Draymond Green says Anthony Edwards is NOT ready to be face of NBA | Draymond Green Show

Draymond Green says Anthony Edwards is NOT ready to be face of NBA | Draymond Green Show

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You what’s up everybody welcome back to the Draymond Green Show we’re back from Allstar break uh which means there was a game last night versus the Lakers dubs got the win couple more things we’ll talk about out on this episode but first I hope you all checked out the Jamal Crawford episode that

Released earlier this week we recorded that at Allstar Weekend At The Great legendary Hinkle Fieldhouse on Butler University’s campus thank you to Butler coaches coach Dada Maurice Joseph John debler for allowing us to use the facilities uh it was great to step in there you know hle Phi hous is one of

Those basketball places that when you go there you just feel the Magic in there actually got an opportunity to watch the game uh go check out Butler versus kraton kraton ended up uh taking the game uh which was a big game uh for Butler’s tit uh playoff or NCA tournament

Hopes but like I said just to feel that environment to be in an in in an arena like that and then have an opportunity to shoot Hour episode there with Jamal was great and very fitting uh because that was a highlevel basketball conversation and in a setting like that

It’s only right so if you haven’t checked that out go to our YouTube page check that out make sure you subscribe to our YouTube page for those of you that had subscribed to the volume page a while ago it is a different YouTube page and that is Jackson

Youtube.com green show there it is Boom so make sure you all go check that out go subscribe we’re waiting on you let’s do it and then after we get into a couple topics we will have a mailbag section where we will take some of your questions Jackson will fired them away I

Will fire some answers before we get out of here but let’s get into it only right that we talk Allstar break coming out of Allstar break or Allstar Weekend the allstar game in particular and Saturday coming out of allar weekend get in on the action with the draft King sports book an official

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About I saw Stephen A Smith say LeBron James kill killed the single-handedly killed the dunk contest and as you all know we love Stephen A Smith it’s those statements that just does not sit well with me it’s just like so farfetch like hey man this one guy who

Did not participate in the DK contest single-handedly killed the dun contest and that just can’t be factual because the reality is when LeBron James would have been in the dunk contest which was like 20 years ago literally 20 years ago um there has been several great dunk contests since

So for Stephen A to say LeBron James single-handedly destroyed the dun contest it’s it’s it’s quite the reach and it’s not quite accurate because that mean we doesn’t get Zack LaVine Dunk Contest performances if I’m not mistaken he won three dunk contests um but I’m for sure to

Um we don’t get Dwight Howard in a Dunk Contest we don’t get Nate Robinson uh winning Dunk Contest since LeBron James won or could have been in a dunk contest those around the time Jason Richardson was winning dunk contest and so there’s been so many great dunk

Contest and by the way let me not forget um and I mean this from the bottom of my heart because it’s ridiculous the great Aaron Gordon and dunk contest a Aaron Gordon is still the best D contest performer we’ve ever seen to not have a dunk contest trophy it’s absolutely

Insane I know his I know he’s a bit in his feelings about it and I get it I would be too and I know he he has an ego about it and I get it I think he should get back in there though because he need that crown

And there’s no Zack LaVine so I think he should get back in there um I’ve already said my piece before about G leers being in the dunk contest like a part of being in the dunk contest and being a part of Allstar Weekend is being in the NBA M

Mcclung’s my guy as I told y’all he came to Camp with us great great good dude but you kind of gotta be in the NBA to be in the NBA dunk contest if not then we should just go get like all of those guys off off off of those dunk

Squads and all that and like say hey man this is just a show we’re putting on is not necessarily Allstar Weekend so we we got that let’s get Aon Gordon back in the dunk contest or because the dunk contest is 30 years old and the maybe it’s time to think a

Little outside the box and come up with some different events because you know it’s just the real reality all things come to an end all great things must come to an end so maybe it’s just time to explore that I don’t know that’s neither here nor there but the dunk

Contest is pretty bad um to say the least so Aaron Gordon the dunk contest needs you and that’s not as far as a reach as LeBron James single-handedly destroying the dun contest I know it’s a slow slow damn media I know Stephen A there was no game Stephen A needed to draw some

People in I get it I understand when I saw that I was just like whoa come on Stephen A it’s been too many great ones since then and moving on the allstar game absolutely pathetic it’s ridiculous and to see guys like and and by the way I have some suggestions on

Some on on ways to fix it but to see guys like um Anthony Edwards who some PE a lot of people are Hing as the next face of the league like blatantly say h we don’t care we don’t want to play we don’t want

To be there to me that was a bit um disheartening because it’s one thing as Steph Curry don’t want to be there it’s one thing if LeBron James doesn’t want to be there it’s one thing if even Luca who you know sits on the fence of what I’m

About to say but it’s been there five times Joker five six times and so in saying all of that for Anthony Edwards who was in his first allstar game that he was actually voted into last year was his first All-Star game playing and he was a replacement saying like ah we don’t want

To be here I don’t want to play like a big deal on guys resumes is allstar game MVP we’ve seen Kobe win it over the years AI Shaq LeBron KD Steph like when you look at the guys I don’t understand why a young Anthony Edwards wouldn’t want his name sketched in

Stone next to the likes of those guys in anything because anytime you can be next to the likes of those guys I just don’t understand why you wouldn’t want that and so to play defense backwards um to shoot left-handed threes I I thought that was a little

Outlandish I thought it was a little crazy and like I said a little disheartening just because of who he is who we all think he is going to be to this league and a part of being the face of the NBA and I keep see seeing so many

People talk about being the face in the NBA a part of being the face in the NBA is also being a steward of the game a steward of the NBA when you look at LeBron James and how long he’s been the face of the NBA you look at Steph Curry

And being one of the faces of the NBA there’s stewards of the game of all things NBA you as the face of the NBA you’re kind of in direct partnership with the NBA to continue to move this thing forward and so and and maybe Anthony Edwards doesn’t want to be the face of

The NBA because everybody don’t want that and I get it like there’s different things that comes with being faced in NBA that not everybody wants and he’s entitled to want that but if if Anthony Edwards is who I think he is somebody needs to be teaching him

That if he is who I think he is which I think he is exactly who I think he is and so someone need to tell him is it’s it’s it’s about more than just being good at basketball like you actually have to be a great partner to be face of the

NBA and that’s just kind of what it boils down to when when you’re at the face of a franchise you have to do more than those that don’t at media day you have to do more than those that aren’t the face of the NBA uh face of

Franchised Steph Curry’s media day is a little bit longer than ours because he is the face of the Golden State Warriors but guess what that same thing goes for being the face of the NBA if you ask Adam Silver how great of a partner LeBron James has

Been I’m not sure he’d be able to come up with the words to explain to you how great of a partner he’s been if you ask Adam Silver how great of a partner Steph Curry has been I’m not sure he can come up with the words to let you know how

Great of a person how great of a partner Steph Curry has been as far as the NBA goes so I’m going to need these young guys to take some notes on what it means to be the face of the NBA because it’s not just being good at basketball there’s

Been a lot of people to be good at basketball come through the NBA even great come through the NBA and has not been the face of the NBA so understand what you’re speaking on understand what you’re asking for understand what’s being asked of you if

You want to drop your hat your name in that bucket and by the way no one’s going to decide that it just kind of naturally happen happens no one really decided that LeBron James was going to be the face of the NBA although he was the chosen

One and although he had all the hype that he had LeBron James became the face of the NBA way faster than everyone thought he would you probably thought Kobe was going to be the face of the NBA when LeBron James all of a sudden became the face of the

NBA why because it just happens Adam silver doesn’t come and say okay now the face is Boom it just don’t happen that way it just naturally happens and it naturally happens is because or in larg part because those guys are stewards of the game so young guys take some notes as far as

The allstar game goes one thing the NBA should understand is how much like for instance we have a game today as soon as I finish this I’m going to start going to do game prep core activation um flow movement getting my hips and things moving flowing little spin on the bike just to

Get the blood flowing it’s 10:23 a.m. we play a seven where are you going with this Draymond it’s called game day for a reason because everything you do that day is to prepare for the game so it’s called game day the allstar game you do a million other things before the

Game including on the court warming up for 50 minutes 60 Minutes warming up and then you’re asking the highest level of athletes which means they understand their bodies at the highest level to then go exert an extreme amount of energy and it’s easy to say the guys before you did

It number one guys weren’t trained in the way we train all the core activations and different things weren’t a thing because all of those things has elevated and grown as time has grown we learn more about the body we do more as time go on there wasn’t so many media

Obligations because media wasn’t as big as it is now there wasn’t as many Partnerships sponsorship obligations you know why because the NBA wasn’t as big so there wasn’t as many partners there weren’t as many any sponsors so it’s very easy to say Kobe took the game serious and Kobe did and

By the way we all want to see guys take the game serious but it’s easy to say m m MJ took the game serious there was four sponsors there’s 40 there’s 40 now maybe more just throwing a random number out there so if you want the game to be a

Game then on Sunday you need to make sure that guys can prepare for what a game which means the NBA should be covering physio being there Steph Curry has a physio that he works with before the game the NBA should be covering that physio travel that physio hotel room that

Physio being at the arena doing what getting stephh Curry’s body ready to play a game getting Luca Don’s body ready to play a game everybody keeps saying oh man raise it up to a million dollars that’s when you’re going to get guys hurt because if it’s the same

Obligations that has been all the things that you have to do to where you can’t focus on getting your body ready for a game and then you’re going to say hey here’s a bright shiny object that is a million dollars everybody now go play hard and go get the million dollars

That’s when you’re going to get guys getting hurt why because they are exerting energy to get a million and not properly prepared to exert that energy bodies aren’t prepared to go that hard so then you start talking about injuries that’s when guys are going to

Get hurt so if we want this to be a real game let’s make this a real game day let’s allow these guys to prepare for a proper game day if that’s what we’re asking if that’s what we’re asking you can’t say hey man you get no time to go through your

Game routine but then we need you to go play like you’re play in the game that never works anybody who knows anything about preparing for an NBA game knows what goes into preparing for the game and it’s and an Allstar does not allow you to do that so if we want the Big

Show if we want the corporate sponsors and all of those things if those things are going to continue to be what’s of most importance then let’s not say we’re sick of the allstar game being bad but if we want the game to be what’s most important then those are a couple of the

Changes that we need to make yes it would be great to up the money you got all these sponsors coming in saying hey they want to be a part of Allstar Weekend you look at Allstar Weekend stand that’s not an Indiana crowd that’s a crowd full of corporate sponsorships

Which takes me to another Point having these Allstar Allstar Weekend used to be a draw Allstar Weekend used to be a big thing not quite the Super Bowl nothing is the Super Bowl but Allstar Weekend was a thing it was a thing culturally it

Was a thing um for the NBA like NBA fans it was a big thing it’s all just corporate stuff now and so I said all of that to say we give these teams home court per se just think of where the allstar games has been the last three years those

Aren’t fun places to go but again you’re asking guys to give up the break to be in these cities the least we can do is put it in Great cities or you know Miami where guys want to go Los Angeles where guys want to go San Francisco everybody doesn’t want to

Quite come to San Francisco San Francisco is a great City I don’t think anybody’s looking at going to San Francisco like they’re looking at going to Utah or to Cleveland or Indianapolis so Phoenix like put the put it back in places where people want to go

Vegas we just saw the the the best Super Bowl I’ve ever seen in Vegas or you know what you can say if Indiana is supposed to host this year it’s going to be in the Bahamas guys want to go to the Bahamas guys will take their families there and

Make a whole week out of it great guess what you’ll also get other NBA players that’s not all stars there or say Salt Lake City is supposed to host it then it’s in Hawaii Salt Lake City’s Utah Utah JS are still a host but it’s in Haw and say it’s in W

Kiki local sponsorship dollars you give back to the to the city guys’s going to go make a whole week vacation out of it with their families it’s a desirable place to go Allstar Weekend becomes a draw again maybe I don’t think that’s very far-fetched the game starting at 8:45 so late only

Thing guys can think of is I need to get out of here get to my plane so I can get the CBO start the game at five I don’t know these are just a couple suggestions and things that I saw with my own eyes shout out to the Turner family by the way

At the arcast we got great reviews on uh Taylor Rooks Charles Barkley Jamal Crawford myself shout out to the team great work at Allstar it’s a beautiful thing has so much fun absolutely incredible Taylor I think is great you all have heard me talk about that before

Charles Barkley is the easiest person to work with in America he’s the best Jamal Crawford working the sidelines how he was working the interviews that he got amazing thank you to the Turner family that was great I’m sorry I keep saying Turner TNT Sports family that was great

Thank you also thank you to all of y’all who tuned in but back to this allstar game make it a real game yes raise the money because if we’re making this all about corporate sponsors then they need to put more money in to those players reward the team that

Wins but allow guys to have a proper game day if you want that type of play if you want that type of effort make it a real game day we’ve all had a frustrating experience buying tickets even me you all know I love to go to

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The Lakers last night 128 110 no LeBron Steph 32 and8 6 for 13 from three wigs 20 points continuing to play at a high level Trace 17 points and five rebounds in 15 minutes off the bench um Klay Thompson name will not show up here but

The impact Klay Thompson had on the game was absolutely incredible weak side tags the drop offs he’s getting a trace for layups Klay had five assists I think four of them was for dunks and layups to trace maybe all five of them uh had a great floor game missed great shots had

Great looks we know he’ll make those absolutely amazing game played by Klay and it won’t show up in a stat sheet so nobody will look and be like wow Klay played a great game Klay was incredible last night and one of the keys to us winning that game it was great to beat

The Lakers um obviously we’re right there in the standing think uh I was beating them last night gave him one more lost than us although we haven’t played the same amount of games so we’re still half game are so behind in the standings but thought that was a pretty good win for

Us um obviously to keep it rolling went into the break playing really well and to come out the break plan the way we did it’s great um Jackson want me to talk to y’all about my three-point percentage I am not don’t jinx me we’re not going to talk about that we’re going

To leave that thing floating where it is and keep on putting them things up that’s what we’re going to do um always looking forward to playing against LeBron with the matchups that we’ve had over these years obviously sucks that he didn’t play last night but

You got to play who they suit up and we will take the win who knows that win may come back and be important for us later so we will take it and like I said uh it’s good for us to come out the break now we got another game tonight versus

The Charlotte Hornet who is playing a lot better um since the trade deadline I think if I’m not mistaken they’ve won four or five games in a row uh four in a row and they went to Utah and got a good win last night it’s important for us to

Continue to take care of our home court uh two more games on this h stand before we head out on a Washington New York Nick Toronto Boston Road Trip 4 game East Coast Road Trip East Coast Road Trips are never easy so it’s important that we take care of

Home court tonight and then also knowing that Sunday is going to be a tough game as Denver always a tough game defending Champion so it’s important that you handle the ones you’re supposed to handle and tonight is one that we are supposed to win so uh it’s important for

Us to keep it rolling and make sure we close out this hom stand the right way and lastly everybody want me to talk about Isaiah Stewart only getting suspended for three games uh for punching Drew Eubanks um and everyone wants to know my thoughts on this I’m never in favor of people getting

Suspended and losing money so you’re not going to get me to be like oh man he should have got suspended for more games nope that’s not who I am it’s not how I roll I think the only thing you could talk about is consistency but I don’t

Really even care to talk about that because I’m not in favor of anybody getting suspended and losing money that’s how feed our families not going to sit here and castrate Isaiah Stewart number one you all start castrating people and don’t be knowing the full story on anything and I

Don’t know the full story on that um much love to Isaiah Stewart I’m also now about to sit here and say I hope he get the help he needs not the route Draymond is going I got love for the young fella he is who he is be who you

Be y’all figure it out and moving on lastly before we get to the mailback questions JJ Reddit versus Doc Rivers and Patrick Beverly and Austin Rivers and who else um whoever else things got spicy and JJ went in and the gist of it was pretty much him

Calling doc out and saying doc stop making excuses you keep making excuses you keep blaming God you keep doing this you keep enough stop it and I saw JJ apologize and said listen my tone I I I looked a little hotter my tone could have been better

But I’m not apologizing for what I said I meant every word that I said and I agree with JJ when I watch been watching these doc interviews these guys were in Cabo that guy was here we didn’t something didn’t go right it’s only been two days every interview is another

Excuse and that just can’t work like you knew what you were signing up for Doc you took over a team more than halfway through the season uh through through the halfway mark of the games of the season if I’m not mistaken three and seven in the last

10 you knew what you was getting yourself into you knew the issues that the team had before you got there you knew all of these things you can’t you can’t go make make excuses now because you were actually brought in to fix those very things and so you

Can’t come and make the same excuses of the things that we already knew because if that’s the case then you couldn’t really accept the job with all that money that they gave you dot so I totally understand where JJ was coming from um Pat Bev understood where JJ was

Coming from and Austin Rivers understood where JJ was coming from and the reason you know they understood where JJ was coming from is because they never said anything about what JJ said what they did was attack JJ’s playing career and say Doc saved your career what all Doc did for you for your

Career now if I was watching JJ’s hit it did come off as a little like I got a little animosity built up from my plan days under the do and I’m getting them all out now it did come off a bit that way but I play for Tom

ISO and playing for time ISO you learn something early you learn it fast and you get the lesson often which is listen to what I’m saying not how I’m saying it so I listen to what JJ said not how he was saying it although again I did

Get the same gist that you all got JJ might not like Doc I did get that a little bit but more importantly I heard what JJ was saying and what he was saying was very accurate we cannot have the excuses doc I love doc as you all know I’ve stated

That on this podcast several times uh nothing but love for Doc but every press conference it cannot be a different excuse and we all wanted to be in Cabo my my Cabo days got even shortened because I had to go to Indianapolis for my TNT Sports family

Which was great I wouldn’t change it for nothing in the world enjoyed it had a blast it was money but we all wanted to be in kabo that is your role as the coach to make sure them guys ready to play that is Giannis and D’s role as

Leaders to make sure guys are ready to play before the allar break so I get where JJ was coming from and nobody disputed the things that JJ said they almost were disputing how it came off which mean it was facts so doc we can’t do the excuses doc we love you man

But you got to get that team going that’s what they hired you for you knew the challenges before you took the job you took the job you there got to do what you got to do to WR ship dot Jackson before we get out of

Here got some questions for me I do I do thank you guys for asking the questions we’re going to do this every time we have a bleach report live episode first one from at Channing what do you see Trace Jackson Davis’s role on the team being going

Forward um you know as a rookie uh what you say his name is at Channing as a rookie always is hard to get consistent minutes uh because things change from time to time and you are usually the first one to get your minutes teetered with and saying that Trace has a very

Good connection with clay and what young guys should understand is that will get you on the floor when I was a rookie you go to watch it I’d egregiously like come from anywhere on the floor like h hunting stuff man that set screens it created chemistry it got

Me on the floor so you got to understand the things that can get you on the floor and if I I know how important Klay Thompson is to this team so if I can build a connection with him that gets me minutes so Trey should understand that where

What his role will be um is what he is when he’s in floor or when he’s on the floor he’s a rim protector he’s a lob threat he he’s screening and rolling rebounding the basketball that’s what that’s what his role will be how much that would be you

Gotta talk to Steve Cur on that one next question from at Tor drill are you guys legit title contenders this season I 100% believe that we are legit title title contenders this season um I don’t see any team out there that we couldn’t beat obviously the cars got to fall in place

Obviously a lot of things got to go your way obviously you need some luck that’s just the nature of winning championships but I don’t see any team in the NBA that we can beat and compete for a title and Mama we still got that man I 100% think we

Are staying on the topic of title contenders and sort of connecting it back to your conversation about doc do you think the Bucks sorry this is is from at Jake stake do you think the Bucks have a legit title shot this year do I think the Bucks have a legit title

Shot uh they have two great players in Damen Lillard and Giannis an DMO um that always gives you a chance however they need a very a healthy Chris Middleton Chris hasn’t seemed that healthy this year and because of that I don’t think they are title contenders because they’re going if they’re going

Have any chance to compete with anybody Chris has to be healthy he’s too important to that team what he brings is something that no one else on that roster brings so they can get Chris healthy that puts them in the conversation if Chris is not healthy no

Chance last one we said we would do four today since we only did three last week let’s do our fourth question from at BVD 313 do you think the judging has killed the dunk contest I’ve heard a lot of discourse about this before the Jud

Judging I think is bad um I think number one you should probably have some listen Dominique human highight re is a staple in the D contest so can’t say much there Nick should always be there um but you need to like where’s the Jason Richardson where’s the you

Know Fred Jones was there was Indianapolis but like where’s the younger guys not quite like there were a couple guys on the panel where it’s like like let’s get some of these Zack LaVine like I want Zach I want Vince Vince you know like let’s get some younger blood

In in the J in the judge seats on the panel um I think that does play a role in it it’s so inconsistent we saw some dunks and we were like oh man that that dunk was weak and then it was like a 49 you’re like whoa like it’s no

Consistency you don’t really know what they’re judging um so I think the judges do play a role in it however it’s the dunkers the dunkers has to be better it can’t just be on the judge you do got to get them something better to judge but the judges have not

Been great would love to see some of the guys we just Nam as the judges I think that helps it take a step up in my opinion that’s a wrap from this episode of the Draymond Green show you can still check this episode out wherever you get

Your podcast you want to run something back go check it out you know to go check our YouTube channel out subscribe if you haven’t next time peace

On the latest episode of his podcast, Draymond Green reacts to the disappointing NBA All-Star Weekend, specifically the Dunk Contest and All-Star Game. Then Dray explains why the weekend showed Anthony Edwards is not ready to be the face of the league, and offers some suggestions to fix the All-Star Game. Then he discusses the Golden State Warriors beating the Los Angeles Lakers without LeBron James, good games from Steph Curry & Klay Thompson, and how the team is preparing for the Charlotte Hornets. Finally he discusses the recent mini-feud between JJ Redick, Doc Rivers, Patrick Beverley, and Austin Rivers before answering some mailbag questions.

0:00 Start
3:15 All-Star Weekend
23:50 Warriors-Lakers Reaction
28:00 JJ Redick vs. Doc Rivers

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