Draymond Green Reacts to Jalen Duren Extension, A'Ja Wilson Fan Interaction & Warriors Lineup

What's up everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. On today's show, I'll get into something that's been absolutely hilarious coming out of our training camp. And that is the beef that you never knew you needed in your life. That's not a beef, by the way. It's not a beef at all, actually, because one of these guys would never beef with anyone. The other one would beef with someone, but there's absolutely no reason for them to beef with each other. And that is the beef that is not a beef at all. Jimmy Butler versus Malifaux Lyons. Malifaux, uh, there's— so Malifaux, if you know anything about Malifaux Lyons, number one is he is the greatest person you could ever meet in your life. He walks in with a smile every day. He is a hard-ass worker. Absolutely incredible person. However, if you also know Malavai, you know he raw dogs everything. What I mean by raw dogging everything? He walks in. Malavai is probably the size of KD when KD couldn't bench 185 coming out of Texas. And the reason I mentioned KD is because we spoke about Malavai and KD's interaction last year. Needless to say, Malavai Lyons is um. Pretty skinny guy. And Malachi raw dogs it. He comes in, nothing on his arms, nothing on his legs, socks that you can barely see, no headband, swag on zero. Um, as if when you went on 2K and you went to create a player, you had no— and by the way, I don't play 2K, so I'm gonna get this all wrong. but you had no bucks in the store to get an arm sleeve or whatever y'all call that stuff. That is Malivai. Malivai raw dogs it. He comes out nothing, nothing, nothing. And Jimmy's sick of it. And so there's been this ongoing thing and I've enjoyed it. Every day Malivai walks in, it's something different. One day he walked in, he had 2 arm sleeves on. The next day he walked in, he had an arm sleeve, And a wristband right here and a wristband right here. And the next day he walked on, he walked in, he had a headband on and the stretchy headband, not your, your regular headband. He had the stretchy headband that guys wear with an arm sleeve and a wristband and some long tights. It's something different every day. And it's between Jimmy and Malachi what Malachi comes out in. I will tell you, it's raised his level a bit. It's definitely raised the level. I always tell people, man, on the basketball court, you also gotta look the part. And the banter between Malivine and Jimmy's been absolutely incredible. We will also talk about Jalen Duran finally signing the deal and returning to Detroit, the Las Vegas expansion franchise, potential owners, and much, much more. Let's get right into it. Right here was where I was supposed to share my story about Jimmy and Malachi, but you get the story. And I must tell you, Malachi has been playing really well in camp, and I think it's due to like his swag. Like the swag is different and it's hilarious. So if you have your chance to see Malachi in practice, if you see pictures, just pay attention to how the attire changes per day. It's pretty funny. It's something great that Jimmy's brought to camp. And when you cannot play like Jimmy cannot because he's rehabbing, you must bring great things to camp. And Jimmy has blessed us with this one. So shout out to Jimmy. Steve Kerr said in our first preseason game, uh, that our starter lineup would be Steph, BP, Yaxel, myself, and Al Horford. Uh, this is kind of how we've been running out in camp, and it's been good. Uh, You know, it's more size than we've had in a long time. Between Al and Yaxel, those guys are obviously, we know Al's size. Yaxel's big as hell. Yaxel's like 6'10. I'm bigger than what you think. I'm 6'6, 6'7. But you know. VP's 6'6, 6'5, 6'4, 6'5, 6'4. And Steph's a very tall 6'3. So it's more size than we've had in the Warriors lineup in quite a bit. Which I'm very, very, very excited about. Because when you have more size on the floor, it helps in multiple different ways than you can imagine. And so I think that is good for us. This group has been building up a lot of chemistry and learning to play with each other. And the thing that I most love, excuse me, the thing that I love most about this group is, Each guy that you see name in that lineup has a great deal of basketball knowledge. Starting with Yaxel, the rookie, he really sees the floor sometimes too good. And what I mean by sometimes too good is, so Yaxel's a great scorer, and he's a really good scorer who I think ultimately has the potential to become a great scorer. However, Yaxel has this issue that most scorers don't have, but some do. Jimmy Butler has the same issue, meaning they see the floor so well that when you want them to have tunnel vision and go score, they see the floor so well. And that's Yaxel. And so I said all of that to say, obviously Yaxel sees the court very well. We know Steph see the court very well. We know BP see the court well. We know I see the court well. And obviously Al's been seeing the court for 20 years. We know he see the court well. So I love the collective IQ of this group. Also a very switchable group. Al can switch on the guards. Obviously I can switch on the guards. And with Yaxel at the 3, makes it a switchable group to where you can switch on to bigger guys and cover some things up. So I really like this group. The chemistry that we've been building in practice has been great. But ultimately, I think you have shooting in this group. I think you have defense in this group. I think you have playmaking in this group. I think you have a high IQ in this group. So I like the group and obviously there'll be some, you know, it's game day 4 of training camp. Like there'll be some growing pains and you have to figure it out. But ultimately really like this group and what this group could bring to the floor for this team. And that's how we will be rolling out. My gut tells me that it would be Kristaps Porzingis, but obviously Kristaps is dealing with a health issue and we don't know when he'll be back. So Al in year 20 is starting off for us and I love it. Al's been playing great. And as I told you all yesterday, a couple days ago, Al is in incredible shape and ready to go. So I love it. And I think this group is doing a great job of building chemistry. Have you heard about Matic? It's a cleaning robot that uses cameras. I know what you're thinking. It vacuums and mops my home, but where do the videos go from the camera? Everything it captures stays on the machine in my house. It's not sitting on some server waiting for somebody to look at it. You know what a regular robot vacuum does? It bumps into your furniture. It's guessing what to clean. It's out there hoping to figure it out. But Matic sees. With 5 cameras, it reads the room the way you read a room. That's a chair. That's a cord. That's a shoe. 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The Pistons and Jalen Duren have agreed to a five-year, two hundred million dollar fully guaranteed contract to return to the Detroit Pistons. There's no options. There's no bonuses included in the deal. Now, number one, congrats to the young fella Jalen Duren getting his bag. putting himself in a position to have him and his family set for the rest of his life. Always love seeing guys get paid. So shout out to the young fella. I've watched his growth over the years from coming into the league and being a physical specimen that didn't really know how to play physical and didn't really know how to use his weight. To a guy who last year did me like this when I jumped for a rebound and my whole body flew that way and he got the offensive rebound. And I wanted to yell at the referee, call a fucking foul! But I knew his finger did like this, but he's so freaking strong that my body went flying. Proud as hell of the young fella. Happy as hell to see him get his bag, and it's well deserved. Now, obviously there's been drama around the contract, and when there's drama around contracts, things happen one of two ways. A, the team moves on and everybody moves on and they let the business be the business and they don't take it personal. However, that's not common in most places. Most places, players feel like, oh man, you let us down. Now they feel a way, then there's sidebar conversations and you walk back into the facility and there's some motherfuckers over here who either works in the front office or in the video room or in the coach's room and they're like, oh man, he was was holding out, and because he was holding out, he ain't in great shape. Oh man, he was holding out. Look, he just missed that free throw and he wanted $200 million. He took $180, blah, blah, blah. You run into that type of stuff. And let me tell you, that type of stuff destroys the team. Absolutely obliterates the team. When players decide that the business of basketball affected them, it destroys the team. When players decide the business of basketball had nothing to do with him and our guy is here and now we move forward, it uplifts a team. And so this can go one of two ways. Jalen Duren could walk in and those guys are kind of side-eyeing but kind of not, kind of acting fake, and he gonna see through that shit because nobody's an idiot and you're gonna see through it. Y'all on bullshit, and it's going to tear their team apart. Or he can walk in and them guys could be like, man, you got $200 million dinner on Jalen all year. We happy as hell to have Jalen back. Oh my God, our guy is here. It's go time now. Or you can walk into that and JB Bickerstaff and his staff and Traeja Langdon and his staff And the video guys could be like, we got our guy back. Come here. We happy for you. You got your money. Now let's roll. Or you can walk into that. And when you walk into that, you align yourself to do great things. And that's the approach they need to take. I have seen situations where you get players like, oh man, he was holding out. You fucked over us. You missed 3 days of camp. No, he didn't. Because number one, those three days of camp don't fucking matter in March. They don't matter in March. And everybody's happy for him, and we build together. By the way, Asar Thompson just got his bag. Jalen Dern just got his bag. Both of you motherfuckers, dinner's on y'all this year. That's the attitude you hope. That all the guys have. By the way, there was word that came out that, oh man, Jalen Durham said something about Ausar Thompson getting this amount. They need to nip that in the bud right away. Someone needs to address it and say, hey man, I ain't say that. By the way, my agent might have said that. He doing his job, but I don't think that. And I'm riding with you. So needless to say, uh, whoever's the leadership in the— the leader in that locker room, K Cunningham, Need to open it up. Hey fellas, this is what's been going on. We ain't no— ain't nobody— ain't no secrets. This is what's been happening, but this is what we doing right now. This is what's going on right now. Somebody in that locker room has to provide that leadership to let everybody know it's okay. He missed 3 days of camp. Who gives a damn? No one cares. It's fine. We're moving on. He had to handle his business. Because when you create that type of environment of he had to handle his business, It's gonna happen again. And then it's gonna happen again. And if these young guys are fortunate enough to win a championship in Detroit, which I pray that they are, and you stay there long enough, you're gonna run into all these types of things. And this cannot affect the locker room. So I hope that someone in that locker room is providing the leadership to say, man, none of that matters. None of that matters. And maybe Jalen want to stand up and say, hey, I'm sorry, I ain't say that. I'm happy you got your bread. Hopefully they already spoke when he got the bread, and then hopefully they spoke again when Jalen got his bread, because that's the type of things that brings teams together. Those are the type of things that allows teams to win championships and compete for championships year after year after year, which I think these young guys ultimately have the potential to do. But it's little things like this that seep through the cracks. And guess what? The mistake most people make is, ah man, it's done. We just gonna move on. Nah, nah, nah. Somebody still feel away. So address it. Address it. Just so we know for certain that whoever was in this locker room, because there's 18 guys, which means there's. 18 different opinions. So whoever in this locker room that thought they should feel a way, this is how we feel. Let's nip that in the butt right now. So I hope that they have someone, and I know they got Jared Jack, who's like obviously an assistant coach, but it's my OG, it's my vet who I know know these things. But I hope they got guys telling them these are the things that need to happen, because if not, It's little things like this that seep through the cracks. And then in April, when you turn to that guy and you look at him, he like, fuck him, I remember when. And then those things, they become small things become bigger things. So shout out to the young fellas, shout out to the Detroit Pistons, uh, led by, um, owner Tom Gores, Trajan Langdon, JB Bickerstaff, Jared Jatt, Down to Cade Cunningham and all the players, George, David. Shout out to those guys on getting this deal done. Shout out to Jaylen Duren getting his bag. Hope everybody in that locker room could, can, can do the right thing, have the conversations that need to be had. Not just push them off, have the conversations that need to be had if they haven't already been had. Make sure this team is together and go on a tear. Like they should be doing. The NBA is expected to select the winning bid for the owner of the Las Vegas expansion team. Apparently, it's supposed to be sometime in the within the next week or so, with a price of at least twelve to thirteen billion dollars for the franchise and new arena. Among the three finalist groups is Nancy Walton, Laurie and Bill Laurie, Steve Apostopoulos. Steve Apostolopoulos. I'm— I am butchering his name and I apologize. Along with Mark Lassery. And then lastly, Bill Foley and Jerry Colangelo. Shout out to Doc. I call Jerry Colangelo Doc. As you know, Jerry Colangelo was running USA Basketball and I had the honor of winning 2 gold medals. And I call Mr. Colangelo Doc. So shout out to Doc and his bid for the Los Angeles franchise. However, if this deal does reach the $13 billion price tag that they're saying, it will pass the Lakers' $12.5 billion for the most expensive sports franchise sale ever. Now that is fucking insane. You're talking a team that has no logo, has no jersey, Has no colors, has no arena, going for $13 billion. Wow. Adam Silver, you've done it again, my friend. Wow. $13 billion for something that doesn't exist is madness. But there's only 30 of them, soon to be 31 or 32, but there's only 30 of them. They're rare. They're rare and kind of recession-proof, as we've just recently seen. Kind of recession-proof. But man, $13 billion. The Lakers is the crème de la crème. The Los Angeles Lakers. And obviously I think the Warriors are the most valuable franchise, but the Lakers are the Lakers. And they just went for 12.5. $13 billion for something that doesn't exist is madness. But I'm happy, and I know everybody else in the NBA is happy. But man, I mean, I, I, I don't know, like— and by the way, I, I want to say I don't know how you justify it, but it will be justified. Someone will pay that tick, that tag for this team. And obviously there's multiple bidders willing to pay that tag for this team. You ask yourself the question, is it best to go with guys who's been previous owners like Mark Lassery, like Jerry Colangelo, or does that not matter? And here's what I'll say. Um, Ultimately, when you're spending $13 billion on something, all of these ownership groups will get the right people in place to run these franchises. So ultimately, I don't think it makes a big difference whether you've owned a team or not, because all of these people who are doing this are going to get someone great in the position to run these franchises, to run the day-to-day, to build the team up, to build the business side out. That's going to happen. So ultimately, I don't know that that's such a big deal on whether you've been a previous owner or not. Uh, I've never been an owner, so I can say I don't think it's a big deal and be absolutely wrong. But needless to say, um, good luck to all 3 groups. Uh, it's absolutely incredible that they're in position to pay that much money for an NBA franchise. And I know whichever group of the 3 has been vetted extensively by Adam Silver and the NBA. And I know they'll be a great group, a great ownership group to bring great things to the NBA, to Las Vegas, to the city of Las Vegas as a whole, and to the Western Conference. So we'll see how it plays out, but good luck to all 3 other groups in contention for ownership of the Las Vegas NBA expansion team. A'ja Wilson got into a heated exchange with a Fever fan during their Game 2 playoff game. Uh, Game 3 has now passed, and A'ja did play and went on to dominate, uh, with 36 and 10 rebounds. Uh, the GOAT just does what the GOAT does. Uh, A'ja is absolutely insane. I think she's in year 8. If I'm mistaken, she's in year 9. Uh, but already the greatest WNBA player to ever play in the WNBA. That's not a debate. If you want to debate, go debate with your mama, because I don't want to debate with you. Asia's the GOAT, bar none. Uh, however, she was assessed the technical foul, but the fan was allowed to return to the seat. Obviously, when things happen between the fan, they remove the fans. Fan was allowed to return to the seat. Um, and you actually— you have to ask yourself the question of what's drawing the line and what's too far. And, uh, did Asia go too far? Did the fan go too far? Quite honestly, I don't think Asia went too far. I don't know what the fan said. Uh, quite honestly, Asia said, I don't give a damn what the fan said. He's coming at me, he's pointing at me, he's walking towards me, and I'm going to go back at you. And I respect it. Now, I, I've seen online everybody like, if that was Draymond He'd be suspended for the rest of the season. And you could be right. But as we all know, I don't play by the same set of circumstances that everyone else plays by. And I also am not in the WNBA, which is a completely different set of circumstances because it's a completely different league. But the way the wife or girlfriend or friend or whoever the lady was sitting next to the guy pulled him down, Says to me that he was doing something he shouldn't have been doing because why pull him down? By the way, he's a little weak because I think if my wife pulled me like that, I wouldn't fall down in the seat. Bro went down like like the cartoons where you see somebody run off the cliff and then they go phew. That's how bro fell in his seat, and he was pulled by. The lady. So number one, Asia probably could have taken him. I'm just gonna throw that out there. Needless to say, uh, there's no place in the game for going into the stands from a player. There's no place in the game for fans to be going at players like that guy was going at Asia. And you know, some of those fans in Indianapolis can get a little wild, and I imagine they're even a little more wild, um, for the Fever than they actually are The Patriots because it's a little bit of a different fan group. Needless to say, I am happy to see that Asia didn't get suspended like everybody was saying. Oh man, she should be suspended. She went into the crowd. Nobody wants to see a fucking Aces playoff game without Asia Wilson. Money talks, bullshit walks. Moving on. I want to tell you about Zaply. As a professional athlete, staying at peak performance isn't the same as when I was 22. If you're a man over 35 dealing with afternoon slumps and low energy, listen up. I have to be incredibly conscious about my health, from training and sleep to my diet and supplements. 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Both are undersized and both have never excelled on the defensive end. The more analytically sound option would be to start Holiday, a bigger guard who is an exceptional defender, and have either Morant or Lillard come off the bench. Number 1, Far too early in the preseason for a player to be saying something, then the coach coming back. Like, no one needs to know all of this. Now obviously Mike Inori is a first-time, um, NBA head coach, and I would think if not already, at some point down the line, he's gonna wish that he could take this back. And not that he could take this back, that it does anything wrong, but it may break the trust just a tad of your guys. In particular, Damian Lillard or other guys, because a player come out and say something, and then if you think he's wrong, to then come out and come back at a day later in the media—it's unnecessary. Reason being, you're still 20 days away from having to decide a star lineup. So be that you're 20 days away from having to decide a star lineup, the need to come out and defend that against the media—I I just don't think was necessary. And I think some coaches lose a locker room like that. Now, I don't think this is. That serious in order to lose the locker room. But you can just have little things like this trickle in, and when they trickle in, they seep through the cracks. Sometimes a small seep through a crack can cause a big flood. And so I think this is one that, if not already, at some point Mike and Norrie will realize, ah, I didn't need to say that. Sometimes less is more. If Dame wants to go out and say that, cool. I'll address that with Dame. But I don't necessarily need to make Dame look like a fool in front of the world. I don't need to make it look like Dame is saying something to cover him or Ja's ass, and I'm saying something to cover our ass. I don't need to do that. Especially not— we haven't played a preseason game. Because guess what? If you're Mike Kanora, you have to try at some point in the preseason, Ja and Dame starting together. If you don't even try it, then you look crazy and you got to answer questions. What I think Mike Inori should have done was I think he should— if he believed this, I would have started them the first game together in the preseason and I would have brought Jrue Holiday off the bench. And the reason I would have done that is because if I believe that they're 2 undersized guys who doesn't excel defensively, I would've let them see it. So then once you see it, Dame, once you see it, Ja, you can then make the decision and say, hey guys, by the way, it makes your conversation with one of the two guys easier. Hey, we tried this, we're gonna go this way first, and then, you know, we'll still figure it out. But it allows you to have a conversation with your guys that is ultimately beneficial amongst y'all. But to come out and shoot it down off the gate, now can you even go to it in preseason? And if you do, then it looks like you're trying to save face. So needless to say, uh, first-time coach Mike Inori, a first-time head coach, I think this one got away from him a little bit. I think this one's something that he will learn from. But ultimately, I think it was absolutely unnecessary to come out a day later and be like, well, this doesn't make sense because of this. It's a preseason game. After the preseason game, I got a news flash for y'all. Everybody's still going to be 0-0. And after the 5th preseason game, I got another news flash. Everybody's still going to be 0-0. So if you didn't believe in anything, you wanted to try it during the preseason, pull Jrue to the side. Hey Jrue, I'm gonna try these 2 guys. I think ultimately, Jrue, you're going to be the starter, but I'm going to try these 2 guys. To, you know, to see how it works out, and then we'll go from there. Have those conversations. But coming out, having those conversations in public, I think is absolutely necessary. And I think ultimately, at times, this is how, uh, coaches can lose a locker room. Bob Carrington admitted that the Wizards tanked for AJ DeBose. He said, we haven't been told yet to be the best version of ourselves. We were held back because we were trying to get AJ DeBose. That's no secret. But now no one has handcuffs. Everyone's shackle-free. So that alone, that alone is already a playoff team. I would say to Bub, Bub's my young fella, by the way. Y'all know I got nothing but love for Bub. Bub, making the playoffs is a little harder than you think. Needless to say, I think they do have a lot of talent, young talent. AD is old talent because AD came in the year that I came in, but AD is a little younger than me. Needless to say, AD, you old. I respect it. Listen, I think probably said a little bit more than they would want him to say. But needless to say, I respect it. And I love that he look at them as like, yo, the shackles are off and we can become a playoff team right now. That's how they should be looking at it. But yeah, there's no surprise. I agree with Buck. There's no surprise that they were fucking tanking for AJ DeBonsa and they were tanking for whoever else they were trying to get. I have zero doubt that that's what they were trying to do. Everybody was tanking last year for AJ DeBose or Cam Boozer or Darren Peterson. All of there was 13 teams tanking last year. So guess what? If you're going to get mad that Bub Carrington said this, get mad at the fucking teams that was tanking because it wasn't Bub's decision to tank. Dalton Connect is not expected to make the Lakers regular season roster. Lakers has 16 guaranteed contracts. And going into the season, you can only have 15 guaranteed contracts. Apparently, um, Bronny and Jaden Hardy has been outplaying him in camp, and he's viewed as the odd man out. And it's crazy because Dalton Knecht seemed like he had a little bit of promise to him, but after that trade that got voided by the Hornets, um, to bring him in and send Mark Excuse me, the trade was voided by the Lakers. It was to bring Dalton Connect into the Hornets and to send Mark Williams to the Lakers. The Lakers voided the trade because of Mark Williams back. Dalton Connect's just been in purgatory ever since, and ultimately I think it ruined him. Uh, and, and who I blame more than anything, uh, and I don't know who his agent is, but I blame his agent because the moment that that trade didn't go through That agent should have been working the lines to get him out of LA. Now granted, you can't get a trade at that point because it was at the, the 25th hour and the trade deadline had passed. So you couldn't, but like, are you talking to Lakers asking for a buyout? Are you that summer? You for sure gotta get him traded. The fact that he's still on the Lakers right now. It's absolutely awful, awful representation work. Like, you can't leave this kid and you know this is crushing him. You've seen it since the time he ended up back on that roster and you still got this kid in LA. But you know what? The world we live in, everybody want to blame Rich Paul for doing a podcast and telling some shit that don't matter. But we got representatives that has seen this kid go by the wayside because he got traded and it got voided and he felt unwanted and it's just all crashed and he's still on the Lakers. That is a problem, man. That's a problem. Now make no mistake about it, I'm not saying he has A bad agent. Because I actually don't know who the agent is, and I haven't looked it up because I don't really care to look it up. But what I am saying is the agent has done a bad job in this case. By the way, it could be an agent who's his agent that I very much so respect, that I think is a great agent. But great players have bad games. Great agents have bad situations. And this one right here has gotten away from the representation because there's no way in hell with what we can see that Dalton Connect has dealt with mentally and how we know he's dealt with some shit mentally because we've seen him play since this trade didn't happen. If we don't think that this has affected him mentally and he needed a fresh start and something new, I mean, I wash my hands, but damn, someone has failed this kid. And by the way, what he has to understand is everything ain't gonna be perfect. Yep, they traded you. They tried to trade you and it didn't go through. Come back and kick everybody ass. See, you, you go one of two ways, man. You feel sorry for yourself and they try to trade me and now I'm stuck here, or you say Fuck them. And this is what I'm going to show them. Trade me again, motherfucker. I'll go and practice the next day. Boom. Trade me again, motherfuckers. That's how I approach it. But, you know, everybody don't approach it the same. I think my approach would have worked, though. Shit, it worked for me as a Steelers fan. It has been brought to the forefront that Mike Tomlin has been creating a Minecraft city, building a Minecraft city. for 12 years, and everybody's like, oh my God. I saw Le'Veon Bell come out like, man, this dude been— And what I'll say is this, I love this. And the reason I love this is because, do we expect every free second of the day that Coach Tomlin should be like watching football film? Because if we do expect that, then he also shouldn't have a defensive coordinator, he shouldn't have an offensive coordinator, he shouldn't have a special teams coordinator, he shouldn't have a linebackers coach. Fuck offensive line coach, a defensive line coach. Get the hell out of here. Running backs coach. What you want to talk about? Goodbye. If we think that this man should have spent every dying second and minute of his life watching football film and doing absolutely nothing else with his time, then let's get rid of his whole coaching staff and let's let him do everything and make every decision. Needless to say. I can't imagine that Big Red is spending every second of his time watching football film. I can't imagine that Nick Sirianni is spending every second of his time watching football film. This— what this reminds me of and how everybody reacted to this is that when I first started this podcast and everybody like, yo, you're a fucking idiot, you should be in a gym shooting. And it's like, okay, so this 1 hour out of the day that I'm doing this, the other 23 hours in the day, should I be shooting all of them? I should be in there just all 24 hours, huh? Because that's what this reminds me of. Everybody like, oh man, he shouldn't have no time to do this. What if he took 15 minutes? 12 years! What if he took 15 minutes per day out of 12 years and said, I'm doing this for 15 minutes a day? Did he still fuck over the football team? I think not. So with that being said, while, while Coach Tomlin is building his city, I want all of you to build a bridge and get over it. Because can you not have any type of life outside of the one that you all think you should just be living, which is, oh man, you should be Watching film. No, I think you should have a bit of a life. So shout out to Coach T. It's been incredible watching him break down, uh, these games. I saw someone the other day say, oh man, he called out this team in their late game execution, and that's beside the coaching fraternity. Well, number one, he ain't in the coaching fraternity right now. He's an analyst. Number two, As an analyst, you need to do your fucking job. And if that requires you to criticize something, then you just that. So again, you know what I do? I tip my cap to Coach Mike T. Great job on your city. I saw some remnants of it. I don't play Minecraft, so I don't know. But it looked good. It looked like you're a hell of an interior designer, Coach. So much love to you, Coach. Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Appreciate your analysis. And as I said, for everybody who got something negative to say about it, build a bridge and get over it. And I wanna thank you all again for tuning into the Draymond Green Show. And until next time, deuces. If you're rocking with the Draymond Green Show, be sure to click follow on your favorite podcast app. And while you're there, go ahead and drop a 5-star rating and leave a review. I want to hear what you think, and it would also mean a ton to me if you share it with a friend that you think would enjoy it. Let's keep this thing growing. The Draymond Green Show is presented by Audacy and executive produced in conjunction with The New Media. Our executive producers are Leah Reese Dennis, Danny Friesinger, and Greg Holtzman. 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