The Herd with Colin Cowherd - The Draymond Green Show w/Baron Davis: Fan Q&A: LeBron James TikTok songs, March Madness & how to FIX college basketball

Episode Date: March 23, 2025

Draymond Green and Baron Davis respond to a round of fan-submitted questions. They share their top three NBA prospects to watch during NCAA's March Madness, how they would go about fixing the biggest issues surrounding college basketball, if they think the future of the NBA will continue to be dominated by international payers, and their reactions to the viral LeBron James R&B tracks doing numbers on TikTok. (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. The next segment is Get at Me and BD, where we answer questions from the fans since March Madness has started. We'll answer a few questions about college basketball. Wafa, 2025, who are the top prospects to watch during March Madness? If you both can give your top three. I'll start. Obviously, Cooper Flagg is who he is. I think an interest in to watch is Jason.

has climbed up the charts of the drive boards, and I think he's continuing to excel. I think a lot of people early on in the season, like, oh, man, he's a shotmaker. He can make shots, but can he handle the ball? So what did Izzo do here? Jace handled the ball, more, go make plays more, and he's checked that box.

And so I think that'll be a fun one to watch. So I'm going Cooper Flagg. I'm going Jace Richardson. And I think Johnny Broome, he's a fifth year, senior at Auburn. I think he's an interesting watch. He's dominated college basketball this year, and I think now he's going to keep playing at this level.

And I think a lot of scouts going to want to see how he perform in this tournament. Seniors get a knock in the draft, although we've changed that a bit. Shout out to myself and the other seniors that's come in this league and create it. Cause have it and changing that

narrative a little bit. So I think Johnny Broome are the top three that I'm Watching. Cooper flag, Jace Richardson, Johnny Broome. You took my Jace Richardson. That's my baby right there. That's my baby right there, man. That's his nephew. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

He out here killing. You and Jay probably was on the same team when he was born, huh? Let's see. He was a baby. Yeah, he was a baby. 18 years ago, we are 2007. That's we believe. Yep. Yep. That's crazy.

Yeah, no, I'm telling you. That was my little dude. I had no kids at the time. So, like, I used to always hang with Jay Rich. I called Jay Rich to Don. I used to hang with the Don and the baby Don's. That's fire. Shout out to Jace.

My other guy is Eric Daly, Jr. Fire from UCLA. I'm talking about a dog. I can talk about somebody that's skilled. I feel if Coach just let him go Right If the coach just let him go

And like let him just Be the focal point on the offense I think UCLA is going to be good He's built for the NBA And as we've seen UCLA makes Great, great, great, great professional athletes

Even I don't know I like this guy Mark Sears Oh, yeah Alabama. Yeah. I want to see what he do. He's explosive, personal. He's their motor.

Right? And I just like, I like how he get down. He's smooth. He efficient. He can score the rock. I want to see what he do. I want to see what Alabama does. Because this is the first time I think that the Alabama basketball

is ranked higher than Alabama football. Yeah. For the first time in a long time. That's a fact. All right. I like that list. I like that list. At TNB 777,

what is the biggest problem with the current system in college basketball? I think number one. Transfer. I'm sure he's talking about all the transfer portal and NIL and all of that stuff

and that's fine. But I think the way the game is officiated in college basketball makes it boring. You can't play defense. You can't guard the post. The rules of college

basketball need to get closer to the rules of the NBA because I think some of the rules of college basketball creates a disservice for guys coming into the NBA. And so that's what I think is most wrong with the system is the way the referees

referee the game, the way they call the game, the way you have to guard, I think it sucks. Yeah, I think it's it is, it's deficienting because the games are just drawn out. And then I also think a lot of it is

I'm not mad at the transfer portal right because I'm still filling out a bracket it's still UCLA on mine I still love my Bruins and I'm still watching young talent go places and flourish now some of these coaches need to go sit their ass down

because they don't know what they're doing and they're recruiting their own guys and they're not really building up programs when you think of somebody like Caliperi, when he was doing one and done, he was still building up the program for guys to come in and be one and done. Now everybody is looking at how can we get guys to come in for one year and do something at my school, turn my school around? And it's just not the same, it's not the same pedigree, right?

It's just like a meat market for, you know, kids being here one day, leaving the next day, you know, like there's no adversity or loyalty. And so now you're going to get a lot of these young kids coming out of high school that are talented, that need to grow and develop. It's going to take them two or three years to find the right place. A lot of it is, you know, coaching and building up a program and, you know, not every coach should be going after one and does, right? The more coaches, even for a lot of these, like the mid majors are killing right now,

and the bigger universities are struggling because they just keep playing with the NIL stuff instead of like a Michigan State stick to the system, build a program. For sure, Michigan State is definitely doing that always. NIL is not affecting y'all, right? Like, Izzo is going to take chances on kids that fit his program.

One million percent. You know, now there's an entitled wave of kids coming in with parents and managers sometimes telling these coaches what they are and are not going to do and then when they get there, they don't see success, they out the middle of the year. Yep, yep. No, that's a pact.

And like you say, you just don't learn how to grow through adversity. I think another thing is, I think somebody's smaller schools, the whole system need to be reworked. Somebody's smaller schools, like in professional soccer, you know how you can loan out a player

or you can sell a player and not sell a player because that sounds bad. but you receive a fee if someone's signed a player. I think some of these smaller schools that are getting these guys into these positions that then go to bigger schools and make NIL money, they should receive a fee from these bigger schools as well. And that's how you can still kind of keep the playing field somewhat level,

get some money into some of these smaller schools pocket that don't have the resources to have NIL. I think that's the way. Reward them for their recruiting. They recruit good. talent, they build up their development. They develop good talent. And then that talent goes somewhere else to a bigger school for more NIL money. That school should have to pay that school some money.

I think that needs to go into effect. And then also, lastly, stop acknowledging this amateur basketball. It is no longer amateur basketball. This is no longer amateur sports. This is professional sports and they need to address it as such. David G.O.8. How do you guys see the future of the NBA being even more international

or are the college seeds that are going, are these college seeds that are coming in going to take over? Look, the game is getting better. The game is evolving. Like, man, we just talked about Kay Cunningham, right? We just talked about Austin Reeves, right? Cooper Flagg is up now. You got the kid

AJ going to Utah Right You got Jace At Michigan State Right You are always going to get A new wave of personalities And talent in the league

Obviously the league Is very international now I think you will Find more International Games, activities Maybe even a tournament Maybe even the commissioners

Cup may wind up international But I definitely see the future of the league, you know, expanding into more of a global games, right? Like there could potentially be a global NBA games at one point. Yeah, 100%. I think at some point you see a team in London. I think at some point, you know, you start to see that as well. So the game would definitely continue.

It's happening. Mexico City. Like these things are happening. I'm with that. London. These things are happening. I'm telling you, it's happening. Here's the thing for a New York team to fly to London is no different than flying

to L.A. You know, and so what's the challenge of that is figuring out the TV schedule of it, right? Like, that's the challenging part of it. But nonetheless, I think that's coming at some point or another within the next 10 years. But the game will continue to go more international because the game is growing all over the world. Players are getting better.

And then, you know, there's a case to be made that international basketball prepares you more for NBA than college. There's a case to be made on that. Now, I don't think the talent level has equaled out yet. There's still more talent in America than there is worldwide. But I think as far as the preparation goes, I think that we're starting to see the international game and the rules that these guys grow up playing as probably better. suiting for the NBA game than the college game because some of those rules are just trash. So we'll still have a mixture of both,

but I think you'll start to see more and more international guys, but you can never get rid. This is our sport. You're never going to get rid of us. That's just what it is. Last one at Roaring 3000. Baron, I know you make music, so I wanted to get your reaction on all these LeBron

songs coming out. I have not heard LeBron Jones. Oh, boy, Trevor. This is our. He got the Michael Jackson sample. That's shit. You know, hey, that's one of my favorite songs, All Time and Life, Man in the Mirror,

and he remixed that album, LeBron, and the life is a good. A good idea, but I'll... You can't come on, man. I don't do my boy Michael Jackson like that. Yeah, brother. You're about to copy-rided. It was plight up. Come on, man.

Let Michael Jackson man in the mirror have a song. A little space. Sheesh. Oh, man. Get at me. That's a wrap.