Draymond Green defends Giannis after Jaylen Brown called him a "child," arguing that his youthful energy helps him connect with teammates. Green compares Giannis to LeBron James and points to Damian Lillard's shoe giveaways as an example of how athletes build their public image.
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Jaylen Brown called Giannis a child after the Bucks-Celtics game. Giannis a big-ass kid for real, man. When you look at the video of Damian Lillard giving them the shoes, like most people that are with Nike would be like, "Ah, I ain't getting into that." Like he's a signature athlete with Nike. Free shoes is free shoes. Like he, he seemed like a big-ass kid. Yeah. Jaylen was pissed. You all right? Yeah. So he calling him a child. I say that in a way of like, like Bron, for instance, Bron is a big-ass kid. Like, and people don't realize he's a big-ass kid. Giannis, you know, he always give you this super serious and like, "Argh." To me, it seemed like he is a big-ass kid. Yeah. And when you are that type of force, you kind of need some of that for guys to be cool following you because they need something to relate to.