BAM ADEBAYO Scores 83 POINTS! 😱 Is SGA the MVP? Wemby 2-Way GOAT Debate

What's up everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. On today's show, I'll share my thoughts on Bam's 83-point game. Wemby's been dominating, still. The MVP race, is this still a race? Is it just Shay? Is this still a thing with Shay's last game over? Like, I don't know, but we gotta get into that. It's a lot going on in the basketball world, so let's get right into it. [MUSIC] The Draymond Green Show is proudly presented by Grooms. Grunz proves that you can do the least and still feel the most, thanks to a delicious daily habit that does the heavy lifting. Save up to 52% off with code Draymond at grunz.co. That's code Draymond at G-R-U-N-Z dot C-O. First up in the basketball world, we've obviously just come off of two terrible losses, Utah Jazz and the Chicago Bulls, two teams that are trying to lose, we lost to. Bit frustrating. I think both of those games coming down to the wire, they shouldn't have, and we lost them. So now we are currently at 32-33 in 9th place. Just recently announced also that Steph Curry's out at least another 10 days. At least another 10 days, which is, at least another 5 games. So life gets no easier, but we just gotta figure it out, man. I think for us, you know, when you're missing all that we're missing, you honestly just want to give yourself a chance. But then also like some games you still win, but you just want to give yourself a chance every night. Sometimes it work out, sometimes it doesn't. Hasn't worked out the last couple nights. You know, unfortunately, I feel like against the Bulls, I let my team down. Something that was completely in my control or our control. But shit happens and we gotta move on. And we got the Timberwolves coming in and you just gotta figure it out. We recently won one in Minnesota without Steph. So we gotta try to do it again. Gotta put it together. It's all you can do. Keep fighting, keep pushing. Let the results fall where they may. In other news, there's a lot going on, or a lot of talk around Steve Kerr saying we need to play fewer games. We need to take 10 games off the schedule. The modern game with the pace and space, I think it would be a lot more competitive and healthier league if we play fewer games. Yeah, I've actually spoke about this before. On just, there is a lot of games and things are different. And I know everybody look at it like, "Oh man, they used to play 82 games all those years ago." Like, they used to walk the ball up the floor. Like, the pace that the game is played at now and the pace that the game was played at in the '90s is like drastically different. Like, the fastest paced team in the '90s would probably be the slowest paced team today. Like, it is drastically different. And so the game has changed. And I think the amount of games, like you're putting all these things in to protect the amount of games played by stars, 65-game rule, all these things. And the reality is it's just too many games, but you have arenas that has to be filled, you has TV slots that has to be filled, all these things. So this won't change. Like, I don't think this is something that, will change at all. 'Cause no one's taking less money. The TV rights are sold. All, just about every team own an arena. They need to fill these, these nights in these arenas. So you need dates. And so I don't think that's going anywhere, but I think that's going to continue to be a problem, especially as the game gets faster and faster. You know, the game, it kind of goes in waves. We'll see if it slow down, but I don't see it slowing down at all. So. Yeah. You know, you talk about the hamstring injuries this year, the quad injuries, the calf injuries, like groin injuries. A lot of that is due to the speed of the game and how much you're playing. And so it's a lot of science that goes into it. You know, when you see players take games off and it's like, "Lol, management." I told y'all most of the time, that's not really players. Most of the time, that's the team saying that because they have all this data and they're like, "Yo, we see you favoring this." You're at a high risk of injuring this. Like, you should take a game off tonight. Like, these are all the things that goes on behind the scenes. And so I think when speaking of like 10 less games, like, it makes sense because the product ultimately just gets dumbed down. I think in my opinion, when you just got tired guys playing against tired guys, injured guys playing against injured team, injured teams playing against injured teams, the product just get dumbed down. Yeah. It just gets dumbed down. So, you know, they say less is more, right? And I think that could be the case in this scenario as well. After the break, I'll go around the association, a couple associations. We'll also discuss Bam Adebayo in the record books, second highest game scoring ever, and how a bunch of people hating. Shea takes the lead for MVP, and much, much more. Be right back after this. All right, before we go around the association, I told y'all we had to go around a couple associations. We'll be doing a new segment for the next few weeks during the college basketball tournament called the Tournament Check-In. And this week we got the conference tournaments. We're gonna go around each conference of the Big Five conferences, pick the conference tournament winners, and why I think these teams will be the winners. First up, we got the ACC, and I'm taking Duke. Gotta take Duke. They got one of the best players in the country in Cam Boozer, one of the best winners in the country, no doubt. Draymond Green. Cam Boozer has won at every level of basketball. High school basketball, AAU basketball, and USA teams. And everything he's done, he's won. You've put different high school teams together to go up against his team. He's won at every level. He's dominated at every level he's played at. And he's doing the same thing at Duke. I hate to say it, but the SCUM bonds from University of SCUM, the blue and yellow team up the street from Michigan State. They have a really good team. Hate to admit it, hate to say it. They have a really good team. One of the best teams in the country. They had no answer for Cam Boozer and they had no answer for Duke. And Duke took them down in a neutral site game. Duke, big weekend game. Duke take them down. And Duke didn't play their best game. You know, I think, but I don't think that team can beat Duke. And you know, in the ACC, I think Duke had a chance of losing if Caleb Wilson was still playing. Because Caleb Wilson, he is, he's capable. He has the talent, he has the belief, he has the ability to make guys around him believe and play to higher levels than their ability really will call for. If they didn't have a guy like him next to 'em, feeding the ego, giving them confidence. And so with Caleb Wilson going down, it really helps Duke in the ACC. And therefore I think Duke walks away with this ACC conference title. In the Big 12, it's been a fight all year. You know, you got Kansas and Darren Peterson. You got AJ Duboncet at BYU. You got Houston and Kingston Flemmons. However, the best team in the Big 12 by record and by eye test is none other than Arizona. Arizona, I think, is by far the best team in the Big 12. Yes, they've had close games. Yes, they've lost a couple, but I think they're the most complete team in the Big 12. You talking about a point guard in Jaden Bradley who won Big 12 Player of the Year, and congratulations to him. Thank you. Probably isn't even a top 3 best player on his team. Cole Peete, young fella. Braden Burries, young fella, right? Like you're talking about a very, very, very good team. And I don't see anyone beating them for the Big 12 Conference Championship. I definitely think they bring it home in the Big 12 as they've dominated the Big 12 all season long. I see them taking, continuing that dominance and taking home the conference title. Now what will be important is health. You know, they had down the stretch, Koa'Peep missed a few games, you know, so, so it's important that they're healthy, but by far, or I wouldn't say by far, but by a good margin, Arizona's the best team in the Big 12. And I think they take home the conference tournament title. Next up we got the Big Ten. You know, as I just spoke about them scum bums from up the highway from Michigan State, very good squad. Obviously Michigan State, very good squad. Nebraska, very good squad. Illinois, very good squad. The Big Ten has been tough all year. Probably gonna get 9 or 10 teams in the NCAA tournament. That's, no, they'll probably, Big Ten will probably get more than 9 or 10 teams. Needless to say, Big Ten has been a dominant conference throughout the conference. Not just top heavy, but throughout the conference. A very good conference. And I think this tournament, this conference tournament will live up to that hype. Ultimately, Michigan State will meet the scum bombs in the conference final, conference tournament final on Sunday, selection Sunday. And Michigan, you don't beat a great team 3 times in the season. Michigan State will beat those scum bums to eventually be crowned the conference tournament championships, head on into the NCAA tournament as a 2 seed and get ready to make this Final Four run onto the national championship. But let me not get ahead of myself. Got Michigan State winning the Big Ten conference tournament. Next up, we'll move to the Big East. And since the conferences have gotten dismantled and this team's over here and that team's over there and this team's over there, since all that happened, there will never be any competition competition for UConn in the Big East. UConn continues to dominate. Now obviously they're competing at a national level and competing for national titles and stuff like that. So I'm not just saying they're just dominating the Big East, they're dominating in general. But the Big East is like a league that they don't belong in. Like you need to move UConn to a different conference just for the sake of parity and not even parity. You need to move UConn to a different conference just for the sake of competition. Like you're talking Creighton, all these terrible schools, Providence. Like these schools can't compete, Georgetown. These schools can't compete with UConn. And so UConn will continue to dominate the Big East as they always do. And they'll walk away with the conference tournament championship. As they always do. Last but not least of the Big Five, we got the SEC. And the SEC is a tough conference. Kentucky never lived up to the hype that they came in with, but that's neither here nor there. The defending champs are obviously coming out of the SEC. And quite frankly, that's who I got winning the SEC. I don't see anyone beating Florida. The pedigree is there, the coaching is there, the skill is there. The roster's there. They got the whole nine. I think they walk with the SEC tournament, except when it comes time for March, guard play is important. And the best guard in the SEC is a freshman, and his name is Darius Acuff. And if Acuff is healthy, watch out, SEC. Yeah. Arkansas will be the SEC Tournament champ. Darius Acuff will be the SEC Tournament Most Outstanding Player. That's how it is going. I got the Arkansas Razorbacks taking the SEC, upsetting the defending champions Florida. That's how it's going down. When it comes to money, you probably want fewer confusion options. Better habits, and a clearer way to see growth. That's exactly why TELUS exists. TELUS actually started as a leading property management app, helping owners and managers collect rent, communicate with tenants, and stay organized. 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As promised, now we'll move around the association. Um, and there has been a lot of talk 'Round Bam outta Bayou having 83 points. I mean, people questioning whether Spo was right for calling timeouts or fouling, whether he should've let him play that long, the legitimacy of his 83 points, blahzay blah. And I've just kind of sat quietly and like watched what everyone had to say. And I saw something that, I read something online on Threads actually earlier today that said, so the Wizards announced that AD and Trey won't play for the rest of the season. And they pretty much announced that because those guys are too good. They're gonna help them win more games than they really wanna win. They wanna tank. And y'all want Spo to feel bad for that team, that organization. Yeah. And take Bam out the game and not let him go after a record? Why? I hate these unwritten-ass rules in basketball. I always talk about these. Don't shoot the ball, don't score the ball because y'all ahead and the clock's running down. Fuck that. It's a basketball game. There's time on the clock for a reason. If we were losing, then it's okay. See, that's why— I don't know. 'all y'all hate me and I really don't give a damn.' Because this loser-ass mentality that people have in this world is actually pathetic. If you're losing, it's okay to go shoot the ball because you're losing. But if you're winning, it's not okay because you're winning. What the hell is that? Feel bad for winning? No, I worked hard to win. I'm not gonna feel bad. I'm also not gonna stop playing. How about that? I'm gonna shoot because there's time left on the clock. How about that? So here, oh man, you're supposed to take him out the game because y'all beating them by so many points. Says who? There's time on the clock. It's not his fault they stink. So now Bam goes for 83 points. Number one, shout out to my dog, the Drees, my fire bro. And for everybody out there hating, Let's talk about it. So 20 years from now, 30 years from now, them record books gonna say Wilt Chamberlain 100 points, and until further notice, Bam Adebayo 83. It ain't gonna say they was playing against the Washington Wizards and they fucking suck. It ain't gonna say any of that. It's gonna simply say— Bam Adebayo. On March 10th, 2026, scored 83 points. That's all it's gonna say. So for everybody out there hating like, oh man, Spo shouldn't have done that. Oh man, Bam shouldn't have kept doing, they shouldn't have filed, they shouldn't have done this. Miss me with that. First off, Bam had 43 at halftime, which means for all the haters out there like, oh man, he should have came out the game. If they didn't suck, he was well on his way to 86. So for those hating, like, oh man, he just ran it up on him. No, if you do basic math, he had 43 through 2 quarters. If you take those other 2 quarters and he's on average to get 43 again, basic math would say that's 86. He scored 83. So he actually scored less than he was on pace to score to start the first half. And by the way, or throughout the first half. And by the way, if the Wizards weren't tanking and bombing, then he would— he wouldn't have been— he probably wouldn't have been in the position to score 83. Or maybe he would have been in a position to score 83, but everybody just wouldn't be hating because the team just wouldn't have been losing by 30. It's not his fault that that's the roster that they got on the floor. So I think it's absolutely crazy. I really think it's insane that people are really hating. I saw the Wizards coach kind of hating a little bit. Like, no bro, it's on you. Like, you could have stopped it. I saw Ime hating a little bit. Like, listen, we've seen so many people stat chase and stat pad in the NBA. I'm sorry, but no one stat padded their way and chased stats to 83. So again, I don't care who you playing, I don't care how you do it, to score 83 in the NBA game is crazy. So I've watched guys chase stats. I watched a prominent center, I won't say his name because you always say I'm picking on him. So I watched a prominent center in the NBA at one point, this was years ago, stay in the game down 25 points to our Dubs team. We was just mopping everybody, mopping the floor with everybody. Stay in the game down 25 points, almost 30 points late in the game, chasing a double-double. So people chase stats all the time and we gonna act like This man was just chasing stats to get 83. No, he had 30 points in the first quarter. 31 in the first quarter. To act like, oh man, this was just a guy chasing stats and like, look how— no, fuck outta here. You score 83 points in a game, that's almost impossible to do. To score 83 points in an NBA game, it is impossible to do except one other person. Draymond Green. Outside of Bam, it's impossible to do. Clearly, it's never been done. Only one other time it's been done. So again, to sit and try to act like, "Ah, man, it's wrong," and this, that. You know what I wanna say? Shout out to Coach Spo. Man, I got love for Coach Spo for that. So many times you see coaches take guys out like, "Oh, we got the lead," this sportsmanship shit. Fuck that. Shout out to Coach Spo. He called timeouts. He caught, he ran intentional fouls. We getting this record for our guy. I respect that. You know why? Because Bam didn't, nor did Coach Spo choose for the Washington Wizards to be in the position that they're in. So then they don't have to pay the price for it because they didn't do it. Stop all this fake sportsmanship talk. Shout out to Bam, man. Yeah. 83 on all the haters. Oh man, should it not have been Bam? Should it have been someone else? No, it was exactly who it was supposed to be. The dude who went and got the points. Shout out to Bam, 83 of them. Also, so I saw this, I saw this little printout and it said the most random performances in NBA history. It said Bam Adebayo scores 83 points. Second most points in a single game in NBA history, blah, blah, blah. Bam's previous career high was 41, blah, blah, blah. Malachi Flynn drops 50 off the bench. Corey Brewer goes for 51 with only 2 threes. Michael Carter-Williams' NBA debut, his points decreased every year after his NBA, whatever. Tony Delk puts up 53 with no threes. All right, now you see the problem I have with these other 4? Respectful guys, they're not fucking Bam out of Bayou. I hate how everybody's trying to act like Bam had this random performance for like some bum. Might also remind you that, uh, Bam's averaging 20 this year also, but might also remind you that Bam's a 3-time All-Star, 2-time Olympic gold medalist. First team All-Defense defender. It's been on multiple All-Defense teams. Let's not act like— again, I love Corey Brewer, by the way, much respect to Corey Brewer, but this is like an all-star, Olympic gold medalist. Like, we're just gonna act like Bam just random, like, performance? Like, no. The Miami Heat made a decision. To move on from Jimmy Butler, who's great, and build around Bam. Well, it's like, let's stop acting like some bum went and did something crazy. Like, this is Bam Adebayo. Are y'all kidding me? So anyway, I can't believe it's been this much fuss made about Bam getting 83, like he cheated or something. Fuck outta here. Shout out to my dog. Congratulations, Bam. That was fire. Shout out to Coach Spoof. That was fire. SGA scores 35 to beat the Nuggets. And a lot of talk I heard was that that game pretty much locked the MVP up for SGA. And I'm not a big fan of like, oh man, one game changes something. Like, I just, I know a little better than, a little bit better than that. Needless to say, I think in the fashion in which he did it in, he's been struggling with injury or just kind of coming back from the injury. And to, you know, J-Dub out, you know, just the different injury, Harden staying out, the different injuries that they've been dealing with. And just to still show like, nah, I'm him. Like, it don't matter. Like, whatever it is, this is what I'm doing. And he got this stuff, pulled up for the Tracy for the game, just like he did over me. And that's what he did. So to say, is he for sure the MVP now? I think even before this shot, he was still MVP. I think as great as Joker has been, I don't think he's, I don't think he's done anything to where I was like, oh, that's the moment where it completely shifted from Shea to Joker. I don't think Joker has necessarily quite taken it. I think when— Yeah. You have a player who is the MVP, and then they're right there in the race. I think in order for them, I think it's their award to lose. In order for them to lose it, you have to do something to take the award away from them. And Joker's been great. Like, obviously we know how great he is, but I don't think he's done anything to necessarily take it away from Shea as far as the MVP award goes. So I think right now it definitely is Shea. I think Joker can miss one more game and maybe Shea can miss three. So still gotta keep an eye out on that. But man, what Shea is doing is incredible. It's like he keeps getting better and better. And I respect that 'cause you know, ultimately you putting the work in. The Spurs are playing the Nuggets right now as I'm recording this, but Wimby has been extremely dominant recently. In a big matchup against the Celtics a couple days ago, he had 37 on 8 for 15 from 3, which is crazy. And you know, quite honestly, I think what Jaylen Brown said the other day, he said it best, is like, when I'm talking two-way players in the league, I ain't talking about Wemby. And I agree with what he said. Like, Wemby's just this otherworldly thing, man. Like, I'm not even gonna say otherworldly person or figure. Like, he's just this otherworldly thing. And everything that he does is gonna take you like 4 people to do. He is that special of a player. And I think he keep this up, like, it's gonna be him that goes and snatch, has to go snatch the MVP award. But Wemby's been incredible, man. To see he does it on both ends of the floor. Talking about, you know, is he the best two-way player in the league? Like, no, he's not. He's something else. To put him in a category with everybody else, it just ain't. Tsk.— he's something else. And we just gonna put it that way. It's not like, "Oh man, there's 3 and D guys, or there's 2-way players." No, he's different from everybody. So is he the best 2-way player in the league? He's just different than everybody. He does all of these things at the most elite clip. He's just different than everybody. And that's just what it is. Something I saw last night that made me really happy is my little bro DeJounte. DeJounte Murray makes a 3 over Jamal Shad. He falls down. DeJounte gets in his face, stand over him taunting him. And it's funny because we was in the facility today and they were like, yo, what you think of DeJounte doing that? And I said, the crazy thing is, is you have to know DeJounte to know that Jamal Shad had to be talking crazy, had to be doing the most. Because with who DeJounte is, DeJounte keep himself very chill. Yeah. Very right here. Because if you know DeJounte, he don't have to be right there, right? And so he keep it very chill. For DeJounte to do that, you had to be talking, you had to be doing something. And yet he did what he gonna do. But that flip can switch fast for DeJounte. He can get right on that type of time. Needless to say, man, I love to see it. No, most importantly, love to see my little bro out there back hooping. 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And what you're trying to say is my kid plays hard, my kid does the dirty work, my kid is possibly smart, my kid defends, my kid can pass, my kid says screen. Like that's what you're really trying to say. And when I hear that, I think to myself, and I said what I think, but the reason I think that is because like I didn't do those things to get here. And don't get me wrong, I've always been a winning basketball player. So I've always made winning plays. I've won at every level I've ever played at. So I've always made winning plays. But like once upon a time, I'll give you 30, no problem. Walk in the gym, put me down for 30. I'm gonna go get 30 today 'cause I want to. So if your kid can't like really score the basketball, it's gonna be ultimately going to be hard for them to make it through elementary, middle school, high school, college, and get to the NBA. Never being able to do any of that if you play basketball that whole time. Because you're never truly gonna get the notoriety because— Yeah. All of those things that the parent could be talking about is like some things that you do and playing a role. And in the NBA, the reality is most people have to play a role. You figure 95% of the NBA, ultimately you have to play a role. And so can you figure your role out and what you do with it? My role was never gonna be the score. I wish it had been because that's who I was, but it wasn't. So I had to figure out a different way. But in figuring out a different way, like make no mistake about it, when I was in high school and college, I would like the guys who you love now, I would do those things. And so if your kid is just doing those things in like middle school, I just don't really think your kid going to make it. And that's kind of what I was getting at when I made that statement. I know a lot of people hit me up like, yo, you tripping, you ain't ass. Like, no, I know I'm great. I wasn't saying I ain't great. Like, ain't no mistake about it. I very much so am great. But I had to like adjust everything and like become great at the things that I'm great at in order to become me and who you know. Or I could have been like most people that don't reach that level. You know, but I like to hold, you know, tip my cap to the fact that like, man, if somebody came and told you, yo, the thing that you do best, you can't do it. Now go be great. Could you be great? No, you couldn't. And that's why I smile when y'all talk. And that's why I feel the way I feel about me. 'Cause in order to become great, I had to go do something that I wasn't great at and still became great. Wow. How about that? That's crazy, right? Yeah, that's how I feel about that. So that's what I was getting at. Make no mistake about it. Like, I was struggling in the confidence department. I wasn't saying like, yo, like, yo, you a first ballot Hall of Famer. I believe so too. Like all of that. Nonetheless, as a competitor, as a basketball player, there's still some piece of me that's like, I said, it's crazy. I said this to— Draymond Green. My brother, my guy, Travis Walton. We always talk about basketball. And a few months ago we was just having a random conversation and I told him, I said, "There's still some—" I said, "I'm still a little self-conscious though, Travis, you know, like about my career." He was like, "What do you mean self-conscious? You great, you did it." And I was like, "Yeah, because a part of me still feels like I still never really got to give my whole game." And what could I have been if I was actually able to give my entire game? And so yes, I'm very proud and happy of like what I've been able to accomplish. But a large part of me sometimes still sit and be like, man, like, but if I gave you my whole game, could I have then got in the top 75? 'Cause I know I was right on the verge, you know, like. Yeah. And so I think about all of that stuff all the time because the numbers would've looked totally different, right? Like when I was scoring, if I stayed at that pace and was able to keep playing that game, I wasn't able to keep playing that game. So I had to figure it out and ultimately I did, right? But you know, I think there's always that question, you know, or you know, on the Fred VanVleet pod, I saw some other things come out of when I was talking about Warriors fans. Make no mistake about it, I absolutely love Warriors fans. Yeah. Absolutely love. It's the only NBA fans I know. And obviously Detroit Pistons fans. It's what I know. This is my home. Make no mistake about it. But I also get a lot of people hitting me up and saying this and saying that. And the reality is there's real Warriors fans. Guess what though? If even of real Warriors fans, I know they all don't love me. That's just not real. Unrealistic. It's not a real thing. Like, somebody's not gonna love you. That's just what it is. And for those who don't, yeah, I meant every word I said. And for those that do, I think they understand the words that I said. Now, and the love is always there, right? The love is always mutual. But like, for the fair-weather ones, that's— I'm sorry, what? My comments was more about, "Oh, they want you gone." It's that like, "Nah, major role in building this thing." You just don't get to decide that. And when I said like, "No." Yeah, they were like career losers. Those were facts. So it wasn't a shot at anyone. That's just, those were just the facts. Like I just presented the facts. Like, and so. Yeah. When I said that, it was to those that don't necessarily understand the process of how some work and they wanted to see the process and it go great, but you don't wanna see it when it don't go great. That's why you were a career loser. That's what you're used to. So you don't wanna see the rest of the process and how everything plays out and how stuff could still happen because you've never been through the process. So it's your first time. I get all of that. That's what I was speaking on. But make no mistake about it, the love is the love for Warriors fans. I got nothing but love for Warriors fans. And to the fake Warriors fans who hopped on the bandwagon after we created this greatness, and then you wanna talk, shut the hell up. Miss me with all of that. That's what I was talking about on "Unguarded" podcast. If you have not seen it, go check it out. Great episode with a guy that I respect a whole bunch, an NBA champion. Draymond Green. And battled it out in playoff series. Much love to my dawg, Freddie V. Shout out to the champ. I appreciate y'all for tuning in to the Draymond Green Show. We got Ant-Man and the Wasp coming up, then we off to the Garden on the East Coast trip to face the Knicks and more. Holla at y'all next time. 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