Draymond Green suffered a concussion from Joe Ingles during the Warriors' 73-win season but hid it, fearing he'd miss games and hurt the record chase. He says the push for history "took a couple years off my life" and had never told the full story before.
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I was asked a question like, what do I think about them breaking the record? I said, well, they can go for it. 73 wins took a couple years off my life. What I was really referring to, as I was half joking, I got cracked. We were playing against Utah at Utah, going for a loose ball, and like Joe Ingles cracked me. I was 1,000% concussed. This maybe had to be like with 6 games left, could even been 4 games left. I was living in Berkeley Hills at that time, and so it was really windy to get up to the house and I was so lightheaded going up for a few days, but I wouldn't tell anybody. And the reason I wouldn't tell anybody, because in my mind I was like, if I tell somebody I concussed, I'm gonna miss at least a week. That may interfere with us getting 73 wins. I had the symptoms for a few days. I still never told anybody. I may have said it once loosely, but I've never gone this into detail about it. So y'all kind of the first to know. When you're pushing towards that goal, it just requires so much. And so that's what I was hitting at when I said, took a few years off my life. Woo!