In this conversational YouTube segment, Draymond Green and former guard Baron Davis brainstorm a potential NBA one‑on‑one tournament to be held during next year’s All‑Star Weekend. They debate which super‑stars would excel (Kevin Durant, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Paulo Banchero, etc.), propose rule tweaks such as a limited‑dribble count and a short shot clock (5‑6 seconds), and reference Unrivaled’s recent one‑on‑one event won by Nafissa Collier. The dialogue then shifts to contract representation, highlighting Shai Gilgeous‑Alexander’s decision to represent himself, the potential $12 million savings from cutting agent fees, and the importance of experienced legal counsel. Finally, they discuss the serious health news that Victor Wembanyama will miss the rest of the season due to a deep‑vein thrombosis in his right shoulder, drawing parallels to past players (Chris Bosh, Asar Thompson, LaMarcus Aldridge) who suffered similar clotting issues, and expressing concern for his recovery. The overall tone is informal, enthusiastic about the tournament concept, cautiously pragmatic about contract matters, and empathetic regarding player health.
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Sounds like there's a lot of interest from players like Kyrie, James, Giannis, Dame. KD kind of downplayed it, but KD love playing ones. KD play ones every day anyway. As far as the one-on-one tournament during the NBA All-Star weekend next year, it would be. Unrivaled did one this year. Nafissa Collier won that one. Do you think you ultimately get the best players to participate? In a one-on-one game?
I think they would do it. I think Giannis would win though.
Yeah?
Yeah, I think Giannis would win. Whoever can play defense.
Is it a dribble limit? You can't, you can't have a million dribbles with NBA players, bro.
No, you can have 5. You can, you can do 3 dribbles, 5 dribbles. Like, none of those little guards can stop Giannis, but Giannis got defense, right? So he can pretty much affect they shot. You should get like 5. You should get a a 6-second shot clock rundown.
Hey man, I tell you, it'd be dope. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. I was about to say 6 seconds on one-on-one. It's a long time to guard somebody one-on-one in the NBA, man.
It should be catch the ball, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Yeah, it should be 5 seconds. It'd be dope to see, you know, Kyrie, Harden, all these dudes go at each other who are, you know, incredible, one-on-one players in, in the game itself to do that for All-Star Weekend. I'd love to see something like that. Shout out to Unrivaled for doing it. Uh, Nafissa Collier, she brought out the bag, right?
She did.
She played defense too.
She does.
So if you got some offense and defense and you, you, you a big man, I like, I like Giannis chances.
I'm taking KD. 'Cause KD can check anybody and KD can score better than anybody.
I like KD too.
I'm taking KD. I gotta roll with KD.
Yeah.
I got to roll with K. Yeah, K can guard anybody, shoot over everybody.
Paulo Banchero.
Paulo can play for sure. Paulo can play. That's a fact. And he from Seattle, they got the ones.
And James Harden. If he get rolling, ain't nobody gonna be able to stop him.
That's a fact. But you just said you gotta play defense.
Right, but I said if he get rolling—
Uno been guarding this year. Jeff Van Gundy got Uno guarding this year.
Yeah, he on, he on. He's serious, he serious, he focused. He got the Clippers rolling. Chris Hayes reported that SGA will represent himself for all on-court decisions. That means he's up for a $300 million contract this summer and joins Joel Embiid as another player representing himself. I know what you think. What do you think about this move?
Listen, I think, uh, I saw that this can save him $12 million in agent fees. Um, listen, $12 million saved is a lot of money. I just will warn him, be very careful of how much money you could be costing yourself because there's things in the contract that great representation know, you know, great representation know that you should have in your contract.
Now— Right.
A lot of guys ain't never had great representation and they don't really know the capabilities and possibilities of a contract and what could be in there and what should be in there. And so I think a lot of people make the mistake of like, he gonna get the $345K or whatever the number is, he gonna get that anyway, so it doesn't matter. And the reality is it's the fine print. You know, there's a lot of things that goes into a contract that is more than just the dollar amount that one receives. So in saying that, I think, you know, make sure that he's getting all that he can out of that contract.
Mm-hmm.
That's just not about what the end dollar amount is.
For sure.
If he can do that and save $12 million.
He good, Chuck.
I get it. But I, you know, and like I always say, I don't think Elon Musk is reading the legal on his deals that he do.
Right.
You know what I'm saying? I don't think.
Just gotta get a good team.
You know what I'm saying? I don't think, I don't foresee that Jack Dorsey read all that legal when he sold Twitter for $44 billion to Elon Musk. I personally don't think. That that's the case. And so me personally, I want to find great representation like those guys do.
I'm with SGA representing them. So, you know, you just gotta build the right counsel, right? Build the right counsel, build the right team, build the right advisors, have all your checks and balances, and just hire somebody who have strategic know-how.
Move around the league a little bit. The biggest news coming outta All-Star break around the league is Victor Wembanyama will be out for the rest of the season due to deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder. That is blood clotting, some form of blood clotting in his right shoulder. Number one, whoever was the trainer that figured that out to even send that for test, I tip my hat to you. Kudos to you.
Yeah.
Because that's serious. You talking about blood clotting, that's life-threatening. You know, other players that's gone through this, Chris Bosh, this ended Chris Bosh's career at 32.
Mm-hmm.
Asar Thompson, this ended his rookie season early. He just got back maybe a month and a half, 2 months ago from that.
Oh wow.
And also some form of it, LaMarcus Aldridge dealt with towards the end of his career, which kind of shut LA down as well. I don't know if it was this exact thing, but I know it was some form of blood clotting that slowed LA down and ultimately forced him into retirement as well. And so, really sending my love and well wishes to Vic because that is something that, like, he has to be aware of that for the rest of his career. Like, you know, we all hope and believe and think that he's going to make a full recovery, but in making a full recovery, that's blood clotting. That's what then, you know, you can't, he can't necessarily get on blood thinners because then they make you bruise easily and it don't, doesn't allow you to heal properly as far as basketball goes. And so—
Yeah.
It's a tough, tricky thing, man. And it's something that he could possibly deal with even once getting past it. And so just sending our love and well wishes to Vic in dealing with this.
