Draymond Green reacts to Bronny James to Lakers, Mikal Bridges to Knicks, T-Wolves NBA Draft winners

Draymond Green reacts to Bronny James to Lakers, Mikal Bridges to Knicks, T-Wolves NBA Draft winners

welcome to the brand new Draymond Green Show YouTube channel hit subscribe so you don’t miss out on any of our content what’s up everybody welcome back to the Draymond Green show uh the second round of the NBA draft just ended uh which is obviously the best round of the NBA draft um all the stars come out of the second round you know so we’ll we’ll discuss that no we’ll discuss the entire draft um I mean some exciting things about the draft not so much on some other parts but we’ll get into that uh Mikel Bridges trade uh few more things going on around the NBA that we will discuss uh but first get ready for a great night of fights UFC 303 it can be even bigger if you sign up you know it doesn’t take long to the draftking Sportsbook app the official sports betting partner of the UFC you know make it simple go to DraftKings select a fighter place your first bet DraftKings new customers all you have to do is BET $5 to get $150 in bonus bets instantly okay so you just download the app now it takes 90 seconds do it on your phone takes 90 seconds put in the code Colin that would be me c o l i n and there you go five bucks you get 150 bucks that’s a pretty sweet deal DraftKings only on DraftKings the crown is yours have a great summer the 2024 NBA draft has concluded and the number one pick was Zachary risset um second pick in a row from France to be well second number one overall pick from France uh only the fourth I think in history there’s that and everybody’s like oh man the France and Europe is taking over the NBA and um they they did it did seem that way in that draft uh last or last night and today uh but might I remind you y’all said this is the weakest draft in recent history so don’t tell me France is taking over the NBA and but because they had so many players drafted this year or that the in or you know International um overseas however you want to categorize it don’t tell tell me that they’re taking over the NBA and they’re far more Superior in the NBA because they had a lot of players drafted and what even before the draft started was kind of dubbed as the worst draft of the last 15 years you cannot then say oh because that draft was dominated by European players or French players that they’re now Superior to and they’re taking over the NBA that that’s that actually just doesn’t make sense to me um nonetheless there’s this topic of conversation that the European countries are catching up to the Americans and quite frankly I think you’ll see very soon in the Olympics how the European countries definitely have put out players Joker Luca um you know as as of late those two uh wimy they have put out some generational talents as of late for sure no no debating that nobody’s arguing that um but there’s this big debate on like Europe’s taking over the NBA and I just don’t agree with that uh number one Yannis um number one I’m not sure we’ve still reached a day of where a European guy is the face of the NBA because the NBA is an American League like and I’m just not sure we’ve hopped that hurdle yet but we we will soon see or you all will see because I know the real um how America still dominates like and by the way when you look at domination you can’t just also look at like oh this star n star you have to look at the whole like the whole body of work and if you look at the whole body of work of the US players us born players in the NBA right now the superstars of the NBA and the nons superstars that are from Europe and the Superstar stars from America and the nons superstars from America it’s not even close the nons superstars like the non superstars from Europe and the nons superstars from America isn’t even close like actually isn’t even discussion so that also plays a part in who’s Superior and all this you get like the Talking Heads like oh I’m telling you the US born players better watch out because Luca like Luca is Once in a generation that’s why all his stats like line up to the bronze this this thus far in the career like he he’s once in a lifetime for sure Joker Giannis for sure but you got to go through the whole body of work and so I’m looking forward to that please stop with the they’re taking over the league and and at the same time saying it’s the worst draft in recent history because those two things are are they don’t make sense um if I had to say who won the draft who won the dra draft to me was the Minnesota Timberwolves and the reason the Minnesota timberwoods won the draft is because they drafted their point guard of the future and Rob Dillingham who I think is a very special player who some of those teams at the top of the draft were afraid of um because he got swag and He Got Game and they don’t know if his game is going to fit into their systems that don’t work and get them fired when you can just get a really good player who can score the back basketball Steph Curry and figure out how the system works for him and then all of a sudden the franchise is in territory that it’s never been in before but you know at times we run into these guards with swag that um they just don’t fit in the system and so teams run away from them and there’s going to be some teams that’s going to regret passing Rob Dillingham because he’s the best pier scor in that draft he wants to be a great Pro if you talk to the young man off the court great young man but y’all probably don’t know that because you just judg by how he bounced around Court in his game very smart young man looking for the game want the game want the knowledge and now he about to go play behind Mike Conley a young Anthony Edwards who he’s about to be running ma with for the next 10 years and I’m just not sure many back cour is going to want to see him and anman good luck so with him and then Teran Shannon Jr who had an incredible two years at Illinois after leaving Texas uh Texas Tech goes and have an incredible career at Illinois falls in the draft because he gets lied on then he falls in the draft Everybody Run Away From Him Minnesota sitting right there 27 will take him guess what because because the way Minnesota’s roster is right now he may help Minnesota next year more than than Rob because he’s a big Wing can shoot the ball can get downhill get to the free throw line and he can check and when you got big wings that can check in this league jayen McDaniels they play by the way they make a lot of money so Minnesota wanted to draft to me look what they just did after coming off of Western Conference Finals look what they just did I like it gotta give Tim Connelly a lot of credit he keep doing special things and listen I’m a tough critic you gotta do special things over and over again for me to be like wow and I’ve always respected him because you see the work he’s put in but he just continues to snatch more and more respect like continues to snatch more and more respect because what he just did in that draft like he couldn’t have nailed those two pcks better so Minnesota won to drafted me and quite frankly Minnesota didn’t need to win the draft but they won the draft and that’s a a team that’s poised to try to compete for a championship and you got to respect it got to respect that so shout out to Minnesota I think Zack Edy at number nine was a great pick by the Grizzlies and the reason I think so is because the Grizzlies the Grizzlies need a center they have to have a center jiren’s not a center jiren’s a power forward and when you allow jiren to roam with a great rim protector behind him jiren is going to be right back in a defensive player of the year rankings next year because he’s going to be able to do what he’s special at get weak side blocks roam around plug and that’s going to be great and he don’t have to worry about being the main rim protector and that’s going to unlock jiren defensively again Zack I also think for the grizzley it’s a low reward high risk I’m excuse excuse me lowrisk high reward pick I think it’s a very lowrisk high reward pick because quite frankly kid what did he win back-to-back National Player of the Year like nobody’s nobody’s judging you for taking him with the ninth pick like nobody’s like oh you shouldn’t have like Ed’s kind of that secret in the draft or not necessarily secret but he’s kind of that unknown I would say in the draft of where like you don’t know if his size is going to trans like do he move well enough quite frankly I think what he does is going to translate um but like bigs in the NBA today is going back to that is it not like but if it does and you get him any pan out you look great and you par him young you get four years on a low contract with now jiren making the big money and J making the big money and Desmond making the big money so I like that pick a lot I like that pick a lot for the Grizzlies I I I think he’ll be ready to go right now senior play for Matt payer in the Big 10 physical going to be tough G to know his stuff because we from the Big 10 that’s what we do um I like the pick I like that pick a lot and I think that pick is going to be huge for the Grizzlies and not many people is talking about it but I really like that pick Lakers had a very interesting pick uh Dalton connect I thought y’ I thought I was going to say bronny huh look we get into that hold your horses um I like that kid a lot uh he’s he’s a decent athlete can shoot the ball got great size playing with that size alongside ad and Braun and can shoot the ball and score the ball the way he can I think uh JJ is going to run him off screens because that’s who JJ was so JJ’s going to be looking for that um and I think if he can come off screens which he showed some at uh Tennessee come off screens firing and turning the corner and getting downhill I think that’s very beneficial so I like that pick for them and then that leads us to uh bronnie um which number one congratulations to bronny to Bron Vanna the James gang Z Bryce congrats to them I mean obviously we all know what Brony went through a year ago and to be here today uh getting drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 55th pick uh will be the first ever fatherson Duo to play in the NBA absolutely incredible um to even to to to go through that and make it back from that and be with in the NBA within a year like as a testament to his drive and work ethic and I actually think um Brony is going to end up being a better Pro than a lot of these players in this draft because has the athleticism has the basketball IQ uh plays the game the right way I think he’s going to be a good shooter in the NBA and I think a lot of people judge Brony off of his production last year at USC which is a little skewed because a for anybody coming back in the middle of a season and trying to play when everybody’s in tip top shape is hard to do that as a newcomer as a freshman as a rookie uh miss training camp Miss some of the season and you come in it’s nearly impossible um he did it and I think also when you look at the team that he was on Isaiah carer who’s a first round pick it’s a point guard it’s more of a Score first point guard getting downhill and Brownie’s a point guard playing the two because Isaiah’s number one pick in the class that’s how these things work number one number one excuse me number one player in the class coming out of high school so he’s going to get to the point guard spot and you’re going to move Brony off the ball and in basketball we always tend to think like positions don’t matter but I would love to see you take a wide receiver and put him at offensive tackle or like take the center and put them at quarterback like I would love to to see you do that but in basketball sometimes we like oh it don’t matter like but if you’re a true point guard and somebody take you off the ball it matter Ask Josh giddy like when you’re a true point guard and you you didn’t have to go play off the ball it’s different especially when you don’t have a point guard that’s feeding you a point guard that or even a point guard that plays the point guard position the way you play the point and so I think some of that is being overblown like the production at USC I think people don’t look at those things that matters um nonetheless I’m just going to take to bet that this kid works hard which he does he has LeBron James DNA and I’mma take the bet on that like it it makes sense and then you watch him play and he’s a good basketball player I’mma take that bet because a you got him at 55 so if he even becomes a rotational player you did great and I think he could possibly become a rotational player in the next two years so shout out to brownie shout out to the James gang absolutely incredible to see him drafted happy as hell for him for them uh to see that like it’s nuts I remember when Bri first said it three four years ago like I want to play you like man what like you ain’t gonna be playing like they did it so shout out to them man that’s super dope as a 12-year NBA veteran recovery is very important to 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delower body shop all your warm-up and Recovery needs at hyperice.com use code Draymond for 15% off your order today exclusions apply uh next trade Michel Bridges to the Knicks for five first round picks five first rounders plus plus pick swaps um I was a little shocked I was shocked because it’s it’s crazy when so when Mikel got traded to the Nets from Phoenix everybody kind of knew the Nets would at some point go into this rebuild that they just went into and so everybody was kind of talking about what they would trade for Mikel Bridges and you hear like four first round picks five first round picks would be like the cost of the trade and then the Rudy go bear trade happened and when the Rudy go bear trade happened initially in the first year of it it didn’t look like it was working and everybody gives up on things extremely fast uh in this day and age that we live in and so it didn’t look like it was successful so then everybody pulled back on like the draft picks like whoa like they just took too many draft picks away that’s a heist and then it kind of reset the market so then in turn you see how many picks Damen Lillard got drafted for I mean got traded for last year which was like two first round picks I want to say plus Drew holiday but we knew Portland didn’t necessarily won Drew holiday what they wanted was the picks they didn’t flip Drew holiday for some players and some picks but the the market had been reset and now with Michel Bridges with the Michel Bridges trade it’s went right back up to the amount of picks that rudo bear was traded for strictly due to the success that the Minnesota Timberwolves just had so they go to the Conference Finals have a tough Conference Finals but everybody thought for a second like yo this team might win in finals and so we always talk about the copycat leag and look at that in an indirect way you see it again the copycat league and so the Knicks give up a bunch of picks and what the Knicks essentially just did was um they pretty much just said they going for it now and I think Mikel Bridges is is one of the better Wing players in our league um you know great two-way player he defends extremely well shoot the ball extremely well I thought in in Brooklyn the second year uh he got caught with the ball in his hands too much um and I don’t think that’s where he’s at his best I think he has the ball and if when he has the ball he can make plays but I thought the ball was kind of in his hand a bit too much that second year and I thought it hindered his play a little bit now he’ll be back at his kind of his normal position where you know he catching and shooting he catching attacking the close outs um and I think that best suit allows him to play his best basketball we know he can do something with the ball and so it’s always good to have those skills when you need to get to it but I think he’s better suited and more of in his like his role in Phoenix but at a much higher volume like use him more use him more within your offense for sure but just coming down calling for a pick and roll every time I don’t think that’s where he’s best suited how nonetheless um anyway the New York Knicks went for and they just mortgaged off their future saying we got it right now and that’s been a Hot Topic here on the podcast during the playoffs because I told y’all I you know what I thought about the New York Knicks and I’ve had a bunch of New York Knick fans come up to me over the last let’s see what has been since the New York’s Nicks lost maybe a month uh is over the last month like you were wrong about the Knicks I was at I was at a friend’s wedding this weekend actually in New York and um the best friend of the groom since elementary school she’s a New York Nick fan big time New York Nick fan and we had a little thing back and for for a while where she tried to tell me like uh you were wrong about my Nicks I said who was wrong and she was like you were wrong because blah blah blah I said no but the Nicks lost in the second around so I was kind of right and she was like no such and such got hurt and when OG an anobi plays we we 26 and six and blah blah blah and this person was hurt and that person was hurt and I said well I didn’t necessarily say y’all were going to be healthy or hurt I said I didn’t think y’all would get much further so I was right and she went on this whole thing back and forth for a while and like ultimately she ended up telling me I was right which which was true but anyway uh which brings us you know to this discussion um I think Adam Mikel Bridges resigning OG anobi to a fiveyear $213 million contract I think those are great things that makes that team better I think that team is going to be tough cuz they’re going to defend we know TBS teams are going to defend uh they got offensive weapons but I ultimately don’t think that team gets over the hump still uh and so if the team doesn’t get over the hump say in two years then everybody in the NBA get really impatient like ah it ain’t working we got to make moves and then it then and then now you’re looking to trade some of those guys to get some picks back in because you move on to where the Knicks were four or five years ago which was four or five years away from being four or five years away and so now the Knicks are in the space where they’re going for it and I respect it I think you know you got to go for it at some point um but what just happened with the trade was that you know if this doesn’t work in two to three years um the Knicks will be rebuilding again because they traded all their pics away and then they’ll be trying to like trade those guys to get picks back in and that’s kind of how it all plays out and uh I’m sorry to the Nicks fans but that’s how I actually think it’s going to play out and I don’t think it’s any indictment to Michel who I think is [Music] like like a top tier player in the NBA like you know you got tiers but damn good player Jaylen Brunson who’s all NBA Julius who has been all NBA um Dante nothing beloved for Dante OG who’s a champion it’s actually no indictment on any of those guys like I just don’t think that group is good enough to be Boston like ultimately You’re Building A Team that you hope can beat Boston and I don’t think that team is going to be Boston so you got like a year or two like the Houston Rockets I don’t know if y’all remember the Rockets of old when we was on our run I always talk to y’all about them CU they’re very interesting um you got like two years and then it’s like up that didn’t work and Clint capella gone like and the first domino fall and once the first domino fall that’s it it’s it’s going from there and so that’s what I kind of think is going to happen um that’s how I see it playing out if it don’t work that’s exactly how it will play out so you heard it here first nonetheless uh I think those are great moves by the Knicks I just don’t think they quite get you over the hump which then you have to say ah looking down the road but you know I get it because if you’re the front office you got to swing because if not you’re going to get fired because we play in this league that only really four to five teams want to win uh everybody say they want to win and then a few more than the four or five will act like they want to win but the reality is every year only really four to five teams really want to win a championship and y’all like everybody want to win I don’t get that I’m not going to take the time on this podcast to explain to you what I mean by that just know only four to five teams want to win per year for real doing everything they can do to win but for some reason coaches get fired fast like nobody’s tomorrow in this league gms’s get fired after they get rid of fire get done firing the coach a time or two to save their own ass um and it’s all kind of like smoking mirrors because everybody really not trying to win so if a team go to the playoffs a couple years in a row and get to like the second round if they get to like the second round or first round exit second round exit even mix in a Conference Finals here and there then a year or two later if they don’t do the same thing they get fired but they be getting fired by these these teams that don’t really want to win and so it’s a very interesting dynamic in the NBA I just been thinking about this a lot like why so many coaches get fired ah they get fired because the GM throw them under the bus to save his ass all right then the GM going to get fired shortly after that and it’s just like this ongoing cycle but you see like all of these bad teams who really don’t win a championships be the teams that’s firing their coaches and so in a league where that happens that’s what goes on with these teams everybody overreacts and it it happens fast so they got two years they on the clock New York Knicks fans in the next three years do the New York Knicks make it to the NBA finals yes or no no I do not think so no health is important health is very important and uh I’ll tell you now I don’t want to see that team in a regular season because they are going to be playing harder than nobody’s tomorrow I I kid you not that team defensively is going by the way defensively that team is going to be tough like tough tough um and playing against a team like that during the regular season when you really don’t got time to like prepare and and then you go up against that defense man it’s gonna be hard it’s gonna be hard like that they would not Shock me if they get a number one seed number two seed wouldn’t shock at all um um but ultimately I think when it comes down to winning the championship you have to have guys who can get a bucket by any means necessary on anybody I don’t care who you who your defensive adjustment is who you go to that guy gotta be able to get a bucket on him in order to carry a team to a championship and like they’re guys you can make it tough on and so I I don’t think so that’s just my opinion I’m sorry Nick fans they’ll be like you’re a hater like no I just got an opinion and that’s it before we get out of here we gonna talk top top five picks no not top five picks of the NBA draft top five second round picks that is because that is important before we get out of I saw one of the funniest things on Twitter um I may start looking for these on the show cavon Durant I’m gonna read it to you because I don’t I it’s no point of me butchering it Kevin dur some dude goes SJ basketball 8 SJ basketball 8 says KD so sorry look at what his reputation is now LOL KD tweet him and go well check B then and I thought that was hilarious because so many fans think that they could just do like how who are you to call Kevin Durant sorry like the things that fans actually say is crazy so I’m GNA start calling you out on this show and by the way everybody gonna be like K is sensitive Kevin S he responded to casual but all he said was check bar and it’s very very true by the way you said I’m sorry at least from the neighborhood I come from if you say I’m sorry check up like we don’t need to keep talking about it you don’t need to say how good how sorry I am I don’t need to say how sorry back you check up check Bal in I thought that was a hilarious tweet that I came across just for some of these fans who be talking crazy so we going to start highlighting y’all on this show uh but let’s get into this top five pick the uh top five SE second rounders my top five second rounders so I’m going to give you a list of second rounders you got Joker Dennis robman Manu Yours Truly Mark gasa Tony kach Gilbert Arenas Paul Milsap Chris Middleton Isaiah Thomas Isaiah Thomas from Washington not oh Isaiah Thomas Mo Cheeks Draymond green show ISA Thomas not that one did come on Draymond Green Show not bad boys Isaiah Thomas that’s a better way of saying my fa z uh Doc Rivers Jeff Hornet Jaylen Brunson just a name a few uh I think p no Pascal was the end of the first round um but yeah those are some second round pick so my top five my top five Joker obviously Dennis Ryman Manu Mark Thea and yours truly no question yeah that’s that that would be my top five second round picks I think Jaylen Brunson if he continues to play the way that he he’s playing I think he has a chance to creep up there uh but that’s my top five right now signing off Yours Truly that’s a wrap from this episode of Draymond Green Show congrats to all of those 58 guys that got drafted enjoy it tomorrow it don’t mean [ __ ] you got to go stake gotta go put your flag in the ground earn your spot because they only care how long you get drafted for a day and then we all start on the even playing field and made the best man win and I didn’t seen some of those top picks not win so don’t think it’s a guarantee that you up there because you got a Draymond Green coming from a 35th pick that want to spot so good luck to all those guys congratulations to them and their families is a great day enjoy it but tomorrow lock in peace [Music] n

Draymond Green breaks down the 2024 NBA Draft from all angles including why France has not overtaken the USA, the Minnesota Timberwolves winning the draft by getting Rob Dillingham to pair with Anthony Edwards, Zach Edey being a great pick for the Memphis Grizzlies, and the Los Angeles Lakers selecting Dalton Knecht and Bronny James to pair with LeBron James and new coach JJ Redick. Then he discusses the New York Knicks trading for Mikal Bridges and names his Top 5 second round picks ever.

Timeline
0:00 – Start
1:35 – International players drafted high
6:00 – Timberwolves win the draft
10:00 – Lakers select Knecht & Bronny
17:25 – Mikal Bridges trade
29:45 – Top 5 second round picks

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