Draymond Green
Appearances
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It still happens. So you're going into another season. The team is looking good. The spirit, just in the city, like if you were in Oakland, you know, even around San Francisco, you can feel there's a pride in and around the team. I feel a change in you as well in that, you know, there were some moments where it felt like Draymond Green was angry.
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You know, people weren't giving you the respect that you deserved. Now it seems like... You play with the anger, but you have a different swag to you as a person now. You laugh at people's doubts. You enjoy those moments. On your podcast, for instance, you put it all out there. What do you think changed in your life?
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I hear what you're saying. You weren't trying to be the villain. You were just trying to be somebody who's driven and it changes with your position of power. I hear you. Before I let you go, there's one thing I've always wanted to know about that element of the game with the players and the teams and the fans and all of that is you have this camaraderie. You guys have this drive.
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You have this world that we don't know about as the fans. And when the fans are cussing you guys out from the sides, On the one hand, fans are there to throw you off your game. They wanna say whatever to get at you, and that's part of being there live. On the other hand, you're human beings, you have families, you know, you have emotions.
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How do you think we find that balance between what fans can say at a game and what you should or shouldn't respond to as an athlete?
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We'll be right back. The NBA. 29 of the world's best basketball teams and also the Knicks. The regular season hasn't even kicked off yet, but there's already been a ton of drama. Now, if you haven't been keeping up, last week, the general manager of the Houston Rockets posted a tweet in support of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
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And the NBA quickly put out a statement distancing themselves from that tweet. What was funny about this, though, was that the English version of the statement was very different from what it was being translated to for the Chinese Internet. So, like, in English, the statement was basically like, hey, China, we're sorry you're offended.
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But then the Mandarin one was like, rest assured, China, we will feed this man to the wolves. But then, here in America, people were pissed that the NBA was kowtowing to China, right? So, yesterday, they went into damage control mode, and things have only escalated from there.
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Oh no. Not the preseason. No. Nobody cares about the preseason games. Fans in America are like, can you ban them here as well? Can you, uh... Yeah, the preseason is just, like, the boring stuff we're forced to sit through before the main event. Like, China banning preseason is like Disney getting rid of its lines. Just like, I'm sorry, but you'll have to go straight to the rides from now on.
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I wish it didn't come to this. Oh, no. Still, though, China is seriously pissed off about the tweets, right? And they're also pissed off about the response from the NBA. And they aren't just taking preseason games off the air. They're also canceling NBA events. They're ripping down NBA signs everywhere. In fact, like, everything NBA-related is basically banned. Yeah, no basketball, no LeBron.
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In fact, no jumping. Yeah. You see a puddle, you just walk right through that shit. You can have doughnuts, but no Dunkin'. And all office workers in China, if you need to throw something in the trash, none of this, no buzzer beaters. You get out and you just place it gently in the bin. So China is basically going to war with the NBA, all because of a single tweet.
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And as surprising as that may seem to some people, the truth is this kind of thing has been happening between China and American companies a lot.
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Damn, China gets offended by a lot of shit. They're like that one guy at work who takes everything personally. Just like, hey man, I like your shoes. Like, oh wow, so you don't like looking at my feet? Uh, no, I do like your feet. Gross, you're a pervert. Now, here's the thing.
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The truth is these companies don't have to take orders from China about what to say or how to act, but they do it because nobody wants to lose access to a billion Chinese customers. It's a powerful incentive. So powerful, in fact, that China's influence is affecting how Americans can act on American soil.
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That's right. Fans in Philadelphia got kicked out of a basketball game last night for chanting, free Hong Kong. And I didn't realize that yelling shit at a basketball game was against the rules. I mean, that must have been so confusing for all the other fans. You know, because this guy's there like, free Hong Kong!
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And then the guy next to him was probably like, hey, Ben Simmons, suck a Kardashian ! And the security's like, you, get out! No, not you, no, the free Hong Kong guy. You keep going. That stuff about the Kardashian , that was hilarious. Carry on. Next week, billions of people will celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year. But this week in the NBA, one of the holiday celebrations did not go as planned.
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For more on this story, we turn to senior basketball correspondent Ronnie Chang, everybody.
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So Ronnie, I guess the big question, was it okay for the Sacramento Kings to hand out Year of the Monkey t-shirts on the first day of Black History Month?
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Well, not countless. Isn't it just Jeremy Lin?
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My guest tonight is a four-time NBA champion and a four-time NBA all-star who plays for the Golden State Warriors. He's here to talk about his latest championship win, his hit podcast, and so much more. Please welcome Draymond Green. Mr. Draymond Green, welcome to The Daily Show. Thanks for having me, I appreciate it. Are you kidding?
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I'm shocked that you have time to do anything after winning your fourth NBA championship. Does it ever get old?
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It's the best. Let's talk about it. Let's jump straight into it. This is what I love about you, you know? There was an era in sports where, you know, people would sort of say what they mean on the court. But then when they would come off the court, they did an interview, what do you think about this? It'd be like, oh, it was a good game. Oh, it was a fun game. Draymond Green says what he feels.
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Draymond Green says what he means. The fans love you because of this. I love watching the post-game interviews because of you. So let's talk about that aspect of the game. You've been honest about it from the beginning. People wrote your team off. People said Golden State was done for. Does this feel like vindication in the biggest way?
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So, can I tell you what I also like? This is what I like. There's an element of danger that's been infused into the team, because I think you know this. The Golden State Warriors are an amazing team, but you guys have like a bit of a Christian youth group vibe about you. Do you know what I mean? No, I mean, especially, like, Clay and Steph.
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Like, you're the bad boy of the group, but, like, Clay and Steph, it's very much like, I'll see you guys on Sunday. It's, like, a nice thing. And I think there was this attitude in the league where people were like, man, they're the nice guys. You can say anything about them. They won't do anything. I saw you in one of the post-match interviews where you said, they said, what do you think happened?
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You said, I thought I was too soft in that game. You changed everything after that. How do you maintain being good players, being good people, but still bringing enough hardness to the game while still playing clean?
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Is this pre-injury Clay or post-injury? Has he changed his injury?
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Don't disrespect. You're like, don't get hurt, son. You're like, light-skinned guys are really something.
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Okay, you've got four championships. It feels like each championship has a story. The first time is, who is this team? What are they doing? Steve Kerr, this whole mix. I would argue that your team has almost reshaped basketball. The way teams play, the way you move the ball, where people shoot from, how you defend. All of that has changed because of Golden State. Absolutely.
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When you look at your fourth championship, how do you motivate yourself to do even more now? Because most would go, I've won. What else do I have to push myself on?