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Often times in this new reactionary, clickbait world we live in today, we are so quick to label someone a victim that we frequently miss who the real victims are.
Prior to the 2022 NBA season, TMZ leaked a video from the Golden State Warriors practice facility showing Draymond Green knocking Jordan Poole from the Bay to the DC in the blink of a (black) eye.
Draymond Green knocked the living shit out of Jordan Poole pic.twitter.com/ZMgY0guXDD
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) October 7, 2022
Much was said about poor Jordan Poole as we marched to Draymond’s front door with pitchforks and torches without taking a step back and thinking about how hard this all was on Draymond Green.
Fortunately, Draymond Green finally got a chance to speak his mind this week on Penny Hardaway’s podcast because apparently the coach of a college basketball team—who is in the middle of a college basketball season—is also a content creator and social media influencer on the side of, ya know, a job that requires him to be fully locked in on getting the most out of 18-21-year-old boys who are one ignored text from the girl they like away from tanking Memphis’s entire season.
Penny also was an NBA superstar with one of the most popular sneakers who probably doesn’t need to spend his free time having milquetoast conversations for a couple thousand dollars in his bank account every month from DraftKings.
Like, I understand getting as many streams of revenue as possible but you can either have the best podcast or the best basketball team. And Memphis is having a great season so far. They’re 9-3 on the year in the midst of a 6-game winning streak, including a win over no. 2 ranked UConn.
So what does that say about the quality of Hardaway’s podcast?
Anyway, here’s Draymond getting real about how he was affected by punching Jordan Poole and how it was the hardest thing he ever went through.
Draymond Green says the Jordan Poole situation taught him how to be a better vet
“It taught me a ton, it showed me how to be a better vet…I had to go through that in order to learn.”
(h/t @NBABeyondCourt )
— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) December 27, 2024
“One of my biggest failures as a vet was what happened with Jordan Poole. And it took me to go through that failure with Jordan Poole, who was someone that came in and chose his locker to be next to me because he wanted to learn from me. Was someone that I would spend time with, that I would pour into, and I f—ed it all up. And I haven’t felt that miserably (about) most things in my life, and so that was one of my biggest failures. It taught me a ton. It showed me how to be a better vet for Jonathan Kuminga, how to be a better vet for Moses Moody, but I had to go through that in order to learn.
“And like I said, it sucked, but in being that vet now, and just wanting to pour into these guys, I think the most important thing for me is knowing how to. With Jordan Poole I wanted to pour into him, and I did pour into him. But the how to I didn’t necessarily know. And because I didn’t necessarily know, it kind of led us to a place that we can’t come back from. But for these younger guys I know not to get to get close to that place, but how to accomplish the same thing that I was trying to accomplish with that.”
I’m glad Draymond was able to better himself.
See, you guys don’t understand.
He wanted to “pour into” Jordan Poole but at the young, naive age of 32, Draymond simply didn’t know the best way to help his teammate. It took dotting Poole’s eye to realize “Whoa, maybe I shouldn’t KO my teammates when they’re, like, just playing around with me during practice”.
It’s like when you cheat on your partner because you just have soooo much love to give and some of that love spilled into your work wife at the company Christmas party.
Draymond Green wanted to be a good vet so badly that he just attacked Jordan Poole—out of love.
But I get it.
People hate Draymond Green because he’s a winner.
They’re jealous of his success.
They, too, wish they could pass the ball to Steph Curry and get away with freely fouling on defense.
Maybe if you nerds spent more time in the gym practicing setting illegal screens instead of complaining online, you could be considered one of the greatest basketball players of all time despite not being that great at basketball just like Draymond Green, the victim.
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