In this informal, banter‑filled YouTube episode, Draymond Green and former NBA guard Baron Davis field fan questions about the ongoing March Madness tournament, critique the current state of college basketball, speculate on the NBA’s international trajectory, and react to a viral R&B remix of LeBron James that samples Michael Jackson. They each name their top three March Madness prospects—Cooper Flagg, Jayce Richardson, and Johnny Broom (Green) and Jayce Richardson, Eric Daly Jr., and Mark Sears (Davis)—and discuss why these players could impact the NBA draft. The duo then laments college basketball’s officiating, the transfer portal, NIL dynamics, and the lack of compensation for smaller schools, proposing a fee‑sharing model and a shift away from the “amateur” label. Turning to the NBA, they envision more global games in London, Mexico City, and possibly a worldwide tournament, noting that international play may better prepare players for the NBA than college. Finally, they humorously critique a LeBron‑themed R&B track that samples Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror,” expressing both amusement and protective reverence for the original artist.
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Don't do my boy Michael Jackson like that.
Yeah, brother.
It was fly though.
The next segment is Get at Me and BD, where we answer questions from the fans since March Madness has started. We'll answer a few questions about college basketball.
Waffa 2025, who are the top prospects to watch during March Madness? If you both can give your top 3. Ooh.
I'll start. Obviously Cooper Flagg, but Cooper Flagg is who he is. I think an interesting to watch is Jayce Richardson.
Oh, nice.
Jayce has climbed up the charts of the draft boards and I think he's continuing to excel. I think a lot of people early on in the season like, "Oh man, he's a shot maker, he can make shots, but can he handle the ball?" So what did Izzo do here? Jayce handled the ball more, go make plays more. And he's checked that box. And so I think that'll be a fun one to watch. So I'm going Cooper Flagg, I'm going Jace Richardson, and I think Johnny Broome, he's a 5th-year senior at Auburn. I think he's an interesting watch. He's dominated college basketball this year. And I think, you know, now he's gonna keep playing at this level. And I think a lot of scouts gonna wanna see how he perform in this tournament. You know, seniors get a knock in the draft, although we've changed that a bit. Shout out to myself and the other seniors that's come in this league and created, caused havoc, and changed in that narrative a little bit. So I think Johnny Broom are the top 3 that I'm watching. Cooper Flagg, Jace Richardson, Johnny Broom.
You took my Jace Richardson.
Spark dog.
That's my baby right there. That's my baby right there, man. That's nephew.
Yes, sir. Little.
Yes, sir. You feel me? He out here killing.
You and Jay probably was on the same team when he was born, huh? Let's see.
He was a baby.
Yeah, he was a baby. 18 years ago. We are 2007. That's what we believe.
Yep. Yep.
That's crazy.
Yeah, yeah. Nah, I'm telling you, that was my little dude. After that, you know, I had no kids at the time. So like I used to always hang with Jay Rich. I called Jay Rich the Don. I used to hang with the Don and the baby Dons.
That's fire.
So shout out to, Jace. My other guy is, um, Eric Daly Jr.
Fire.
From UCLA. I'm talking about a dog. Uh, talking about somebody that's skilled. I feel if coach just let him go, right? If the coach just let him go and like let him just be the focal point of the offense, I think UCLA is gonna be good. He's built for the NBA. And as we've seen, UCLA makes great, great, great professional athletes.
Even our young— Draymond Green.
I like this guy Mark Sears.
Ah, yeah.
From Alabama.
Yeah.
I wanna see what he do. He's explosive, versatile. He's their motor, right? And I, you know, I just like, I like how he get down. He's smooth, he efficient, he can score the rock. I want to see what he do. I want to see what Alabama does because this is the first time I think that the Alabama basketball is ranked higher than Alabama football.
Yep.
For the first time in a long time.
That's a fact. All right, I like that list. I like that list. @TNB777, what is the biggest problem with the current system in college basketball? I think number one, transfer. I'm sure he's talking about all the transfer portal and the NIL and all of that stuff. And that's fine. But I think the way the game is officiated in college basketball makes it boring. Now you can't play defense. I agree for sure. You can't guard the post.
Sure.
The rules of college basketball need to get closer to the rules of the NBA because I think some of the rules of college basketball don't make sense. Creates a disservice for guys coming into the NBA. And so, That's what I think is most wrong with the system is the way the referees referee the game, the way they call the game, the way you have to guard. I think it sucks.
Yeah, I think it is the officiating because the games are just drawn out. And then I also think a lot of it is, I'm not mad at the transfer portal, right? At all. 'Cause I'm still filling out a bracket. It's still UCLA on mine. I still love my Bruins, and I'm still watching young talent go places and flourish. Now, some of these coaches need to go sit their ass down because they don't know what they doing, and they recruiting the wrong guys, and they not really building up programs. When you think of somebody like Calipari, when he was doing one-and-dones, he was still building up the program for guys to come in and be one-and-done. Now everybody is looking at How can we get guys to come in for one year and do something at my school, turn my school around? And it's just not the same. It's not the same pedigree, right? It's just like a meat market for, you know, kids being here one day, leaving the next day, you know, uh, like there's no adversity or loyalty. And so now you're gonna get A lot of these young kids coming outta high school that are talented, that need to grow and develop, it's gonna take them 2 or 3 years to find the right place. A lot of it is, you know, coaching and building up a program. And, you know, not every coach should be going after one-and-dones, right? The more coaches, even for a lot of these, like the mid-majors are killing right now and the bigger universities are struggling. Because they just keep playing with the NIL stuff instead of like a Michigan State, stick to the system, build a program.
For sure. Michigan State definitely doing that always.
NIL is not affecting y'all, right? Like Izzo's gonna take chances on kids that fit his program.
1 million percent.
You know, now there's an entitled wave of kids coming in with parents and managers sometimes telling these coaches, what they are and are not gonna do. And then when they get there, they don't see success, they out middle of the year.
Yep. Yep. No, that's a fact. And you, like you said, you, you just don't learn how to grow through adversity. I think another thing is, I think some of these smaller schools, the whole system need to be reworked. Some of these smaller schools, like in professional soccer, you know how you can loan out a player? Or you can sell a player and not sell a player 'cause that sounds bad, but you receive a fee if someone sign your player.
Yeah.
I think some of these smaller schools that are getting these guys into these positions to then go to bigger schools and make NIL money, they should receive a fee from these bigger schools as well. And that's how you can still kind of keep the playing field somewhat level, get some money into some of these smaller schools' pockets that don't have the resources to have NIL. I think that's the way, reward them for their recruiting. They recruit good talent, they build up their development, they develop good talent, and then that talent goes somewhere else to a bigger school for more NIL money. That school should have to pay that school some money. I think that needs to go into effect. And then also lastly, stop acknowledging this amateur basketball. It is no longer amateur basketball. This is no longer amateur sports. This is professional sports and they need to address it like as such.
Yeah. DavidGTG08, how do you guys see the future of the NBA? Being even more international, or are the college seeds that are going, are these college seeds that are coming in gonna take over? Look, the game is getting better. The game is evolving. Like, man, we just talked about Cade Cunningham, right? We just talked about, Austin Reeves, right? Cooper Flagg is up next. You got the kid, uh, AJ going to Utah, right? You got Jace at Michigan State, right? You are always gonna get a new wave of personalities and talent in the league. Um, obviously the league is very international now. I think you will find more international games, activities, maybe even a tournament. Maybe even the Commissioner's Cup may wind up international. But I definitely see the future of the league, you know, expanding into more of a global games, right? Like, there could potentially be a global NBA games at one point.
Yeah, 100%. I think at some point you see a team in London. I think at some point, you know, you start to see that as well. So the game will definitely continue. It's happening. Mexico City.
Mexico City, I'm with that. London.
These things are happening. I'm telling you, it's happening. Here's the thing, for a New York team to fly to London is no different than flying to LA, you know? And so what's the challenge of that is figuring out the TV schedule of it, right? That's the challenging part of it. But nonetheless, I think that's coming at some point or another within the next 10 years. But the game will continue to go more international because the game is growing all over the world. Players are getting better.
Facts.
And then, you know, there's a case to be made that international basketball prepares you more for NBA than college. There's a case to be made on that. Now, I don't think the talent level has equaled out yet. There's still more talent in America than there is worldwide. But I think as far as the preparation goes, I think that we're starting to see the international game and the rules that these guys grow up playing as probably better suiting for the NBA game than the college game because some of those rules are just trash. So we'll still have a mixture of both, but I think you'll start to see more and more international guys, but you can never get rid, this our sport. You're never gonna get rid of us. That's just what it is. Last one, @Rory3000. Baron, I know you make music, so I wanted to get your reaction on all these LeBron James R&B songs coming out.
They got Luka Don, Aries, and then LeBron, the real big three.
I have not heard LeBron James do something.
Homeboy tripping. This is hard. He got the Michael Jackson sample. That's sick. His name is LeBron James. You know, hey, that's one of my favorite songs all time in life, Man in the Mirror, dude. And he remixed that for LeBron and the Lakers. Good idea, but I—
That's dope.
You can't, come on, man. Don't do my boy Michael Jackson like that. Yeah, brother, you about to copy my inspiration.
It was fly though.
It was fly though. Don't do, come on, man. Let Michael Jackson, man in the mirror, have his own little space. Sheesh.
