In this excerpt from Draymond Green’s podcast, former NBA stars Baron Davis and Steve Francis trade playful trash‑talk over a proposed one‑on‑one matchup. The conversation opens with Green noting Francis’ claim that he could beat Davis, prompting Davis to question Francis’ size and to boast about his own conditioning. The trio discuss the logistics of setting up a showdown—how much money would be on the line, how much preparation time is needed, and whether the challenge is serious or merely nostalgic. Davis repeatedly references past on‑court moments (e.g., ripping Francis at half‑court, a Danny Manning jump hook) and uses hyperbolic language about “brittle” veterans, age, and the physical toll of a one‑on‑one. Green pushes for concrete details, asking about fitness levels, timelines, and stakes, while Davis alternates between confidence, humor, and a desire for fan validation, urging “Dub Nation” to vote on the outcome. The dialogue is informal, filled with repeated phrases, banter, and occasional self‑deprecating remarks about missed opportunities and aging, ultimately ending with Green conceding that Davis has two months to get in shape before any potential matchup.
Chapters
Steve Francis has some choice words for you recently. He said he would beat you in one-on-one.
Do you think BD can see me one-on-one?
Why don't y'all just go play again? Since everybody wanna hoop now and play one-on-ones again.
Well, everybody want that war. That's an LADC thing. So if BD wanna see me, BD, you know where I'm at. I see.
So who win in one-on-one? He said he would body you.
You was too small. I'm gonna go glass on him.
Left-handed. Glass? Glass? Left-handed?
Glass?
What is your response to that?
Oh man, come on, man. Hey, hey, hey. And the funny thing is, is all weekend he done called me about 17 times with about 8 people on the FaceTime, like, line it up. Like, man, come on, don't play with me, bro. I'm not the one to play with when it comes to ones. I mean, he know that.
Ask him. Are you in good enough shape right now today to play one-on-one versus Steve Franson?
I'm in better shape. You see me getting in better shape.
I see you slimming down.
Yeah, you see me starting to slim down, man. All I need is 3 weeks in the gym. Nobody can guard me.
Okay, so how can we set this up? Like what needs to happen? What need to happen? To set up you versus Steve Francis in one-on-one? Because he called you out, BD.
That's cool. That's cool.
Like what needs to happen? How much money need to be on the table?
Man, put the money up.
Like what?
Like how can we make this happen?
We can play for a pack of now laters, bro. I ain't tripping. It don't matter. You can play—
Do you want to play enough?
You can put up now, later's up. Me and Steve Francis, he was not serious. That's what I'm trying to tell you.
So he don't wanna play?
No, he's not serious. He don't wanna play. He just reminiscing from when we used to play against each other, right? And Steve Francis know what time it is.
I wish Steve—
I ripped Steve Francis at half court.
Need I say more? Oh man, you get ripped at half court, you tired. You get ripped at half court, you tired. Shout out to Bassey. That was my favorite. One of my favorite plays of all time.
Now you don't want this. Tired.
You ripped him at half court, BD?
Come on, man. Ain't nobody playing. Come on, ask him. In Houston.
I ripped Darren Williams in the NBA Finals at half court. Maybe even behind half court. Yeah, you get ripped at half court, you tired.
It's tired, big time.
So do you wanna play MBD? Oh, you saying he don't wanna play though? He don't wanna play.
I don't really think he wanna play, but I would. But what if he do? Then that's an easy win, bro.
Oh, so will you play him if he really wanna play?
Yeah, I would play him. Draymond, do you know what I would do to him? I would just back him down and lay the ball up over the rim. Same thing I would do to you.
That's crazy. Don't do that. Stay in your weight class.
But I gotta lift weights.
Stay in your weight class. Give me 10 minutes. You boxing out your weight class now. Stay in your weight class, BD. You boxing out your weight class.
Hakeem Olajuwon said it.
From the man himself.
From the man himself. Draymond Green, I'm gonna get you right this summer.
Ah.
Post game.
That's fine, but that ain't working.
One dribble Danny Manning jump hook. Two dribbles Danny Manning jump hook. Two dribbles spin, Draymond Green fake, fade to the post, up and under. You know what? I'm gonna send you the highlight packet, bro.
I don't care about your highlights. You boxing out your weight class, brother. This is different. This is different. This is, you better go play dog. Franchise, you got this man tripping.
So you see how I feel about Steve Francis.
Now, so now it's hard for me to believe that you really believe what you saying about Franchise because I know you don't believe what you saying to me.
Bro, anybody, just throw out a name.
Draymond Green.
Not even a chance one-on-one.
Throw out another name.
Stop it. They should put me At the halftime, one-on-one, I should be in that right now. Man, stop it. Who can guard me?
Who can't is the question.
Who can guard me?
You the cone on offense.
Who can guard me?
Ain't going around no cone, you the log. That's all I see.
I was seeing people, people was cones before they even had cones. I was using real people as cones.
Yeah, now you the cone, can't go nowhere.
Brother can't go nowhere. Hey, all I gotta do is put Steve Francis on his hips and his knees gonna buckle up.
Oh, franchise don't take the disrespect.
He can barely walk standing up.
Franchise, you can't take this disrespect, man. Hey, he brittle.
Hey, hey, hey, Draymond Green, come on, man. You know how we get down. It's defense first. He brittle. —He is brittle. That is just crazy. He is brittle, dude. He old. Come on, man, we—
Oh my God, this is crazy.
We 40 plus. He old. I'm not old. He's old. He's brittle. Man, I push him on his head one time, boom, it's over.
Franchise, don't take this slander, man. Don't take this slander, Franchise.
Hey, he done so. Hey, listen, he done. We ain't even gonna get no crossover. Ain't gonna be no crossing over, no moves. Soon as he make his first move, I'mma push him. Game over.
You win by disqualification. He can't continue on.
How many fouls I get? How many fouls I get? That's all I need.
That's hilarious.
But I'll play you one-on-one, bro. I'm not gonna—
No, don't do that. Don't waste your time.
We gonna play, no, we gonna play one-on-one, all post.
Perfect.
All post, high post, low post, from the wing, and then we gonna let everybody in Jump Nation know.
How bad I beat you?
Yeah.
Draymond won that spot 5-1. The next spot 5-0. Next spot, I just—
Not saying you Aaron Gordon, but Aaron Gordon, he did the same thing. He was like, OG, I want to work out with you, you know, uh, trying to get right, get my guard skills right. So I was working him out, but he was really like, man, I wanna, you know, I'm gonna be playing a little bit of guard, so I need to guard a guard. I was like, man, like 'What, you want to play one-on-one?' He was like, 'Yeah.' I was like, 'All right, let me get 2 days,' right? Ask Aaron Gordon. He was my last victim. I'm trying to think who else was a victim of mine.
Um, well, your clock is ticking. I'm giving you 2 months.
You know, hey, Dub Nation, cast your vote. Who do you think is going to win? 5 spots, all Pulse.
I just got a 2-month heads up. A 2-month heads up you got? So that should be enough time for you to—
I gotta go get me some old man muscles and shit.
I can't beat no levels at.
But even more so than that, Franchise said run the ones. He called you out. That's crazy.
And you scared.
Unbelievable.
Run the thing.
Way to call him out, Franchise. He don't want no smoke. Stall him out, Deebo.
Man, Franchise gotta be able to walk when he's 60, bro. Deebo.
Deebo Francis, stall him out.
Steve don't want that, man. Nobody do, really. If I got 2 months to get in shape, nobody's beating me.
There it is.
Nobody's beating me one-on-one, bro.
You got the 2 months, good luck.
I'm gonna work out with the dudes in the league. I've been watching and I'm like, you know, I got hurt. I wish somebody would've retired me and had been like, damn dude, I can't keep up with him. But it ain't never happened.
Well, it had to happen.
Nah, I just missed the boat. I just missed the boat. You know, the boat just passed, the ship sailed, the ship sailed. Nobody was watching like, damn, BD ain't got it no more. It was never that. It was just, they just stopped thinking about me. Everybody else was in line. I didn't know I had to be in line too when it was, when it was time to fill out them training camp roster spots.
