The Herd with Colin Cowherd - The Draymond Green Show - Playoffs? That's Right, Playoffs
Episode Date: April 11, 2023Draymond Green discusses the end of the NBA regular season including the drama that unfolded between Kyle Anderson, Rudy Gobert, and Jaden McDaniels of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Then he gives his pr...edictions on the various play-in games including the Wolves matchup up with LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. Then Dray gives his preliminary thoughts on the Golden State Warriors first round matchup with the Sacramento Kings, the Eastern Conference matchups, and more. Produced by: Jackson Safon #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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What's up, everybody.
Welcome back to the Dremont Green Show.
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After a long regular season, we have finally embarked on the time of the year.
That is, I mean, it's a lot of things.
It's the Warriors invitational.
It's fun time of year.
It's the best time in basketball.
Like, you name it.
Like, we're there.
It's playoff time, man.
The dubs are.
are in the playoffs.
Like I said, after a very long year,
none of it matters.
And it's time for the playoffs.
The playing games are set.
Our matchups in the playoffs are set,
with the exception of the winners of the playing games
who will eventually play the one seed or the two seed,
those are set.
And man, I noticed something last night.
I was watching Coach Malone.
For those of you don't know, Coach Malone's my guy,
who was one of our assistant coaches, my rookie year,
Stiller fan, always happy for Coach Mo.
And I was watching him speak to the team yesterday,
and he was like, so remember, fellas,
we don't find out who we play until Friday.
Somehow in all of this, the number one seed gets screwed.
Like, I mean, today's Monday.
We knew yesterday that we're playing Sacramento on Saturday.
that Sacramento knew they're playing us on Saturday yesterday.
Somehow, the 1C gets the short end of the stick.
They will find out who they play Friday to play Sunday,
probably an early game.
Now, you can say, well, they can prepare for both teams.
Like, yeah, but like, still to be able to lock in and focus on one team,
the short, the 1C definitely gets the short end of the stick there
and saying that we will know later this week,
all of the matchups.
But for right now, we can get into some of the things.
But first, before we get into some of the matchups,
let's talk about the Timberwolves.
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Very interesting day for the Timberwolves.
Number one, Jaden McDaniels broke his hand, punching the wall in frustration.
Now, what I will tell you is this.
I am someone who's dealt with an extreme amount of frustration in games,
getting kicked out of games, you name it.
I'm not punching a wall.
Because when you punch that wall,
one of them is going to move.
Like if you study force, I took physics.
If you study force, like head-on collision like that,
one of those things have to move.
And I'm sorry to tell you, but it's not going to be the wall.
Like the wall is probably not going to move.
So therefore, something your hand slash something in your hand, it's going to move.
And unfortunately, Jada McDaniels broke his hand, punching the wall.
Huge blow to the Timberwolves.
Jada McDaniels is an incredible defender.
He's continued to grow on offense.
Good slasher.
Three-point shot is getting more consistent.
But most importantly, he just a dog.
A dog.
Like, yeah, the deep.
Defense is great.
Man, he's 6'9, incredible wingspan, can keep up with any guard.
Like, that's great.
But he's just a dog.
And, like, that's what I can appreciate about Jada McDaniels.
Is he, like, aside from any skill, aside from any of that, he is dog.
And you pair that dog next to the big dog that is Anthony Edwards.
you got yourself a solid young couple guys that you can really build around.
And so they're going to miss him.
And that's extremely unfortunate.
The young guy, let his emotions get the best of him.
We all do at times.
And I just hate to see that happen.
You know, you play all this entire season to get to the playoffs.
and here we are barking on the playoffs in the game
before he gets hurt the non-basketball injury.
That bothers me.
It's unfortunate because I like to see young guys shine.
He is one young guy that was shine in this league for a long time
and he'll learn from his mistake.
He won't do that again.
But it's, you know, it sucks.
And also you see Anthony Edwards in the way that he's playing.
Anthony Edwards is one of them guys, man.
and we'll talk a little more about him
as we get into the playing matchup.
But before we do,
I wanted to talk about Jaden's first.
I had a lot of respect for the young fella.
And like I said, it's unfortunate to see.
But I'm wishing them a speedy recovery.
And that's just going to be a big hit to the Timberwolves.
Other news with the Timberwolves.
Insecurity is always loud.
It's why you should be careful when you start speaking out on things that you don't really know.
You know, you start speaking out, tweeting stuff, sneak-dissing.
For all of you out there, I tweeted that yesterday.
For those of you that don't know, when I had an incident earlier this year,
Rudy Gobert tweeted, insecurity is always loud.
It's just kind of a little hard to say that when you don't really know circumstance.
But if that flows your boat, quite frankly,
not really a big sneak disser myself.
Actually, you know, I was being very facetious yesterday
when I tweeted the same thing.
I actually almost added him just because I'm not a sneak discer,
but as I was doing the tweet, I'm like,
it's actually better if I don't add him
because it's just the same exact tweet he tweeted, changed the date.
And so I decided not to,
but by all means, know and understand that I'm not a sneak disser at all,
not what I do.
I will speak on it.
And so, yes, when I tweeted that, for those of you who don't know, I was 100% talking
about Rudy Gobert.
And his incident yesterday with Kyle Anderson on the bench.
Let's get into that.
Obviously, this leaking stuff is a thing, and someone leaked an audio recording of Kyle
Anderson in the locker room.
And in short, Kyle Anderson was saying, you guys got to make some decisions.
decisions this summer. Like y'all, y'all baby this dude. Y'all, like, stop. Like, some decisions need to be
made this summer. I'm not on that team. That's not really for me. But it's interesting. And you
had to, you know, everyone kind of had these questions of when the trade happened of how is that
going to work. And, you know, you clog up the pain for Anthony Edwards, a young star and so on
and so forth.
Last night, it probably reared his ugly head.
And, yeah, Kyle Anderson and Rudy Gobert
has some words on the bench.
Kyle Anderson said choice word.
Rudy Gobert stepped over, tapped him on the chest.
And then he was sent home.
He was sent home.
And we also now know he's also suspicely.
for tomorrow's playing game
versus the Lakers.
So I'm fortunate to see
all of those things happen at this time
where you had Nas Reid get hurt
a couple weeks ago
so he's out, got Rudy Gaubert
out, got Jada McDaniels out,
and you're going in a playing game
with one of the hottest teams in the NBA
that is the Los Angeles Lakers
in Los Angeles.
Tough, tough, tough circumstance.
Tough circumstance.
As far as the tap on the chest goes,
I have my sentiments about it.
There are just some things,
and by now you've seen the zoom in on Kyle Anderson
and what he said.
If you paid any attention, you've seen all of it.
You've heard the leak.
Quite frankly, there are just some.
Some words as men, you just don't say to me.
And if you do choose to say those words, you also do have to be ready to deal with whatever
comes with that, because that is a decision that you are making when you decide to disrespect
someone.
You're essentially accepting what comes with that.
So when I saw the choice words that is the bitch word, Kyle Anderson,
using towards Rudy Gaubert,
you do have to be ready
with what comes with that.
Like, you're just not allowed
to just disrespect guys
and say what you want to say,
especially in competitive environments.
Like, you're really competitive.
Emotions are running high,
especially in that situation.
You're trying to fight for a play in seating.
There's some things that you just don't say to grown men.
Quite frankly,
Kyle Anderson uttered some words
to Rudy Gaubert.
that a lot of people thinks.
He said it.
He said what a lot of people thinks.
Rudy Goldberg reacted.
Again, it's not up to Kyle Anderson
how Rudy Gobert reacts.
Not saying Rudy Gobert wasn't wrong.
You're in a game, a bunch of your teammate,
all of that.
But Rudy Gobert did react to some things that Kyle Anderson said.
And it's not really up to you
what his reaction is.
So that's one thing.
I personally think Rudy Gober is a little on a softer side myself.
He gained a little respect for me because he stood up for himself.
I've never really seen the guy stand up for himself.
Didn't really know if the guy was capable of standing up for himself.
He stood up for himself a bit.
Unfortunately, doesn't really work.
Take it from me.
I know how that goes.
doesn't quite work in that environment,
but I do understand the thinking.
I definitely understand the mindset.
Definitely not going to get up here
and act like I don't understand the mindset.
I 100% understand the mindset.
Like I said, didn't quite know
that Rudy Gobert had the mindset,
but I do understand the mindset.
Everyone is very easy to get up here and say,
you don't do this, you don't do that, you don't do this.
it's always easy to say that until you're in a situation.
And then in that situation, you make a split-second decision.
Sometimes it's the right decision.
Sometimes it's the wrong decision.
Unfortunately, for Rudy Goberra, it was the wrong decision.
Is it the wrong decision morally?
That's for you to decide.
It depends on what your morals are.
But in a team setting, you're playing with a team.
It's the wrong decision.
doesn't really necessarily give you a pass to just disrespect guys
because, you know, we talk about team settings and this, that, another.
You can't have it both ways.
You can't say, oh, this is a team, my guys can just disrespect you.
Can't do that either.
So it's unfortunate.
And, you know, they got something that they're going to have to figure out there.
Rudy Gobert, like I said, he showed me aside
that he would stick up for himself that I just didn't know was there.
I've never really quite seen it.
But he's suspended for one game.
So it came at a cost.
And that's that.
Not one to condemn anyone for things that they do,
mistakes that they make.
I see a lot of guys on TV who used to play.
Guys saw Stackjack, like, get on Instagram, commenting.
Like, bro, some of the things that you've gotten into,
as a player is crazy.
Like, and guys be so quick to like start commenting.
I think that's nuts.
But to each of his own, this is what it is.
Not really getting into that.
But it's very easy when you're not in a situation
to say, oh, that was wrong, and you should have did this.
I'm not that guy.
It's just not me.
As far as the matchup goes,
Lakers versus Timberwolves tomorrow night.
I have the Lakers.
Again, you hear the things that are going on.
Quite frankly, Rudy Gaubert being out may actually help the Timberwolves.
Nas Reeve being out actually hurts, though.
It hurts that case.
Like a lot, a lot, a lot that hurts.
Jada McDaniels being out, that hurts.
even with those guys in, it would be a tough game.
Here's why.
They're playing the Lakers who's playing the best basketball
they've played in years since really the bubble.
They're also going up against Braun in a playoff setting,
which I know how that goes.
We've all watched it for years,
but I know how that goes.
It's one game.
I feel like, and so what you have to understand is this.
Bron is going to go into this game
and figure out exactly what needs to be done,
what tempo the game needs to be played at,
the ends and outs of the game,
and pick it apart.
That's what LeBron does in the playoff setting.
It's not many guys that can do that,
control the entire pace of a game.
If he needs to play 48 minutes, he would
because he would just control the entire pace.
And so that's going to make it very tough
on a young Timberwolves team.
led by a young start, Anthony Edwards.
Braun did the same thing against the Boston Celtics
with a young Jason Tatum, with a young Markets Smart,
with a young Jalen Brown.
Just controlled the entire pace of the game in game six or seven.
They had no answer.
It's a very hard one to figure out.
Quite frankly, I don't think the Timberwolves figure that out tomorrow.
Here's the problem that Brown and the Lakers has.
They're going up against a young star who does not care about none of that.
Anthony Edwards don't care about Brian controlling the pace.
Anthony Edwards don't care about LeBron being LeBron.
Anthony Edwards don't care about none of that.
Anthony Edwards thinks he's as good as LeBron.
He may good and well one day be because he has that thing.
Now, LeBron James, the greatest player ever,
so to just casually say someone.
So I'm not saying that, but my point is Anthony Edwards' mindset,
along with his ability, God-given ability,
along with what you can see that his work ethic is,
is going to be a very, very, very special player.
And he's just young enough to not even process,
like, I'm going up against LeBron in this moment,
in this moment this means this.
He's not even going to process that.
He's not at that point mentally where he processed that.
What he does process, though, is I'm at you.
I don't care who you are.
You're in front of me.
I'm at you.
And so that can be dangerous for the Lakers
because when a young guy like that is just unaware
of the moment, that can be dangerous because he's just going to come out there loose or hooping
and you know he's not afraid of anything. And he got game, a lot of games. So Anthony Edwards,
lack of awareness, and I mean that in the good way. I mean at, what is he, 22 years old,
like, or 21, 22, you're not sitting around like, man, this moment is so big and it can mean
this from my, you're like, yo, I'm about to go out here and do this, this, and this.
oblivious to what all of that can mean,
but totally like into,
I dribbled in the back of y'all are thinking about this moment, right?
Like, this is a big moment.
I get to play on a big stage.
I ain't scared of nothing.
Totally into that, not necessarily legacy and all of that.
And so, and whereas LeBron, you have the legacy, AD,
you have the legacy.
It's a different thing.
And so that's kind of what we're up against tomorrow.
I got the Lakers winning that game,
especially like I said with the guys that Minnesota will be missing.
Got the Lakers taking that one.
In our 9-10 game, we have the New Orleans Pelicans
versus the Oklahoma City Thunder in New Orleans.
OKC is another one of those oblivious teams
have not been in this situation going in New Orleans.
Like, man, well, we got to lose.
Y'all said we was going to win 13 games this year.
what do we have to lose?
They go in there with a free swing.
New Orleans, you're supposed to win.
New Orleans was number one seed two and a half, three months ago in the West.
You're supposed to win.
You dropped one last night that you were supposed to go in
and not end up in the 9-10 game.
Now New Orleans got a fight an uphill battle.
I think all the pressures on New Orleans in this game.
Shea Gildjolders-Alexander, young Jay,
Jalen Dub Williams, Giddy, Ludo,
Ludo, Big Jalen Williams, them guys coming to play.
And again, they're totally oblivious to the moment.
Brandon Ingram know the moment, C.J. McCullum know the moment.
Jonas Valentuna's know this moment.
These young guys in OKC, they're totally oblivious to it.
And again, that can be dangerous.
that can be really dangerous.
So I am looking forward to that game.
I think Brandon William, excuse me,
Brandon Ingram has been playing lights out,
playing some of the best basketball in his career.
The X-Factor in tomorrow's game is going to be Trey Murphy.
Or, excuse me, Wednesday's game.
It's going to be Trey Murphy.
Trey Murphy has to have a big game
in order for New Orleans to win.
Because, okay, see, this is playoff time now.
They're going to help a lot off Herb Jones.
They're going to make Herb Jones beat them.
And they're going to try to take away CJ or B.I.
They may be able to take one of them away possibly,
but you're definitely not taking both of them away.
And that's where Trey Murphy comes in.
Trey Murphy needs to have a big game from the wing.
I expect Jonas Valachunas to have a big game
because OKC doesn't have much size.
And so Jonas Valichita, do what he do.
Brandon Ingram or CJ going to get off.
I definitely think Brandon Ingram's going to get off.
CJ could still get off.
But I feel like in the playoffs, like you have to take one of those guys away.
And then that's where Trey Murphy comes in as the X factor.
Always rooting for my guy Willie Green.
That's never going to change.
but they may be on upset alert.
And another reason they may be on upset alert,
it's hard to get over this game they just lost.
They should have won this game against Minnesota pretty easily.
And you lose that one.
It's hard to get past that.
So that could carry over a bit.
So I'm picking OKC for the upset on this one.
I'm picking OKC for the upset.
Young, oblivious guys going out there just rocking.
And they coming together, too.
They got a lot of young talent.
They're coming out there and they're just rocking with nothing to lose.
Very dangerous spot.
New Orleans should have never ended up in that spot.
I'm taking them in the playing game.
On the east, we have Miami at the 7th C.
We have Atlanta at the 8th C.
They're going into Miami.
Miami has not quite had the year that they expected to have,
yet they still ended up 44 and 38 with the first playing game at their home.
Atlanta's obviously Trey Young.
Jonte Murray. Quinn Snyder is taking over as head coach. Quinn Snyder's a damn good head coach.
Eric Sports is a damn good head coach as well. So that's going to be a nice little battle amongst the coaches,
which really matters when you get to the playoffs. But ultimately, I got Bam and Jimmy getting it done
at home versus the Atlanta Hawks. I have, then we have the Chicago Bulls versus the
Toronto Raptors.
The Toronto Raptors being the nine seed, they have the home court advantage versus the Chicago Bulls.
I ultimately think that makes a difference, but in this game, you got DeMarre going back to Toronto,
you got Zach Levine headed up there, and just with that much guard scoring, it can get tough
in the playoffs, trying to stop that.
And so I'm actually going to pick Chicago for the upset in Toronto, facing off with the
Atlanta Hawks in Atlanta in the second playing game.
And with that one, I am going to take Atlanta.
It's going to be a tough one.
But you got two guards that can also score home court.
I think Atlanta gets it done.
I hate to pick against my guys, Damar and Zat.
But you got guys Trey and DeJante over there,
and that's going to be a hell of a matchup.
and they're at home.
Tray can get hot.
Dejante going to get to his spot just as Damar is.
It's going to be a good game.
And I really feel like it's a coin flip,
but I'm going to take Atlanta in that one.
And moving on, we got the dubs.
Six-seat, facing the kings, the three-seat.
I'm excited about this one.
I'm excited, number one, to see my guy Mike Brown
turn the Sacramento Kings around like he has.
It's beautiful.
beautiful beautiful beautiful um de aaron fox the draymond green show guests one of the draymond green
show guests we had this conversation so on you de fox so on you to get them guys to the playoffs
so on you to become an all-star so on you to do these things fox they traded tyrese halliburton
for you to do these things what did de aaron fox do those things
became an all-star, three-seed in the West, got his guys back,
but got the team back.
It's been so many years ending the longest drought in the NBA for the playoffs,
or missing the playoffs.
Congratulations to the Sacramento Kings.
That's dope to see.
Happy for Mike Brown.
Happy for Leandro Barbosa.
Luke Louts, Vivette, all.
All Golden State Warriors guys.
Happy for those guys.
That stops now.
It's time to go now.
In this matchup, the Kings have the number one offensive rating this year.
And I was told, you know how true this is, I didn't go do research on them because, quite
frankly, if I'm being honest, I really don't care.
But I was told they have the highest offensive rating in the history of NBA.
Is that true?
Don't know.
don't really care because it's my job to stop that.
It's our task to stop that.
And that's what you have to do in order to win.
Obviously, we start off on the road, first two games in a row.
I'm excited about this.
I am very excited about this.
Battle of NorCal, the Warriors,
and it's been a long time since this battle has mattered, if ever.
And it matters now.
playoffs doesn't get much better than that for us quite frankly i like the fact that we
matched up with the kings because it is a short trip last year our first round series was in
Denver our second round series was in Memphis Denver altitude two hour flight Memphis
five hour flight far Dallas was our third round conference finals four and a half hour
flight far.
Boston.
Finals.
Six and a half hour flight.
Very, very, very far.
So to start this playoff
run with a bus ride
an hour and five minutes away,
I'll take that.
I also know
Dub Nation showing up in waves,
baby.
It waves.
And I'm looking forward to that.
Let's see if we can turn that thing into a home
game, Dub Nation.
I think it's going to be
tough, though, because these Sacramento
Kings fans have been waiting for this
for 20 plus years.
They finally got it.
So we'll see how this goes.
As far as that goes,
you know, if
Dubs are going to, you know, Dubs,
Dube Nation going to flood,
go to one center. We'll
see. It'll be much needed.
It's a really good team. You got
De Aaron Fox who's growing his own
as a point guard, faced it off
with the great Steph Curry
at the point guard position.
Kevin Herder, who's coming into his own
facing off against the great Clay Thompson.
You got, you know, Dante D. Finchino,
possibly Andrew Wiggins,
three spot facing off against a young Keegan Murray.
You got myself facing off against Harrison Barnes.
And you got 82nd,
facing off against a bonus.
Some good matchups.
They got a really good bench.
Monk coming off the bench, Monk gets to it.
Trey Liles has been really good off their bench.
Davy on Mitchell comes in just a little pest all over the place.
Defensively, really good.
It's going to be a tough matchup.
But, of course, I got the doves taking this one.
Why would I not have the doves taking this one?
But it'll be tough.
I'm looking forward to it.
You know, you want to try to get these games done as fast as you can.
love to get it done in four, maybe five. Very hard to do. I don't care who you plan, by the way,
whether it's a great team or not so great team, very hard to do that. But that's always ideally
what you want to try to do. This is a team, a young team that doesn't have much playoff experience.
You want to try to pounce on that right away. You don't want to let them get hope, start getting
more experience and start believing you want to start trying to take that. You want to instill doubt right
away as much as you can instill the doubt immediately. And so that has to be our goal going in.
That will be our goal. I have no doubt that we can get that done. Let's breeze through a couple
of these other matchups before we get out of here. We have the, as I said earlier, we have the
Denver Nuggets awaiting until Friday night who they'll play. They will face the winner of
the second game of the play in. So it'll be the loser of the same.
7-8, winner of the 9-10.
Whoever wins that game on Friday,
that's who the Denver Nuggets will get.
You got the Memphis Grizzlies at the 2-C.
They are waiting and they will know who their opponent is tomorrow night.
It'll either be the Lakers or a Timberwolves.
I think we see a Memphis, Los Angeles Lakers match up in the second round.
Just my opinion.
We just talked about the 3-6, and you have the 4-5.
Phoenix, home seed, 4, number 4, versus the 5th seed.
Los Angeles Clippers.
Phoenix has been rolling with KD on the floor,
having lost the game with KD on the floor.
The Los Angeles Clippers,
it feels like a really big year for the Clippers
in the playoffs.
Like it's been years now that you've had this team together.
They've had some unfortunate situations.
I saw Patrick Beverly say if they didn't,
if it wasn't a bubble or something like that,
They would want a championship.
If I didn't get suspended in game five,
I think we would have won a championship in 2016.
Quite frankly, no one cares.
The circumstances are the circumstances,
and they have not won.
And they have to win.
So, unfortunately, that Paul George is out.
I don't know if Paul George will make it back for this series,
but they have to win,
or you may start seeing some changes.
So that'll be interesting.
Obviously, T. Lou knows what it takes.
T. Lou can put a game playing together and get it done.
But I am taking the Phoenix Suns and that one.
I will give you my predictions on the other series as they come to fruition.
Don't really know who they're going to be yet, but I am taking the Phoenix Suns.
KD. D. Book, them boys ready to go.
They've been playing well.
What you're missing with Paul George is not only a score,
you're missing another really good wing defender that you have.
And against Book and KD, you need that.
Like, that is very important.
Chris Paul, his last game, he played and he looked great.
Seven three-pointers,
struggled from the three all year.
To see that going into the playoffs is huge.
So, yeah, man, the one area that the Clippers do win is the depth.
Clippers are extremely deep team.
So they do win in the depth category, which can help you in the series.
Like I said, especially that you have to lean on that depth with Paul George being out.
But I think, you know, with Paul George missing a series,
if Paul George misses the entire series or even a couple games,
a couple games can change a series dramatically.
That may be a lot to overcome, and I'm taking the Phoenix Suns in that one.
Quickly, we'll go over to the Eastern Conference.
The one-seat, Milwaukee Bucks is obviously waiting.
The 2-C Boston Celtics is obviously waiting.
The 3-C, Philadelphia 76ers takes on the 6C Brooklyn Nets.
This is an interesting one.
Philadelphia drafted Mikel Bridges, who has playing at an insane level,
traded him immediately.
That's going to be a great matchup.
Mikel has something to prove.
Went to school in Philly from those parts.
Got traded on.
He got something to prove.
Ultimately, I don't think that's enough to overcome MVP, Joelle, M.B., James Harden, Tyrese, Maxie,
Doc Rivers, and the Philadelphia 76ers.
I think M.B. will be far too much for Nick Claxton.
I think Nick Claxton is really grown into his own and become a good defender, but M.B.,
Embed is Embed, and that's what you need.
So I think ultimately, it'll be a lot for Brooklyn Ness to overcome.
I think Brooklyn Nets are in a great position, though.
They got picks, they got pieces.
And they put it together.
In spite of everything that went on this year, they put it together.
They got a spot in the playoffs, not to play in.
Respect to those guys, I think Philly gets it done in a five.
In the four or five, match, y'all, we got the Cavs hosting Knicks.
Stephen A.
Stephen A got a lot riding on this one.
Stephen A told y'all to go get Donald McIntyre.
Y'all didn't go get Donovan Mitchell.
He ended up in Cleveland.
Ironically, you guys face off against Cleveland, New York Knicks fans,
you face off against Cleveland, and they're hosting.
It's the first time Cleveland has been in the playoffs without
LeBron James in probably 30 years, and they're excited.
And trust me, Cleveland, as a playoff atmosphere, is brutal.
Take it from me.
I've been in there quite a few times.
Brutal, super loud, and the Knicks are mission, Julius Ramos.
Randall, Jalen Brunson has had an incredible year,
quickly has had an incredible year, guys across the board,
but missing Julius Randall is huge.
And I don't think he'll be back in time enough
to affect this series how he will.
Unfortunately, Stephen A, I got Cleveland winning their first series,
Sands LeBron, since 19 forever ago.
So, unfortunate, Stephen A, Julius gets hurt
at a bad time, and that's going to be pretty tough to overcome.
So that is some of my thoughts on these series coming up.
We will speak more about this as all of these series gets locked in.
We will also speak more this week.
I will have some live reactions for some of these games coming up.
I'm also considering doing an all-NBA team,
and our NBA second team, an all-MBA third team,
an MVP, a defensive player of the year, a six-man of the year,
a most improved player, a coach of the year.
That's right, you heard it here first, God damn it.
I am considering, screw that.
I am doing the Draymond Green Show, all NBA teams, NBA awards,
right here, we're going to do that.
Because I got some stuff I need to say.
So we're going to do that, be looking out for that.
Also be looking for some game reactions.
Until next time, that's a wrap from the Draymond Green show.
Good time to have these in the bat.
Sorry, these.
Oh, and by the way, before we get out of here, you see it.
Don't let us win another fucking championship.
