Dray & Baron roast Kendrick Perkins for saying Kawhi Leonard should retire | Draymond Green Show

You speaking on Grant Hill being a shell of himself. There was a moment on TV this week.

Mm-hmm.

It really pissed me off. So I would love to get your take on it. I'll give you mine.

Okay.

But, uh-oh. The moment was, again, you speaking of injury and being a shell of yourself. The moment was Kendrick Perkins pretty, like, telling Kawhi he need to retire.

That's sick coming from Kendrick Perkins. That's sick coming from him. Bro, that's sick. That's sick, bro.

I mean, I was baffled when I heard him say it.

That's sick coming from Kendrick Perkins.

Because I just think, Hey, bro. As an athlete, to know that a guy who people has questioned, like, whether he's cheated the game, but clearly, as you look at this, this what's happened over time, the man ain't cheated the game. He got better from the time that he came into the NBA. He improved everything. Ball handling, shooting. You name it. And he started to get hurt. Won championships. Hasn't been the healthiest guy. People questioned whether he was really faking or whether he's clearly, the man wasn't faking.

Yeah, why do you question that?

To say, like to hear Perk say, yeah, he need to retire. He need to consider retiring. I thought that was crazy because—

That was sick, man.

Perk last 3 years in the NBA, nobody was pushing him to retirement and everybody probably should have. My man averaged 2.5 points for 3 years straight. Like 2.5, 3.5, 2.5, like, and nobody was really pushing you for to retire. Guys like Bron and KD was actually inviting him to the team. Like he was kind of, He was kind of cheerleading for him. And to push this man towards retirement, like obviously the man wanna play. He play every chance he get, he go out there, he try to play and he come back still looking like Kawhi Leonard.

Ballin'.

But it not being, the man averaged 20 points, 50% from field, 40% from 3 last year.

You can't say that when you average 2.

Like, and you gonna try to kick him out the league?

Like tell him he need to retire? Now when you average 2, bro, you can't walk in that, you can't walk in that room. If you average 2, you can't walk in that room, bro.

You can't do that. You're not allowed to do that.

You can't walk in that room. You can't, you ain't even allowed in the door.

Y'all allowed in.

You feel what I'm saying?

Right.

The only reason why you got there, 'cause you on the championship team.

That's it. And by the way, I'm not gonna sit here and act like I'm a guy that average 20 points a game, but—

No, no, but you in that room.

But—

You in that room.

It's a little different.

Yeah, you in that room. When you say Kawhi, come on, that's a one-on-one. Like, you know, it's almost like I understand what Perk was saying and how he was trying to deliver it, but it shouldn't be delivered from him. You know what I mean? You average too. You feel like, on the real, you average too, bro. You know what I'm saying? And like, come on, bro. Like, okay, this is the media. Okay, we in the media too now, okay?

You in the media.

I understand hot takes and all that shit for ESPN and you know what I mean? But you average too and you speaking on, you know what I mean? You damn near like, you discredit yourself.

Yes.

When you speak on another dude and his injuries, knowing how the shit we gotta go through mentally, psychologically. This man is great.

Yes.

He Finals MVP, All-Star every time. Two-time Finals MVP. Two-time Finals MVP. You feel me? Why is this man, you think he not trying to play? Why is he at training camp? You think he not trying to play? So you gonna say, oh, and then you gonna throw the injury, oh, you know, 'cause, 'People experience,' you ain't experienced shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, dog, you ain't experienced what he experienced, so leave that alone. And in this brotherhood, like, man, you don't speak on nobody like that. You know what I mean? Like, it's a hierarchy. You know what I mean? It's a hierarchy. And I understand we in the media and shit, but if we hooping, everybody in the media need to understand it's a pecking order.

Yes, sir. For sure.

If you ain't one of them ones, shut the hell up.

You should, and it's—

Pass that to Paul or KG.

Facts.

'Cause it's gonna, you know what I mean? 'Cause they gonna be better to articulate that. But you ain't articulating that right. And it's not coming from, like, we ain't catching that the way, you know what I mean? On ESPN and all, like, damn, bro, the season ain't even started. I don't know. That shit done. I don't feel that shit.

I think it's very simple. I think a great skill in life, a very important skill is knowing how to read the room. And obviously he ain't reading the room, he on TV, but like you gotta read the room. Like, that man, 2.5, 3.5, 2.5 percs. You can't push that man to retire, man.

He's averaging 20 points. People is, people is, people is pulling you in, you know what I mean? They pulling you into the league, right? You ain't even really like on the real, you taking a young, you done probably took 3 years of a young dude's salary, you know what I mean? Because what? Exactly.

Can't do that.

You can't speak ill will on no man that's performing at a high, high level, you know what I mean? Who injured, you don't know his injuries.

You don't.

You don't know nothing about his injuries. And that's what I hate when we start switching up on this media shit thinking like it gotta be a hot take. Nah, bro, like sometimes just park it, pass that shit to KG and Paul.

Perk also led out by saying, and this ain't no hot take. That's like saying, hey, No disrespect, but I'm about to disrespect. If I tell you, yo, no disrespect, I'm about to disrespect you. Like, hey, this ain't a hot take. It's a hot take.

Like, stop. Bro, that's all it is.

It's a hot take, bro, stop.

This may sound like a hot take.

I mean— No disrespect, but I'm sorry to bother you, but can I get a picture? You not sorry.

Oh man, you not sorry. You not sorry. Hey, I'm sorry to bother you, but like, I know you eating. I know you eating, but— You wanna take a picture? Hell no. No, no, bro. I wanna just sit here and eat my food.

I didn't come here to take pictures when I'm trying to eat, you know?

But I'm sorry, Draymond Green. I don't wanna be, I mean, that's, all right, all right, all right, Park, man, we good. All right, so man, look, jokingly, you know, and this is just a joke, before we end the upcoming Warrior season conversation, I have to ask you, should I be worried about you? Hey, Doc, that shit was classy. Hey, bro. Hey, I was on the IG and I said, I ain't worried about 'em. Oh, bro, they start coming at me.

It's crazy. My man said, yo, people are worried about you. I couldn't believe he said that to me. I was like, people are worried about, like, what does that mean? Like, tell me exactly what it is that they are worried about. Like, what are they worried about? I'm doing incredibly well, possibly better than them.

The best that I ever, the best that I've ever done in my life.

Right. To this point. That's neither here nor there. I'm just, forget how, if it's better than them or what, I'm doing incredible. My wife's doing amazing. My kids are doing amazing. Life's great. Family's good. Everybody's healthy. I'm great. So again, help me understand who's worried and what exactly are they worried about? The reality is that guy—

Draymond Green.

Yeah. Always chases like stuff with me. You think I've like disrespected him or like never given him a quote or blah. The reality is I don't really take him very seriously because he's just like—

Oh yeah, that pissed him off.

Yeah, he's kind of just like an older guy. Like my grandmother would be mad if I like got upset at him. Like he's an older guy. So I kind of don't take him serious.

Yeah.

Because it's like he's always chasing like something with me. And so—

Something weird.

I really just don't take him serious. And when he said it, I was a little bit thrown off, but it was just like, yeah, bro, what? I don't know though. So I'm, I listen, it was awkward to like, like that.

And it's been weird.

That started my press conference.

And it, oh, that was the first question?

It was within the first 3 questions for sure. It was within the first 3 questions.

You like, damn, dude.

How did you think?

Is that what we on?

We on this today? Is that what we're on?

By the way. We on this today, huh?

So, and he just showed me what type of time he's on. The reality is this. Most people, like this guy always pick with me. Most players probably would've tried to get him banned by now. At the end of the day, bro, do your job. I'm not going to try to get you banned. I don't care about doing none of that.

Anyway.

Yeah. Like, it is what it is.

Hey, bro, I used to go to the media, the dudes who used to fuck with me, I used to read all their articles. And then when they would talk to me, I'd be like, "Dude, you're the worst fucking reporter I ever met. Let's have a writing contest." I go at 'em. I'm like, "Dude, your shit is terrible. I bet you can't write. Let's have a writing contest. I ain't even tripping on you." 'Cause you not even good at your job.

Exactly.

I read everything you wrote about me. It ain't really had no flow, no real story, and it was inaccurate. So like, you want to have a writing contest? Ah, that piss them off when you tell them that, oh, you're not a good writer. Oh my God. You're right, bro. You write excerpts in the paper. Get outta here, bro. You not like no journalist. Yeah, it's always that one.

Yeah, I have—

It's just like, man, I want to take him down. Like, why you want to take, why you want to take Draymond?

What Draymond do to you, bro? I do to you? By the way, I don't want to take you down. Like, I don't even have the time. I'm not even thinking about you.

I'm not worried about you. Nobody I'm talking to is worried about you. At all.

So why are you talking to all these people that's worried about me? Exactly.

This shit don't make no sense.

Folks, like I said, I probably have a great relationship with probably 97 to 98% of media. And I have no problems, no issues. I respect the job. Even the guy always trying to pick on me, I respect it. Do your job. Unfortunately, I don't think he got the answer he was quite looking for. And I do apologize 'cause I do try my best to give people the answers that they're looking for. So I apologize to him. But yeah, moving along. Yeah.