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Draymond Green gets emotional about Klay Thompson leaving Golden State Warriors for Dallas Mavericks



Draymond Green gets emotional about Klay Thompson leaving Golden State Warriors for Dallas Mavericks

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 this is our first show well our free agency uh episode if you will uh there’s a lot to talk about um obviously including the official end of an era in the bay I know there’s been kind of a lot of talks over the last four years is about the end of an era but I think this would officially Mark um the end of an era in the Bay by the way I am um with my family kind of on vacation uh so also with other family of ours so if you hear like babies crying and people yelling and talking and um I still wanted to bring you this episode so if you get all of that I don’t know if y’all will catch it or this microphone to pick it up or not but if it does I apologize in advance um you just kind of get the real raw version of me and it’s always not it’s not really going to come from a studio so sometimes this is what you get so if you hear that I apologize but anyway uh moving on I think um there’s been a lot of crying speaking of crying um there’s been a lot of crying I’m sure Around the World Around The Bay uh you know uh Mark and Clay’s exit you know the beautiful thing about being a sports fan there’s only like two days the whole year without a game two was so much happening and so much action that makes just about every day game day at draftking Sportsbook it’s super easy for first- timers to get started try betting on something simple like picking a team to win go to the draftking Sportsbook app select your team and place your first bet it really couldn’t be any easier or any simpler baseball golf UFC there’s something for every fan of every sport to bet on DraftKings and I know it’s but football season will be here before you know it and the Kansas City Chiefs are currently the favorite to win the Super Bowl on DraftKings at plus 550 and if you’re new to DraftKings you got to check this out new customers bet $5 and get 150 in bonus bets instantly download the draftking Sportsbook app now and use code Hoops that’s ho o o PS that’s code Hoops for new customers to get 150 in bonus bets instantly when you bet just $5 only on DraftKings the Crown is yours uh 13 years in the bay um reportedly joining the Mavericks on a three-year $50 million deal signed and trade uh clay to the Mavericks um and I must say I don’t I don’t really know how I feel about it um clay told us last week uh I don’t know who all he told I know he talked to me um pretty sure he talked to Steph last week and he just kind of was like yeah man like you know just kind of start talking through the years like been great um what we’ve done so special like know you and Steph my brothers for and and the conversation just kind of starts as small talk and like you kind of just prepping yourself like man get me there like I know it’s coming like you’re enjoying the conversation but yet it’s kind of one of those moments of where like somebody like building you up to before they get you to blow they just kind of Build You Up and that’s kind of what I was feeling I was headed to my daughter’s recital um so I wasn’t able to go as indepth to the conversation as maybe I would have which I think also was kind of a good thing for me because it one thing I think when Klay told me I was just able to listen you know and it wasn’t like a yo we could finish like this or like you should rethink this it was just like wow like all right like congrats bro like I’m happy for you that’s dope and like you know to obviously reassure that that that changes nothing for us you know like changes the basketball court obviously but the relationships they they are what they are they are forever um the the connection the bond um even as far as all of us being mentioned together like that that is forever that that will never change um you know but it’s I don’t know I I haven’t really been able to process the feelings uh this morning or not even this morning maybe earlier today um I think I might have dropped a couple tiers tier two you just kind of sitting there and thinking and then I came across Steph’s story and like saw the pictures and it was very interesting to me um because when I was going through Steph Story like I I went through it a couple times and it was just like it was crazy to me how many of the pictures that he posted that I was also in and so seeing that was like man like it just kind of take you back and like it taken me back to the beginning though like like when it all started and none of us really knew that it would end up being this you know what it became and um and just going through that you know it was very interesting to see like I said how many of those I was in because I don’t I don’t put myself in the same category with them two um them two for me are like here like out of the frame like they’re they’re here and I think for me uh for me personally like like the way I viewed my role in this is always like y I’m always had them to back and I’m going always look out for them too and like no matter what like nobody can touch them too like they can do no wrong and like I’ll go to battle for them I’ll take the fall for them whatever that needs to be maybe like I’m doing that and so for me and being that way and thinking that way if I’ll take the fall for them you know go to battle for them then you’re kind of not viewing yourself in that same space right because it’s like I’ll do all of that for those guys and so yes we’ll always be mentioned together but for me the way I look at those two um my appreciation for those two guys to then see myself in like half of the pictures that Steph posted was just like wow like it kind of bring you to a um a weird space um and so I dropped a couple tears just throughout the day not even necessarily exactly looking at the story but throughout the day just like wow man like I always tell people like I am like I I I I am I like to keep things the same um my friends are the same um you know in life I I I try to keep things the same my trainer who works on my body I try to keep that the same like my basketball trainer I keep that the same like I like things to stay the same and this this this sucks for me um this part of the this time of year always sucks because you build relationships with people and then like out of nowhere they’re just gone and out of nowhere being gone for us is crazy because you spend most of your time with these people like you spend pretty much the better part of N and a half months seeing these people daily and uh and then like out of nowhere it just ends it’s a very it’s always been a very weird thing for me um and so then this one hits like a much like like much deeper right like way more close to home because in a sense it disrupts home like what we’ve known as home for the last 12 years for me um that look looks way different now uh and so I don’t know I feel like I’m ramming a little bit so if you make it through this episode kudos to you um is I don’t really have clear thoughts and approaching this episode uh it’s just a little weird I’m happy for clay I think last year was a very um trying year for him I think you know it was the highs and the lows of last year um I think was very hard on Clay uh and as a brother to see someone going through that like it was hard on me to watch uh kind of see him going through what he was going through and I think you know um if you ever care about someone I think one of the reasons I didn’t even like when he called me I didn’t even attempt to like want to talk him out of uh leaving or like yo you should stay because like all the reasons that you would say like in things that you could like yeah I could make words sound good but like those are known you know like those reasons are well documented uh and so I think part of the reason when he said to me like yeah I’mma leave I was just like man I’m happy for you that’s dope like it’s crazy to think what we’ve done and B blah blah but not once was it like yo you may want to rethink this you got time to rethink it because to see him struggle the way he did last year uh if you at all if you ever care for someone’s well-being care about what they go through go through the Battles Through the struggle with someone uh Elevate past a level that no one could ever imagined with someone like I’d hope the care that you’d have for that person would go far beyond what you may feel it’s best for you or what you want to see and so a part of me like I I couldn’t then go and be like yeah like you know I want you to stay or I wish you stay or you should stay for this reason because like if for me to watch him go through what he went through last year um like I know how much he loved the game of basketball uh clay I don’t think there’s something that he loves the game that he loves more than like playing basketball and I didn’t see that last year um and it’s crazy because I told y’all about my year before that like that was me the year before uh me the year before was just like I kind of I don’t even want to play basketball and like I you could kind like it was hard to go to work like it was hard to um to even care about what was going on at work like you you leave there and you kind of just try to lose the memory of being there type like and so I kind of I experienced that a year before and I don’t know I think when when I look back on it when I take a step back and I look back on it could it have been the contract play a part of that because he was kind of in the same position right like so I personally don’t think it was that like I think there was a lot of other things going into it but like there’s no true way to know like oh it was this emotion like touch here and like there’s no real way to know you just kind of take all those things into account but like I said I do know the joy that basketball brings him and like it brought sadness it brought unhappiness last year for him and again if you ever care about someone’s wellbeing go through the struggle with somebody and you only care yeah your number one goal for that person is to see them happy and enjoying what they do because you care about their well-being then like a part of me wanted Clay to leave um and not wanted him to leave in the sense of like want him to leave uh but want him to leave because you only want to see him be the guy that you know he is like for a guy that’s lived his life since I’ve known him and I can only imagine before without a car in the world like we’d all always say like yo clay live in his own world he don’t have a care in the world and like for a guy that you know live their life that way and then all of a sudden it’s not that like something’s wrong and that the most important thing in his life is basketball you can clearly immediately see what’s wrong and so as a brother like I want to see him with that again like with that Joy with that love because like we way closer to the end than we are the beginning you know um I remember my uncle one day said to me he was like nephew like call your uncle sometimes like um he said I’m on the I’m on the wrong side of my downslide I’m on the wrong side of my downslide something like that he said um and like that’s where we are like in our careers like we on the wrong side of it like can there still be special things done by us of course can there still be special thing of course but like we’re way closer to the end than we are the beginning that’s for sure and so knowing that and understanding that like I will hope to see him have the same Joy at the end that I know he had at the beginning because basketball is a is a it’s a child’s game uh it’s a kid’s game and um basketball keep the kid in us you know you see you see um us joking around and playing and all the stuff that like we do on a basketball court that’s kind of like what kids do um that you don’t see in a typical job right like someone 33 years old like the way that I may act uh with my teammates and like clowning around at 34 like the different things that we do amongst us as 34 year olds and clowning like 34 year olds that work at the bank don’t do those things like basketball is kind of a kid game and I want him to see him have that same love and joy in this kid game that we got a few more years of living that he had when I knew him as a kid like when we were just kids like you know um was 22 like we were kids at 22 we didn’t know anything like just now growing up growing in the manhood like I I I want to see him have that love again because I witnessed what happened for him when he did have that love for it uh when when it did bring him that joy and like I I want to see that for him again um and last year wasn’t that uh it was it was as probably far opposite as he could be from that and so to selfishly want to see him stay here and suffer for whatever it was that was griping at him like nah that ain’t cool like for my own personal benefit or for like that’s not cool because the memories that I do have are too good to didn’t have to live through those memories like we don’t have to live through those memories like we don’t have to create those memories I should say like and the the ones that we can remember are incredible like amazing four titles in a in eight years Chang the way the game of basketball is played um being a part of the greatest team ever to play like those The Memories We have so to selfishly want to sit and create the other ones I’d rather not so it’s probably better this way um but it sucks like it um I’m not going to sit here and like sugarcoat it uh for 12 years I don’t think people ever process like all the time you spend like um judging basketball players like the one thing that people don’t really take into account is like you started seeing me when I was 22 years old you started seeing clay in the NBA at 21 years old like we’re 34 now like the changes that happens in life throughout the over the course of those years like we never really take into account I don’t really even know where I was going with that point because my thoughts are all [ __ ] up so uh as I said before you make it through this episode kudos to you I told DJ earlier um DJ made me this little paper airplane it’s actually it’s very ironic that he made me this but they finished their art project at school um and DJ was coming back with me this week and uh he brought me this this like cardboard box um and it it’s it’s a cardboard airplane and you know Kay always make these player airplanes I always say like your kids are connected to you because again I told you I’ve been sad for a few days um and he hasn’t been with me and um he made this carboard paper airplane but it’s carboard and you know like clay always make these paper airplanes and it got like cutouts of like me Steph clay and like this person he drew which I assumed I’m like oh and it’s you and he’s like oh and um I was like oh by the way he just gave me that like by the way Klay not going to be on our team no more and he’s like what I’m like he going to the to the Dallas with Luca he’s like why can’t we get Luca I’m like well it don’t work that way and I need you to teach you about the salary cap LCA make way too much money for us to get Luca but and he just was like sitting there sad like about to cry um yeah I also oddly uh the other day I was Landing in Boulder to meet some friends uh to go to the nas concert at the uh Red Rocks which was incredible and like I’m standing outside the the FBO and like a truck pulls up our driver hadn’t arriv the truck pulls up and it’s honking and it looks like an Uber driver it’s like a black SUV and honking and I look and I’m like I know that’s not our driver late and hunking at me so I just turn back and then the hunks again and I look and he turns a little bit because there’s a glare on the windshield and it’s Klay Thompson I bump into Klay Thompson like a day or two after he get me this is Sunday so he called me and um I bumped into clay uh randomly outside the FBO in Denver I don’t know he couldn’t really look at me and it was very like odd situations I’m sitting there with my family and my wife’s like oh my God clay like when when he called me on the phone she’s like stop and she’s like I’m about to cry and she said it reminded her of last year so last year during free agency I called clay and I called Step separate calls and Steve and I was just telling them like yo I’m leaving I’m going to Memphis um and I remember that call with them uh so I was going to leave and she said we were in Paris and she’s like it’s reminding me when we in Paris and you was calling them like she was just sitting there crying um and obviously we got it figured out shout out to the Lakers and um Mike Dunley his first free agency they got it we got it done but yeah I think there’s a lot of thoughts on like oh what happened in the organization like everybody kind of want to make things out to be um messy and they don’t have to be um you know I know this organization would have had clay back as long as he wanted to be um and I know Clay as we can see really didn’t want that uh I know there was the report on like clay telling Steph like not to flex his muscle and all of those things um typical clay thing to do I’m not sure that that’s true or not um but that would be a clay respon uh but um all great things must come to an end and ultimately My Hope Is that I hope the organization which I know they do appreciate appreciate clay uh and everything that he’s done I know they do and I hope clay appreciates the organization for everything this organization has done and meant for us because on our um on our rise to the top like we had the best organization in the NBA supporting us and giving us the the opportunities that we need to uh the things that we need to make that rise having our families around having our boys on trips like organizations don’t do that stuff our organization having dinners and like I could take 20 people to dinner if I wanted to and like these dinners ain’t that like um yeah cheap cheapest restaurant they are at the best restaurants in the city we’re in like and we go to Great cities um you know like I said having letting our boys fly on the plane and families fly on the plane organization really is the best and so I hope his appreciation for the organization the organization appreciation for him I hope everybody’s is exactly where it should be because breakups don’t always have to be messy uh co-parenting relationships don’t always have to be shitty um people going their separate ways can be a thing of beauty and this is one of those things Clay’s going to the Dallas mavers after 13 years of domination uh after 13 years of building a dynasty he’s moving on to go do something else and like we all can appreciate that and love that for him love that for us like and appreciate the good times Maverick was here always um he would always tell this story about um and and I actually took this and Incorporated in my life um a story about his father back in the day when I when I hear this song like and I think about um clay in the journey uh it’s the song is Al Green for the good times you know and um like it’s kind of like don’t be sad for me like like ju like just remember the good times and so when I think about this like that’s where I’m trying to take my mind like I try to live my life by that um but like remembering the good times the song is called for the good times but you know just just remembering the good times the things that we did and like that’s where I’m at with it um so yeah I think uh I am definitely like a little shaken up by it and a bit sad but I think for anybody in life if something’s been a certain way for 12 years and then it just abruptly changes I think it’ll shake you up a bit too um at least if it matters to you I know it would so uh that’s where I’m at with it um it’s been a for me um man it’s been a hell of a run and I am thankful to have shared the court with clay for 12 season uh to go to war with him um I think back to a story that most people don’t remember uh because when we played the Raptors in the NBA Finals clay pulled his hamstring now if y’all remember up until that point uh Klay had never missed a playoff game and he would man Klay would roll his ankle it’ll turn purple and like this dude was still playing these playoff games like I always tell y’all probably the toughest player I ever played with um through toughest nails like and he will go through a brick wall for you with you and uh you know every time he get hurt in some of those playoffs we be like all right they got your ass now champ like you a you ain’t getting through this one and I remember like it was yesterday and he pulled his hamstring he was trying to work through it and I remember saying I said clay I know you’ve been able to get through all of this injuries throughout these years playing but they got your ass now like you ain’t getting through this one with no pull hamstring he’s like yeah right Tre whatever watch me play and we played in uh San Francisco I think two or three days later and he did a workout before the game to show them that he could play and like when I tell you he could have played now Rick celebr who I always talk about uh Rick didn’t let him play and probably was in Clay’s best interest that Rick didn’t let him play um but Rick didn’t let him play but when I tell you like where this dude got to and two and a half days to do that workout and like look the way he looked in the workout to actually could have played in that game um it wasn’t the smartest thing for anyone but I think he showed that he could and it was a tough call for Rick but Rick had to make the call and um watching him go through I could not believe it and it’s like wow like they couldn’t even get dude out with a p hamstring and then he came back in game six and we obviously all know he’s going crazy in game six we know how it ended um but like that’s clay like that’s who I’ve had the opportunity to go to battle with for um for 12 years I got this video of the day after I got suspended I I Pro I told y’all this story a little bit but I got this video I took her the day he came to pick me up pick me up on the boat which is my first time ever being on the boat um with Clay driving quite frankly I didn’t really want to go on a boat and I had to this day because I just didn’t know if I trust clay boat driving um it’s a lot of water in the ocean and I didn’t know if I trust clay like that but I had to get on the boat this day and um I’mma use that video in a documentary of something I’mma do on this one day but uh uh no man I’m rambling and I told y’all I would cuz I didn’t know where my thoughts would take me so I’m just kind of giving you these thoughts as they come up but I’m going to move on to the rest of free agency um but it’s been a hell of a 12 years I can’t think clay enough Steph enough uh but this is about clay man the healthy competition between him and Stephan like who is the best shooter um was one of the highlights of my career just to watch that on the daily to watch them go at it after practice during practice like like was beautiful like is incredible to watch so I’m thankful someday I’ll have more thoughts on this but it’s been uh it’s been a hell of a 12 years one day I’ll be able to put all these thoughts in place and process them I can’t really right now but salute to my dog killer Clay Thompson it’s been a hell of a ride champ in other news as we must keep this podcast rolling um Paul George I mean there were other free agency moves and Paul George is the biggest of the summer and he is planning to sign a four-year deal with the 76ers also a little salty about that because as you all know um Paul George was going to come to the Warriors and we wanted Paul George to come to the Warriors and you know we always talk about these uh organizations um what they do for their players and whatnot and um for us to get Paul Georgia would have taken a sign and trade and the Clippers didn’t really want to play ball um didn’t really want to help him get to where he wanted to go and so in turn they get nothing back and you know whereas you could have gotten something back uh for Paul George walking they get absolutely nothing back so uh these these organizations don’t always be willing to play ball and I don’t think the Clippers were really willing to play ball for Paul George uh to get to the Warriors I kind of understand it I suppose you don’t want him in the same division as you cuz you may know how that looks if he comes with us so uh that didn’t quite pan out for us which would have been nice uh would have been really nice but yeah so they’ll lose Paul George for nothing and that also sucked uh because I think what Paul George could have done um if he did come to the dubs would have been amazing uh but nonetheless not going to cry over spilled milk but when you talk about these organizations and and you all talk about players like oh this this guy ain’t loyal to this organ like I never want to hear that again um because Paul George went there and when he went there they had plans of competing for a championship it didn’t ever really work out um quite frankly a lot of that being due to their injuries um and not being healthy never really having an honest opportunity to compete for a championship um but nonetheless what did Paul George do while he was at the Clippers maybe four All-Star appearances I think um in his time with the Clippers which quite frankly is pretty up there uh when you look at the level of achievement that Clippers players have had over the years um you you know you had CP who had a great teer there um you had uh Blake Griffin who had a great tenor there but Paul George tenor there as far as all NBAs and All Stars is not too far off uh for what the best clippers of all time had to not be willing to like play ball on the sign trade where he want to go um for I mean it is what it is one of the best players in your organization history I just don’t really want to hear people saying like oh that guy wasn’t loyal or like KD left this team or such and such left that team like they not loyal like no most of these organizations ain’t loyal um The Warriors have shown loyalty for sure um Dallas has actually shown loyalty when you think about Dirk’s rod and like even JJ Berea going coming back going coming back Deon Harris going coming back like when you Seth Curry going like they’ve proven to be a loyal franchise the Lakers has proven to be a loyal franchise um however there aren’t many there aren’t many out there um so San Antonio Spurs is proven to be a loyal franchise but like I just named four out of 30 like so when everybody go on Twitter like oh this guy ain’t that and like stop it it’s not a loyal business because you have players sometimes they want to do what they think is best for them and teams aren’t really willing to play ball and when you’ll take nothing as opposed to something you don’t want to talk loyalty people so should probably be careful with all of that talk uh another one that I am very sad about uh is CP I don’t know if was been very documented on like how we hated each other um and I am very sad to know that he’s leaving this team uh because in my head I’m like man see C going to end up finishing career here and that be dope like um again this is the part of the business that suck like one year with see and I’m like man I really love this dude like he incredible one of the best teammates I’ve ever had and then he gone and that is the weird part about this business man but that made me really sad um so between like in a day of finding out between like clay and this P like it’s been a I’ve been sad these last few days um trying to process my thoughts but I’m really sad about that nonetheless uh CP pop still a genius uh parent CP with wimy to teach that young fell the way CP one of the greatest vets I’ve ever been around and I just spent a year around him as a vet myself um and he was a vet to me and so that’s going to be great for women um and the young fella Castle cuz see CP going to teach the young fella Castle all the things that he need to know about the point guard position and he also going to tell him what he not very good at and what he need to learn and a very elegant way in a very constructive way but he going to tell that kid what he good at and what he not good at and what he need to learn and how he need to see things and that is a genius move by the Spurs man wow that’s a genius move and then then for CP like you get the opportunity also to in what year 20 I think this is about to be for see uh opportunity to go lead the next young face star in the NBA that’s a great opportunity too he get a chance to in in a sense kind of go help mold him and like what an honor uh because you only get that if if you’ve been as great as CP has and as respected as CP is um that’s the only way you get that opportunity CP is a very strong personality always has been super strong personality for them to feel comfortable bringing you in there knowing how strong that personality is they feel good about what you’re going to bring to that kid that’s special that’s extremely special um so I’m happy for C because that’s a great opportunity to go help young mold that young fella who knows where it can go cuz young fell is special wimy is special so who knows where it goes um but man that’s great uh but I’m sad to see C leave uh nonetheless uh hardenstein who was in the G League a few years ago three years 87 million because he kept his head down kept working uh was great at what he’s great at which is being physical tough hard nose and then he’s added to his game got a little floer now um you know on on the offensive end make great passes out of the pocket uh when he get the ball in the pocket make great reads um got an opportunity I think on a minimum contract maybe even non guarantee and and now look at him three years 87 million I love to see those type of stories cuz I’m a product of something like that and so uh congrats to hardenstein that’s a big move for OKC uh they traded for Caruso they got hardenstein OKC not playing they think they got a window and they going for it right now and I always respect teams that make it clear we going for it and I think hardenstein is a big addition for that uh the Young Magic is going for it uh three years 66 million for kcp two-time NBA champion I think that’s huge for the magic um huge and I think you know um kcp is a great Pro and when teams start swinging for guys like k CP that mean we serious we want to make a run so you know I I was on the um shop a few years ago and I was talking about going to play the magic that’s a different magic now and I can respect that they’re making a signning not one year 22 million for kcp you know how teams do like go I’m G bring this guy in for one year because I don’t want to to no what they’re saying right now is we think we got a window and we need to fill some guys in around our young stars and that’s what they doing so they starting to go for it and I respect that um I saw a couple deals uh that were like good deals for the guys but team taking advantage of their situation um Wiggins young Wiggins Aaron Wiggins from OKC uh the young fella from the Bulls Patrick Williams um a lot of these so I don’t know if y’all paid attention but there’s been an uptick of fiveyear deals this summer an uptick of those and I wonder why it’s interesting because new TV money about to kick in and those contracts going to go up and you get some of these guys locked in on these fiveyear contracts and you can take advantage and those guys when that TV money go up if you paying and got 18 million now that may that may not even be the mid level when this new TV money kick in we don’t know and so I thought that’s been interesting and watching a couple of these teams go through these go with these fiveyear deals on these guys um couple of these young players uh you know if you Tyrese Maxi and you getting a Max Maxi with the max you know what I’m saying then you you sign that Max you know but uh couple of these deals I’ve been looking at I’m always happy for these young guys uh to see them get their money because it’s life changing and I know the feeling and I would never um I would never make a guy feel B bad about getting paid you get your money uh but I that was just something that I saw that I thought was interesting and I just hope that those guys are being made aware of all of the things um when you first get in your bag you can’t really mess around with it you got to take your money but I just hope someone is teaching all these young guys these things um laying the options out for them and then saying hey these are the options this is what you should do and here’s why I think you should do this but this is what you could do see most people tell you this is what you should do and here is why I think you should but they don’t tell you what you could do and I just hope those young fellas are being told what they could do uh also the Clippers resigned James Harden two years 70 million um and Russell Westbrook opted in and I saw they wanted to trade him which was shocking to me because I’m like dang Russ opted in the four and then they going to try to trade Russ like is that r i don’t that that was a little weird to me um DLo opted in uh valent Tunis going to Washington three years 30 million um it’s a interesting free agency but my overall feeling with this free AGC by the way the dubs just signed Kyle Anderson three years 27 million which I’m excited about cuz if you watch the playoffs you know I’m big on Kyle Anderson Kyle Anderson is a guy that you bring in and he just figures out and help you win so I like that signning dubs also bringing in DeAnthony Melton one year 12 million uh almost 13 million um it’s interesting free agency uh like those signings uh but overall I’m leaving this free agency I’m sad peace n

Draymond Green reacts to the dramatic split of Klay Thompson and the Golden State Warriors, Steph Curry’s posts on Instagram, and reveals his own personal talk with Klay. Dray also reflects on why Klay picked the Dallas Mavericks and all Thompson has accomplished alongside Green & Curry for the Dubs. Then, Dray turns to the rest of NBA free agency, including Paul George signing with the Philadelphia 76ers, the Los Angeles Clippers blocking a potential trade to the Dubs, Isaiah Hartenstein signing with the Oklahoma City Thunder, why it was a “weird” free agency season, and much more.

Timeline:
00:00 – Start
02:30 – Klay leaving
30:00 – Paul George to 76ers
35:00 – NBA free agency

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33 Comments

  1. Man y’all really changed the culture of the warriors and for Oakland. We appreciate y’all 🫡💯 especially Klay

  2. Draymond sounds fishy 13 years and u don't ask yo man's to stay 🤔 sounds like he knew klay was on a decline u ain't slick draymond 😅

  3. I don’t care what fanbase you rep this Klay dray s we had Steph were an era we all loved and cherished . Hall of fame and part of history

  4. I feel your pain in this dray. Literally. My daughters mom and I went our separate ways this last week, and everything you said was 100% relatable.

    Keep your head up brother. It’s only a game and it’s just one team amongst many within said game.

    More to life 🙏🏽

  5. As great as Steph Curry is also Klay Thompson as shooters but you as a undersized big with that fight that passionis very relatable to me u are one of my favorite people in the NBA u and pat bev last of a dying breed

  6. Probably this generation best big 3 ironically it ended like what happened to the spurs dynasty with Tony Parker but klay has a chance to win in the next few years

  7. I did not get it. why put "DRAYMOND GETS EMOTIONAL . . " when you are the only one writing that, why no treplace it with "I get emotional . . " wtf

  8. Wish all 3 could retire as warriors. Klay will be forever loved here though can’t thank all 3 enough for what they have done for the franchise. Will be weird to see them playing against each other though.

  9. Should've though of consequences like this before punching teammates and kicking/choking opponents? Or calling teammates bitches that you don't need?

  10. Dray 🗣️ thank you for the brotherhood yall had and the memories you made for all of the fans. Looking forward to the next chapter.

  11. Appreciate the honesty but you just said it you wanted out & go to Memphis. You gave Klay the idea. At the end of the day, getting paid is what matters.

  12. Yoo broh you didnt help as teammate…did you care..??..reckless abandon.. irrational where was youre teammates in your thoughts…apologize for that??..you wont…Im glad Clay is gone…ask yourself what you couldve changed…think vefore you leap..and now think before you become selfish…too late to think back Dre…just know this he left off of PRINCIPALITY…he will be in the playoffs and you wont…hmmmm

  13. Instead of mortgaging the future for Markkanen let's tank for Cooper Flagg. Give Curry a year to recover body wise much like when he broke his wrist. Same with Draymond and his calf/back issues.

  14. To be a basketball fan first, to not see klay next year in a warriors jersey is gonna be fd up idc what anyway says that just shows to us older guys are era is over time flys people grow journeys change

  15. Your face says it all, Dray. Have to say that for myself. I'm done supporting the Warriors and moving on to other team

  16. It's fascinating how calm and articulate Draymond appears on his podcast…like he's talking to his therapist.

  17. I've been a Warriors fan all my life. The way this trio rebuilt this team, and made it what it's worth, is undeniable. Gonna miss Klay in the blue and gold.

  18. I’m a longtime Warriors fan and Klay was my favorite active Warrior. That being said, he’s a grown man who got his feelings hurt and quite frankly has no one to blame but himself. He under performed and the Warriors were still willing to keep him but his ego took over. This is more on him than on the Warriors. So as a hardcore fan I say whatever, onto the next. He is the most replaceable one out of the big 3 anyway.

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