Draymond Green Gets Honest About His Future With The Golden State Warriors

Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green appeared on #thisleague UNCUT with Chris Haynes and Marc Stein.

Draymond Green has spent his entire career with the Golden State Warriors and has helped them win the NBA Championship in four of the previous eight seasons. 

The former Michigan State star is one of the best defenders in the league and is an elite passer and leader.

Recently, Green was on #thisleague UNCUT with Chris Haynes and Marc Stein and spoke about his future with the Warriors (he will have a player option in his contract for next season).

Green Said On The Podcast: "I've been here 11 years. I've done everything that you can possibly do here. Why would I want to go somewhere else and try to do it again? To prove to the people that say Draymond can only play on that team, he can't play anywhere else. Should I try to go prove those people wrong? I've been proving those people wrong. Those same people said I'd never make it in the NBA. I'm not going to waste my time trying to prove the same idiots wrong that I proved wrong a million times over. I would love to finish my career here. That's been my goal since maybe signing this current contract that I'm on. It looked like a more realistic thing with me finishing here. I also don't want to play 20 years in the NBA. I want to play 15 years in the NBA. I think it's very realistic that in four more years, I'll still be contributing at a high level, I'll still be able to give to a team and live up to the contracts that I'll be on. I do want to be here. As far as the probability goes, I can't necessarily give you that because it's not up to me. If it's totally up to me, I can 100% tell you I will finish my career here, but that's not something that's totally up to me."

Part 2 of #thisleague UNCUT with Draymond Green, he tells @TheSteinLine and I if he views Kings differently, if there’s a future with Warriors, his favorites in West and reveals if investigation ever identified “video leaker” of incident with Jordan Poole: https://t.co/yPVa0qdapV pic.twitter.com/jUUGwYDfmC

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) April 11, 2023

Green finished the regular season with averages of 8.5 points, 7.2 rebounds, 6.8 assists and 1.0 steals per contest in 73 games while shooting 52.7% from the field. 

He is in his 11th season in the league and is a four-time NBA All-Star (and won the 2017 Defensive Player of The Year Award).  

Despite the Warriors being one of the best dynasties in the history of the NBA, they have had an up-and-down season. 

That said, they were able to finish as the sixth seed (the final guaranteed playoff spot) in the Western Conference with a 44-38 record. 

The Warriors will face off with the Sacramento Kings in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, and Game 1 will be on Saturday night in Sacramento, California.