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Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Draymond recalls hilarious KD-to-Warriors mix-up after Luka trade
Draymond recalls hilarious KD-to-Warriors mix-up after Luka trade originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The blockbuster trade that sent Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers stunned the entire NBA and sports world, but perhaps no one was as confused as Draymond Green. Advertisement However, Green's bewilderment stemmed from a reason beyond the actual trade and more from a hypothetical one. The Warriors star forward joined 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and hilariously recalled how his confusion unraveled thanks to a little premature information from Golden State majority owner Joe Lacob. 'When it first happened, we were at a Warriors charity poker tournament,' Green remembered. 'I had just saw Joe Lacob 10 minutes before this happened. Joe gets excited. Joe goes, 'Draymond, I think we're going to get Kevin Durant. It's right there at the finish line. It's happening. We're getting Kevin Durant back.' I'm like, 'Oh, man. Here we go. Let's go.' And we talk about it. He asks if I think it'll work. I said absolutely. He leaves, he comes running back two minutes later like, 'Draymond! Draymond! I wasn't supposed to say anything. Don't say nothing to nobody.' I'm like, 'Joe, I got you. I won't say anything to anyone.' 'So we're at this tournament and I go sit down and about 15 minutes later, Steph yells, 'Draymond, you see the trade?' And I go, 'It happened?' Steph goes, 'Wait, who?' I said, 'Oh, never mind, nobody. What happened?' And he's like, 'Luka got traded.' ' Whew. Advertisement You can only imagine the emotional rollercoaster Green endured over those 20 minutes or so. First, he had to fathom the thought that Durant was returning to the Bay, where he helped bring two championships, to then — like so many others — try and wrap his head around Dončić and LeBron James teaming up, to finally realizing that Durant was, in fact, not on his way to San Francisco. What a whirlwind. 'I couldn't believe it, I thought Shams was hacked,' Green said of the Dallas Mavericks trading Dončić. 'There's videos out at the charity event of us reacting. I couldn't believe it. Superstars at 25 don't get traded. Luka's a megastar. Advertisement 'Then I thought, 'I have to be next if Luka's getting traded. It's coming for me soon.' ' To be fair to Lacob, several reports indicated that Durant's return to the Warriors was a possibility before the 15-time NBA All-Star turned down a reunion. Maybe next time, Lacob will wait for the trade to be official before spilling any premature beans. Download and follow the Dubs Talk Podcast
Hindustan Times
07-06-2025
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Steph Curry's shocked reaction to Luka Doncic's trade to rival Los Angeles Lakers: ‘They must be coming for us too'
Luka Doncic's trade to the Los Angeles Lakers was arguably the most sensational move in NBA history, as a young superstar got moved away from a team he had played for throughout his career in the league. It was a trade which caused waves all across social media and the basketball world, with not even the best of the best exempt from total shock regarding the news. Doncic joined LeBron James at the Lakers, further heating up the Californian rivalry between the Lakers and the Golden State Warriors. So sensational was the move that it left Warriors legend and star Stephen Curry reeling from the news. Curry's long-time teammate Draymond Green reflected on how the news went down when it was announced by NBA insider Shams Charania, an X post that shook the basketball landscape. Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel's talk-show, Green revealed how exactly it went down. 'I'm at this [charity poker] tournament and I sit down, 15 minutes later Steph yells 'Draymond! You seen the trade?' He's like Luka got traded,' explained Green regarding the situation. 'There's this video of us reacting. I couldn't believe it, you know, superstars at 25 don't get traded. Luka's a mega-star just coming off the NBA Finals. You just don't see that in the NBA. I immediately wondered, I have to be next, they must be coming for us too.' Green and Curry have teamed up for four NBA titles, three in a space of four years between 2015 and 2018, and most recently in 2022. Despite seeing everything that basketball has to offer, watching a true superstar cross over without any trade demands, and especially from a successful team, was something that caught them off guard. It wasn't the only high-profile trade discussed at that charity poker tournament, with Green also speaking about how a potential Kevin Durant return to Golden State was in the pipeline at that point in time. 'Joe Lakob, majority owner of the Warriors tells me 'Draymond, we got Kevin Durant, it's happening, it's at the finish line.' I'm like oh man, let's go. He comes running back to me two minutes later saying 'Draymond, Draymond, I'm not supposed to say anything. Don't tell anyone else,'' explained Green, who had a famous fallout with Durant which led to the superstar's move away from the Warriors after winning two championships in Oakland.
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Draymond offers brutally honest NBA Finals take after Knicks' loss
Draymond offers brutally honest NBA Finals take after Knicks' loss originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area You either win an NBA championship, or go home empty-handed. There is no consolation prize. Advertisement A team might make it all the way to the end, but if they don't win, they're in the same boat as the 28 other teams who are trying to figure out what they need to do to successfully scale the NBA mountaintop. Warriors forward Draymond Green knows a thing or two — or four — about winning a championship, but he also is familiar with the sting of losing in the NBA Finals, and explained on the latest episode of 'The Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis' podcast a brutally-honest perspective on teams, like the New York Knicks, for example, who found themselves close to reaching the Finals before losing to the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals, but were not close to hoisting the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy. 'If you want me to be quite honest with you, I personally think making it to the NBA Finals is one of the worst seasons you can have,' Green said. 'And the reason being … going to the NBA Finals and winning a championship, those two things are so far apart. You can get to the NBA Finals and not be close to winning an NBA championship. 'Making it to a conference finals, you're so far away from winning a championship, and it looks like it's close because you're one series away.' Advertisement The Knicks, just like the Minnesota Timberwolves, who lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference finals, had a successful season. By most accounts. However, without that championship trophy, Green believes those teams are left doing a similar level of soul-searching as other teams around the league. 'Even if the Knicks made it to the NBA Finals and didn't win it, that's not some accomplishment to me,' Green added. 'You get nothing for making the NBA Finals except a couple tens of thousands of dollars more than the conference final loser and you get another three weeks short of summer. 'You walk with nothing. The [other] team goes on and celebrates and has this incredible summer and you're kind of left stuck trying to figure out 'Were we really close? Do we need to run it back with this team? What's the tweak we need to make?'' That soul-searching in the wake of disappointment might lead a team down the wrong path. Advertisement ''You're kind of left in this position of 'Ahh, maybe we're one tweak away.' But what you should understand about this thing is one tweak could actually, it's like Jenga sometimes, one tweak on a roster could make the whole thing fall.' Could that one wrong tweak be the Knicks firing coach Tom Thibodeau on Tuesday, for example? While New York and Minnesota might be kicking themselves for failing to make the Finals, either the Pacers or the Thunder soon will be in the same boat, regardless of if they made it all the way. 'Yeah, making it to the Finals is great, but if you don't win it, it's almost worse,' Green concluded. 'You might as well have lost in the first round.' Download and follow the Dubs Talk Podcast
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Dubs Talk: Can Warriors steal Game 5 on road to avoid elimination?
Which Warriors could play well alongside Butler and Draymond? On this episode of "Dubs Talk," co-hosts Bonta Hill and Monte Poole break down which Warriors could play well alongside Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler moving forward as they wait for Steph Curry's Warriors could play well alongside Butler and Draymond? originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area 1:36 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
Fox News
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Fox News
Draymond Green, 2 technical fouls away from suspension, fined $50,000 for questioning officials' 'integrity'
Draymond Green has found a new way to get on the NBA's bad side. The Golden State Warriors star was fined $50,000 Wednesday for making an "inappropriate comment" to the officials during Game 3 of a second-round playoff series against Minnesota. The NBA said Green questioned "the integrity of game officials" in the Warriors' 102-97 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Green appeared to reference the game's point spread to the refs during the game. "Five-and-a-half. I know what they're doing," Green appeared to say. Minnesota was -5.5 and covered. Green has been assessed a league-high five technical fouls this postseason and would have to serve a one-game suspension if the total reaches seven. He has also been called for two flagrant fouls. He was suspended for Game 5 of the 2016 NBA Finals for accumulating too many flagrant fouls that postseason and was suspended for one game in the 2023 playoffs for stepping on the chest of Sacramento's Domantas Sabonis. According to the website Spotrac, Green has been fined $992,000 in his career, with $185,000 coming for actions toward officials. He also has been docked $3.2 million for suspensions. Green was suspended indefinitely last season for his on-court antics from prior playoff games, including stomping on Sabonis. He also put Rudy Gobert in a chokehold and hit Jusuf Nurkić with an open hand, which led to the extended suspension. Green recently went on a tangent about how he has an "agenda" as an "angry Black man." Green recently admitted he was "embarrassed" he "pouted way too much" during a game at home in which the Warriors lost, forcing a Game 7 in the first round of the playoffs. He said he had "some heart-to-hearts" with "people I trust the most" after that game. "It's just a habit he has when somebody fouls him, and he's smart," head coach Steve Kerr said at the time. "So, I think it was Reid reached, and, on the reach, Draymond kind of swiped through and drew the foul. But he does have a habit of sort of flailing his arm to try to make sure the ref sees it, and he made contact. And that's what led to the tech. "It's part of Draymond," Kerr added. "It's the same thing that makes him such a competitor and a winner, puts him over the top sometimes, and we know that. And it's our job to try to help him stay poised, stay composed. But the competition is so meaningful to him that occasionally he goes over the line." Golden State, without Stephen Curry due to an injury, trails its second-round series, 3-1, and Game 5 will be played in Minnesota Wednesday night. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
