[Highlights] Draymond gets sent to the lockers after heated debate w coach Kerr. Barely played in the 2nd half.
Draymond is too damn old to be acting like this. And unfortunately, he’s not good enough anymore for the team to continue to let this slide.
They went on a 41-18 run as soon as he went out lol
19-2, it was beautiful.
Second game in a row now where Draymond leaving helped the Warriors…
so tired of his shit.
you got moody over there being 10x as mature and trying to calm him down.
Will always be remembered for the bum he truly is
Edit: I’m shocked some random end of the bench guy hasn’t punched his lights out, he’d be universally adored and could probably even start his own podcast to make up for the year long suspension
History has a way of focusing on the positives. In 20 years He’ll be remembered as a 4-time champ, DPOY, and be called a “fiery competitor”. He’ll be called “controversial” but history certainly won’t remember him as a “bum” - that will just be a word used by haters who are salty that he beat them or their franchise.
Nah, people still talk a lot of shit about how dirty the bad boy pistons were. People will talk shit about Draymond. I would know. I will be the one leading the chorus
They may talk a lot of shit, but when you type “Bad Boy Pistons” into google, you get info on the two time champs. You dont get articles saying they were dirty cheaters
There arent going to be articles written in mainstream publications about draymond being a POS, but that doesnt mean thats not how he will be remembered by basketball fans.
I think in 20 years the legend of steph will cast a huge shadow on green. Green will be remembered as mediocre player that got very lucky to be drafted and play with steph, klay and KD. Without stephs coddling, draymond on any other team is Charles Oakley at best. And that’s not a knock. I love Oakley!
4 all star appearances and DPOY is not even Dwight Howards level. Green wouldn’t have even made the Olympic teams if it wasn’t for curry and Kerr. Nobody remembers BJ Armstrong as ‘3 time NBA champ.’
Dray and Moody need to switch names
Thanks for the laugh! I really needed it today.
Merry Christmas bro. Holidays can be hard
Yeah no kidding, watching this clip mirrored a similar dynamic in my own life. I’m a few years older than Dray, and I have a group of teammates at this one gym who are just about Moody’s age. If they ever had to be the ones to chill me out and get my head on straight I’d be embarrassed to death. It should be my job to keep everyone calm and focused.
Let’s try a third game!
It’s because they are still trying to play small ball with him and it just doesn’t work in today’s game
Eh, I think it’d work fine if they were all at their peaks. They’re just old now.
Hinestly just dray. He is the youngest of the big three but plays the oldest. Butler and curry still look like their standard selves for the most part
Part of playing his position. Banging with people way bigger than him night in and night out.
Yep. OKC was winning games last year without any true center for like a month or 2. Small ball can be effective but your small big can’t be in his late 30s with washed athleticism.
Is 35 considered late 30s now? I feel like that’s definition of mid 30s.
You’ve gotta remember how young Reddit skews. Anything over 30 is “old”
That’s just 200 IQ ball. Like Purdy throwing a pick so his defense could get the pick 6 right after
Growing old but not growing up. Mentally-ill.
Narcissistic to the max. Iykyk
I watched the game and can’t even remember what play Dray was whining about. He whines so much over nothing. I do remember he was yelling so much they went to the commercial graphic (the “Brought to you by ____” image) and you still hear Dray shouting at the ref
He’s always been mentally ill. He should have seeked help 10 years ago
Acting like what? Kerr will have to look into it because he didn’t see it
Real lmfao, this is as much on Kerr as anybody else not named Draymond. He’s been letting him get away with far too much for far too long
The whole league tbh
I thought he’d be suspended for a season after the Poole assault
kind of wild he wasn’t suspended at all
More concerned about catching the guy who recorded it
Kerr has handled him perfectly. He’s gotten all he could out of the guy.
Draymond has mental issues that can’t be fixed.
Remember a year or two ago when Draymond went on that rant saying how he doesn’t want people to call him an angry black man or whatever? It was so bizarre to see
He needs to do something, like a podcast. Something therapeutic that allows him to reflect on his actions
Or try punching a teammate in the face to release some of that stress
Maybe take up mixed martial arts and put someone in choke hold
Or stomp on a man laying on the ground
And kick someone in the nuts
I have a crystal ball telling me all these things won’t help
Maybe a TNT special
checks how many years are left on his deal
Dude might be cooked v soon lol
It was his son’s birthday too. What a way to act.
They went on a big run after this lmao
Same thing happened after he got ejected the other night
The veteran is still making 200 IQ plays to help his team.
This is like my dad saying his beating the shit out of me is the reason I got a college degree.
(Sorry about your dad being what he is.)
That’s a good way to justify his behavior 👍🏼
I think he leads the league in turnovers he’s horrible
I had to check this, and Doncic leads this particular stat by quite a significant margin - both total turnovers and average per game.
Perhaps Draymond leads in turnover rate per time of possession of the rock? That seems much more likely given how much less he handles the ball than the 14 high-usage players ranked ahead of him in TOs, as well as how often he’s simply missing from the games (like this one) altogether…?
I suspect this may be the case but locking the actual numbers down proved a tad bit vexing
luka most certainly does not lead the league in total turnovers
Yeah he leads the league in TOV% by a huge margin at 29%, 6% higher than 2nd place Oso Ighodaro and 3rd place Jusuf Nurkić.
He doesn’t get the space of generational shooters like curry/klay/ Durant to let him handle passes 4-3 or better. He can’t shoot and his d is slipping. It’s like klay getting cooked and saying I’m a champ. He doesn’t have the personality to age gracefully.
He’s gonna get the nickname E-Brake if he doesn’t turn it around
Easier to play when you take the backpack off
“I’ve come to realize that the team plays better under a backpack restricted minutes approach. Less backpack means they just can play better. It’s not rocket science. It’s Jansport.” - Steve Kerr
Damn I totally fuckin forgot about the Draymond’s jumper looks like he shoots with a backpack memes 😹😹😹
Expensive backpack for 30
I thought the backpack meant he was a $25M heavy burden on the team not putting up what he should. I had no idea it originated from how clunky he looks shooting the ball.
The backpack is all encompassing. But what it truly represents is being carried by his splash bro
Jordan Poole smiling somewhere rn
Every starter was positive in +/- except dray.
mfw Podz was the MJ he thought he was all along
Take him, I think he would work well with Jokic
Don’t want
He actually would likely be sick in the Nuggets second unit. Might make the Nugs a championship lock. Gordon starting with Dray off the bench would be pretty sick.
Joking aside I do think he’d fit great on a team with a bit less of a roll than he has with the warrior’s right now
At his age he should be a wildcard in matchups, he shouldn’t be the key cog of any team.
The 2022 championship run should have shown this as well. There were quite a few playoff games where it was clear that Dray’s offensive limitations clearly outweighed his defensive impact. He was instrumental to the 2022 championship run overall but it’s been another 3 years since then and he’s clearly declined even more.
Drays been deterimental to the offense what’s new. And the defense has been elite without him too.
Clearly he needs less of a role, get his shit together, or bye bye january 15th alongside Kuminga.
I think we also had two turnovers immediately after the half with him and steph
Draymond needs to be played off the bench if he’s serious about winning
This shouldn’t be a hot take. He’s been an offensive liability and his playmaking simply causes too many turnovers. Pair that with his age that’s making even his defense slightly inconsistent and that Butler is literally one of the league’s most turnover-efficient playmakers in the league. Still a good player but not one that needs to be an everyday starter.
not really a hot take, dubs sub has been saying this for past two weeks.
some since the 2022 playoffs
Jimmy is better at playmaking than he is and far less turnover prone. When Draymond is in, Jimmy doesn’t have room inside cause no one defends Dray. Dray also leads the league in asts/turnover ratio and a lot of them are live ball turnovers…
Him playing badly is one of the major reasons why the Warriors suck this season.
His numbers are just bad across the board (shooting, rebounding, assists)
His antics and turnover is the biggest reason, I still think he still has room to be a key bench player as shown he can still be a DPOY level of a player with that spurs game.
Last season he was one of the betting favourites for DPOY
He had a good argument for it last year.
He is always getting into good arguments. As evidenced by this video.
I promise I’m not hating, but I felt at least part of that was himself pushing for it through his pod and people latching onto it. The awards are at least partially narrative driven, and he made it sound like he should’ve been the favorite which I think worked in his favor.
No, you’re right. Any award given by the media is going to be narrative driven + he has his own media platform. Definitely partially influenced the outcome.
But somehow this guy will still go on his podcast and talk like he is the defensive player of the year and if he doesn’t win it the system is this and that … He should have left the warriors years ago!
He’s still good last year I think. He fell off a cliff this season
It’ll probably take awhile for him to realize though
He has the worst TO% of anyone in the league is the real problem. He’s still defending and rebounding at a high level, but he makes 4-5 horrible passes every game
At what point do you decide that he’s just a distraction to the team and trade him? His antics aren’t worth what he brings anymore
Probably gotta wait for the 15th so he can be packaged with Kuminga lol
What team would benefit with Draymond?
He’s a great defensive player but how would he fit in other teams offensive schemes?
Prolly like 2-3 teams that can use him. Suns/Cavs come to mind. But Dray’s a tough fit for about 25-27 teams in the NBA
draymond and dillon brooks on the same team is both a great idea and a terrible idea (but mostly a recipe for the other team to get injured)
You think they’re going to make it out of practice without killing each other?
I’d be fine with them killing each other
Please keep Draymond FAR away from my team. I’d rather they miss the playoffs than deal with this guy
And this completely valid reaction is exactly why Draymond becomes pretty untradeable lol
Welcome Back Draymond…lol
Completely justified take
I legitimately don’t see it for the suns?? already have brooks and can’t see who we would trade him for (I don’t think suns want to hit any tax aprons either)
I think he’s a tough fit for 29 other teams. I’ve always had the take that as good as draymond is he wouldn’t have lasted as long somewhere else cus other teams wouldn’t have put up with him. He’s the reason why the warriors are where they are rn, and no team is gonna put up with his bs. Constantly yelling at refs or other players, going on pod right after games no matter if he wins or loses, just being genuinely an a-hole to teammates isn’t gonna fly with the vast majority of teams or teammates
Honestly as a Lakers fan that hates the guy I’d do anything to improve our defense right now 😂
You don’t want that contract on your books next year. The Lakers are in a unique situation they have a whole bunch of money coming off their books next year to get athletic guys that can defend that are younger.
Draymond and Kuminga for Lebron. Lebron gets to play with Curry before he retires, and the Lakers improve their defense and get an athletic wing as well to pair with Luka. I bet Lebron would waive his no trade clause to join Steph, surely he knows he isn’t going to win on the Lakers.
This is so stupid but it actually makes some sense. I don’t think Kuminga is quite a good enough shooter to work perfectly with Luka, but the Lakers starting unit is devoid enough of on ball defense that he would make sense as the “guard the best guy” player and then if you’ve got AR, Rui, and Ayton, that’s respectable. You would want Rui to up his 3 pt volume a ton though.
Wouldn’t be the best use of the Lakers cap space for next year but you could decline Kuminga’s option and Draymond would still have some value to the right team in the off-season
Yeah the only reason it wouldn’t make sense for the Lakers would be the fact that they can just let Lebron walk next year. Lebron is still a better player than Draymond don’t get me wrong, but Lebron, Luka, and AR just can’t be a starting lineup, they need defense. I really think Kuminga could be kind of like DJJ was on the Mavs with Luka, being a cutter and getting a bunch of lobes. Either way I doubt it would really do much for either team, but I do think it’s an improvement for both, and it would be really fun to see Lebron and Steph on the same team.
Im sorry is this a circlejerk post or is this something you would boldly say to a real human being in real life
They would trade LeBron 😂😂 yeah if Nico is gm
He’s also not going to win shit with the 15-15 warriors, so ?????
His trade value doesn’t even need to be positive. If he’s packaged with picks a team would be happy to take his contract.
It’s a genuine question. Like is there a team that would benefit from having Draymond? Not is there a team who is willing to trade for him
Cavs come to mind. They’re softer than baby shit and need a frontcourt playmaker.
that would be a poetic way to end his career
He went to Michigan state and I’m sure the pistons would love his passing and defense
Draymond to the pistons makes all the sense in the world. Selfishly I’d rather see him go some place like Utah or Washington to rot away into oblivion, respectfully of course.
Placating Draymond’s ego is damn near why they almost went down 3-1 against Boston in 2022 could’ve effectively lost that series
The guy just plays traffic cop at the top of the key and is a negative offensive threat that clogs the paint for his teammates and his defensive decline as he’s aged has only complicated things
Gtfoh. I will criticize dray just as much as the next guy, but he was one of the main reasons they were even in the finals. STFU
This dude literally punched the shit out of a teammate, they’re never getting rid of him
Steph wouldn’t let them trade Draymond.
his trade value is 0. He’s nothing without Steph and will make the coach’s life a living hell
Warriors fans in here talking about packaging him with Kuminga like any team would be willing to offer anything of value for not one but two head cases (not to mention the salary) lol
Any time I see the words trade and Draymond Green together, I laugh. Who the fuck would take that jackass
When and only when 30 has finally had enough
I think the fear is what Steph’s reaction would be.
Well they did absolutely annihilate us after this
Dray is honestly what’s been holding us back this season. Turnover machine and horrible shooting after a hot start
he is definitely not the only player holding us back. I agree recently he has actually been pretty terrible playmaking wise even for his standards, but there are many issues with this warriors team that still needs to be addressed
Not on his son’s birthday lmao
Were those 3min in the 3rd quarter he got, all 2nd half, 3 “because it’s your sons bday” mins lmao
“Daddy, what does ejection mean?”
“It means your daddy was promoted to Manager of Locker Room Facilities”
It’s always the ones you most suspect
We’re all trying to find the guy who did this 🌭
It could be any one of us!!!!
Man I applaud moody for stepping up like that. That’s exactly what steph should be doing to corral Dray in these types of situations.
That never has been Steph and never will be Steph. It’s not his personality.
No wonder he stuck with under armor for so long. Dude just can’t say stop
Curry and his bull
donkey*
Get him out of here please. Forever love and respect what he brought to the franchise but it’s run its course.
He should’ve been gone after the Poole incident.
it ran its course after he punched poole in 2022 with no consequences
agree. As a warriors fan as well, been years now where he has become too big of a distraction. Plus he drove Durant and Poole from the team
r/AsAWarriorsFan
Gonna be tough to trade, I think the league knows what his value is/was playing with Steph. Outside of GSW, not sure where he fits.
Steve Kerr is having the guy who recorded this banned from the arena as we speak. Broke the code
Podz not paying attention and just vibing in the background is killing me
That was intentional for the plausible deniability later on.
He bouncin, but he listenin too
Him goofily bouncing around was all I could look at during the video lmao
I think Podz calculated “0 Dray minutes equals more for all of us! Yippee!”
Draymond is gonna be 36 years old in March, a father of 4 or 5, whatever he claimed. And still throws temper tantrums and needs Moses Moody who’s a decade younger to check him. Embarrassing
Where was Curry during this? Right next to Draymond looking down art the ground.
That’s what stood out to me as well. Curry is the veteran leader of this team. He should have had Kerr’s back, and confronted Draymond as well.
You know how sick of this he probably is
Curry has never once stepped up to be the emotional or cultural leader of the team over Dray. Isn’t going to start now after a decade of watching it happen
He also builds a basketball hoop on a hill ledge
why is he throwing a tantrum now?
Because he is ass and his defensive assaults aren’t impactful anymore
Time to go back to the well: nut kicks
Kerr seems to say “I’m not even talking about you” when it zooms into him. So Dray was just being sensitive again 😂
I don’t think it was “you”, but defintely “i’m not even talking about…” probably some action on the court they had a misunderstanding about and Draymond threw a fit.
Dray is NOT intelligent
Draymond started off this season talking about being all NBA defense, now he’s faced with the reality that he might need to come off the bench in order to contribute to winning. His ego can’t take it
That’s exactly what it is. My money is on him being mad about not starting the second half and trying to refuse to play at all. He’s not long for the league if you ask me. No one else wants his contract, and he won’t be willing to come of the bench.
Tbh tho Draymond accepted coming off the bench last year for Kuminga. I don’t remember too well but I think it stopped after Kuminga got injured
Golden State warriors and Steve Kerr have been the biggest Draymond Green enablers! Now they are getting some of what they deserve. Remember Draymond Green assaulted his teammate and Golden State blamed the teammate.
I fucking knew something was up when he didn’t show up on the bench for the rest of the 3rd and buddy and jimmy went back to the locker room too during the quarter
I get that Kelenna and Bob work for the team but man they need to tell us something. Hell they could sugar coat it. Kerr and Draymond had a heated discussion and then Draymond went to the locker room. No word on if he’ll return.
His anger cost at least one championship
That’ll do, Donkey, That’ll do
Before Kerr laid into him Coach had that dad look of “I will *WAIT*” 🤣
They delivered his DoorDash to the wrong arena. I don’t blame him being upset
Understandable crashout
Imagine having to kiss that guys ass for the last decade+ so that he doesn’t have a bitch fit, or knock out one of his teammates, or assault players on other teams for no reason. I’ll never get why the league and the Warriors themselves continue to let this guy act like he does.
Enablers
“If Hannibal Lector ran a 4.3, we would just say he had an eating disorder”
How can he be this old and this immature
Moses Moody playing peacemaker
Reminds me of Klay sitting in between Dray and KD when Dray yelled him off of the team. Awesome teammate move by Klay
Because, as usual, Curry isn’t doing shit to help hold Draymond accountable.
Warriors went on a run after that coincidence lol
Stupid, unhinged fucker
He’s gonna get traded (not as a core piece but trade filler)
Steve has been his biggest apologist and when you’re publicly disrespecting your main supporter, you’re really crashing out
Draymond Green is and always was a bitch
We better without him im sorry old friend
Truly has to go. Night after night, it’s something with this fucking guy.
If the Warriors had traded Draymond Green after his fight with Durant during that infamous game against the Clippers, Steph Curry would very likely have 6 rings at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLe6rfB6u28
Dr Frankenstein is annoyed at the monster’s misbehavior
Trade Draymond. He just walked out on his team.
Curry and Butler ain’t saying shit lol.. Moody to the rescue once again 💪🏿.
Everyone paying attention was reacting like Draymond is wrong. Meanwhile Steph just zoning out smh
Bus rider extraordinaire
Cmon lip readers! Show us yo skills
Stackhouse was chewing the hell out of his gum, lol.
Most overrated player in NBA history
If MDJ can trade him and Kuminga for a rim protector this warriors team can make the 6th seed
Cut him
I love how this guy actually COACHES his team. He can only do that because his job is SECURE
Send his ass to the wizards already