Dray on NBA award changes, Finals fatigue & 1st purchase after rookie contract | Draymond Green Show

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. In other news in the NBA, I saw that Commissioner Silver mentioned changing the voting process, or possibly changing the voting process, and taking a look at that. For all NBA teams and different awards and things like that, which I think is very important. I saw where he said, it's a scenario of, and I'm going to misquote his words 'cause I can't remember it word for word, but he said, it's a scenario of not so great solutions or something of that nature. And the media just being the best of these solutions. I disagree with that. I think that seems like maybe the more unbiased solution, but I don't think that's the best solution.

I think—

I think there are ways that you can go about this and And if you give enough people a voice from different sectors, you get more of an honest vote. You know, like there's a competition committee. Every owner isn't on a competition committee, but because there's an owner and a general manager and possibly some coaches and, you know, so on and so forth, you get more of an honest vote because say if two owners are biased, right? Then like to this rule because of XYZ. But then you have coaches and you have someone over here. And I think that's how you can get more of an honest vote. And so you make up a committee like, yeah, maybe there possibly there's some media on there, but there's some coaches on there. There's some general managers on there, blah, blah, blah. Possibly some agents on there. Like I—

Yeah.

There are ways to make a vote more even, but again, like I said, or you look at the whole process in determining what actually affects a contract. If you can't figure out the voting for All-NBA, then you look at the entire process on what can affect a contract. Because again, as I said before, no reporter from CNBC is deciding whether Jamie Dimon gets his bonuses or not. And so it just doesn't make, it's like, it doesn't make sense. You have a scenario where guys can work their whole entire lives for something And then it's, in a lot of cases, it's then decided on someone who has not worked their entire life to play basketball. Most people have not played basketball in their entire life. And no, playing basketball isn't the marker to speak if you can, uh, to determine if you can speak on the game, or no, playing basketball, um, doesn't just validate you to be an analyst, but the fact that you could study writing or not, that you can work your way up by writing articles and then decide whether someone makes an extra $47 million or not. Absolutely insane. So, I am happy to see that the league is looking, is revisiting that. I think that is incredible. I think it's something that needs to happen. It's one of those old systems that it needs to change. Like, it just makes absolutely no sense that someone who's not evaluating our game from an objective perspective, from an objective point of view, with an objective point of view, because sometimes media can be subjective. I think it's absolutely insane that that's how it'll be decided what some, how much money someone makes or not. So that's great. I hope some changes does come there. I also saw that Commissioner Silver said that the league is not discussing expansion at this time. Vegas and Seattle just doesn't come out of nowhere, Commish. I don't know. I respect it, Commish, but how did that stuff just fly out of nowhere?

I don't know.

So I'm interested to see what happens over the next couple years with that. But it'll be interesting. Nonetheless, it was great to get kind of the State of the Union update and what's going on behind the scenes. That's always cool to catch up on. So hope everyone caught that. Hope everyone enjoyed it.

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I do. From Dom 4th Splash Bro at D55318495. As a professional athlete, how sore does the body get during a 7-game series? Do you ever still feel sore from your previous game?

You get sore from like game to game. For sure. Because it's, you know, you're playing in these series and I mean, it's intense basketball. It's the most intense basketball you're gonna play. So yeah, from get, like after the game, the night after or the next day, you're a little, you're sore. But when you're really sore is once the series end. Because mentally you're kind of in this space of like just locked into the moment. Doing whatever you gotta do to get yourself ready for the next game. And so mentally you can't allow your, like, you can't allow your mind to go to a place of even thinking like, "Oh man, I'm just so sore." Like mentally it's like, as opposed to your mindset being, "I'm so sore," your mindset is more so, "What do I need to do to get my body ready for the next game?" Yeah. And that's a totally different mindset. And so that's kind of where you're at. The moment that series ends and you're no longer looking forward to that next game, you feel like you got hit by a semi-truck. And it's crazy. It, again, it's one of those things that just goes to show the power of the mind, how powerful one's mind is, because the moment—

Draymond Green.

We finish a series, like I go back to like Cavs, the Cavaliers game series, when we swept those guys. After game 4, I couldn't walk. I knew, but I knew the series was over. I don't think the same, I would've dealt with the same pain that I was dealing with after game 4 if there was a game 5.— It's not like something, you know, abruptly happened or like something happened where I turned wrong. Like, but sure enough, as soon as we were done, I could barely walk for the next 3 days. And I am certain it wouldn't have been that same thing if we were going to a Game 5. So it really just shows you how powerful the mind is.

From Sanjay G at @sansri_g. This finals is the longest distance between teams, about 2,700 miles, since the last Warriors-Celtics finals. How much does cross-country travel slash fatigue come into play? This is sort of an adjacent question to the last one, but it's interesting, I think.

It definitely comes into play because I think you, you know, you fly anywhere that far and it affects you. Whether you're playing basketball or not, you're not adding the fact that you have to play basketball and it's a different story. Now here's where I think that, where you kind to, you, you, you, here's where I think you kind of eliminate that. Yes, it's still tough. You're getting on planes and all of that. But in the NBA Finals, due to the way the media is set up, both teams have to practice at the same place the day before the game. So with such far travel, just like the Boston Celtics got here on Tuesday after game, after game 2 on Sunday, we leave Monday, although we don't play till Wednesday. We'll leave on Monday so that we can be there for practice on Tuesday for media and so on and so forth. So with the NBA Finals, you get that extra day in between for travel due to the media situation. So you don't, it's not as big of, it's not as big of a dilemma that you face normally in a season where it's probably only one day. Or as we saw during the conference finals, it was one day in between all the games. So that's travel, that's all of that. You don't, you know, the NBA Finals, they kind of take care of some of that with the days in between the game. Like the only game in this series that it's only one day in between is games 3 and 4. Which both are in Boston. So that's kind of how I think that's part of the reason the league does it the way they do for the NBA Finals. So that fatigue isn't playing a part in scenarios like this where, I mean, that's just about as far as west you can go and almost about as far as east you can go. So I think that's why it's like that. That's why the scheduling goes like that. So it doesn't affect the game as much as it could possibly in other series.

Last one, we'll go a little bit of a lighter note to close this out. From Andrew Pimentel, @andrewpimentel, what was your first big purchase from your rookie year?

Hey Andrew, let me tell you something. And people can take this with a grain of salt. I know it's a lot of money, but in theory, when I break this down to you, It's not. I was a second round pick, Andrew. Now for me, I got more money than most second round picks get from my first year salary. My first year salary was $825 grand. All right, Andrew, slice that in half because I do, slice that about 53, 54% because I do live in the Bay Area. So you slice that. And it's no longer 825, let's just call it 400 grand that I take home. 40,000 of that goes to my apartment complex that I lived in. So there's 360,000 Andrew.

Um.

Uh, 3% of that or 4% of that, which I end up finding out shouldn't have happened. On the entire contract, but that's a whole nother story, went to the agent. So of $825,000, 4% is roughly $36-ish thousand or something. So now I'm almost at $300,000, Andrew. Now I had to get a car and I had to get furniture. Which was, you know, probably, I very cheaply went to a Furniture Outlet and furnished my apartment. But that was still another $30,000. So I'm at $270,000, Andrew. You get where I'm going with this. I didn't have enough money for a big rookie purchase. Was not a first round pick. Contrary to what my resume may say, Andrew, I was not a first round pick. So it was a little tight on me. With my rookie money 'cause I didn't make the big money early on. So there you have it, Andrew. I was a little low on cash. There was no big purchases for me, my man. That is a wrap from this episode of the Draymond Green Show. I will check back in with y'all after game 2 of these NBA Finals. Until then, it's a wrap. Peace. Peace. Peace.