Knicks Win NBA Championship: Draymond Green Reacts to New York's Historic Title

What's up everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show. On today's show, there's nothing else to talk about except the New York Knicks are NBA champions. Gotta show love to the champs. We'll break down the game a little bit, uh, but more so share some big picture thoughts on the Spurs, the Knicks, although there aren't really any big picture thoughts, but anyway, let's get right into it. I enjoyed watching the game yesterday a little bit differently than I watch most games. Most games I actually tuck myself in a room and watch the game by myself or with one or two of my boys. And I just sit and watch and I analyze and I try to pick apart what it is that I'm seeing, what adjustments are being made, how are, you know, the first couple things you're looking at is how are they guarding the star players? Is it different from last game? How are they guarding Serena Rose? Is it different from last game? Offensively, what are they trying to do? Is it different from last game? And you're trying to do those things. Yesterday, for game 5, I watched it completely different. I watched it at the bar, having a couple drinks, enjoying the NBA Finals of it, if you will, kind of stepping outside of— Yeah. Oh man, just tucked in his box, trying to break down the nerd aspect of it, if you will. I usually watch it like a nerd. I watched it a little bit more as a fan yesterday, and I enjoyed it, but I wanted to watch it as a fan because it's history, possibly. Mm-hmm. And I didn't want to spend history tucked in a box analyzing everything that there is to analyze. I wanted to enjoy history. The New York Knicks has not won an NBA championship until last night in my lifetime. It's the Knicks, right? Like it's the New York Knicks. And so I, if it was gonna be history, I wanted to watch history from a, from a place of enjoyment if I'm not involved in making the history. I wanted to enjoy it. And so I watched it at a bar, like most people watch games, or like a lot of people watch games when they're watching to enjoy it. I'm not usually watching an NBA game to enjoy it. I'm usually watching an NBA game as a student trying to learn. Mm-hmm. But I wanted to do that differently. So I watched it at the bar and Before the end of the game, I left the bar, came home, and watched the last 7 or 8 minutes at home on the couch. And then history. And I then wanted to watch history alone because I felt like I needed to hear what people were gonna say. Then there was some things that I needed to watch, which I'll get into. Later in the episode that I needed to really be able to see. So I enjoyed it. And then I needed to be able to be a nerd and watch the down the stretch, watch how people react. And like I said, I'll get into that. And the reality is, in watching it from that standpoint, it was enjoyable. It was enjoyable because A, you're seeing some guys do something for the first time. Anytime I watch guys win a championship, after winning championships, the most fun is watching guys win for the first time. You know, there may be a guy on a team that's winning for the second time or third time. Watching the guys, including when we've won championships after the first, watching the guys who are winning their first championship, there's nothing more enjoyable because it simply take you back to your first one. The emotions of it, watching their emotions, it take you back to the very first time you experienced that. When you're watching a guy win their second one, it doesn't take you back to the second time that you experienced. But watching someone win their first championship, it takes you back to the very first moment that you became a champion. Yeah. Because you're like, damn, I remember that feeling. Like, that's the feeling that I remember. Jalen Brunson was doing an interview and she said, put it in the words, like Lisa Salters. She said, put it in the words, like explain to me how you feeling. And he said, and my first thought was, he can't put it into words. Yeah. As soon as she asked the question, like, he can't put that into words. And sure enough, he started like, uh, and tried and was like, I don't know. I don't know. That's— I don't know how I'm feeling right now. I don't— That's the truth. And so when you're watching guys win for the first time, it's that. It's, I know exactly what he's thinking. I know exactly how he's feeling. He don't know. And by the way, for the next 2 or 3 weeks, he ain't gonna know. And that's what's so beautiful about it. I always say when you win a championship, you get like this 2 or 3 week period in life to do whatever the hell it is that you wanna do. And everybody like, "Ah, they just celebrating being a champion." And I think it's such a great grace period because for 2 to 3 weeks, you have no fucking clue whether you're coming or going. It's just like this cloud that you like sitting on top of this cloud and it's like you're floating and like you finally fall asleep drunk and you wake up and it's like this cloud still. And it happens over and over and over again. And so that 2, 3 week grace period is actually needed because you're just like in la-la land. So when Jalen Brunson said that, I felt it. And in watching someone win their first one, I feel like that's why I watch it because you're always able to reconnect to that moment and remember the first time you were able to accomplish that. And it's the most incredible feeling. So the emotions that I have during the final minutes and watching them, I'm like, yo, they about to beat, like they're about to win. They're about to win this, like they're about to win the championship. And it's so fun to watch. It's so fun to experience watching Jalen Brunson enter that club, watching Karl-Anthony Towns, Draymond Green enter that club, watching Josh Hart enter that club, Mikal Bridges enter that club. That's the fun in it. And so that's why I watched the game the way I watched it yesterday. In watching that, it take you back. Man, what they doing after? I know what they probably doing after. They're in San Antonio. They were in New York City. There will be one of the spots set up banging for them that night. They're in San Antonio. So that'll take place tonight in New York City. But what are you doing in San Antonio? I won my first championship in Cleveland. Very similar. When you win a championship, nobody in that city, unless you're in like Miami, nobody in that city Wants to see y'all party. I'll be honest, in Cleveland, I didn't even feel safe leaving the hotel to go try to party. No chance. So I ask myself, what are they doing tonight to celebrate? Probably at some restaurant that they take over, probably in some ballroom, Boston, Although Boston, I will tell y'all, when we went in Boston, there was a club underneath the Boston Garden. I had no idea it was there. They took us some back way and down, and we was in this club till like 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock in the morning, 5 o'clock in the morning. Then we went back to Boston to the hotel, the Four Seasons, and flooded the ballroom and had a good time. And the ballroom, Let's just say things that you would never do openly in the ballroom that were like, no hotel would allow you to do that. At that time, you're doing it. Like if you, you know, big ballroom, it's in the open, so tame your thoughts. But, you know, I'll leave it for the imagination. Ballroom stink badly. Anyway, um, like, or they're probably in a ballroom at La Quinta. If they're not staying at La Quinta, then maybe they're staying at the Thompson. Like, they're probably in a ballroom. It's the most fun you're gonna have in a ballroom or a restaurant in your life. So it takes you there, right? In Cleveland, we were at Morton's Steakhouse on top of the table, DJ, the whole nine, having a blast on top of the table in Morton's Steakhouse, which is connected to the hotel, going crazy. So I'm like, Yeah, they gotta be doing this. You don't sleep. You leave at like 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning to head back. You don't sleep. It's no such— you get on the plane, you sleep for the hour. Our trip back from Boston was 6 hours. You sleep at some point during there, you crash, and you get off and it's time to go again once you land. For them, it's a shorter flight from San Antonio back to New York, 2 and a half, maybe 3 hours. That's where you catch the sleep at. So again, it takes you back to all of those moments. Cleveland, Morton Steakhouse. It's like, wow. What a time. And so shout out to the Knicks players. I know they just had one of the most fun nights of their lives. 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He left no doubt. There's nothing anyone can do do or say that leaves any doubt. He did the ultimate thing. Oh, and by the way, I'm gonna give y'all 45, get out of here, go home. That's cool. It's over. Enjoy. It's been real, guys. Peace. Oh, by the way, y'all ain't gonna come shake my hand? No problem. What's the first thing Jalen Brunson did? Beeline to Mitch Johnson, shook his hand. Respect, much respect. I would've loved for the Spurs players to be there for him to shake their hand. They walked off. That was disappointing. Bit disappointing. The reason it was disappointing is because when you go minority, Mano a mano, toe to toe, blow for blow with a team, and they get the better of you, those that become champions look them in their eyes and say, respect, congratulations, well deserved. And then you go to the locker room. That's what those that become champions do. When guys just leave the court and can't face— me and AV, one of our assistant coaches, we always look your killer in the face. Look your killer in the face. You gotta look them in they face. By the way, if you leave the court and you don't look me in my face and I just beat you, I actually know that I own you forever because you couldn't even look me in the face. And so to see them walk off the court, it was disheartening. And we, I'll blame it on youth. I'll blame it on lacking the leader to show them that, hey, this is what you do, not walk off. I'll blame it on that. Yeah. I blame it on that, lacking the leadership, the leader to show them that no, no, no, there's a way to win and there's a way to lose. There's a way to win and there's a way to lose. And walking off the court, not looking your killer in his eyes ain't the way to lose. Yeah. And I've witnessed that before. And those that I've witnessed from, they went the wrong way. They never, they didn't really go the right way. They actually went the wrong way. That ain't cool. I don't like that. I don't respect that. I hate it. I hate when people do it. And I hated to see those young Spurs do it because I actually think they're capable of doing something special. Like, I think they have some pieces that are capable of doing something special. But when you talk about being capable of doing something special, I think what, what people always take into account is the talent level. What most people don't take into account is— Draymond Green. The actual reality of it, which is injuries happen, different things happen, all types of things can take place that can change the course of what we think we see ahead of us. And one of the most important things in winning a championship you need is good fortune. And sometimes when people, you look and people are on a journey and you're like, oh man, I see where that's headed. That's going here. And misfortune happens and there's nothing you can do about it. And sometimes we look and we say, damn, that sucks. That should have never happened to them. But we don't look back down the line and see where that misfortune could be coming from. In a moment like not looking your killer in his eyes in the NBA and saying, yo, congratulations, respect. Some, I've seen it with guys, some misfortune. And no one ever points back to that moment and be like, yo, there's some misfortune here. That this is where, no one ever points back. Everybody's just like, "Ah, tough break." 'Cause of sports. "Ah, it's a tough break." But I'm a firm believer in you create your luck. And so I just didn't like that. And I would urge those young Spurs to, man, reach out to Jalen Brunson however you can. Reach out to Karl-Anthony Towns however you can. Reach out to Josh Howard however you can. And tell them dudes congratulations because you want great fortune. When you try and go on a run, build a dynasty, all these things, even win a championship, you need good fortune. 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Unbeknownst to me, Jermaine O'Neal, who's, I think that was J-O's last year playing, who's a client of Bob Myers when Bob Myers was an agent, is now on our team. Bob Myers is the GM. Goes and tell Bob Myers, "Bob, don't get rid of this group. Don't let this group get away from each other." Bob, what are you talking about, man? We just lost game 7 of the playoffs, first round. Bob, I've been in this league for a very long time. Supposed to win a championship, didn't. Wasn't supposed to win a championship, didn't. Was supposed to, didn't. I've seen it all. They know how to lose. What? They know how to lose. They'll be all right because they know how to lose. There's a way to lose and keep going, and there's a way to win and keep going. There's also a way to win and go back. There's a way to lose and go back. And what they did is a way to lose to go back. To Jermaine O'Neal's point, 2015, we become champions. No, we didn't become champions because we shook their hand, but it's about who you are. In order to win a championship, you have to be a certain way. And so— I'm sorry. I urge them to reach out to those guys and say congratulations. I saw Mitch Johnson go say congratulations. Follow your leader. Everybody, Mike Brown outcoached Mitch Johnson. Mitch Johnson right away, congratulations. By the way, one coach gonna get outcoached, one coach gonna do the outcoaching. It's a 50% chance 'cause it's two of them. It happens. Yeah. It happens. That ain't Mike Brown's first time in the NBA Finals. Not as a head coach, not as any type of coach. But it's not. He's won championships as an assistant. He's been on the stage as a head coach. He did it. Shout out to Mike Brown. Congratulations. Uncle Wes, congratulations. Mike Brown. He did outcoach. He's been in the situation. He know the mistakes that he made before to learn from, from this time. Much respect. Mitch Johnson gotta grow. Of course. It's a second year head coach, first full year. Of course he gotta grow. It's okay. This is gonna fuel him so much to get better. Now you got film, you got, real-time data, like, ah, it could have been, ah, I can go watch it. Okay. Yeah, that's okay. Mike Brown, the timely substitution, making Jose more important to the series, using him, understanding his importance. Mitch Johnson never took Fox out, never made an adjustment, never inserted Castle into the starting lineup. Right? I respect you rolling with Fox and rolling with your guys. I respect the hell outta that. I think there's a time where you may need to see, ah, let's just see what happened. But it wasn't all Fox's fault. Fox had a tough series. Yes, he did. No question. I think a more veteran coach would be more willing to say, ah, I'mma see what happens. I'mma have a conversation with my guy so that he know I believe in him, but I need to see what happens. That's a part of growth. It's okay. It's a part of it. But he been there now. So now you got the experience. You know, when you look at this series, I didn't think the Spurs would ultimately be able to come back and win just from the psychological effects of that this series had. Double-digit leads in every game. Again, when you talk about misfortune, the road ahead, These are the types of things that can hamper your mind as you go forward. Double digits every game. Lost those leads. What's your belief in you now? In yourself now? The Knicks knew every game, no worries. I've been in this position before with the Houston Rockets. Yo, they gonna get up 20. We fine. The Knicks knew no matter what that they could walk them down. And that was incredible. Watching it, you knew the look on the Knicks' face that they knew they could walk them down. You knew the look on the Spurs' face that they also knew the Knicks was gonna walk them down. The psychological edge of it took its toll. By the way, I don't know if anyone has ever dealt with things psychologically, but it just don't go away once the series end. That's now something they gotta climb over. All of these things matter when you talking about a dynasty, building one. They gotta now hop over that. It's tough. It's tough. When a team know they got your number, guess what? Other teams now feel you're vulnerable and they can get your number, they think. So now it's a little tougher. But the Knicks knew they had their number. The Knicks knew anytime they get a lead, no problem guys, don't trip, stay the course, we'll walk 'em down. And they did that. As I said, De'Aaron Fox had a rough series. No, make no mistake about it. You ask yourself the question, how do you view him as a player moving forward? And listen, the reality is this, what happens to when guys go through what Fox went through? Is this, everybody always gonna say, no matter what you do, "Oh man, he did it at that level, that's cool, but he couldn't do it in the finals. Couldn't do that on that stage." So there'll always be an asterisk until you go do it there. The answer is go play better. Get back in the lab if it matters. Go get better. What was the issue? Identify the issue. One of them was didn't shoot the ball well. Shot 25% from 3. Okay. What can you do there? They was not letting him get to his left hand. They was trying to get you right. Okay. What can you do there to improve? Those has to be the questions for De'Aaron Fox. Yeah. And then you gotta go do the work if it matters. You don't become De'Aaron Fox if you're not willing to do the work, but the work gotta, it gotta take another couple steps up. Because you won one game in the finals, as far as he's ever been in his career, winning one game in the finals is so far from being a champion. Mm-hmm. And you only understand that if you've ever been a champion. So far. So what can you do? But, but you may think it makes it easy. No, it makes it tougher because people are still looking at y'all like, yo, we gotta get them too. What? So you gotta go put the work in. That's the only answer. Ain't no crazy algebra, calculus, trigonometry answer to this. Yeah. You just gotta go do the work. And the work gotta take another couple steps up. It's the only way to correct it. I think he's more than capable. Rough go, happens. Some of the best of us, happens. What are you going to do to correct that? That's what it boils down to for all the young guys. You look at Stephon Castle, I— I don't know. As the series went on with the Knicks, it got tougher and tougher for him. 'Cause he couldn't really get downhill anymore. Finishing at the rim, they weren't fouling, they weren't sending to the free throw line. So where did it go wrong for you at? Stephon Castle shot 32% from 3 during the finals. Fox, 25%. Harper, 28%. 28%. That's probably one of your answers. Can you go and prove that? Stephon Castle, how can you get to your mid-range better? So it seem they started taking that away and forcing you to either take the 3 or get all the way to the rim and then not foul it. Can you become a better finisher at the rim in regardless of whether you get a foul call or not? Right? Dylan Harper, 3 gotta get better. Can get to a bucket any other way. Once that 3 get better, lights out. These are the things that these young guys have to be saying to themselves. 'Cause it's gonna get harder for them to even win next year now because people see you coming. So you gotta come back so much better. And I think they are the young guys ultimately who wants to be great. But you gotta go put the work in. That's what their mindset has to be. I need to get stronger. If I'm Wimby, I need to get stronger. I need to get stronger, right? They bullied us this series. We need to get stronger and improve on those things. Gotta be so hungry going. If they want a chance to try to do it again next year, You gotta be so hungry 'cause it's gonna get tougher. People gonna be watching y'all like, yo, they was almost there. What do we need to do to beat them? It gets tougher, right? Let's just, let's face it. More people are going to be building to beat the Spurs than building to beat the New York Knicks because everybody's gonna feel like, oh man, the New York Knicks are older. We don't have to worry about them for so much longer. They're not old, but I'm just telling you how the world is going to look at it. The basket— they're gonna be looking to beat the Spurs more than New York Knicks. That's what's gonna happen around the league. Now, I think for the New York Knicks, that's a great thing. You actually want that if you're the New York Knicks. Go beat them. We the champs, overlook us. But I guarantee you, because people always want the shiny thing, and the Spurs, they're the shiny thing. They got— They're the— Victor Wembenyama, Harper, Kessel. They're the shiny thing that people wanna look at for the next 10 years, they think, or they think they're gonna look at. So they'll overlook the Knicks, who are the defending, will be the defending champions. They'll overlook them and say, "Man, we need to build for those guys because of the next 10." Watch. If I'm the Knicks, I'm very happy about that. Go for it. No problem. I don't give a shit. Let us do what we do over here. You love that. But for these guys, people are going to be building to beat them. They have to get a lot better. You just, you can't come back with the same roster. You gotta figure out where you need to plug, where you need to tweak some things. You know what I'm saying? You lost in the finals. You gotta, you gotta figure that out. What's different? Wimby had no muscle, right? Wimby's about to, should have been, Probably suspended twice with flagrant foul accumulation points. They gave him grace. And like I said before, NBA gave Wimby a lot of grace, rightfully so. They should give Wimby grace. Nobody wanna see the Spurs without Wimby. I wish the NBA would just say, "No, no, no, we giving a little grace there." I wish the NBA would just say it. Why not? Why not? As the guy who got suspended from NBA Finals, just say it. By the way, just so we're clear, I think Wimby should get more grace than me. It's possible he's facing NBA. That's how things work. The thing I hate is we act like in sports somebody can't say, yo, that guy gonna get a little more grace than this guy. But the most important person out of Fortune 500 company is not gonna get fired as fast as the— Draymond Green. 150th important person. That's the reality. Or even the 20th most important person. That's the reality. But for some reason in sports, we act like it's like you can't say that everyone's the same. No, the fuck everybody isn't. It's not real life. Hey, newsflash, sports is real life. I wish the NBA would just say like, no, we giving him more grace for sure. It's Victor Wembanyama. You should. So he was given a lot of grace. I think a part of it is, it starts with the elbow to Nas Reid, right? Minnesota out there roughing him up. You got no muscle next to you. He like, I gotta do it myself. Boom. And it's a domino effect from there. So he needs to get stronger. Somebody on that roster need to figure out, we can't have him doing that. We can't afford for him to be doing that. So now what? But I think they gotta take a deeper look at things. Almost getting there. We've seen teams young while nobody's expecting to get there, never get back. We've seen that. We expect these guys to get back, but so much has to go right. And you gotta put yourself in the best position for those things to go right. Yeah. Coming into next year, Wemby's probably going to be rated the best player in the world coming into next year. He was not the best player in that series. Jalen Brunson was by a long shot. By the way, Wemby might not have been the second best player in that series. That was at times Carl Anthony Towns and OG Anunoby. No problem. Doesn't mean you can't be the best or shouldn't be the best, but he wasn't. All right, back to the drawing board. No problem. He's gonna come into the season next year as the number one player in the NBA. I'd be highly, highly surprised if he wasn't by all the publications and all of this. That's another target. No problem. What you gonna do this summer to take that next step? Now ultimately they have to, figure that out as an entire team, as an entire organization, as an entire group. And if there's any organization that can, Coach Pop, RC Buford, they know what they doing. So we'll see. But the Knicks, they did it. And give all the credit to them. All the credit. I mean, that shit was beautiful to watch. By the way, all playoffs long, they dominated. This just wasn't like, yo, they beat the Spurs 4 to 1. They did that all playoffs long. All playoffs long they did that. They had the little issues, 2 games they lost to the Hawks. They was kind of smooth selling then on. And not, you know, they made it look easy. It ain't easy. But they made it look easy. So you gotta give this team their due. It's gonna be interesting seeing them come back next year as champions. The one thing we're gonna have to see, and I'll say this to Carl Anthony Towns, you showed everybody you can defend. You're gonna have to do that for 82 now because you just showed everyone that you can do it. And by the way, if they want to repeat, have that chance to have another great year, you're gonna have to do it and you're gonna have to be consistent with it because if you're not consistent with it, then people gonna look and be like, ah, and then bickering starts and all that. And it just derails. So gonna have to do it. And not at the highest level of what he did. I challenge him to, but not at the highest level of what he did at all. Playoffs, that's tough, but gonna have to be a lot better defensively than he's been throughout the course of his career. Like he's been over the last 2 months. And you know, It'll be fun trying to repeat. Every year you walk in as the champions, every game, every arena, we the champs. It's a great feeling. Congratulations to the New York Knicks. Congratulations to my guy Mike Brown. Seeing Mike B win his first championship as a head coach is beautiful. I remember sitting on the phone last summer with Mike B, talking to him about was he possibly going to Was he possibly going to take the assistant job, the head assistant with the Suns? And we're talking and he like, "Man, I'm going after the Knicks job." He like, "You think I got a real chance?" I'm like, "Mike B, I think, I'm looking at the candidates. Mike B, I think you got a real chance." He like, "Shit, I'm gonna go do the interview and see what happened." He like, "But you think those guys will gimme a real chance at it?" I said, "Mike B." They gotta give you a real chance at it because they need to win. And I don't see nobody out there better to go in there with that group and win. Like, shit, I'm going after it. Couple weeks later, he's the head coach of the New York Knicks. So shout out to Mike B, getting it done, seeing the vision and working through it, by the way. This was a, when we talk about an 82-game process, Go look at these guys' first 40 games. That man changed their offense as the year went on. He changed their offense as the year went on. He worked through it. My guy, Darren Erman, shout out to Erm. Chico. Boy's got it done. Like I said, Uncle Wes. Much respect. To all the New York Knicks fans out there, Spike. Spike came, Draymond, ah! Love it. Happy to see it. Shout out to all the New York Knicks fans. Shout out to the New York Knicks organization. We all love the city of New York. Y'all please don't burn it down too much. Everybody love going to New York. Leave the city in one piece. It's gonna be a hell of a parade. Hell of a parade, probably right down Fifth Avenue. Hell of a parade. That's gonna be beautiful to see, beautiful to watch. To the players, congratulations, man. Welcome to the champions, the club of champions. It's a beautiful thing. Guys went out and took it. Well deserved. Happy for everybody. Much love. That's a wrap from the 2025-2026 NBA season. Everybody back to the drawing board now. 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