Love him or not, irresistible Draymond is winning at game called life originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
He is charming, belligerent, discerning, unhinged and one of the most polarizing athletes of the 21st century. He’s irresistible to those who get to know him.
So, when Draymond Green appeared on my TV screen this week, I couldn’t help but laugh. Out loud.
He’s doing it again. Winning. The man whose primary occupation is listed as forward/center for the Golden State Warriors continues to beat the snot out of a game that’s supposed to be complicated.
The game of life.
Has anyone so prone to verbal and physical outbursts in public ever been given so much license, liberty and love?
The world can’t get enough of Green. His popular podcast, “The Draymond Green Show,” is an award-winner. If he’s not promoting Subway sandwiches, he’s pitching Kia automobiles. Eight months after he punched a teammate, the NBA reached out offering a role in a jocular video skit promoting the inaugural Play-In Tournament. He, of course, accepted.
“They called me and at first I wasn’t sure,” Green told me last November. “But as I thought about it, about what it would mean to the In-Season Tournament and the league – which we’re all a part of – I was like, ‘Let’s do it.’ I’m glad I did it, too, because it’s dope.”
And now here we are. Four months after Green was suspended indefinitely for an escalating pattern of violence, he is on the set of TNT’s typically whimsical and sometimes informative “Inside the NBA.”
Green over the last two days offered many insights, some more trenchant than others. There was his critical analysis of Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert’s futile efforts to defend Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokić. Calling out the poor defensive effort of Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton. The firm belief that the Dallas Mavericks will win its Western Conference semifinal series against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The reaction of the TNT audience, at least those opining on social media, has been predictable. Some insist Green makes them sick. Others enjoy the…
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Publish date : 2024-05-16 20:06:31
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