In this episode of The Draymond Green Show, host Draymond Green asks Stephen Curry to unpack LeBron James’s recent comment that Curry is the one current NBA player he would want to play with. Curry describes the remark as a profound sign of respect, recalling their early connection when LeBron gave him a signed jersey in college and reflecting on the surreal nature of being praised by a player often discussed in GOAT debates. He muses on how a LeBron‑Curry combo would look in a fantasy draft or a video‑game setting, while emphasizing that his focus remains on his current team and role. Draymond shifts the conversation to criticize how media narratives constantly pit Black NBA stars against each other, turning respectful comments into controversy. Curry agrees, noting that such framing distracts from genuine admiration and strategic complementarity. The dialogue ends with both emphasizing that pairing their skill sets would be “unstoppable,” and that the respect transcends basketball into broader business thinking.
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What's up everybody? It's Draymond Green. Make sure you subscribe to the Volumes YouTube channel below so you don't miss any more of this great content going forward. LeBron says the other day, last week or something, whenever it was, that he has one guy in the NBA right now that, a current NBA player that he wants to play with. That player happens to be you. And I know I saw the other day where you said, you laughed about it and you was like, oh, I'm good. But like, take me deeper into that. Number one, I mean, you're on that level, but like LeBron is up there in the GOAT conversation. So for him to—
Straight up.
Like for him to come out and say like, no, I wanna play with Steph Curry. Regardless of how the world may feel about that or how anyone may feel, in my opinion, that is like, that's one, number one, that's one of the ultimate signs of respect. That has to feel good. But then number two, like, don't give me the laugh, I'm good. Like, take me deeper into what you were really thinking when you first heard that.
But so what you just said is definitely, and like we talk about all the time with Bron, especially knowing our history and, Finals runs and all that and playing against him, there is no denying like his greatness in terms of what he can do on the court. And like sometimes you're in, even when you're playing against him, you're in awe. 'Cause it's like the way he can control the tempo of the game, the way he can dominate scoring, passing, you know, just his overall just presence and his IQ, like all that stuff. Like we all talk about it and you have to appreciate your competition if you wanna beat him. 'Cause there's gotta be that, you know, as Coach would call it, the appropriate fear.
Absolutely.
Like you said, in terms of like him picking out one player that he would want besides his son that he would wanna play with and my name comes up, it is definitely, it's surreal because I'll never be so far removed from the time like I was in Detroit playing in the Sweet 16 game and this dude was maybe in his 4th or 5th year in the league and he's coming to my game like, supporting and cheering and doing all that stuff, even at the place he was at in his career as, you know, the future superstar. And like you said, Hall of Famer, potentially greatest of all time. Like the fact that we're 13 years removed and he's saying that, it's still crazy. I had a, I don't know how people knew this. He gave me a jersey when I was in high school, or sorry, when I was in college at Davidson. And I still have it on the wall at my parents' house back in Charlotte.
Wow.
And he wrote it like, to the king of basketball in North Carolina and signed it and all that. So like, I'll never be too far removed from like where I came from in terms of this journey. So that's dope. And that's the surreal part. The other quick part is like, okay, if you take a fantasy draft and you're like building a team out and you got what Bron can do and the way that I can shoot the ball, like obviously there's like a curiosity, like what would that look like? But. Also, there's a realism of like, that's why I said I'm good right now. It's just, you can never let your mind go from what you know is your situation, what is your moment, your time, and who I've been rocking with from day one. So that's my best answer at it. 'Cause it's fantasy, it's wild, but there's a respect and appreciation. There's a surrealness 'cause of where I came from and and how we first interacted back when I was in college. But if this was 2K, that'd be pretty lethal.
I appreciate that answer though, because the reality is one thing that pisses me off in this entire realm of NBA players of, which is, let's face it, dominated by African Americans. Is how they try to pit us against each other. You know, it's like everything him against him compared, like how is he compared to this guy?
No, they just did that to, I was walking up here and somebody, I was on TV on one of the talking head shows and it was just like, who has more pressure, Kyrie or KD?
I said, what? What? Now they walk in the locker room. That's 15 minutes on TV. Like we talk about that.
Exactly.
Before the playing game even started. Like I think it's ridiculous how they try to like, and so when LeBron comes out and say like, I wanna play with Steph Curry. And the reality is all the talking heads and all of these people, they wanna try to find a way to make that controversial.
Right.
And that's not a controversial statement at all. That is saying I admire someone with my knowledge of the game. 'Cause LeBron has some of the highest knowledge when it comes to, basketball with my knowledge of the game and me understand what wins in this league, I wanna play with him because if I can take my skillset and partner my skillset with this guy's skillset, I think it'll be unstoppable. But it goes way further than that when, when it comes to us, you know, it, it doesn't go way further than that when, when, when you're dealing in all other realms of business. Yeah. But when it comes to us, it goes way further than, no, actually from a basketball standpoint, that makes all the sense in the world.
He would almost be dumb not to say that.
Like, are you outta your mind?
If you gave him a clear, a clean slate and was like, right, number one pick in the NBA draft, fantasy, whatever. Like you said, what you bring to the table, who would compliment that?
