Draymond GreenForward, Golden State Warriors

Media who picked the Lakers to win Finals need to be FIRED 🔥 #shorts #lakers #nba #warriors

14 Apr 2022 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Draymond Green vehemently criticizes sports media analysts who forecasted the Los Angeles Lakers would win the NBA championship. He argues that such wildly inaccurate predictions should result in the analysts being fired, emphasizing the need for accountability. Green highlights that out of 30 NBA teams, only 10 remain alive in each conference, making a Lakers championship prediction absurdly off‑base. He draws a parallel to other analytical professions—such as venture capital or Wall Street—suggesting that if analysts in those fields made similarly erroneous calls, they would lose their jobs. The monologue serves as a call to hold media personalities responsible for their "hot takes" when they are demonstrably wrong.

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I mean, there were people that said the Los Angeles Lakers was gonna win a championship. If this is what you do, you say you're grading, you're expert analyst, and you picked the Los Angeles Lakers to win a championship, you kind of gotta be fired. And somebody gotta start holding people accountable. Like, you're so far off from being right. And you gotta think about it. There's 10 teams that's currently still alive in each conference, 20 teams total. There's 30 teams in the NBA. You picked that they'd be the number 1 team. They're not even 21 or 20. You're like, you're so far off in any other job. If you're that far off, could you imagine being an analyst for a venture firm or an analyst like on Wall Street or something and you're that far off? Like you lose your job. Like somebody gotta start holding people accountable for these hot takes. Yeah.