The Herd with Colin Cowherd - The Draymond Green Show - A Holiday Mailbag

Episode Date: December 30, 2021

For a holiday episode of his show, Draymond answers his fans most pressing questions from what’s it like playing an NBA game on Christmas to what song would you sing to save the universe, and much more.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What's up everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. As I said last week, this is the seventh episode and this is a special holiday edition episode. This will be the Mailback episode where we will take questions from our listeners, subscribers, and I will answer those questions. So my producer, Jackson, will be asking me your hard-hitting questions. that you all have submitted, and I will be answering those questions.

I'm extremely excited to do this. Number one, as I said last week, I think it's important that your voices are heard. You know, you guys subscribe and you listen weekly about, and you end up just listening to what I want to speak on or what I think the hot topics of the week are in basketball. And I think it's important that I take some of your questions and what you want me to speak on. And we do, and we, and I answer those questions and, you know, we'll make that this week's episode. So I am extremely excited about it. I'm happy to be answering your questions. I hope everyone had an amazing, amazing holiday, you know, spent time with your family. I think, you know,

we all understand the importance of that, especially being stripped of it, you know, quite a bit in the last couple of years. So I hope everyone had an incredible holiday and I hope you are excited. for this episode as excited or more excited than I am, but I am extremely excited, so I think that'll be tough. So, Jackson, what you got for us? Let's hear what the people wants to hear. Okay. First up from at I'm Shy Labs on Twitter.

I'm going to slightly change the question because it's sort of, it was asked before Christmas. But what is the best gift that you gave a member of your family this Christmas season? And also as part of that, what is your favorite holiday family tradition. I think the best gift I gave my family this Christmas season is a dog. Whoa. And that is for my entire family who lives in the household with me. My fiancé Hazel, my three children, Nana as well, although Nana probably doesn't want a dog. But Nana doesn't hate dogs, but I'm not sure she's going to care too much about this dog because

Nana and Baby C are super tight. So bringing another baby in the house. I don't know. know how Nan will feel about that. No, but honestly, the dog, my, Hazel has been talking to me or trying to get me to agree to having a dog in the house for three years. And my, my children love dogs. DJ loves dogs, Olive love dogs. Cash does not like furry filling things, and I'm not sure how she's going to feel about this dog. It's like any furry type thing she touches, she like pulls her hand back. So I'm not sure she's going to, I mean, I'm not sure how she's really going to grow with this dog. Like I just don't, I don't, I mean, we'll see. Like, does she adjust to her well? But every time she touches it or fur-like things, she pulls her hand back. So,

we'll see. But that was the gift. I think that was the gift of this year, where, like, they're all in heaven. They love it. They all been asking for a dog forever. And the reason I wouldn't agree to the dog because my mom is like allergic to dogs. And so I know my mom won't come out. And I love when my mom come out and visit. And I know my mom won't come out if we have a dog. So now I'm not, so now I have to figure this out. Like what's going to be to deal with my mom coming to visit? Like is she just going to in our, in our building, which she can stay in like another apartment type thing. But then she's like she's never coming upstairs.

So I just like it's a whole thing. So that was the hesitation on getting the dog. But that was the best Christmas gift for the family. And I think you get, did you get? What kind of dog did you try to, what kind of dog did you get? I don't think it's,

it's a golden doodle. I don't think it's. Okay. Then yeah, you're good. Are they hyperalogenic? Yeah, yeah. My mom is also littered to dogs. We got a laboredoodle many years ago for that exact reason. So you should be fine.

Oh, I don't know. My mom, I don't, I don't know. She's not going to believe the dog's hyperion, but we'll see. So, yeah, I mean, that was the gift. And I think a Christmas tradition, I'm ashamed to say this. But other than opening gifts these days, we don't, and wearing like our Christmas pajamas when we get a chance and just, you know, really diving into like hanging with the kids and like them opening those gifts

and playing with those gifts and the excitement of that, you know, having some milk and cookies. We don't have really many holiday or Christmas traditions. Now, I had Christmas traditions growing up, but now that I've been in the NBA for 10 seasons and nine of them I've played on Christmas Day. So the entire time of me having my own family, I'm playing on Christmas Day.

So not really many traditions, because sometimes I'm on a road. So, like, how do you still? And so I think more so just like spending that time together, opening some gifts, having our PJs on. And, you know, that's that's kind of what it has to be for now. So that leads me to a question from me. I'm going to jump the line on all of the Twitter questions from everyone.

But I've always been curious, someone like you who's played on Christmas so often, what is your Christmas day schedule like? Do you still get to do presents with the family? I guess it depends on what time your game is. I'm like curious how you navigate Christmas on a game day. So in situations where the game is away, we tend to do it either before or after Christmas where we'll open the presents

and kind of celebrate us if it's Christmas Day. If it's a home game, it's a little different because you can either do it before or after. But it's, I always tell people, playing on Christmas Day is like, as an athlete, or as an NBA player, it's like the best thing ever because you know, like, it is as big of a regular season game as you're going to have. Like Christmas Day, the whole world's watching.

You know it. Like, everyone's home. Everyone's watching. That's just the way it goes. I mean, growing up for me, when I remember, like, eating food and getting stuffed and then, like, land on the floor next to my grandfather's lazy boy. he will sit in a lazy boy and lay out and fall asleep and we watch games all day i would lay on the floor stuff fall asleep still and just watch games all day and so like everyone's watching on christmas day

because everyone's home everyone's with their family and and there's marquee games on christmas day there's matchups that you want to see i think that league does a great job of that and so when you're home you can either do it before or after but then what plays and what plays and what plays and what takes or what plays a part and what you can do is the time of the game. I've had a very early game at home. I've had the latest game at home. And so when you have the very early game, then you just wake up, you go to the arena. You get, you know, handle your business, do your work. And then you come home and you have the rest of the day, you know, to celebrate Christmas, which is what I enjoy the most. When you have the latest game on Christmas Day, it really sucks because you still

spend your whole day preparing for a game so you can't really indulge in whatever it is that you want to indulge in spending time with your family and really being in that moment because again this is probably the biggest game of the regular season you're locked in and focused on that and so the latest game sucks i've i've had both of them i've had a very early game i've had a very late game And the one that I enjoyed the most was the earliest game, was the early game. You know, for instance, this year playing in Phoenix on Christmas Day, which was a 2 p.m. game, as far as specific standard time goes. But 3 p.m. Mountain time. ABC game. Time hours are longer. The game ends at 5.45. mountain time,

545, 6 p.m. It ended. So all of a sudden, an hour and a half between media, getting to the airport, actually take it off and get home,

and then you get home at 9, 9.30. And so for us this year, we celebrated on Christmas Eve because our flight didn't leave until 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve to go to Phoenix

to give guys sometime with their families around the holiday. And so we celebrated on Christmas Eve. And, kind of had that entire morning, the entire day to celebrate the evening until I had to leave for the airport. But I think, you know, it's a very dicey situation because, as I said, it's the best, you know, it's the best game. Like, it's great. You want to play in that game.

But on the flip side, it sucks because you end up altering your family time. You end up at the same time that everyone just gets to sit at home and relax and enjoy their family, you don't get that. You know, and like, we're not paying holiday time. You know, some people work on holidays. Like, we're not paying holiday time. We're not giving anything extra for that. Like, it's just another, like, just another game on the schedule, except what it means to you is more, right?

Like, you know it's a bigger game. You know the lights are bigger. So that's all about what it means. to you, but we're not compensated for playing on Christmas Day. So, you know, on the flip side of it, it sucks. It kind of sucks a little bit for your kids. It sucks a little bit as far as your family, just your family as a whole goes. It sucks as a human and just wanting to like enjoy Christmas as everyone gets the opportunity to do.

But I wouldn't trade that because like I said, as a competitor, the stages, when the stages is brightest, that's when you want to be out there. And like I said, until you get to the playoffs, there's no bigger stage. in a regular season game than Christmas Day with everybody watching. And so it's a gift and a curse,

the good, bad, and the ugly. But like I said, I'll take the bad and the ugly because you put that work in, you want to shine bright on the brightest stage that you could possibly shine on. So as a competitor,

you enjoy it. But the human side of me, I hate it. I like that. That's insightful stuff. Next one. from at Maverick Records. What's on your pregame playlist?

What's on my pregame playlist? I don't know. Maverick, I don't really have a set pregame playlist per se. I think for me it's, you know, there are, you play 82 games. There are some games that you're extremely hyped up for. And when I am extremely hyped up for a game, I like to play slower music. 90s R&B kind of slow it down because I have to like keep myself here. I'm already jacked up and I go start playing some music.

I'm ready to jump through this glass window right here. Like, and just like, let's go. Like, it's time. And I just be too amped up. And when I'm too amped up, it works against me. You're pressing. You're filing because you're overreacting to something. You know, it starts to work against me as opposed to work for me.

So when I'm already super emptied up about a game, I'm going to listen to some 90s R&B, slow it down a little bit, kind of chill, kickback. But if it's one of those soft Tuesdays and you're playing against somebody who shouldn't be that bad in the NBA, then I got to turn me on some, you know, some, some, some, some, some, some, imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal, but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing. human potential. Either way, the podcast, Superhuman, documented it all, embedded in the games

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Yeah, I mean, that time. it's different though. Like, then at that point, like, you know, it's some possible Drake Cole, some Drake, some little babies, some dub baby, you know, Jay-Z, you know, just stuff that like get you going, get you moving a little bit, you know, like, like kind of bring you into yourself.

You know, you're kind of feeling yourself now, and it can kind of give you that little boost. So I think for me, it's no set playlist. I kind of vary on the mood that I'm in that day and how I'm feeling about that particular game. On January 19th, 2020 for BBDO and AT&T Radio, ad ID AXWR 0975000. Spot title, Fiber Lifestyles, Meet the Walker's BAU 60.

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Visit ATT.com slash hypergit for details. Okay. Next one from at Matt Bullymore. Who is the funniest guy you've ever had in the locker room? I'll let you include Team USA if you want, but either Warriors or Team USA. The funniest guy I've ever had in the locker room. The funniest guy I've ever played with.

For two different reasons. One is Nick Young, because he is just a character and, like, funny. Like, that's just who Nick is. Like, Swahy, super funny character. And Brandon Rush. And for two totally different reasons, Brandon Rush is very funny, but unintentionally.

Like, not trying to make you laugh, pretty quiet guy, but when he speaks, hilarious. Like, unintentionally hilarious. So I would say those two guys, but in very different ways. Like, Nick is funny. He's in your face. He's intentional. You know, he's like, that's just who Nick is. He's like to class clown.

I thought he's not, like, class clown per se. but you get where I'm going with it. He's like the guy that's in the mix and like always into something. And then Brandon Rush is unintentionally just one of the funniest guys I've ever been around. Brandon Rush, that's a deep cut. Shout out Brandon Rush. From at Optic Splendor, who is the best trash talker in the league? Well, the best trash talk in the league, I think you're a subscriber to this podcast, I hope.

I hope you're, I hope you're a weekly listener. And if you are, you have an, you get the opportunity to listen to the best trash talk in the league weekly. I don't think there's any better trash talkers in the league than me. And I stand on that. Like Pepsi, I guarantee it. You heard what Frank Lucas said. I stand by my product. I guarantee that.

No, but I think there is some guys who are good trash talk. I always tell people and they don't, I think you started to realize it now with like, the more he talks on Twitter or the more he's caught saying stuff to fans in the stands,

KD. I've always told people like, KD was one of the biggest trash talkers to me since I came into the league, like always have been. But he wasn't always, like, outwardly to where you could see it. But if you played against him,

you knew. and it would be like disrespectful stuff. Like, hey, who is this? Katie would turn a dude around, like, try and look at the back of his jersey. Like, see his name on the bat. Like, Kay, like, Kay would say stuff to people, and you're like, yo, you're Kevin Durant.

Like, there's not really much I can say back. Like, what are you going to say back to Kevin Durant? I always had something to say. And I probably said something first knowing me. But, um, Kay, KD was one of the biggest, and KD got like these one-liners. Like, oh, he drunk. at the bar. Like K had hit somebody with a cross.

Hey, he drunk at the bar. You know, like, that's a good one. Like, Kay got one liners for days. Like, I play Domino's a lot. E40 got crazy one liners. Gary Payton got crazy one liners.

Like, KD. got one liners for days. And so I think if, if I'm not going with myself, I would have to say KD for sure. It reminds me the way you're describing me at kind of like Larry Birdish, where it's just like, he's always like, who is guarding me? Like, who is this that you're sending at me, you know?

Who are you? And again, what were you going to say to Larry Bird? Like, oh, you're not nice. Like, some dudes talking, you're like, bro, you trash. Like, why are you talking to me? Like, but like Kevin Durant talking, like, what are you going to say? Like, bro, you can't dribble. Like, ah, you can't shoot.

Like, you can't chat. Like, what are you going to say? You got to be real creative. And so for me, you know what I'm saying? I can create now. And so I can go there with him. But like Larry Bird, like, what are most people going to say? Like, if so, if you're not witty enough to just come up with comebacks like that ain't

got nothing to do with, oh, bro, you suck. Or like, or you can't do this or you can't, like, if you ain't witty enough to come back to have comebacks, that's not, like, those things, then you screw. And so I think that is a, that's definitely a good comparison. for what I know of Byrd, right? Like I never played against Byrd for what I've heard, what I've seen. I think it's a pretty good comparison

and obviously two great basketball players. Yes, sir. Next one from at Jake Vies Mingo. Who is your favorite player to guard? My favorite player to guard. My favorite player to guard is also KD. and the reason my favorite player to guard is, I think for me that's the toughest challenge.

Is, like, what can I do to make it hard on Kevin Durant? He sees right over the top of me, he's seven feet. He's probably a little quicker than me. He's probably a little more athletic than me. It's probably a little faster. So I'm supposed to lose that challenge. Like, I'm supposed to lose that battle. What can I do to change that outcome?

Can I take on that challenge that we all fell at? Can I be successful in taking on that challenge? Like, I think for me, guarding the best and taking on that challenge of the best score to do it. Like, that's fun. Like, I enjoy that. And more importantly, I get better guard at him. Because if I can do some things against him, like, that opens up some things for me to be able to do against anybody. You know, and so I think.

So I think you always want to play the best, and you always want to take on that challenge of the best. And I think Kevin Durand is the greatest score we've ever seen. To how the opportunity to guard that guy is incredible. And so I'd have to say that's my favorite guard, because how often do you get to say I guarded the best or I went head-to-head with the best at said thing? Like, you don't get to say that often.

So, you know, I've had times where, like, I play a good defense on him. also had a time where he put 54 up on. Like, it just is what it is. But I enjoy the challenge because it doesn't get any better than that when you're talking about scoring the basketball. Next one from at not Max Heinrichs. What's your favorite restaurant in SF slash Oakland? My favorite restaurant in San Francisco slash Oakland.

I don't want to offend any Bay Area residents. I know those are different places, but that's just the question that, Max asked, okay. Definitely two totally different places. I think for me, I don't eat out a ton. I have a chef, and so when I eat out, I mostly eat out on the road. It's funny because I was just having a conversation with a couple of my

homies last night, and we were talking about restaurants, and one of my homies was telling me, day, it's this new Thai restaurant out in Waldener Creek. Like, I think you like it. The vibe is nice, like good food. Like, I think you love it. And I'm like, and then we start. talking about restaurants and I actually said to them last night like I can't like I have a few restaurants like if you come into town and you ask me where should I eat like I have a few go-toes

that like I can point you in a great direction but most of the time when someone coming to San Francisco or into the bay and they asked me like where should I go eat I hit up Mark Spears because Mark Spears he knows every restaurant around here he has relationships with the owners like Mark Spears and he will never lead you wrong. Like you, I can hit Mark Spears and be like, Mark, I'm looking for such a such type fool with such a such type vibe, this, that, another. And right off back, he like,

if you go here or send him here. And like every time I ask Mark, whether I go or I send someone, rave reviews. And so like, Mark Spears is the guy out here if you need to know. Like he knows everybody. He knows all the spots.

chill spots, restaurants, like Mark Spiris just has a great feel for and a great, like, he just knows everyone. And so I always go to Mark Spiris, but if I had to say which one is my favorite, hmm, that's such a broad question because, like, you got favorites for different reasons, right? Like, my favorite breakfast spot may not be my favorite

overall. spot, but like, how do you find a favorite overall? You know, I'm going for like different things at different times. But if I had to pick one and say my absolute favorite, as someone who doesn't eat out of time because I do have a chef and I try to, at least when I'm at home, I try to be eating the right way. You get on the road and get dicey. So at least when I'm at the crib, I try to be eating the right way. If I had to pick one restaurant, that's my favorite. I would have to pick Lamone.

I really love Lamone. They got like these fries with like chicken and like this dressing on them with some cheese, it's fired. They got the empanadas, which is amazing. The rotisserie chicken is great. So if I had to pick one restaurant,

I would probably say Lamone. Okay. I'll give it to you. I've never been so I can't talk shit about it. But shout out of Mark Spears. That is an earned reputation right there. Absolutely. Mark has never, ever.

I say Mark been giving me spots for like five, six years now. Never once steer me wrong, not one time. Okay. Not once. Whether it was for myself or me giving it to somebody else because somebody will hit me like, yo, where should I go eat? Or what's open late? Like, that's the thing, too.

Stuff in the bay closed early. Restaurants closed early. There's only a select few of spots that you can go too late. Mark, where can I go? That'll stay open. And if they won't stay open, Mark knows somebody there that I can get them to stay open. Mark Spheres is the guy.

All right. From at Bay Area of Brett, this is a pressing question. By the way, shout out to, I always confuse the name because there's several of them. Bistro Budin. Incredible. It's on a pier. I like their food a lot. It's good.

Shout out to them. Shout out to them. Next question is from at Bay Area of Brett. This is a question that a lot of people, a lot of different people asked, but Bay Area of Brett was the one who I saw first. Who are your, Draymond Green's, top five defenders of all time?

My top five defenders of all time. Gary Payton. And by the way, when I start talking top five of defenders all times, I'm not naming Bill Roy. And no disrespect to Bill Russell. We all have the utmost respect for Bill Russell. But I'm not old enough to see Bill Russell play.

So I can only speak from like the very small sample size that I've had the opportunity to see. And so the all-time conversation, I hate it because how many people can really talk to you from a place of experience when talking all-time something? Like, it's a very hard thing to do. So this is going to be more so from people that I've had the opportunity to witness play, whether I was younger or, you know, currently today. But I didn't get to have the opportunity, which I wish I could have. I didn't have an opportunity to see Bill Russell play with the consistency that you need to see someone in order to put them on a list like my all.

time defenders. That's no disrespect to Bill Russell or anybody else of that time or a time that come from before me that I haven't really been privy to seeing a bunch of. Like, I've seen what mostly everyone has seen, but like, let's just face it. Back then, the recordings and all of those things weren't where they are today. You know, so I can't say Bill Russell just to say it because I know Bill Russell was a great defender because I didn't see enough. Doesn't I mean I doubt that Bill Russell would be top five? I just personally can't say that.

I would be very hypocritical of me to say that. And saying that, Gary Payton, Tony Allen, Ben Wallace, and as much as Ben Wallace was a shot blocker, Ben Wallace played during the time period where they was dumping a ball into the post. And I watched Ben Wallace Gar Shack. I watched Ben Wallace Gar Shack. I watched Ben Wallace Guard,

David Robinson. I watched Ben Wallace Guard, Tim Duncan. I watched Ben Wallace Guard. I mean, the list goes on and on. Like, that's during the time where Biggs was, like, getting a ball and they was posted. And, like, offense was ran through the Biggs. Yeah, and he was undersized doing so.

Absolutely. So I want people to understand it's not Ben Wallace because Ben Wallace block shots. Like, does not make you a great defender because you block some shots. shots. So Ben Wallace, yours truly. I was wondering if you're going to wait till the end or not. And I want to go with Scotty, but Scottie's been pissing me off with all this

stuff he's been doing lately. All right. So is Scotty or is it not Scotty? No, I can't go with Scotty, man. Scottie. Come on, Scotty. Like, Scotty's a legend. Scotty a legend. Like, we don't need all that from Scotty. Like, you are a legend, MJ, a legend. Like, man, we grew up on Scotty. So I'm a little upset with Scottie right now

because Scotty is allowing people. Scotty allowing people to drag his name through the mud, and I don't like it. I don't like it at all. It feels little unnecessary. Like, yeah, he's, I feel like he's allowing people to drag his name through the mud, and I don't like that one bit

because Scotty name shouldn't be drug through any mud but when you start comparing yourself to Michael Jordan you get left out Draman's top five list that's what happens I mean it's just like come on now

so I'm struggling with Scotty just because that that's been bothersome but another great defender a guy who I I think guys are great defender. My number five would be this fifth one is important.

So I'm taking my time. It's okay. Take time. A lot of options. A lot of good ones out there. There is. J. Rodman, Meda.

Absolutely. Absolutely. KG. Absolutely. And you know what's crazy is each guy you've named has come across my mind. Each guy you just named. A lot of great guys out there. And I think for me, honestly,

I have to go with Dennis Rodman. And the reason I have to go with Dennis Rodman is because Dennis Rodman can guard anyone. Like, he could, like, Dennis Rodman could match up with anybody. It's one thing to be able to guard anyone, but can't you get matched up with anyone? And a lot of guys in his lead,

they can't be just matched up with anyone. Dennis Rodman matchup could be anyone, and I think that was incredible. I see something that with myself sometimes, you know? Sometimes you come out and Dame is your matchup. Sometimes you come out and AD is your matchup. You know what happens? So much love to Dennis Rodman, a ton of respect for Dennis Rodman.

And just the way he guarded everybody, like, and rebounded. It's incredible. All right, we'll go a little, after that very serious basketball question, We'll do something a little bit weirder. From at Sir ARW, you are tasked to sing one song to save the world. What song are you picking? I got to get every lyric right. I guess so.

It wasn't really clear what, what, I don't know if it's, I don't know if it's, it could be either get every lyric right or just like you put on the best performance that you can put on. You know, you're trying to impress the aliens to try to save the world. What song would that be for me? all my life by Casey and Jojo it's my favorite song

my absolute favorite song I can I get very passionate about that song and I can probably get every single lyric in the song correct so I mean every you name it

I can get everything right in the song and I would be really passionate about it, which means my best will shine through. See, people? When you passionate about something, do that. You know, don't be chasing what you think make the most money. Don't be chasing like, oh, this looked like I saw such a such make. Do what you passionate about.

So just a little lesson from a question that has absolutely nothing to do with what we're talking about. I'm passionate about Casey and Jojo all my life song, which means I will give you my best. performance. If you have something you're passionate about and you question and go for it, regardless of who questioning, who doesn't think it has the, it's possible to be this. If you are passionate about it, you're going to give you all. Do that. So I got Casey and Jojo all my life. Life lessons from the Jemont Green Show mailbag. Let's see. What should we do next?

How about from at Hirsch 13, who, is the most exciting young player in the league? You don't have to pick one, let you pick like a couple. No, Anthony Edwards, that goes without question. The most exciting young player in the league, Anthony Edwards. I mean, come on. The guy can get you 40, as we know. He's done that multiple times.

The guy can put anybody in the rim, as we know. I mean, part of the reason you don't see Anthony Edwards dunk on more people is because people move when they see him about to take off now at this point. Like, you don't want to be on the wrong end of that. Anthony Airwurst for sure. I think he has star potential. I actually thought this pre-him getting drafted. He has star potential.

He's extremely athletic and exciting and fun to watch because at any point you can get Dunk of the Year, highlight of the year. He can fill it up with the best of him. I mean, he's, you know, in his second year. So he's still getting to that point of like doing that whenever he wants to. but Anthony Edwards for sure the most exciting young player

in the league in my opinion. I like that. I like that. And also just unbelievable press conferences every time. It's funny. I was telling him the other day. Literally DM with him yesterday.

I said, you are the funniest interview in the league. So funny. Gotta have you on the podcast. He's like anytime. Just let me know anytime. So I'm telling y'all, we would definitely have Ant Man on the pod.

I think it'll be a funny, If you can't watch Anthony Edwards interviews and get a good laugh, I mean, it is the most, it's like, it's raw. Like, it's him just being his true self, which I think is beautiful. You get so, see so many people get in interviews and change their voice or change, you know, don't really speak how they speak. Like, man, Anthony Edwards, one of the best interviews in the NBA. I absolutely love watching his interviews. So definitely will have him on as a guest at a pop. But for now, definitely my most exciting young player in the league.

I like that. I like that. From at Warriors Go, Warriors underscore Go, how many defensive player the year awards do you think you should have won? I should have three. I should definitely have three. Two for certain. But in my opinion, I think I should have it.

least I should have three. But it's cool. Let's get one more this year and then we want step closer to three. But I'll always be too behind where I should be. All right. Let's do from at Young XCVE. Do you miss playing an Oracle slash how's the energy and chase? Is it bringing the same sort of energy that you're used to from Oracle? No. It does not bring the energy as Oracle. Oracle was a different place, very special place, and a fan base that was built. Initially, when we first moved into this building, I'm like, this is just not the same. Like, I don't love it. And what I had to take a step back and realize is home environments are created. You know, like home court advantages are created. They just don't happen just because you're at

home. Like, you create those things. And it took me to this year to really check myself and realize, like, no, we have to recreate what we created at what had been created at Oracle. Like, Oracle's environment had been created. This environment has not been created. It's now starting to be created and it's starting to get louder. But it just doesn't like, oh, well, you take that team from Oracle and moved them to Chase Center and it was as loud, you know, it's going to be as loud as it was or louder and Chase Center than Oracle because it's the same team and blah. Don't work like that. You have to go recreate the environment.

I think we're now doing a good job of recreating the environment now with some excitement with an exciting team with a good team. I think we're now starting to recreate that aura and that vibe in the arena. But it's not the same, no, no chance. two totally different places. One very well-established home court and energy, and one, not so much that has to be established. I think now we're doing a great job of that,

and it's picking up now. Let's do a couple more, and then we'll wrap this mailbag up. First one, we'll do, I like this one. From at T.J. underscore Savaro, when do you truly feel confident and comfortable playing with new young players slash teammates? what do they have to do in order to gain that trust from the core guys like you step clay iggy etc i think i don't think there's one particular answer i don't think there's one

particular thing that can happen and i don't think there's one particular thing that can happen and you're like oh i'm comfortable with that guy now like i think it's an accumulation of things and i think you start to realize those things over over a course of time you start to realize them in practice you start to realize them in games And different things in different games, right? Like, in order to be comfortable with somebody, like, you have to see them in different situations. Like, I can't bring someone to my house and say,

hey, man, like, whatever, whatever, whatever, we chop it up. And then now I'm going to take you to a foxhole and I'm supposed to have the same comfort with you in the foxhole than I did at my house. I've never seen you in this environment. You know, and so the different environments that set game can produce or practice or whatever. Like, you have to see guys in different situations.

And so I don't think there's one particular thing that can happen. And you're like, oh, man, I'm comfortable with that guy. No, you see that guy. And you're like, okay, that's kind of a check-off. You know, all right, you could check that off the list. Oh, I saw him in this play. You could check that off the list. You know, and then you kind of get to this space of like, all right, you know all right,

you know all these things that you appreciate or that you approve of or don't approve of. Now where does that leave you, right? Like, this guy is great at all these things. These things over here, not so much. Do these things outweigh these to where you feel comfortable with that guy? You know, or that teammate or not? And I think that's kind of what it boils down to. But I think the number one thing that's a non-negotiable is you have to compete.

Like regardless of what, situation is. That's a non-negotiable and that's just the starting point. Like, you have to compete. If you don't compete, we can't even begin to even think if I approve of you. That's the non-negotiable. You've got to compete. All right. Let's wrap it up here in the spirit of the of the holidays from at B. McKinney underscore 12, who is your biggest idol and how have they motivated you? My biggest idol is my mother and my mother. brother. My mother, because she's motivated me to be who I am. Stay true to Draymond, be a leader, be who you are, no matter what, speak your mind. And she's done that since I can remember.

You know, that's, and so my mom has always spoke her mind, whatever she believed in, regardless of what it may cost, how someone may feel, she speaks her mind. And I respect that. And so that is that has been a key part in me being who I am and staying true to Draymond and not altering who I am because of what people may think. So I have to say my mother for that reason, and as hard as she worked to provide for us, and then my brother, my brother, because, you know, he's always been an incredible example. A super smart dude, I'm 6'6, my brother's 5, 10, 5,000. 5-11.

Let him tell him he's 6-1-6-2. But I think he's, we'll give him six feet. But it never matter. In basketball, it never matter. You know, his presence, it doesn't matter. Things that he was faced with through life

and just watching how he overcame things. My brother had like this lump on his leg that they thought was tumor as growing up and like he should never play basketball again. He should blah, blah, blah. Like, just to see him. him persevered through that as kids, like always on time, you know, like a guy who taught me

to be punctual, you know, like, he's a very focused human being, you know, and when there's something that needs to be done, he's going to get it done. And so I think, I think for that reason, my brother, you know, just for those reasons, I should say, my brother. So, yeah, I mean, those were, I grew up in the household with them. And so, you know, I didn't have to look far for the things that they gave me. And the things that they gave me. And the things that they gave me are so vital and who I am that I can't like that. It's irreplaceable. So my mother and my brother.

That's my mom too. Respect that. Shout out. Shout out moms. Absolutely. I think that's a wrap on the mailbag. Thanks to everyone for the questions. We'll do another one, yeah?

We will definitely do another one. We'll do another one. I mean, we may even get to the point of where we can do this thing like with some live questions coming in, and that would be fire. So we'll get there. But like Jackson said, we thank y'all for the questions.

We thank y'all for tuning in. That's a wrap for this episode of the Dremont Green Show. We got the new year coming up. Everybody enjoy their new year. Stay safe. Enjoy your people. Make your New Year's resolution,

but don't make it a New Year's resolution. Make it something that you want to do for yourself and something that you're going to dedicate yourself to whatever. If it's a change or whatever it is, you have to dedicate yourself to that. Don't make it no New Year's resolution because you're going to break it in two days. Making something that you're dedicating yourself to change or that you feel you need to be better at. Attack it.

Don't even really use the new year to do it. But if you want to and you're like, that's what I'm turning my leave, then that's when you turn your leaf. But whatever that is for you lock in on it, go after it, attack whatever it is. Happy 22. I love y'all. We'll talk soon.

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