You know Draymond Green, four-time NBA champion, long-time Golden State Warriors veteran, and one of the most outspoken players in the history of the National Basketball Association. Well, on his podcast, the Dramon Green Show, Dramon brings us inside the league from his point of view. We're talking game breakdowns, behind-the-scenes stories, and post-game reactions. It's the kind of candid stuff you don't always get from someone who's still right in the middle of it. Yeah, recently he sat down with one of the loudest voices in sports media, Skip Bayliss. The result was a surprisingly honest and reflective conversation. They cover a wide range of topics, including Skip's criticism of Draymond over the years. They even get into Skip calling Draymond a cheap shot player, and Draymond takes the opportunity to give an eye-opening look at his process by sharing what it really takes to compete at the highest level, mentally and physically. It's a great listen. Here's a preview of the Dremont Green Show. Roll the clip. By the way, Skip, I'm going to let you call me a cheap shot artist. I don't know if I'd really accept that from it, but you've been so nice about it. I kind of, I'm like, a little touch by it, so I don't, I can't fight back on it. Okay. But. Well, I mean, kicking Stephen Adams in the nuts twice, that's pretty cheap, right? If I told you, I put it on my kids, I really didn't try to. Would you believe me? All right.

All right, all right. Fair enough. But it happened, and guess what? I am one, I stand on what happened, and I deal with the consequences, and it is what it is. And so I'll deal with those kinds, but I had the conversation with Steve before. Steve Kerr, yeah.

And I said, coach, you know,

I say you don't understand how hard it is.

And when I had this conversation with him,

it changed our whole relationship.

I said, coach, you don't know how hard it is

for me to be me in this whole ethos. I said, Coach, you don't know how hard it is for me to be me in this whole ethos.

I said, I have to bring the energy every day, toughness.

I said, and honestly, coach, I have to muster that up.

Like, I'm not naturally, this high energetic guy. I'm not naturally coming like, ah, I said, I have to muster that up. Like I'm not naturally, this high energetic guy. I'm not naturally coming like,

ah, I said I have to muster that up every day. I said,

and sometimes I just don't happen. I said,

but I know I have to. And as a competitor,

I'm going to do everything I can to find.

I said, but in doing that, sometimes it's just going to go over the head.

Yep, it is.

Because when you're trying to press something to the point of like, I'm going now,

once you get it going, you don't just stop.

It's like, ah, you know, like I'm ramped up now. Like, I'm taking this thing to the moon. You know, like, I'm really, and so to then get it to that point and just be like, all right, I'm there, stop. It's not really a realistic thing. I've gotten better at it over the course of years. You have? But in the same breath, I will tell you, but I also lost some of the fire, you know, and

trying to get better at that thing because it gets to a point of where it's like, but I don't

want this to cost me everything I've ever worked my whole life for, you know?

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