Stephen A. Smith amid the beef with LeBron James admitted that Draymond Green was among the NBA players who don’t speak to him anymore after his comments about Bronny.
LeBron recently approached Smith at an NBA game about the comments he’s made in the past about his son.
Green on his podcast told listeners he told Bob Myers, current ESPN analyst and former Warriors GM, to relay a message to Smith when he saw him as ESPN.
“You go on national TV and call out this African-American father who’s raised another successful black young man [Bronny James], and you go on TV calling him out as a father because his son played in the NBA? That’s a** backwards,” Green said on The Draymond Green Show.
Green added, “I told Bob that you should tell him ‘I can’t respect that,’. If you want to talk about him as a basketball player, talk about him as a basketball player. The same [applies to] Bronny — go ahead. He’s an NBA player, talk about him all you want.”
He also said that it’s “whack” for the NBA media to focus so much on the 55th pick in the NBA Draft, while not even mentioning all the players that were drafted before him.
Away from SAS and his BS, Green is elated to have Jimmy Butler on his Warriors team and be back in the winner’s circle.
Following Saturday’s 97-94 victory over the New York Knicks, Draymond Green offered a very blunt assessment of Butler’s impact on the Warriors.
“It’s a real ball club now,” Green told ABC’s Lisa Salters. “With [Butler] on this team, whether he has 11 points or 30, it makes us a real ball club. And when we’re a real ball club, we usually win championships.”
“Feels great. After getting beat up on a little bit the last few years, it feels amazing to just walk in and know that you have a chance to win,” Green told Salters. “That’s what we play for, you put a lot of work in, you want to play on the biggest stage. To put these wins together, it feels amazing.”
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