What is the Warriors' Ceiling?
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What are Draymond Green's championship claims?
Good morning and welcome to a special edition of the NBA Daily. I'm your host, Zena Kata, and I'm joined by one of my favorite people in the world, Marcus Thompson. And I don't know if you guys heard over the weekend, but a particular player from a particular team that Marcus and I are very well acquainted with had some choice words about the future of that team. Marcus, did you hear these words that I'm referring to?
Yeah, I really miss what Brandon Pajewski said. What did he say? Yeah.
It wasn't Brandon. It wasn't Brandon. But if anything, it's Brandon's mentor, the guy that he looks up to and wants to be like. Draymond Green, always known to be a bold figurehead for the Warriors, made some really big claims as he was part of the TNT. Big claims. Part of the TNT broadcast.
Like the biggest claims ever.
Well, Steph Curry, you know, alluded to how big they were, too, in his post All-Star Game press conference. But Draymond, I'll go ahead and read the quote. But at some point, as he's explaining where he thinks the Warriors are going to be, he said, I'm sorry. I said, I think we're going to win a championship. But I lied. We are going to win the championship. Boom. Now, of course, he was referencing where the Warriors stand since Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Butler, the third, joined the Warriors. They've been three and one since they closed out a road stint with a win against the Houston Rockets before they went into All-Star weekend. Three and one looks good. Definitely looks a lot better than the ability that, you know, the Warriors had to be able to have a lot of wins stacked up. Still haven't been able to get three in a row. But it's been a while since they got three in a row, but they look good.
So Marcus, I want to ask you, first and foremost, if you're Steph Curry and you hear your teammate Draymond Green on national television before the All-Star game, make a claim like we're going to win the championship. What's going through your mind?
It's on me or what's going through Steph Curry's mind?
If you're Steph Curry, yes.
Because my answer would be different. I'd be like, shut up.
I was going to ask you to follow up with that. But I wanted to see Steph's mind first.
No, Steph loves that stuff. Like, I think people miss this. There's a reason like those two are like just so intrinsically linked. Right. They're the same person. It just manifests differently. Like Steph is an absolute maniac. You saw him on TV. He was like, yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's what he's supposed to say. And it's like, yes, that's a maniac. Right. I mean, I think people forget like he's all jacked now. But Seth was a five foot nothing, hundred and nothing high school dude. Talk about I'm going to the NBA. Like, yeah, you know, it was insane. Like, you got to be delusional to become Seth Curry. So the reason they click is because they think that way. And they got Jimmy Butler. right and as much as this is like the wild a wild claim the funniest part was hearing uh shea gilchrist alexander asked about it and he was like that's what you know he you know he plays for gold state so i expect him to say gold state's gonna win and he left it so simple it would be like very like yeah expect him to say but it was more to me
like a tribute almost to what Jimmy Butler has done to this team. This is the same team who all year long have said, this is not a championship year. We're building towards something. I sat with Draymond in Hawaii where he said, you know, like, we're going to, you know, we got to get there. Like, he wasn't like, we're going to win a championship this year. This is before 12 and 3, right?
Before the hot start. He's saying, you know. So Jimmy shifted him fully forward.
Yeah, yeah. No, at the beginning of the year, he was talking about like, listen, we're We're going to build the road to a championship right now. Even if it happens after I retire, I'm still going to be here. I'm still a part of this. So I'm still a part of that championship. He was talking about if we win a championship in five years. Right.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are Draymond Green's championship claims?
0:26–6:27
2
How has Jimmy Butler changed the Warriors' dynamics?
6:27–11:11
3
Can the Warriors compete in the Western Conference?
11:11–17:41
4
What are the challenges the Warriors face in the playoffs?
17:41–24:16
5
How does Steph Curry's presence affect the team?
24:16–34:20