The Herd with Colin Cowherd - The Draymond Green Show w/Baron Davis: Draymond Green STANDS ON Warriors title guarantee with Steph Curry & Jimmy Butler

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

In this week's episode, the duo discusses Draymond's bold championship guarantee for Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors, which has sparked debate among fans and analysts. He also reflects on a key moment with Jimmy Butler and addresses Oscar Robertson's comments on the league's current state. Draymond also tackles Charles Barkley's claim about the decline of the All-Star Game linked to his generation, leading to a lively discussion on the importance of defense in All-Star matches. They highlight the Warriors' crucial playoff push and the need to win their next four games. Dray and Baron predict potential winners of an NBA one-on-one tournament, examine Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's decision to represent himself and discuss Anthony Edwards' thoughts on his image in the league. Finally, Baron shares his top five most dangerous NBA teams.  2:30 - Intro  6:30 - Draymond Doubles Down on Championship Guarantee  9:00 - Breaking Down Jimmy Butler Drawing Up A Play Video 12:30 - Responding to Oscar Robertson’s Comments  27:15 - Charles Barkley Blames Dray’s Generation 33:15 - Warriors Playoff Push  36:15 - Wemby Injury News 38:00 - Who would win an NBA One-on-One Tournament  40:30 - Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Drops His Agent  48:00 - Anthony Edward Not Wanting To Be The Face of The League  55:00 - Baron’s Top 5 Most Dangerous Teams In The NBA (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #Volume #Herd Follow The Draymond Green Show on social media:  https://www.instagram.com/draymondshow https://x.com/DraymondShow https://www.facebook.com/people/Draym... https://www.tiktok.com/@draymondgreen...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The volume What's up, everybody. Welcome back to the Draymond Green show with my dog, BD. What's happening, brother? What's happening, man? Welcome back, welcome back. Appreciate you, my brother.

Good, all-star weekend. How you feeling? How you feeling? It was great, man. All-Star weekend, and the Bay was everything. Yeah. It was lit. Great, All-Star weekend.

I think it showed people what the Bay is capable of. Got away for a few days with the fan. Got been like the action. Feeling great, bro. Yeah, man. Feels good to be back All-Star weekend. It was cool.

Glad that I was able to host a dunk contest. That was fun. You know, celebrity game. Damn, y'all should have won the Skills Challenge. We should have, man. I blew it. Man. I blew it.

Yeah, you should have won the skill. We could have had a clean sweep. I thought Buddy was going to win the three-point shootout. You know, he came out hot. But shout out to Tyler here on. Shout out to all the people who won. Man, it was a lot of controversy, you know, in the media of All Star Weekend. But for overall, you know, the Bay had a vibe.

You know, all the OGs came out, run CMC, you know, even the We Believe Boys was out. So, you know, it was definitely a vibe. And shout out to the Bay Area for putting out. Great weekend. Everybody's just out having a good time. Great time. Like old time. You know what I'm saying?

That was. That was a thing of beauty. I feel really bad for Moses, Moody, man. Moses put it on for us. I caused Moses the skills to. I feel awful about it. You think it just skills in, bro. I feel awful.

I practice with you next time, bro. The first pass got away from me. Because I had been going through it, bro, and I hadn't, like, you know, I haven't been practicing stuff. I hadn't struggled with that path. So, you know, I'm just slow. and through, right? So I had never thought about like, yo, I lost my coup.

I got rattled. I threw that first miss, and I'm like, aha, I run back. After I was rattle. Then I run to the next door and shoot the sound and knocked all the balls over. I was rattled at that point, bro. I was just like, oh. I caused Moses moodier. Yeah, you got to focus, man.

I was so rattled. He was trying to go too fast. That's what happened. You was trying to be cool, and you thought, okay, I'm about to go through this, like, a breeze. Oh, man. I got a rattle. I got so rattle out of the eyes over. Free one.

Free one. It's over, though. It was crazy. But that was fun. Yeah. I definitely thought Buddy was going to take the three-point contest. Yep. But, like you said, shout out to Tad Hero.

That was dope. Yeah. But yeah, man, so, you know, just moving on, get back to the start of this season. I know the season back in, man, playoff. Now it's playoff fever. Y'all got the first winning for the Kings. You guaranteed a championship. You know, it was a nice blowout.

Everybody came out. You know, you play well. Steph came out, bullying. You know, Moses, buddy shooting the ball well. You know, how did it feel to pick up where y'all left off? heading into an all-star weekend. It was great because I think, you know, with the exception of that Dallas game,

we have been playing really well in the last four-five games. And, you know, with the exception that at Dallas game, everything was good. And, you know, going into the All-Star break to go get that win that Houston was big. And then to come out of All-Star break in a role like that against the Kings team, who, you know, we've had our back and forth

over the last few years. just to go in there and get that win like that with everybody playing well, a complete team win. How you feel about that guarantee? You on that? I believe that we got the pieces to do it. And like I said,

I know what that look and feel like. So it's a lot of people like, oh man, how he going to say that that ain't done it? What did they say? How are you going to talk about how to do it? They never did it? Like, you got all these people out here talking about what I said and how I'm going to do it.

But you did it before. And over and over and over and over and over. I know where to look and feel like. I have 1,000% wholeheartedly stand all 10 toes down on everything I said. We win in that. And I look forward to all the people that run and ducking high and then not even acknowledge that, yo, this man said this one they were.

The thing about me, BD, is I talk shit when we down 20. I don't really necessarily talk when we up 20. I talk when we down 20. Now, unless you've been like barking. Of course I'm going to talk when we have 20, but I talk when we're down 20. Right. That's when I like to talk.

You know what I'm saying? When you're the underdog. When we 28 and 27, I said what I said. I ain't say it, you know, when everybody else get the clear picture. I said that when we was 28 and 27 and I stand on it. And so I'm looking forward to letting that play out how it may, but I'm excited as hell about to. team, man.

Yeah, man, I'm excited too because, you know, in our little group chats with the homies, I keep telling them, y'all got a different identity. And, you know, even in the Kings game, you can see just the way Steph playing is different. The way Jimmy playing is everybody is taking their game to another level. And you look at Pai, you look at Moses, you look at buddy, you look at all these dudes. now they can be comfortable in their skin, right? And they don't have to do more than what they have been asked all year. Now they can get back to being, you know, super dynamic.

I even saw a video where Jimmy is drawing up a play and he describes us something to you and pot, you know, like, what was y'all cooking up? But just to see that chemistry, like, walk me through that moment. Man, you know, those moments are great. Like I told y'all, Jimmy is an over-communicator. You know what I'm saying? Like, he, Jimmy going to come to you before something ever happened.

Like, if this happened, we're going to do this. And I'll be honest with you. I see how people can get tired of Jimmy because if you're not a basketball head, like, if you don't love this shit and you over-communicate like Jimmy and dot every tea, I mean, dot every eye and cross every tea, losers will get frustrated with that. You know what I'm saying? Like, if you don't love, eat, breathe this shit. and more importantly, winning,

you can get frustrated with that. So I can see in two weeks or three weeks, whatever it's been, how someone can get frustrated with Jimmy. Because most people aren't winners. And so the things that he's doing, like, when I tell you, to me, it's music to my ears to talk basketball

with somebody that know the basketball game like Jimmy and listen and learn, you know, from somebody who know the game like Jimmy, it's music to my ears him over-communicating the way he does. Like I said, for somebody who got one foot in, one foot out, that don't really love it, because let's face it, that's 70% of the league, like, that don't really love it, don't really care whether they win or they lose. I can see how you get shell-shocked and be afraid of that.

Right. In that moment, Jimmy is drawing up, showing us display, like, because obviously, with our team, there's a lot of denials. You know what I'm saying? There's a lot of traps trying to take step out the game and all these things. He was showing us a different way to run a set to open up some, like, to get him in a certain position that's going to open it up. He's like, so if they take it the way this way, if you just come out this side and do that,

that's going to put this guy here and I got them sealed, you know what I'm saying? It's just different stuff like that. That Jimmy, man, he dialed in on it. And like I said, he's such a crazy target. I do a terrible pass high as hell yesterday. Goes back like this to get it. Body going opposite way. He goes, body going this way.

He can go back. I don't go back this way. Get the ball. Come down with a full strut. Turn around Jay over tomorrow. He's just such an incredible target, man. But, you know, Jimmy is, he a leader, and he knows his stuff, man.

So he's teaching. And everybody knows he knows stuff. You know what I'm saying? So like I said, this isn't a situation of where he got to come somewhere earn a respecter. earn a voice like, no, no,

we all, we all know who Jimmy Butler is. Like, and so you walk in, you walk through that door that respect is given. And he's coaching guys up

and he teaching, and I'm enjoying learning from him. You know what I'm saying? Just different things, how he see the game and it can only help me be better,

you know what I'm saying? Obviously it's helping our team be better. Before we dive more into this episode, wanted to let y'all know what me and my dog covering. I know BD got a, A couple questions about Oscar, Big O.

Oh, yeah, for sure, I do. I know everybody wants to talk about what a superstar into the potential one-on-one contests at Austin. Weekend. And does it matter who the next face of the league is?

It does matter, but we'll get into that. But before we do, don't forget to subscribe. So make sure you catch all the episodes. Don't miss nothing. Also, I will tell y'all who I think my five most dangerous teams to watch for the rest of the season.

Follow the show on all social media platforms at Draymarshot, so you don't miss none of these great announcements. Now, let's get into it. Well, out of Drayman said so much, who cares what Drayman says? He doesn't mean anything. You know, people, this is what I mean.

You know, I mean, one guy can say this, and one guy can say that. The game is what it is. People either like the game or they don't, and I think people enjoy the game, especially if they can win. And you look at the basketball, it might be boring him,

because if he's not passed the ball of curry, what is he doing? I agree. I mean, triple single is. I mean, not to single that out because I think he knows how to play basketball, but he's passed his ball to carry more than anyone I've ever seen than basketball. So it means a lot. So, you know, it might be boring to him at times because for what he's doing,

maybe it is boring when he's out there. He's not shooting a lot. He's not guarding a lot. So it's boring. I thought those comments were very interesting. The big O is 86 years old. Respect your elders. So if you think I'm going to come on here and disrespect,

because there was disrespect, though, and that ain't how I roll. I'm never going to disrespect one of the pioneers of the game because he shared that opinion. Because, quite frankly, being great at something, when it's skill involved doesn't necessarily mean the knowledge matches the greatness of that skill.

And I think in basketball that's oftentimes misconstrued where you see a guy with great skill and you're like, yo, that guy got great skill. In turn, you give that guy respect because of the skill, but the knowledge ain't really there. And so that happens all the time.

and what we do. That's neither here nor there. What I do know is, I know this game is good as most. I know this game through and through and feel like I can sit at the table with anyone and talk this game. So I know I'm stellar in that department.

So I have no problems there. It was a hot take. Speaking of the Big O, though, because I'm going to really speak about the Big O. As I said, he 86 years old. If you think disrespect is coming, no chance. We want to enjoy our last years we got with our pioneers. The time we do have left with them, we're going to enjoy that.

So, you know, I'm going to enjoy these last years. And what he's done for this game, when you talk about player free agency, moves the go off out of a lawsuit that ran over the course of four to five years that he won, that is one of the main reasons. players' salaries went up, so I thank you. That is one of the main reasons. Players can move around their free agency. I have not moved around the free agency.

I haven't taken advantage of that. But I thank you because that is something that has helped this league, my counterparts, myself. So we thank you. When we start talking about knowing the game and how you think the game, I'm not sure what idiot wouldn't want to pass Steph Curry the ball when he's the greatest shooter of all times. I don't really take that personal certain games. I'm going to look for him even more than you're accustomed to me looking for him because why wouldn't I? It opens up things

for everyone else. Steph Curry is obviously Steph Curry. He's really him. You know what I'm saying? So quite honestly, Big O, I get a lot of pleasure out of passing the ball. I actually find a rhythm through passing. I enjoy that. Always been that way my whole life. Even at the time in my life when I was predominantly a score because, you know, we all was that at some point in our careers. So I've always been a past first guy, just how I played a game. For a guy that average 11 assists, you were also passing the ball.

You cannot quite average 11 assists and not pass the ball. In the year that Big O won a championship, when he was starting to age, you were passing the ball to Karin Abdul Jabbar himself. Not quite sure where the dead come from. I was also extremely surprised, BD. Because during the skills challenge that I blew,

I saw him on the sideline. And I got up by my seat, I went and said, hello. And he's like, huh, man, you still, what they're doing it? Keep on going. I love watching you play, man. I just love watching you play. You keep going.

And so to hear him say that, And then the next morning, he completely flip and go opposite. I was a little surprised by that, I must say, because it wasn't quite that same energy when I saw him. And by the way, if he told me right in my face like, hey, we don't care what you say you, you just passed Steph Curry. I'd be like, all right, Big O, respect. That's your opinion.

Quite honestly, at 86, I'm pretty sure Big O ain't watching many R games. Big O sound asleep by the time we play at night. Like, he's sound asleep. Well, you got to stop. There's zero percent. Well, Lee Biggo. Leave Biggo. We love you, Biggo.

No, we love Bigel. For sure. Pioneer. It was a hot take. And you've got to think about it sometimes. You got to think about it like, you know, we're all in church. You know, what I'm saying? We see people in church, right?

You're going to act a certain way. Where you get out of church, that's where you go get hot. You know, and it was just a hot take, man. It was a very hot take. Then he said, I ain't guard nobody. That's how I know Big O ain't watching the game. He said, I ain't guarding nobody. Big O can't be watching the game.

Lastly, BD, check this out. Big O is a cornerstone. Is a one-time NBA champion, one-time NBA-a-ost, most valuable player. 12-time NBA All-Star. And if I'm not mistaken, I think he played 12 seasons. Three-time All-Star MVP. Nine-time first-team NBA.

Two-time second-te-M-A. Rookie of the year. Six-time assistant leader. Come on, that's the senior, Dakin. Listen, that's a senior Dinkin. Yes, he is. And he got the respect for me, which is why I ain't crushing him how I will crush somebody else. I ain't going to crush Big O.

He got my respect. He got my respect. For sure. Nonetheless, I ain't trying to make myself out to be big a hole, none of that. But I'm going to tell you, last thing I'm going to say about Big O. BD. He got upset at me if he actually read my comments. It was talking about the game is boring. And it was talking about the game is boring because I actually said,

we played the Lakers maybe a week or two ago. And when we played there, it was a chess match with burn. Like every play, you're trying to figure something else out. And that's how the game used to be when I came in. And I love that. But now there's no vets in the NBA no more. They got rid of all the vets. So you don't play those chess matches no more.

The reality is sometimes it's just who can hit the most shots at a certain time. We lost in Utah. We lost Utah a week or two, a week before break or whatever it was. We were 16. They scored 20 points. Utah is the worst team in the league, I think, by record. If not by record, they're close to it by record, right? Like, they scored 20 points in three minutes, and we didn't play bad defense.

They scored 20. That is the new NBA. Our commissioner, everybody gets mad at me like I said something crazy. Our commissioner, two months ago, just was talking about correcting the three-point problem, right? Like, I'm working on correcting the three-point issue. Our commissioner said that. To me, that was along those same lines because that's along to what I was saying, right? Like, you don't get to thing in the game anymore.

So I was really surprised and how I know Big O.B. Sleep watching the game. Don't not watch some games. Because he also just heard somebody say, Dremont said the game's born and didn't have any context. Because if he had context, I'm more so actually applauding the way the employee it used to be. Some actually applauding him in his era more as anything.

And so, you know, I just tell Biggo, make sure whoever, you know, keeping him up to date on his things is actually keep giving him context because, you know, Big O, Big O 86, man. We love Big O. Who's scoring big in the NBA this season? You are all the new ways to get in on the action at Draft King Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NBA. Slams, dishing the ball, cleaning the glass,

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Blade, your generation of basketball for messing up the All-Star game. Quote, I'm going to disagree with Draymond a lot. They messed the game up. His generation messed the game up. We're doing every type of trick to make the weekend excited. What are your thoughts on,

what Chuck is talking about? I think doing every type of trick is the problem, which is my point, that we're doing every trick. But this is about a basketball game. And basketball game is simply what? A basketball game. Because we play at 32 minutes of basketball

on a three-hour telecast. But it was supposed to be a basketball game. And so my word was actually, let's just play a basketball game. Let's make this East versus West and maybe make that mean something. You know what I'm saying? And can we get back to that?

Can you make that mean? something, right? But I also think, like, B, B, B, basketball is so much more nuanced today than it was 20 years ago. That is with anything that develops over the course of 20 years, right? There's going to be more nuanced because you just learn

more, right? Like, coaches get smarter, plays get trickier, defensive adjustments get, like, all that stuff, it grows. And so, in saying that, people want to see, an incredible basketball game,

but there's no real practice. The practice is for the fans. You should have, of course, shots, you should layups. You have to put guys in position to approach just like they approach real games. In turn, you may have to extend the all-star break because you can't punish those guys for being all-stars and they don't get a break,

but at the same time, you probably need a couple days of real practice if you want a real game. You need guys getting ready for the game like they get ready, prepare for a real game, shooting time. all of this. You don't get all of that stuff

before an All-Star game. You take pictures. You know what I'm saying? So you do start lineups. It's all a show. But then you want premier operating systems that is players. You want premier operating systems

operating at their highest capability and you just booted up the processor. I don't even think it's that. Like, you just want, people to play defense. Everybody saying all kind of shit. All it is is a commitment to play some type of defense

and to stop a basket. But it's also if everybody is an offensive player that's in the All-Star game, then you're not going to have a real game. It's a showcase. They're just going to dunk. You know what I mean?

They're going to dunk. It's going to be threes, it's going to be half-course shots, and nobody's going to play defense. When are you going to reward the defensive guys, the guys who hold down the fort? Because they're going to come into the All-Star game playing defense. If people play a little bit of defense, then you can't help what get competitive if you play in defense. I agree with that, but I also think that is also part of preparation. Like, what is the preparation for the game? Like, if I haven't prepared for for a game, guess what I'm going to do, BD? I'm going to take a few shots.

Like, guys, like, you're going to take some shots. You go, but you ain't about to sit down and move and like, you ain't doing all of that. But offense is, it's up to you, right? Like, you're dictating where you're trying to get where you're trying to go. That's a different thing. Yeah, but it's like, they don't, you just got to take it personal, right? But what's to take personal? Steph versus Kyrie.

That ain't personal enough for you? Like, I'm not just going to let Steph. shoot a three on me, or if I'm Kyrie just let, uh, or if I'm staff, let Kyrie just shoot a three. I want to see, like, if they take a little bit of challenge, like, you know what, you're not scoring on me, whether it's Joker or Wimby, like, yeah, I'm not, I'm, I'm not letting him score on me. That's the personal. And the Instagram era, brother, nobody want to get, nobody want to get embarrassed during

the Instagram error. Then you know what? It ain't going to be no one-on-one. I agree. It ain't going to be no one-on-one. Man, it's the best players in the world. Nobody can guard nobody. But at the same time, in the All-Star game,

like, if Kobe guard me, right, I'm trying to go at Kobe. He's not trying to let me get off. All the casuals on Instagram that sit behind their computers and talk junk about people that's talking about, oh, we want to see a great game. Well, you're nasty habits. on Instagram has ruined it

because no one wants to get embarrassed for everybody go out there and be cool and it is what it is. Is this a defense? I think it's just a defensive challenge. Since guaranteeing the chip the comments and the media have y'all viewed as underdogs,

you've been an underdog, you've been the lead dog within the four championships. Which one is better for you? Underdog. Everybody counting you out, that's always better. been an underdog my whole life. Like, that was my story coming up.

When you win as an underdog with people telling you can't, you know, when everybody jump on the bandwagon, oh, they're going to win. That's like, yeah, like, get out of here. Like, I hate bandwagoners. But when you ain't got nobody on the bandwagon then you go win,

a lot 2015, a lot of 2020, when you go do that, them the phone ones. That's when you're like, oh, man, like, wow, like shut up. Like, that's underdog for sure any day. Talk about the importance of starting the second half of the season. Well, you know, the Warriors, 26 games left.

Currently in ninth in the West, the next four games, you have the Mavericks at home, Hornets at home, magic away, sixers away. Talk to the fans about how important it is to get off to a good second, back end of a All-Star game. I think it's very important, especially in the place that we're in. You know, we let some games get away early that we talked about that we shouldn't have, but we are where we are. And so for us, it's important to get out to a good start because should every game count, we have a playoff mode.

You know what I'm saying? We got to approach these next 26 like the playoffs. We want to give ourselves the best position as possible when it comes receding. And to my knowledge, from what I've heard, I think we're only maybe three games out of six or something like that. I don't know that to be certain, because I don't follow the status. I just, the way I approached it, win every game you can and check at the end. Like, I think, you know, if we win every game that we can and check at the end, I think that'll leave us in a pretty good position.

And so that's kind of how I approach it. But it's important to get off to a good start because you got to build on that. And, you know, you're establishing now. or the season going waves, as you know, and now you're establishing light. And this is the team we need to be in order to reach our ultimate goal. And you feel more of a, you know,

you feel more of a sense of urgency those last 26 games because you can see that light at the end of the tunnel, man. I don't think people understand BD, how high feel you look up and they say game 11 of 82. Like, you can't see the light

at the end of the tunnel. You can't even see the all-star break at the end of the tunnel. And so, you know, 26 games, you pass the All-Star break, you rejuvenated. Now you come back and you're like, all right, we can see that light at the end of the tunnel. We know what we're playing and working for. And I think, you know, that's why it's important for us, you know, to get off to a great start these next four.

Yeah. You know, we're going on a road trip. I think it's also a good road trip for us. Like, it'll be a tough road trip for sure. But I think it's some winnable games that we can go take and we need to make sure we're taking care of our business and going to do that. I like that. Taking one game at a time. Absolutely.

Right. Absolutely. You can't look past nobody in the NBA, especially these days where everybody's scoring. I told you, Utah gave us 20 points, put up 20 points in three minutes. Yeah, you got to grab a couple of makeup games, too, that got away from you.

So you got to make sure you win the ones, you're supposed to win, and then you got to grab the one, You got to grab the games that you're not supposed to win. Absolutely. Moving around the league a little bit, the biggest news coming out of All-Star Breakaround the league, as Victor Wimbeiyama will be out for the rest of the season

due to deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder. That is blood clotting, some form of blood clotting in his right shoulder. Number one, whoever was the trainer that figured that out to even send that for test to. I tip my hat to you. Kudos you know, because that's serious. You're talking about blood clines, and that's life-threatening.

You know, other players that's going through this, Chris Bosch, this ended Chris Bosch career at 32. Sart Thompson, this ended his rookie season early. He just got back maybe a month and a half, two months ago from now. And also, some form of it, Lamarcus Aldrich dealt with towards the end of his career, which kind of shut L.A. down as well. I don't know if it was this exact thing, but I know some form of blood clotting

that slow L.A. down and ultimately forced him into retirement as well. And so really sending my love and well wishes to Vick because that is something that, like he has to be aware of that for the rest of his career. Like, you know, we all hope and believe and think that he's going to make a full recovery. But in making a full recovery, that's blood clotting.

That's what then, you know, he can't necessarily, get on blood thinners because then it make you bruise easily and it doesn't allow you to heal properly as far as basketball goes and so it's a tough tricky thing man and it's something that he could possibly deal with even once getting past it so just sending our love and well wishes to vic and dealing with this big prayers big prayers sounds like there's a lot of interest from players like carrie james yonis dang kd kind of downplayed but kd love playing once They play ones every day anyway. As far as the one-on-one tournament during the NBA All-Star weekend next year, it would be.

Unrival did one this year. Nefisa Collier won that one. Do you think you ultimately get the best players to participate in a one-on-one game? I think they would do it. I think Yonis will win, though. Yeah? Yeah, I think Yonis will win. Whoever can play defense.

Is it a dribble limit? You can't have a million dribbles with NBA. players. No, you can have five, you can do three dribbles, five dribbles. Like none of those little guards can stop Yannis. But Yonis got defense, right? So he can pretty much affect a shot. You should get like five.

You should get a six second shot clock run down. Amen. I'll tell you what, though. I was about say six seconds on one-on-one. It's a long time to guard somebody one-on-one, NBA, man. It should be Kest of all five, four, three, two, one. It should be five seconds. It'll be dumb to see, you know, Kyrie Hardin, all these dudes go at each other

who are, you know, incredible one-on-one players in the game itself to do that for Halsar weekend. I love to see something like that. Shout out to Unrival for doing it. Nefisa Collier, she brought out the bag, right? She did. She played defense, too. She does.

So if you got some offense and defense and you're a big man, I like Yonah's chances. I'm taking KD because KD can check anybody and Kee can score better than anybody. I like KD too. I'm taking KD. I got to roll with K. I got the role with K. Yeah, K can guard anybody. Shoot over everybody.

Paulo Bansara. Paulo can play for sure. Polo can play. That's a fact. and he's from Seattle, they got the ones. And James Harden, if he get rolling, ain't nobody going to be able to stop him. That's a fact.

But you just said you got to play defense. Right, but I said if he get rolling. Uno been guarding this year ago. He's been guarding this year. Jeff Van Gundy got Uno Gartern this year. Yeah. Yeah. He, oh, he's serious.

He's serious. He focused. He got the Clippers rolling. Chris Hayes reported that SGA will represent himself for all court decisions. That means he's up for a $300 million contract this summer and enjoys Joel NBee

as another player representing himself. I know what you think. What do you think about this move? Listen, I think I saw that this can save him $12 million in agent fees. Listen, $12 million to save it. There's a lot of money. I just will warn him be very careful of how much money you could be costing itself. because there's things in the contract

that great representation know you know great representation know that you should have in your contract. Now, a lot of guys ain't never had great representation and they don't really know the capabilities of a contract and what could be in there or what should be in there.

And so I think a lot of people make the mistake are like, he going to get to 345 or whatever the number is, he going to get that anyway. doesn't matter. And the reality is, it's the fine print. You know, there's a lot of things that goes into a contract that is more than just the dollar amount that one received. So, and saying that, I think, you know, make sure that he's getting all that he can out of that contract. That's just not about what the end dollar amount is. If he can do that, and save $12 million.

He got you. I get it. But I, you know, and like I always say, I don't think Elon Musk is reading the legal on his deals that he do. Right. You know what I'm saying? I don't think. It's got to get a good thing.

You know what I'm saying? I don't think I don't foresee that Jack Dorsey read all the legal when he sold Twitter for $44 billion to Elon Musk. I personally don't think that that's the case. And so me, personally, I want to find great representation like those guys do. Not where the SGA represent themselves.

You know, you just got to build the right council. Right? Build the right council. Build the right team. Build the right advisors. Have all your checks and balances and just hire somebody who have strategic know-how.

Also on the hills of All-Star weekend out of all the commotion and the media was my man, Ant-Man, saying, I'm capable of being that guy, but I don't want to be that guy, meaning I don't want to be the face of the league. He said, Wemby should be the face of the league. What makes someone the face of the league?

Man, what makes someone the face of the league? Number one, you got the game. You got to have a game first and foremost. You can be as clean cut as you want. The biggest steward of the game you want to be. If you don't got the game to match you, you cannot be the face of the NBA. You must be generational. You must have elite ability.

That is number one. Number two, you must represent the league in a positive manner, a positive light. When you look at the logo, that is what matters most. This is a multi-billion dollar corporation, and how you represent that logo on and off the basketball court matters. You cannot be the face of the NBA if you don't win because the NBA cannot market you in the biggest moments if you don't win or have never been a winner. And so you must win.

That must happen in order for you to be the face of the NBA. We've seen a numerous amount of guys start getting that hype and a little push and a little marketing push. And if they don't win, it goes to hell. Because we can't market you, we can't show you on the biggest stage. that does not work for being the face of the NBA. And saying all of those things, to hear Ant Man say,

I am capable of being that guy, but I don't want to be. I agree with him. He is capable of being that guy from basketball standpoint, talent standpoint. He got all of that. To be that, though, he has to go win. He has to continue to elevate his game to another level,

like take that next step. And he got to be. be better with his interviews, off the course stuff, how he presents himself. I think, and that's when he's saying, I don't want to be that guy. Those things would show that. But regardless of all of that,

Ant Man's what, 23, 24, if you're going to be that right now is the time that you have to be building that. You can't start trying to be that at 27. And so my thing would just be, I hope he understand that the opportunity that's in front of him, and know that it doesn't come back around.

Like, you get a shot out of it. And once that shot is gone, it don't come back around. So I hope it is, I hope that Ant Man understands that and is not making a decision at 23, that at 27, 28, 29, he's going to regret. Yep. And saying that, I saw what Mello said. And I also want you to try to understand something by no means, is this any disrespect.

Mello is the O.G. That's my O.G. Never would disrespect him. I saw what Mello said publicly, so I'm going to say this publicly. And then I'm going to hit Mello and let him know I said this publicly because that is my OG. Mello was talking about Ant Man. He said some things along the lines of you don't get to pick, which he's right. But I felt like Mello was going at Ant Man a little bit.

And when I look back at Mello career, because I was a huge Mello fan, watching him when I was growing up, the way he scored the basketball. Well, Mello had to clean some things up on his way through the league. Mello had a bad rap. Mello's talked about this publicly before when he said the NBA is the FBI, and he said, David Stern called him into the office and started saying all these things. He was like, yo. So Mello has spoke about this publicly before, which is why I felt comfortable publicly saying this.

Mello struggled a bit coming in early. Was not on that right trajectory to become the face of the league. had the talent, but other things wasn't quite matching up, right, in order to become that face of league. So my thing to Mello would be, and maybe he has, because I know Mello a real one,

call Ant Man, guide him to these things, share your experiences with him, help him understand that you had that opportunity too, and maybe some of the things that you could have been doing, cost you that opportunity. If it did, I don't know for certain that it did, but if it did, But I would just say call him, guide him.

And the reason I say that is because it ain't many of them guys that's like one of them ones. Like you don't come around them often. You know what I'm saying? Hello. Mello is a steward, one of the O.G's pioneer of Team USA basketball and they become what it's become. Ant Man is kind of taking over those rings. Guy him and show him what that means. So I think that would be my only thing on it.

Ant Man struggling a little bit in different areas this year. As a guy who struggled, I can't be a guy and sit up here and throw darts about that. I know how hard it is. But I do think he's capable of being that guy from a talent standpoint. You know, it does have to be something that you want because it requires you to do so much more

than just play basketball. When you look at LeBron, when you look at KD, when he won the championships, right, when you go through the history of being a champion and being the man on the championship team, you ain't got no choice. Look at Jason Taylor. Boston win it again.

He's the face of the league, right? When Mello was coming up a little different, Mello had to fight to get a face to be one of the faces of the league. Because it's Kobe, it's Duncan. It's, you know, it's all kind of legacy that precede him, you know. And so for Ant Man, there's a lot of legacy that precede him. But Mello was trying to take. them people out.

For sure. I try to take them out. And by him said, I don't want to be that guy, like to me is saying, well, what do you want to be? Like how far do you want to take it? What do you need to take it there? Because if you don't want to be that guy, then somebody else is going to come along on this sushi boat of incredibly talented kids and say, you know what?

I'll take it. Right? I'll take it. And I'll take my game to the next level, the next level, until I win the championship. And I think that's what it's really about when you got somebody like him and his talent. 1,000%.

I agree with that. I definitely agree with that. It's touchy, man, once you lose it, it's tough. It don't boomerang back to you, buddy. Before we get out of here, man, I got five on it. Sarre segment, I got five on it this time. BD will pick five of the most dangerous teams during the final stretch of the NBA season.

These are teams that he feels, if they catch fire, would be a real threat to win the NBA championship. Who you got, BD? All right, I'm going to my standings list right now. I got Cleveland. I got Boston. Then when I come over to the Western Conference, I got Denver, I got the Clippers,

and I have to go to state warriors at number five. Any of those teams get hot, and the West is going. going to be problems. I agree. In Pembert hot right now. I'm taking Cleveland and Boston because their pace and their style of play in the Eastern Conference, I don't feel like any team can really keep up with their pace and their style, right? Their ball of movement, the way they shoot the three, the way they create one-on-one mismatches, the way they play for each other, the way four or five or six guys on the team

can beat you. Cleveland and Boston are... to me, the mirror images of each other. When I go to the West and I talk about Denver, I think Denver is starting to get back to championship pedigree. They have some fatigue, right? They miss the finals. They didn't have a great playoffs last year. Now, with Russ, they got another force.

They got another source of energy. Jamal Murray coming back. Aaron Gordon shooting the ball well. Like they have a chemistry, and I felt like if they are somewhere around four, three or four, where they can have some home court advantage in the first couple rounds,

they're going to be dangerous. The Los Angeles clippers, the beard. The beard is all grown up. It's a full grown beard. It's a Bufant beard. The beard with the claw, you know, Norman Powell,

you look at Zoubis. The Clippers are playing defense. And I think people underestimate them on the defensive end. And then offensively, you know, with Kuwai, you know, with Zubak, the way he's playing, the Whit Norman Powell. And then my X factor for the Clippers is Ben Simmons. Get Ben Simmons comfortable. Get Ben Simmons playing, you know, aggressive at a high frequency.

Clippers are dangerous. And then number five of Warriors, I just like what this new warrior look like. This new warrior energy, this new warrior team, everybody in their roles, Cominga coming back. I just feel like you now are where you were

at the beginning of the year, but you're a much better team. You're a much solid team. Reliable, down the stretch, getting free throws, down the stretch, Steph Curry, Bernie, from three, or now Buddy Hill, you know, Moses, Pock, people filling into their natural positions

with a Jimmy Butler there. And Jemond Green, with Wimby out, with AD out, Jemond Green is the front rudder for defensive player of the year. So that got to happen. That's definitely going to happen now. I need to put that together. We're Winby going out and opened it up. Here.

Open it up. Let me try to put one and up. Come on, the championship guarantee. I want to guarantee Draymond Green is going to be the defensive player of the year. Let's put the rest of that together. Let's do it. Man, no, that's fire. I like those teams.

I think, you know, each one of those teams can definitely have a chance coming down the stretch. So we'll see. Y'all know my guarantee. That's a wrap. This episode of the Draymond Green show with my dog. the legend Baron Davis, BD. We out. Love.

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