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De'Aaron Fox is tired of hearing about 2001 Kings and playoff drought | Draymond Green Show

23 Oct 2022 · 3 min

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In this episode of the Draymond Green Show, host Draymond Green opens by addressing criticism that his NBA success is solely due to playing for the Golden State Warriors, noting the franchise's lack of success before his arrival. He then pivots to a conversation with guest De'Aaron Fox about the psychological weight of being the face of a long‑standing playoff drought. Fox explains that, after 16 years without a postseason appearance, Kings fans constantly reference the 2001‑02 season, making it difficult for the team to shift the narrative to more recent years. Both hosts express fatigue with the repetitive focus on past failures and discuss the desire to reframe the conversation around current progress.

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What's up everybody? It's Draymond Green. Make sure you subscribe to the Volumes YouTube channel below so you don't miss any more of this great content going forward. And speaking of the playoffs, I know everybody make this big deal of like playoff drought. And obviously you guys having the longest playoff drought. Question I wanna ask you, 'cause I think, you know, I catch a lot of flack from people, or not a lot of flack, because flack wouldn't be the right word. But from time to time I get people telling me like, "Oh man, you wouldn't be nothing if you weren't on the Warriors." Or like, "Your success is predicated on the Warriors." And you know, it's funny to me because the Warriors didn't have success before I got here. So the whole notion of like, I didn't go to the Los Angeles Lakers or like the Boston Celtics or somewhere that like had success. Before I got to the Warriors, they won 23 games the year before. So I always laugh at that notion. And saying that, you know, people would always just speak about Warriors basketball of the past before we got here.
Mm.
Which wasn't very successful. I think before we made the playoffs in 2012, that, you know, or 2012-13 season, that that was, that was the second time in 20 years the Warriors had made the playoffs. And so, you know, people would be holding onto that and almost make you feel like as a player, that that's your burden. My God, it's my fault. You know, like it's your fault. And I wanted to ask, like, do you feel some of that burden being a franchise guy of the longest drought? Or do you just feel the burden of since I've been here?
I mean, I wanna say since I've been here, but every time you see a little Instagram post, yo, the Sacramento Kings ain't been there for 16 years, I'm the face that's on it. Like I've been in the league for 16 years or something. So now you definitely feel the burden of the 16 years rather than just the 5 that I've been here. But man, you walk around and you talk to any Kings fan, first thing they gonna bring up is '01-'02. So I'm just trying to be able to get back to that so that now you bringing up, you know, '22, '23 or whatever it may be rather than we talking about something that happened 20 years ago. Like every, if the Kings fan is over 30 years old, they gonna bring up that Lakers series or that year 9 times outta 10.
Mm-hmm.
So like, I'm not saying I'm getting tired of hearing it, but I'm getting tired of hearing it.
So you gonna change that?
Yeah, yeah, that's the goal.