, but not more than kind of already have learned. We've learned that Ant Man is taking that step as a leader, as a vocal leader. And I know, I know Mike Collins. is a leader on that team.

Mike Connolly is the veteran leader of that team. No doubt. No questions asked. Mike Connolly is the veteran leader. But Mike Connolly is not the leader of that team. The leader of that team is Anthony Edwards. And it's interesting, as I've told you all, we've been in that situation before where when we were young guys and we first won

our first championship, I was year three, Clay, year four. for Steph year five, by no means were we the veteran leaders of that team, of the 2017 team, of the 2018 team, 2020 we were. But all those years prior, we weren't the veteran leaders in that team by any stretch and imagination, but we were the leaders of that team, of those teams. And what we're watching is Ant Man is one million percent the leader of that team

and that team takes on his personality and you know, that team doesn't take on Mike Conley's personality team takes on Anthony Edwards' personality. Now, I'm sure Anthony Edwards leans on Mike Connolly a lot because what Anthony Edwards doesn't have is the experience.

Anthony Edwards don't have I've been down in a series and had to fight back. He don't have, I've seen this X amount of times. Mike Conley has that. So I'm sure Mike is giving tip bits and like, yo, look for this and think about that. And that's incredible. You got to appreciate that because as a young leader that Amman is and has become, you need some of that.

You can't, it's hard to do it without that. You have to have someone that can give you that. And I've spoke about Ant Man winning the media battle, you know, winning the battles on the court. I've spoke about all of that. You saw last night if you watch any other stuff after the game, Ant Man speech to Kat. And he tells Kat, Kat,

all day we've been telling you, just make the right play. Make the right play. Swing the ball. If somebody's swing the ball quick. make the right play. He said, and I'm going to tell you, tonight you made the right play every single time. Now, if you look at the look on cat face,

you could take that one or two ways. You could take that ass. Like, why he's talking to me like that? He's trying to big bro me. Could take it as that. Or you can take that ass. The young fella is pumping confidence into these guys. and for a guy like cat who has not won anything in eight, nine years,

whenever he's been in the league, has not had a leader like that in eight or nine years that he's been in the league outside of the one year with Jimmy Butler that went miserably for him. Appreciating, being appreciated when it wasn't one of the best games of cat career by what people would say the standards are of a best game. Because what people would say the standards are, is Cadd has had 40 and 20. He's had this, he's done that.

He's had 50. All of that. But what he did for that team yesterday, facing closeout, facing the elimination, the end of their season, what he did was he came out of set a tone. How did he set the tone?

He set a tone when he first started Guard and Joker at the beginning of the game. You saw right away the Joker was being guarded this time. He was being guarded this game. You saw right away that it wasn't going to be as easy as it was in game five when he had Rudy on him. And, you know, I was on TNT.

I said then, like, yo, they got to go back to Kat guarding him. Like, cat can guard him. Now, no, he's not going to shut him down. No. None of that, but he's going to make it tougher on him. And that's all you can ask for him to make it tougher on Joker than it's been. So here's the thing. Joker can't really back Kat down.

Cat is way stronger than Rudy. So Joker is trying to back him down. He can't really. So if you pay attention, any time that he get Kat in a bad way, it's when they get Joker on the move. and they got him on the move and now he gets cat in the bad way he gets some finishes some am ones

now so if I'm Denver my mindset has to be with that matchup a few things one as I said we need to get him on the move more when he got cat on him try to get Kat in some foul trouble

because cat will file so let's get him on the move how about this we sit here breaking down cat having to stop Joker who's a center and the defensive player

of the year is on your team and he's a center. Very interesting how the cookie crumbles. Wow. Unbelievable. It's like if Marcus Smart

won defensive player of the year back then, which he did, and then they're like, but Jalen, you got to go guard stuff. But Marcus Smart's a point guard

Markets Smart You won a defensive player in a year You got a guard Steph right Like Yeah So That's an interesting little You can't help yourself huh

I mean that's just a little interesting You can't help as a I'm a basketball fan All right like I'm a basketball fan And I tell y'all all the time I love the game Within the game more than anything

When I'm watching these games, I'm watching the game within the game. And I can't help but notice like there's a center that won defensive player of the year for the fourth time. For the fourth time. Todd with the likes of the great Hall of Fame Ben Wallace, the great Hall of Fame, DeKimbe Montembo, ahead of the likes of the great David Robinson, the great Hakeem, the dream, Elijah, one, the great Dwight Howard.

Like, ahead of the likes of those guys. And we had a sinner, and we asking, cat, go guard the center. And we got the reigning, four-time defensive. player of the year on our team. Now, for our loyal subscribers and listeners, we're always appreciative of you, I hope if there's one thing you've taken away from this podcast,

is to watch the games within the game. And if you've learned that, then you're sitting here just like me. You can't start to believe that the defensive player of the year and the MVP matched up in the second round. And we saw years ago guards stop guarding guards.

Like we saw that years ago. We spoke about that. We haven't seen sinners stop guard and sinners. So we've reached new territory in the NBA. We should all clap at all. Because we're seeing a change in the NBA, we're now seeing sinners, not guard centers anymore. And if there was some valid,

of an award, the MVP, the defensive player of the year, for all the marbles, what we paid to see. Like, you pay to see the defensive player of the year versus MVP. Sorry, guys, you can't get that. That, to me, is interesting in itself. But took me a little off topic. Let me get back to what I was talking about. But I can't help but think about that one.

All right. So let's get back to that. So let's get Cat on the move. And also another thing that I want to do if I'm Denver is I want to run some ball screens with Aaron Gordon and Joker. Aaron Gordon, when you come set this screen, I want you to set a screen like you're setting a screen for Jamar Murray.

Set it and hold it. Make Kat have to really try to navigate that screen. What's going to happen is you're going to get a switch. Okay, now that we got our switch, now we work. Now we got the reigning defensive player of the year on the reigning MVP, and that's the matchup we all pay to see. And that's the matchup if you Denver, you pay to see. Because that's the matchup that's going to allow you to take advantage

of the Minnesota Timberwell's defense. It ain't Nasree on Joker, it ain't Cat on Joker. Can Joker get off on them? Yes, but it's tougher. They're agile. They're mobile. They're active. They're pressed up.

It's just a different thing. Everyone in the NBA has some way they don't like being guarded. I don't care how great that player is. They have something, some way that they don't like being guarded. And so, Kat has length, Naz has length, but they're agile. Joker struggled more with that. than what Rudy Gaubert has, just length, but not agile,

not pressing up because he's not fast enough. And so, I'm running a little more screen and roll with Aaron Gordon and Joker. Now, spoke about this also on TNT. When Aaron Gordon got into foul trouble in game five, it was the best thing that happened to the Denver Nuggets

because it immediately made Joker, Joker's matchup, Gobert. Gobert had to take Joker once AG got in file trouble because they came in with a guard. Heaven on Earth. Joker then proceeded to go for 40 and 13. Why? Because he had to match up that favors him.

So another thing, if I'm the Denver Nuggets, what I've learned through these playoffs series that it ain't always your series. And Aaron Gordon has had some great games. This series, a couple great games. But he's also had a couple that he didn't have much impact on the game at all. And those games, to me, were more due to the way Timberwolves were matching up, as opposed to more so what Aaron Gordon was doing.

It's the way they were matching up that he was able to take advantage of. If you need to pull Aaron Gordon some to get that matchup, you do that because it sets a precedent. And by the way, they win this game and move on. You write back to Aaron Gordon. You need him. But it ain't always your night.

Ain't always your series. He's brought you some of your series. He's actually won you a game or two in the series. But I'd keep an eye out on that if I'm Denver. When I'm running screen and roll when Aaron Gordon is in and I'm running a screen and roll with Aaron Gordon and Joker involving Kat and Rudy Gober in the screen and roll and how they're going to navigate and guard.

I'm making it a single side pick and roll. And I'm putting Jamar Murray on the back action. So now, Ant Man who's draped all over him, anywhere he moves, Ant Man's draped all over him. No help responsibility. Draped all over Jamar Murray. Now I got Rudy Goberra,

Guard and Joker coming downhill at him, which Joker cooked him on the floaters when he was getting downhill, with Aaron Gordon Lobby and a cat trying to navigate how to guard that. But there's no backside help because Antman is not leaving Jamar Murray. If he does, now we got the swing, now you got Ant Man playing out of a closeout as opposed to Jamar Murray catch him and he draped all over. Now you get Jamar Murray space to work. You put Ant Man in a tough situation.

You may Ant Man have to wonder like, or decide, am I helping or am I staying draped all over Jamar Murray? Let's make Ant Man think a little bit on a defensive end. Just giving Jamar Murray the ball, Ant Man is great at that. He's faster, he's stronger, he's bigger, he's more physical. It's great at that. So if you're just going to give him the ball and let him bring the ball,

that ain't going to work. So get him off the ball. Run Jamar Murray off some screens off the ball. Jamar Murray running that way in the midst direction, Michael Porter, Jr. come back in this way for three. You've got to loosen their defense up some, because the defense that you saw in game six was the defense that got you drug in game one or two.

So you got to do some things to loosen it up. Raise everybody out of the floor. Jamar Murray comes sprinting up the floor like he catch him back cut. You got to loosen him up some. Right now he's just all over Jamar, Jamar Murray. And there's no way to get him loose if he's just handling the ball, you set a screen, and through that. So you've got to switch it up a little bit.

You have to. Don't just let him see Jamar Murray with the ball R&M overall. Nah, he got to see Jamar Murray in different spaces. You got to give Jamar Murray more of a chance because with him just against Ant Man, that's not much of a chance. That's tough.

Very tough. It's a tough matchup. Said it earlier in the series, Ant Man going to have to guard Jamar Murray. There's no disrespect to Jada McDaniels. Tough matchup for Jadenny's. Ant Man, different story. So need to see a little bit more of that if I'm Denver.

Another thing that I need to see if I'm Denver is defensively. Stop all the switching. They're switching every pick and roll. You got Jamar Murray battling with Rudy Gober. You got Jamar Murray battling getting posted up by Niz Reid or Carl Anthony Towns. And like, that's cool. I know you ain't necessarily worry about them scoring, but you got Ant Man Hawking Jamal

and then you got him trying to battle with bigs. Where's his legs? Being snatched. So stop all the switch. And also, like, defensively, with all the switching, now you're trying to rebound all that, you're weak. You need bigs on bigs.

Keep bodies in front of bodies. Most guys on the Timberwood's team need angles to score. Keep bodies on bodies. So when the shot go up, we're in the position to box out. Get it and go. Now Rudy Gober got to keep up. Now we got Kat on the move with Joker. But Joker in their rebounder, switching all the picking roles for what? It's not allowing Denver to set a tone defensively. So I think Denver need to go into coverage. Whatever coverage they feel to need to do. But the switching, I think it's making them weak. And these ain't no games to be weakened.

It's for all the marbles. So I think defensively, they need to make that adjustment. Because I don't think they're going to set the tone they need to set going into a home game, seven close-out, switching to pick-and-roll.

It's not allowing your best guys to guard their best guys. It's not allowing you to rebound, your best rebounds to rebound with their best rebounders. So I think Denver got to go back to the basics. Play your coverages. Joker is the king of the kickball if they want to throw pocket passes. Play your coverage.

The switching, I don't like it. Now you get mismatches. You got Jade McDaniels going on for 21, taking advantage of all the switching and confusion on the defense men. Keep bodies in front of bodies. Make them score on you. I think it gives Denver a lot better chance to win. So with that, we're going down the game.

game seven in Denver, as we've said. And I think if Denver can make some of those adjustments, which I think they will, I'm taking Denver. And one of the main reasons I'm taking Denver, because these adjustments that I spoke of, so you always hear this stat. And the stat that you always hear is the pivotal game five, the winner of the pivotal game five in a two-two series,

goes on to win the series 82% of the time. No one ever tells you why that's the case. I'm going to tell you why the winner of game five normally goes on to win the series. The reason is

after game four, you're tied up two to two, you then make adjustments going into game five. The adjustments that you made, the team that make the best adjustments usually win the game. Obviously, you got to have great players and they got to play. Yes.

The playoffs, a playoff series is made up of, obviously, great play by players, and a bunch of adjustments by coaches in a, like, deep playoff series. You sweep somebody, you're probably better than them or whatever, and it ain't a million adjustments you had to make. but in a series like this, all these series that go long, it's a series of game of adjustments. And so the adjustments that Denver made for game five, having Aaron Gordon handled the ball, blah, blah, blah,

won them to game. Minnesota made adjustments to that. Game six, won them to game. Well, guess what? Now, the winner of game five get to make the final adjustment. So a lot of these coaching staffs don't really, aren't really capable of adjusting on the fly in the game like that. In part two, a lot of players aren't smart enough

to make those adjustments on the fly like that. They need to see it on film and practice it and walk through it. And so a lot of teams don't necessarily have that luxury. Coaches may not have that luxury, but also coaches need to go watch the film. They need to figure this out. They need to talk to their staff. They need to put these adjustments together. And then they come back to next game.

Like, boom, this is what we got. Let's go. Well, now Denver get to make their adjustment to the 45-point blowout. Minnesota won't have time to make an adjustment. So essentially, you're going to need incredible play from Edman, incredible play from Joker. Excuse me, Cat. Incredible play from Mike Conley.

More so what I'm saying, you're going to need players to carry. you. Whereas opposed to Denver will get players to carry them, but they'll also have adjustments that they've gotten, that they can hang their hat on, that they can bank on. And Minnesota won't have a game to adjust to those. And so normally, the winner game 5, 82% of the time goes on to win the series because they get the final adjustment. So with Denver getting the final adjustment, I actually think they're being able to put, Minnesota's defense in some tough spots with great adjustments. I'm taking Denver in 7.

Moving on to face Dallas. When is that? Tuesday or Wednesday in Denver. That's my prediction on that. That is why you see the 82%. That is why. And yet, no one ever tells you why that's the case. There's a little tip bit for you.

Tuck that under your hat, keep that there. And moving on, Dallas and Thunder going into game six. So in every series, and I've said to see y'all before, in every series, you get to a point where you're like, all right, we figured them out, we got it. Now we need to do X, Y, Z in this series. We got them figured out. And I thought after game three,

you could kind of see that Dallas had figured O KC out. and you're going to game four in a game in which Dallas should have won and they gave it away during the end at the end. Dallas comes out in game five, everybody like, oh, even Chuckster on inside. Oh, OKC about to run Dallas out the gym after they just came back. Da-da-da-da, they run them out the gym. The only thing is, and I said, nah, I got Dallas, and no chance OKC running them out of the gym. And the reason being is because when I saw Dallas lose that game in game four,

it wasn't some huge adjustment that OKC made, and you were like, ah, okay, they just made this huge adjustment. How Dallas going to, no, She just hit some tough shots. They did the same thing they had been doing, Gar-Gar screen and roll. Shea hit tough shots over guys. Dallas couldn't hit nothing. Kyrie struggled, Lucas struggled. They turned the ball over. they lost.

But it wasn't anything special that OKC had done other than Shea being special. And so when I saw that and I know like, dang, they already kind of got this team figured out and there was nothing that that team done had done to win that game from

an adjustment standpoint other than just Shea taking over the game. Dallas still got them figured out. And sure enough, Dallas showed that in game five said all that to say. I think Dallas shows the game thing. Same thing in game six.

We got them figured out. O.K.C.'s a young scrappy team. They'll punch. Dallas will take the blow. Dallas will do their thing. O.K.C. will have another punch. Dallas will take the blow. And then they're kind of on their way home from there.

That's how I see this going. I thought it was amazing to see everybody talking about Luca complaining and this and that. And then Luca come out and puts it out publicly that I'm not complaining. and then Luca doesn't really say much of a word, much of anything to the referees. And then we see the Luca that we know. 30 plus point, triple double, carrying this team to a win.

We're going to need more of the same of that Luca on Saturday in order to close this series out. You know, I'm not one to sit here and be like, oh, he should never talk to the ruffs. Like, this is a passionate game. When you know for certain someone got something wrong, you're going to say something about it. We're human beings.

And so I'm not of that club of don't say anything. Now I'm going to say something. But all focus must be on the OKC Thunder. And Luca has shown that he's capable of doing that and he will need to do that again. I also need to see a very, very, very aggressive Kyrie Irvin in game six. Come close the game, Al-Qaeda.

We know Kai is a master with the basketball. ball and I need to see that aggression from the gate. Get going from the gate. Don't try to wait to the second half, they get it going because last couple of games, it ain't went that way. You know, Kai's been still doing a great job, a dime and getting other people involved,

but like, let's get going from the gate. I think that's what Dallas need to see from Kai. Also, shout out to Jay and Hardy, number getting called to start the game, or not start, but early in the game, he gets subbed in after not playing much in these playoffs. come in get a good bucket but have some incredible lobs

to Derek lively who led them in plus minus who had an incredible game and I'd like to think his guards feeding him the way they were Luca throwing him lives Kyrie throwing him lives

Jayden Hari come in throwing him lives that was great to see that's the steps you want to see from the young fella now you Jake here he earned minutes he came in he showed you

I'm not afraid of this moment I'm ready for the moment I'm locked in defensively I'm locked in offensively. Give me more time. Love to see it. Love to see young fellas taking that next step and growing. And a pivotal game five on the road, he showed up like it's no problem.

It's no problem. So now if you're Jaden Hardy, you've got to come build on that. All right. Now I'm coming in. I'm making no defensive mistakes. I'm not turning the ball over. I know I got my lap dirt. I'm getting downhill.

They got me in here because we need another score. Tim ain't been shooting great Dante Exam ain't played great Josh Green ain't shooting great so we need more scoring all right we need another guy that can get downhill

go ahead Jane and Hardy go do that so you know you're getting downhill they got you another score I'm going to the cup but if they help I know I got my live threat stay solid young fella

it's great to see great to see young guys taking that next step so shout out to Jane and Hardy it's beautiful to see it's number of be called when it hadn't been called and he was ready. He answered the bell.

Help those boys get that win in game five and headed back to close out in game six. And as you heard from my prediction with the different nuggets at the end of it, I said, we'll see them versus Dallas. I don't have Dallas going seven. I got Dallas closing this thing out on Saturday and moving on. In other news, Tim Legler says the Celtic season will be a failure without a championship.

Do you agree or disagree? I normally disagree with shit like that. It'd be like hot take-ish and like, uh, Tim Lillinger's, Tim Legler is absolutely correct on this one. Um, why is Tim Legler correct on this one? In my opinion, because you got Jalen Brown making $300 plus million. Soon to be Jason Taylor making $300 plus million. Drew Holiday making $150 million. Christos Prasinius, $100 million. Derek White. $60 million, something like that.

Number one, I'm still trying to figure out where all this money in Boston coming from, too. But it's a failure. Like, you won 60 plus games, you have built your team, you go out and get Drew Holiday, you go out and get Prozingis,

you retooled, didn't rebuild, and the season went exactly how you thought and wanted it to go when you made those moves. Because the season went that way, you extend Drew Holiday, because he's proven all that he needs to prove that you want to continue forward with him. So guess what? It's time to win and it's time now.

Jackson, what is it? Five, five conference finals in how many years? I think more than that, honestly. Yeah, something like that. Exactly. Look at him. All happy. We don't care.

No, no, I agree with you. It's time to get over the hump. Yeah, we don't care how many conference finals anymore. I agree. A finals appearance ain't good enough. you got to go win it all. You're supposed to. You got home court advantage.

You did all it. It's time. So I 1,000% agree with Tim Legler here. The Celtics got to win. Because if not, how long can you dobble into that second apron until it's too much? Just keep swinging and keep swinging. So, and it ain't converted yet. Ain't got over the hump yet.

You got to get over the hump. So, yes, Tim Legler, I agree. That is a fact. And we shall see what Boston does, but they most definitely got to win it this year. Before we get out of here, a lot of news been made about Bronte at the Combine, measured that's 6.1.5.

Very impressive 6-7 wingspan, 40-inch vertical. Stock rising, play well. Listen, I think Brony, it has a chance to be a very, very solid guard in the NBA. You shoot the ball well. He defends well, athletic. Like, going to be able to pick up if he's a backup guard. Let's say he's a backup.

Because everybody is a starter. The likelihood that you're a point guard and you're coming in as a starter, there's 30 stars, there's 60 to 80 backup and. third point guards. So it's more likely that you're going to be a backup or a third point guard than you are a starter. Just surely off the number. So let's go back up because I'm,

I know better than like, this guy's a starter. And I'm not saying that just for Bruney. I'm saying in general, it's hard to be a star point guard this lead, a real start point guard this lead. So I think Brony does have the capability is to be a very good backup point guard in this league.

If you can take that to a starter, that's on the work that you come in and put in, right? That's on the improvements that you make, the things that you do to get better. I can't speak for that, because I'm not the one that has to do to work. But nonetheless, I think he has more than enough

attributes and tools and things about him that'll make him a good backup point guard at least. Backup point guards need to pick up full court. He's going to be able to do that with the best stuff. Backup point guards need to be able to knock down shots. We know he can knock down a shot. Backup point guards need to be smart, not make mistakes. People complain that he played basketball too mistake free.

So again, at worst, we know he's probably going to be cable. It ain't got to be next year. By the way, y'all drive kids in the top 10 that ain't ready to play next year and then want to talk about Bronny, who's not in anybody's top 10. And be like, he ain't ready to play next year. 45 of the 60 guys that you draft, 50 of the 60 guys that you draft ain't going to be ready to play next year. So the whole thing of trying to throw out there, like he ain't ready to play. Look at him.

He ain't ready now. Who is ready now coming out of college? A few guys. So let's stop with that nonsense. No, he's not ready right now. Guess what? 51 of the other 58 players, 59, whatever it is, because the people got their pick snatch aren't going to be either. but what attributes do they have that we can look forward to building on?

And Brownie has some of those. So it's great to see him go to the Combine and perform well. His stock is rising. I think he'll go to some of these workouts and perform even better and continue to rise. And I think Brony will have a very solid career as he continued to progress. But also, no, it's going to take time to progress. This is the NBA. This is the NBA.

It's the best basketball league in the world. It takes time. So that's a wrap from this episode of the Drey M. Green Show. Tap in with y'all. Maybe this weekend, maybe next week. I'll let y'all know. But until then, that's a wrap.

Peace.