Warriors: Draymond Green’s Stephen Curry message to Kevin Durant on GOAT Conversation
In Draymond Green’s latest podcast, he spoke about how he thinks Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant stand when it comes to the GOAT conversation, and unsurprisingly, he took Curry’s side, being his teammate with the Golden State Warriors all of these years.
“Steph didn’t get the credit that Steph gets today until 2022 when he led this team to a championship and won finals MVP,” Draymond Green said on The Draymond Green Show. “So if you’re not giving Steph that credit, which people didn’t, just didn’t, and by the way as a fan of basketball, I’ve watched Steph do everything. When I watched him do what he did in 2022 he took steps up for me. Oh no like this dud was like, he up in that conversation now, yeah, yeah he’s there now. You gotta go do what Steph did to get to that conversation in my opinion. I’m not in the GOAT conversation that’s fine, but in my opinion, my opinion you gotta go do what Steph did to get to that conversation. Maybe the team isn’t as ideal as you want it to be. Maybe, you know everything ain’t perfect, but guess what when it’s time I’m gonna say hey come get on my back let’s go here. When everything all else fails, hey come get on my back and let’s go here. the team isn’t going to always be the most perfect.”
Draymond Green says Kevin Durant needs to lead his own team to a title like Steph did to even be in the conversation
Kevin Durant has two rings to his name, both won with the Warriors. He received criticism for winning with such a stacked team that had won 73 games in the regular season the year before he joined, and was one year removed from a title.
It is clear that despite being a teammate of Durant during those years with the Warriors, Green puts Stephen Curry above Durant when it comes to the best players of all time.
Dub Hub: Warriors return for first practice since the passing of Dejan Milojević
Rounding up all Warriors and NBA related news for Tuesday, January 23rd.
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Warriors News:
The Warriors haven’t played since losing to the Grizzlies in Memphis on Jan. 15. Games in Utah against the Jazz and at home against the Dallas Mavericks were postponed, turning a scheduled four-day break into an eight-day layoff that is a rarity in the NBA.
“We needed it,” Kerr said. “I want to thank the NBA, Adam Silver, for postponing those two games. There’s no way any of us could have walked out onto a court and played a basketball game either Wednesday or Friday.”
Golden State gathered together as a team and opened the gym for individual workouts on Sunday, then held a full team practice Monday.
Even that didn’t feel normal.
Players and coaches on Monday wore black T-shirts with “BRATE” printed across the chest. Just above and to the left, was a heart sketched around Milojević’s initials: “DM.” On the back was his nickname.
“Some of the guys had the idea of the shirt,” Kerr said. “Braté is what he called everybody. Brother. He called all his fellow coaches Braté. And we wanted the heart because he was so full of love, full of joy, for all of us. And vice versa. And then his nickname on the back.
“We’re sending these shirts out to all over the league so all the people who knew him and loved him will have these shirts as well.”
After watching the footage from Serbia, the team took an hour to regroup and settle their emotions before beginning the practice portion of the afternoon. It was the first time they had been on the court as a team since Milojevic died suddenly last Wednesday after suffering a heart attack Tuesday night at a team dinner in Salt Lake City.
Nearly 75% of the players, coaches and staff members who were on the road trip with the Warriors were in attendance at the dinner, and witnessed what was described as a “traumatizing scene.”
Kerr said counseling has been made available to everyone within the organization, but especially those who were at the dinner.
NBA News:
“Obviously, Wilt accomplished … everything [in] the history of this league, and basketball in general,” Embiid said after his 70 points helped the Sixers beat the San Antonio Spurs 133-123 on Monday night. “So to be in the same conversation, that’s pretty cool.”
Embiid finished with 70 points, 18 rebounds and 5 assists, a line that has never happened in NBA history before Monday’s game, according to ESPN’s Stats & Information.
“It was just a great night,” he said. “I had it going. I mentioned a few times, a lot of teammates are extremely unselfish and they just kept giving me the ball, and I just finished it.”
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