Draymond Green says he would rather miss the Playoffs with the Warriors than chase a Championship somewhere else: “I’d rather struggle with the same guys I succeeded with.”
“Unless Steph isn’t playing. Then I’m cool riding the bench”
If Steph isn’t playing, then he isn’t struggling with him
“If the game is meaningless, then Draymond is meaningless” - Steve Kerr
Lmao i needed to look this up. Wild he’s more or less said this. Though the context makes a bit more sense
well that’s consistent with his claim
I don’t remember him succeeding with Buddy Hield or Gui Santos
Last time he played without Steph he dropped a triple single on 38% shooting as a PF and shut himself down after 40 games going 10-33
So yeah
Had to get up for that Christmas game though lol
These holiday games get my d!(* hard- draymond
you really wanted him to play seriously on that team?
like yea he’s worse without steph, his game has developed to compliment steph, but that squad was awful, everyone was injured
there were names on that team that were out of the league like instantly. ky bowman, glenn robinson, paschal, willey cauley stein, marquese chris’s, dragan bender
all rotational players
As the vet with championship experience, yes, I would want him to put in at least some effort with that team. He could play less minutes, and maybe not go 100%, but the effort he showed was pretty pathetic.
Compare it to someone like Pascal Siakam. If you turn on a random Pacers game last season, he was still playing all out. That’s how you maintain a competitive culture through rough seasons.
That’s how you maintain a competitive culture through rough seasons.
Yet the Warriors somehow managed to maintain enough of their competitive culture to win another title two seasons later.
Having one of the greatest player of all time in Steph Curry helps. If he went down they’re never winning. If draymond went down they’d still have a chance
Pretty much none of those players were going to be returning they were just there to fill out the roster them being apart of a winning culture wouldn’t matter.
Naw come on, Siakam didnt have 6 seasons in a row before that were finals runs which meant long extended seasons that were fighting for a title. Besides the rest, its hard to get up for meaningless games when you were fighting for titles the 6 seasons before, especially since winning more games that year just hurt our draft chances. Whats the point of him going all out in a throwaway season and not being available when Steph comes back the next one? Taking one season off wasnt going to hurt the teams culture at that point, proven by the fact they still won another title.
i don’t think you understand how terrible that warriors roster was
guys like tj mcconnell, ben sheppard, quenton jackson, not to mention huff/walker/neismith/nembhard/mathurin all would’ve been the third best player on that team
poole was on that team but was statistically the worst player in the league. dlo was pretty ass. alex burks was the only guy who was really solid
Would Curry have tried to ball out with that team?
That’s all you really need to ask yourself.
Would management have wanted him to? Elite players are sometimes shut down so now to get injured in a wasted season and to get a higher draft pick, especially since the Warriors just had 6 long seasons of getting to the finals. It was alright for the players to take a rest and the team to reset. Heck it worked since they won another title right?
Thats the difference though, they have to sit curry to ensure they lose games. They can play draymond knowing he aint affecting that win column.
Respect the paschanimal
Yes, i expect the people getting paid generational wealth to try, what kind of question is this lmao
So he doesn’t want to play hard to help guys trying to prove themselves. He only plays hard aka hacks opponents all game when he’s got a loaded roster alongside him.
When Steph is healthy, but there’s no clear second guy in the lineup, and draymond is healthy, this has been a play-in team the last 6 years or so.
dude. it was literally a roster full of g leaguers. there was like two real nba players outside of draymond (dlo/wiggins and alec burks)
Have you ever watched him play? You know his game
You know damn well nobody in this sub actually watches basketball
Unless it’s against James Harden on Christmas
Almost every time Steph missed a game he used to get ejected lmao. It was like clockwork
Betting on the unders on Draymond in games Steph missed paid for my mortgage for 2 years lol
Damn, that’s a great ass idea. I’ll make sure to do the same this year
Steph could do the funniest thing by chase ring and sign with Philly right now.
He gets himself sent off early in the games Steph isn’t playing in
Punching sequence initiating 👊🏽 👊🏽🥜🦵🏽👊🏽👊🏽
If a company paid me over $200 million for the good times I’d stick around for the bad if paid of course
So basically you’ll show up if paid
Paid man shows up
Paid Ad delivers
Lol lets not get caught up in the semantics
Hey that’s better than a lot of stars lol
This is why it’s hard for me to see why Jaylen Brown was butthurt about the Celtics. Yeah it’s nice to be the cornerstone and treated like it, but I dunno, if my company gave me 400 million dollars I think being in trade rumors is a small price to pay
Then I have GREAT news, Draymond.
This is not about LeBron.
It’s very clear he didnt intend in going anywhere and just wanted to wait to see if he had to take a discount to get LeBron.
In all fairness, if bron could’ve reassembled the heatles, he’d probably play with them, too. But none of his teammates from back in the day have played in this decade.
The way he explained that seem like he throwing shots at LeBron chasing a ring😂😂😂
ITT: people who didn’t watch the video or read the post trying to play “gotcha” by saying “bet he wouldn’t say this if the Warriors didn’t pay him or if Steph wasn’t there or if they hadn’t won so many already.”
people get really corny on here when it comes to draymond
Yeah they could just ignore it if they didn’t like him that much but nah they need that karma.
The iq of this place to begin with isn’t the highest so we ain’t playing with much room here
Draymond IS corny . Fixed it for ya lil dawg
Kind of you to prove their point bud
Top 1% commenters always gotta rush in with hatingass comments
Gotta farm the easy karma. Draymond is free hate points, regardless of topic.
well you’re in luck big dawg because you’re about to struggle with the guys you succeeded with
Warriors first and only FA this year is gonna be Draymond That might put them over the hump
if draymond counts then so does melton and porzingis
That play in spot gonna be sick
4 rings were sick too
good enough for a lifetime
The past is sick
Draymond’s got double the rings your franchise has Finals appearances. Sit this one out.
Make a wish foundation does the same but you not ready for that convo lil guy
At least Make-A-Wish kids get their wish eventually, Pacers been shit for 50 years.
Don’t worry little bro, perhaps one day y’all will stop being chokers whose greatest success was ALMOST winning.
Cute from a past
I’m about being successful and thriving and you over there praying Draymond returns for a play in spot 🤣 Steph tired of carrying children. You choked in life and it shows
“The past”. They won one like 4 seasons ago lol
That’s 4 years ago. That’s the past. Welcome to now tf
Gonna be downvoted cause of my flair but the same people clowning him for saying this would be making fun of him too if he did decide to ring chase lol
“Now if Steph is hurt, that’s a totally different ballgame. Multiple flagrant fouls for me, easily”
Well he gonna get his wish again
Then miss the playoffs you shall
I fw Draymond and Steph because they fw Oakland and the bay
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Boy do I have some updates for you.
I hate when Draymond makes a good point. He’s been doing it more often lately, like a keg of skanked or diacetyl beer; eventually you still get drunk.
I respect this completely. There is nothing more special than a player playing his whole career on one team.
Bro no one else wants you on their team
Im stephs baggage and its carry on only
Duh he’s won enough already now it’s house money. It would suck at that age to start somewhere new
I mean, I hate Draymond as much as anyone, but it’s completely valid for him to feel this way. He obviously does not enjoy playing basketball with anyone other than Steph, might as well ride out his legacy with the guy.
Translation: no one else is going to pay me more than GS
Everybody will always pump their own narrative
Going through the acceptance phase, cycle is complete.
Real shit tbh
I’m mean it’s clear Steph dray and Kerr love the warriors and each other and don’t want to go anywhere.
There’s also no team in the league that needs a draymond to get a championship.
Wardell you hearing this 😂
5 years???? please retire at the end of your contract
Easy to say when you dont have any other options. It was either run it back or go be broadcaster. What a basket case
would he feel like that if he never won
Probably not, the main takeaway he said multiple times was “I’d rather struggle with the same guys I succeed with” which is no longer relevant if they never succeeded so its not disengenous in the slightest
Who would lmao, his entire point is that he built an irreplacable legacy there
Draymond with the self fulfilling prophecy.
Issue is I don’t think the same guys wanna struggle with YOU anymore
That’s a funny way of saying your team whiffed on its big moves and now you gotta save face.
Man yall should cherish him, so many teams would kill for a player with the loyalty to the team that Green has
So does this mean KD didn’t actually ring chase? He went to the warriors and contributed significantly, even if they had won the championship before he arrived there.
He is saying he would go to a new team if the Warriors didn’t want him and he could also be the final piece of the puzzle for his new team to win. KD went to a team that was already winning Championships. They didn’t need him to be that final piece of the puzzle.
They weren’t winning championshipS, they had one. Then they lost, in large part because of Draymond. And it was Draymond who was the first to call KD to ask him to join, saying Warriors needed him to win.
Wow. Draymond would be fine making millions per year for 5 years and not making the playoffs. What a swell guy.
ok he is going to be Emidd’s backup center.
The evidence suggests you get yourself thrown out of games when Steph isn’t playing.
I’m not saying that Draymond would deny this, but this is easy to say from someone who was drafted into arguably the cushiest, coddled, and most favourable situation for his skillset probably in the history of the NBA
So funny, considering Marshawn Lynch ended up an Oakland Raider a few years later, whom immediately sucked the season he arrived.
Plz no
Maybe it’s not a big loyalty thing why these players stay. It’s more so comfort and also feeling that if they go to a new team they won’t be able to produce.
Hah. All you have to do is write into his contract he’s allowed a free pass for five in-game choke holds per season and he will go anywhere you want him to.
That’s cuz you are a role player Draymond
He not trying to get exposed for how much Steph defined his career 😂😂😂
Long-winded way of saying, “No one else was going to give me $28M annually,” or whatever it ends up being
Leadership
Because the market has always been so thirsty for Draymond lol
Draymond is close to washed now, but even the Draymond from two years ago would definitely have a market. I can’t imagine how big of a difference Draymond would have made for a team like the Spurs, they probably win the chip with him there.
Charles Barkley said everyone is thirsty to pay BIG money for the triple single GOAT
I punched a teammate and they stood by me.
Clippers are offended for they will always and forever hold the league down as the laughing stock.
Not like many other teams that could get a ring want you though
I’d rather be backpack for 30 rather than for some other number!
What same guys? Because in the NBA the most teams are changed yearly or every other year and only a few guys are on the same contract-length. Loyalty is nice and all, but the NBA doesn’t really allow for it.
“The same guyS”. Brother, it’s just Stephen
lol the people clowning him for 2020. Man that team was tough to watch. The triple single memes were funny though, especially knowing my guy decided to wear his suit vs the Rockets out of spite.
Missing from the not-quite-full quote above:
“It’s not like I’ve been treated badly. Andre and Shawn, they would always tell us ‘yo, y’all don’t know the real NBA.’ And I can raise my hand and say ‘Gladly, I don’t.’ I don’t know the real nasty side of the business of the NBA. I’ve never had to see that. And I’m very thankful to that organization that I haven’t.”
I wonder how much of ‘the real NBA’ is amazing stories. But then again, maybe a lot of it is just living out of a suitcase in a dumpy motel because you’re on a ten-day contract.
I wonder how much of this is the sheer fact that no other team will pay him as much as the Warriors.
Lmao okay
Oh he’s about to get a bag 😂😂😂
Jordan Poole?
See if he has that same tune if they weren’t giving him $25m/year. I too would want to be overpaid while underperforming and having free reign to do whatever I want with no pushback
He literally said, “only if the Warriors didn’t want me.”
He’s not overpaid, he’s getting the backend from all his contributions the last decade
He opted out of his player option this year…
… to make space for lebron. and now that lebron isn’t coming, he’s expected to re-sign with the warriors for the same amount as his option
Which basically was him willing to sacrifice to make the team better but not to save his owner some cash, seems like a fair deal from both sides
In order for the Warriors to have flexibility to sign LeBron. You’re delusional if you don’t think he’s getting most if not all of it back.
Did they offer him a contract yet?
I think the Warriors are trying to figure out how to offer him a contract that won’t bring suspicion from the league, like the case with Gary Trent Jr., as he (Edit: Draymond) gave him something like a \(28M/\)29M player option, IIRC.
He is definitely not worth it if you were to look at his stats alone.
Trent got a giant raise after playing on basically the minimum for 1 year. He’s also not a dude who’s won multiple titles with Milwaukee. The league’s not gonna care about any contract GS offers Draymond lol.
you’re stupid as shit lol they’re just giving back the money he declined this isn’t even comparable to gary trent’s contract
The team isn’t going to suddenly get stingy with Draymond.
In the summer of 2019, Klay signed for 5⁄190 with his ACL already torn. Draymond took a 4⁄100 extension the same year even though he had contributed more.
It will either be 1⁄28 or something like 2⁄40. Even if that isn’t market value. He wouldn’t have declined his option to get stiffed.
Overpaying is allowed. It’s underpaying, then using bird rights to retroactively overpay going over the salary cap that’s not allowed. Gary Trent allegedly took minimums with a handshake agreement to get paid more once the bucks had his bird rights to go over the salary cap with. Draymond was never underpayed, so him getting overpaid now is just a bad contract, not salary cap circumvention
He should’ve been off the team after sucker-punching Poole and then running to cry about it on his podcast.
“Id rather struggle, while getting paid 28M/yr, with the same guys. Another five years and didnt make the playoff once im fine with that.”
aka give me the money lmao
Assuming he doesn’t punch his teammates in the face, that is.
in 2010 id say atleast 75% of casual nba fans could not tell you golden state plays in oakland
🧞♂️Your wish is my command 🧞♂️
I am sure it has nothing to do with the fact that he would be borderline trash without his HOF buddies/coach/system in Golden State (see yr 2019-2020 when he didnt have Steph and other HOF teammates to prop him up).
He talked all that shit to Charles and now look at him
Yeah EVERYONE knows DrayBum is a load management sh!t talker - BS as usual with him
I, too, would rather Draymond struggle.
What happens if all the guys you succeeded with is retired or busy getting injured 40 games of the year?
If Steph were to leave he suddenly wouldn’t feel this way anymore. Getting paid $28 million to miss the playoffs doesn’t sound so noble.
Yes, which is what he said? Steph is one of the guys he succeeded with.
He’s speaking on the organization as well
We need to say the quiet part loud - ‘I’d rather get paid than chase a title for the minimum’.
Only Steph and Kerr remain in the team. Even Klay was shipped off.
This mindset is easier to choose when your teammate is a all time great
When will OP post more about his new found love of Kyle Kuzma lol