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Draymond Green On Being Part Of Giannis Antetokounmpo To The Warriors Trade Rumors

7 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, NBA veteran Draymond Green reflects on a series of conversations with Warriors executives—identified as Steve and Mike—regarding potential trade scenarios involving Giannis Antetokounmpo. Green describes how a non‑urgent text from Mike led to a discussion about various deal possibilities, during which the executives hinted that any Giannis trade would likely require Jimmy (presumably Jimmy Butler) and possibly Green himself to be included. The lack of a definitive denial left Green interpreting the conversation as a signal that he could be the piece moved to Milwaukee. He expresses deep uncertainty about his future: whether he would be traded, if he would stay in Milwaukee beyond a half‑season, and how his family would be affected. The monologue conveys his emotional turmoil and desire to avoid the stress of ongoing trade speculation.

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When you're not winning, everything becomes a possibility. And so for 13 and a half years, I have not dealt with that. Then I have my conversation with Steve. All right, man, this is real, huh? Like, all right. Then I have a conversation with Mike. He texted me, he said, "Call me, it's not urgent." Not urgent. "Call me when you get a chance." So I'm like, "All right, not urgent means I'm not about to get traded." And he asked me about a couple deals. "What do you think of this deal? What do you think of that deal?" And we talked for quite a while. And then he's like, and by the way, on the honest front, like, Obviously we've spoke about Giannis. We've talked about what picks we'd send them. We haven't talked about really the players that would go into the deal. But obviously if we were to do a deal with Giannis, you or Jimmy would have to be in the trade just to make it work. But what it said to me in that moment was there's a chance I may get traded for Giannis because he didn't rule it out. He didn't say we're not putting you in the deal. So I took that as, all right, it'll probably be me. Future uncertain. Getting traded to Milwaukee. If I'm getting traded to Milwaukee, am I staying in Milwaukee? If I'm not staying in Milwaukee, where I'm going? If I'm only going there for a half a season, is my family coming? What the hell is going on? I don't know. But I also walked away from it like, yo, that's not something I wanna keep dealing with. So what is it that I have to do so that I don't have to keep dealing with that thing? Woo!