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What is up, fellow thermonuclear a
ffers. I am Dampa Valley coming at

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you with another mini segment here.
I've been asked a lot about while we

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haven't addressed the Draymond Green situation.
It's because I am neck deep in team

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look Aheads. We do have the
Warriors coming later this week, but I

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figured I would since I mentioned this. There might be a two pot day.

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If you're listening to this on a
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one. I had some cancelations and
ghost things for other podcasts look Ahead,

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so there will be days where I
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get out all those look Aheads before
the season. I'm very much trying to

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put out our bougiass previews for every
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They might leak into the regular season
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The Draymond Green stuff, though,
there was just a lot to digest.

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You we all know by now that
he punched Jordan Pool in practice. The

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video was then subsequently leaked and it
was not great to look at. I

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mean, we hear about practice kerfuffles
all the time, but the way the

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warriors are reacting, you kind of
knew this wasn't the norm. Green is

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now taking some time away from the
team. He said. He gave a

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press conference and where he said many
different things, some of which I will

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touch upon. It's just a very
awkward situation. So I think they're,

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you know, we need to tackle
this from tears a few of the things.

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The initial reaction. There are players, a lot of them former talking

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about, Oh, this happens all
the time. I don't. I don't

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buy that, and I'm not this
is not sourced to this degree. I'm

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knowing the reaction coming from the Warriors
themselves and Kerr and Steph and we'll touch

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on those as well. This is
not this. This beats that level of

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any other practice just you know,
buah or whatever you want to call it.

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And maybe it's because the video was
released and so it looks just worse

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on having that actual footage. To
me, maybe I am falling victim to

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that, but I would be shocked
and just based off some of the current

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NBA player reactions when you're looking at
a Darn Fox or a John Moran or

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a Trey Young from the same agency, by the way, saying Draymond trying

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to get traded to La was actually
hysterical. I'm even someone closer to being

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more of a current player, and
Isaiah Thomas remains unsigned right now. It

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just tells me that this was something
that was beyond the norm. And then

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how fast Draymond's people camp went to
try and do damage control, where it

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was reported that Jordan Pool's behavior because
he was going to get paident extension,

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either in recent months or over the
past year, impacted it. That again

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tells me that this was not the
norm. Even we know now Marcus Thompson

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did a great job writing about this
for The Athletic. We know that Jordan

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Pool and Draymond Green are the trash
talkers on the team, that a lot

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of them might only be the ones
talking during practice when you look at their

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personalities. To me, though this
was a thirty two year old man punching

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a twenty three year old co worker, that difference matters. When Draymond is

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build is sort of the emotional bell
Weather for this team. We know that

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he's had extracurricular stuff in the past, the Lebron getting suspended excuse me.

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In the twenty sixteen finals, the
Steven Adams shot that led it to a

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point where he contributed to a point
I should say, to where he could

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be suspended. I'm getting into an
altercation with Steve Kerr at halftime of a

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game that might have been the same
season or what, yeah, was it?

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I can't remember. Then Kevin Durant
sideline scuffle that a lot of people

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attribute to, well, that was
definitely why Kadi left in free agency that

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year. I will say there's a
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don't know that you look at this
and say, well, Drey has already

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cost the Warriors at least two titles
in twenty and sixteen, and then by

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chasing let's say Kevin duran away in
free agency twenty and sixteen, I just

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totally agree with with the Kosts coming
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Like the Kevin Durant thing, I
just believe he was always gone, and

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I think most people would agree.
So I don't know that you can attribute

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that entirely to Draymond, even if
he factored into that calculus. And then

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this season, we don't know what's
gonna happen yet, But that is just

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my primary concern here is I would
love to know how Jordan Pool feels about

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this. Maybe he'll talk by the
time you hear this. I don't know

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if the onus has to fall on
him to talk. But he's the one

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who got hit. He's the one
where it seemed like, yeah, there

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might have been trash talking involved,
but the way that Steve Kerr was talking,

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and then Steph specifically, who we
know loves Draymond. Steph just seemed

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fed up with his availability that this
had happened. And even Steve Kerr when

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he got into some of the questions
and was giving just one word answers,

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I think he said, like speculatory
to to one of them whether Drey would

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be able to come back and this
would be okay. That shit matters,

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and it again it to me.
It tells you the scale at which this

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took place. Forget the week,
but the scale which this took place was

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abnormal. Maybe not anomalist, but
definitely abnormal. So that is what I

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care about. It is I want
to know Jordan Pool's thoughts because that's what's

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going to probably impact this the most. If he can recapture the chemistry or

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the emotional bond he has shared with
Draymond, then the other team, the

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other team's it'll be easier for them
to fall suit. But this is on

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the team to kind of just I
don't want to use the word forgive,

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to sort of call Draymond this cancer. But it's on the Warriors now again

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to sort of look past. Okay, Yes, he is the emotional heart

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and soul for our team, but
it's also manifests in ways that are detrimental

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to Draymond's credit. And I think
that we're too not that we're too hard.

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I think collectively we on social media
at least we struggle to juggle multiple

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truths at the same time, Which
is Do I believe Draymond is sorry?

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Yes? Do I believe that he's
also sorry that it got caught or was

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released on video? Also? Yes? Do I think that his press conference

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was perfect on the matter? No? Do I think he was candid?

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Yes? I do. I think
there's no coming back from this. I

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honestly don't know. There are things
that he said that definitely rankle you and

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should be made fun of. The
whole shout out to his family, pulling

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that David Ghetta thing just so weird. I punched him so hard his family

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in fact, that his family it's
just a wild thing to say. I

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do also think press conferences are tough, even if in your head you've had

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time to prepare. I can't tell
you how much prep goes into some of

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my podcasts for these. And I'm
not comparing myself to Draymond. Let me

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just get that clear. Draymond is
on another level with being able to deal

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and just mentally prepare for what he's
doing with press conferences the game. So

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I'm not saying that I have the
same ike is Draymond. My point is

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I trip over my words still.
I say the wrong things and preps,

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especially when it's interviews and I have
these notes and these extensive outlines I usually

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send guests, so you can prepare
and stuff can still come out wrong.

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It needs to be leeway shown at
the same time, you know him harping

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at all on the leak of the
footage, which I actually do agree is

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an issue because internally, like you
want to feel that not players are already

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under a microscope and the magnification on
that microscope is beyond what I could imagine.

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And so there's part of me where
Draymond says, I've been dealing with

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stuff off the court and hurt people, hurt hurt people. I disagree with

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that just strongly. You're a thirty
two year old adult, and you don't

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shouldn't have to resist the impetus to
go up to a twenty three year old

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and punch them. Whether you think
it's a sucker punch, I don't fucking

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care. Because Jordan pooled every right
to push Draymond, who got in his

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personal space and came all the way
up to him. That's just a natural

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reflex. I don't know if Jordan
Pool expected that the people around him are

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going to intervene, which they really
didn't, and Draymond was allowed to throw

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that punch. It seemed to everyone
was just going about business as usual because

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maybe these two chirp and we don't
have the audio. I also don't think

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that matters. And if I had
to guess, I think the audio makes

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Draymond come off worse. That's just
a guess. But I can't bring myself

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to think, oh, well,
Jordan Poole should have been prepared that Draymond

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was going to swing at him.
I mean, it's still on Draymond.

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Whether you think that Jordan Poole should
have been in more of a defensive stance

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after pushing Draymond, which, given
how close to Jordan Poole's personal proximity he

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was and how hostile the interaction was
Draymond coming I don't want to say threateningly,

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menacingly is probably the better word.
I could see why he would be

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pushed away. I don't If you
don't want to call the sucker punch,

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that's fine, but let's not throw
this on Jordan Pool unless he said something

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actually so egregious that we don't know
about. And again, based off with

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her and Steph Curry specifically said,
I just don't think that's the case.

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I do think there's also been breadcrumbs
that maybe the Warriors have been mentioning that

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Jordan Pool is chirping more than usual, where Clay was sort of talking about

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the three point contest, the exhibition
three point contest that they had in I

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believe they were over in Japan.
There's just sort of clues that you could

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tell. Yeah, but that also
makes sense because if he and Draymond are

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the guys who are trash trash trapping
against each other while no one is talking

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in practice, that sort of tracks
and Steph and Clay aren't punching Jordan Pool

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because of what he's saying verbally.
This is all on Draymond Green. Would

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be my point again, you're a
thirty two year old adult. I don't

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care the profession. There's no such
thing as boys will be boy like.

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That's fucking stupid. Like could we
get in the year twenty twenty two,

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please, and thank you? That's
not an excuse that I would accept.

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This is all on him, And
I think that he said it that his

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actions have to speak more than his
words now because all his apologies just bring

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hollow given how many different issues there
have been. But this is just more

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so. He's talking about a player
in Jordan Pool that he took on his

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wing, that he has this not
father son relationship but like mentor mentee relationship,

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and now you've risked that. And
he even said it's tough for him

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to kind of go to Jordan Pool
right now, even though he did say

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that he reached out to apologize to
Pool and of course his family for just

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again just wild stuff there, and
he did. Draymond said he's made a

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ton of progress as a person.
That's not something that I think when you're

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apologizing with this I don't think there
can be butts or however's I think you

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just own it and then you try
and move on him stepping away from the

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team. Don't know how long that
wind's up lasting, but I do think

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that it's fair. And I've actually
been surprised, and I wouldn't use the

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word in press, but just just
surprised at how not again stream on the

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Warriors family says, but how fed
up they seem with this behavior. And

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I do think a lot of that
just comes down to, yeah, dealing

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with stuff like this and not like
this, but along similar lines in the

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past, but also the way that
Steve Kerr and it's more specifically Stephan Kurry

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just seemed fed the fuck up.
And so that's like that has to factor

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in to this too, is that
you don't want this being another storyline.

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And you know, Dre says he's
not counting other players or other men's wallets.

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Okay, fine, I have a
tough time believing that some of this

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emotional heft doesn't have anything to do
with the fact that he's the least likely

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of anyone who's extension eligible to get
an extension. I mean, let's just

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face it, when you're looking at
Wiggins when you're looking at Jordan Pool.

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I would expect those two guys to
get an extension before Dre And to be

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clear, I think Pool is probably
the only one who actually gets an extension

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at the end of the day,
but that has to be factoring into this.

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For Draymond, I just think what
he did was inexcusable. I can

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appreciate a lot of what he says, and I do believe he understands the

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gravity of it. I don't think
it brings empty, it rings hollow,

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but also sort of him alluding to
well, I don't want to tell you

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what was said, because that's the
sympathy card. Just short of implying that

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Pool was equally, if not more
so, or equitably responsible, not more

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responsible, but equitably responsible. There
is a line you can't cross, especially

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when you're talking about a specific dynamic
and I know that they're coworker, I

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mean lose sight of the fact.
I think the way with whe critique these

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players, myself included, could probably
sometimes just be gross. They're so fucking

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young. Jordan pulls twenty three and
was just forcibly struck as the terminology by

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a thirty two year old man.
I get that's not your typical workplace stuff,

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but like that has to matter too. This was a man punching someone

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who is still like in early adulthood. So I do believe Draymond wants to

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be better. I do believe that
he's sorry, but I don't know that

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I believe he can come back from
this with the Warriors, and I do

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think this makes him more likely that
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fairly surprised if they trade him,
maybe in a sign and trade this summer,

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but I'd be fairly surprised if they
trade him, just because I don't

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know where he get back for him
at this point, he is so good.

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I think if people say he wouldn't
be so valuable on another team,

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I do believe maybe not now because
he's older, but I think that's unfair

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to just how transcendent he's always been
defensively. If he makes watching d defense

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cool and exhaustive, and he was
still super important in the way that the

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Warriors defended right up until the end
of the season last year. And there's

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a tradeoff where if you just say, like, you know, if you

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get rid of dray right now,
let's just say we want to move on

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from him. There's a tradeoff that
you might not be immediately able to come

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back from. Necessarily, it's you
have Cavan Luni, still you have Wiggins.

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But if you're trusting, committing and
Moody to come along that quickly,

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you already did lose GP two.
I think your DVAS defense in the regular

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season and the playoffs would suffer significantly
without him because he's that important when it

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comes to being instructive but also insightful
and being able to sort of act on

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that, and so you can't just
he's still important to what they're trying to

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do. I don't know, I
honestly don't know if this becomes a distraction

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for the team. I do not
think it's going to be something around which

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they rally to defend their championship.
That's just kind of stupid. And to

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the Warrior's credit, if you if
you want to go this route, they

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ranked in the seventy fifth percentile of
defensive efficiency without Draymond on the court last

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year. Now you're gonna have a
full season of Clay. We know what

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Wiggins is on defense now might be
borderline elite. Still don't think he's a

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top three defender in the NBA.
Like some GMS and Warriors fans have told

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me, yeah, you're missing Gary
Payt in the second and even Oddo Porter

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Jr. Who's probably more valuable to
them on defense at points and offense.

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But like Moses Moody, that's someone
who feels like there's a lot of optimism

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coming out of camp for him.
I do, however, think if you're

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going to move on from Draymond long
term, it's because you believe that Cominga

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and Wiseman collectively or at least one
of them as the answer in the front

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court. And I don't. You
certainly can't say that now, and so

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this season will be about gathering that
information, which could become a distraction when

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Draymond is just sitting there without an
extension. But when you the odds were

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probably always against these Warriors staying together
and Steph and Clay and Draymond retiring not

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the same year, but as all
his members of the Warriors without playing for

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a different team. And while Dre
might come cheaper than he is right now,

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and let's remember that Clay is going
to be in the like the forty

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plus million dollars this season. It
just always felt like he believes he's either

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underappreciated or that he was always I
should just put it to me, he

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was always the most likely one of
the three to go elsewhere, and I

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think that's now significantly more likely.
And part of that just might be do

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they view him as more replaceable because
I don't know if he has the same

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offensive value elsewhere. I'd like to
see prime Draymond to play on a different

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team. Defensively, I think he
would still scale and have a ton of

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utility on another organization. That being
said, because you have Cominga, and

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because you have Wiseman, and also
because you have Looney and maybe even you're

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thinking about paying let's we'll get to
that in a second. But you have

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those three if you hit on Comingo
or Wiseman and Cominga definitely feels like he

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is more backbone essence on defense than
James Watson would. But maybe I haven't

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seen enough of James Wiseman. Who
am I have to say anything like that.

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It's probably because they just believe they
already sort of have his successors in

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place, like to the front court, and you can't say that about definitely

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can't say that about stef I don't
care how you feel about Jordan pol.

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You can't even say about Clay right
now because he's better defensively than Jordan Pool,

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who can just kind of get tossed
around out there and be super stiff

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and not do anything. Maybe he
gets better still young enough where he could

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I don't know. And so you
look at what Jordan Pool brings as a

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shock creator, a finisher, a
shooter that might be more valuable to the

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Warriors at this point because they don't
have a ton of secondary scoring. Still,

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they have Jordan Pool, who's I
think he's probably he's come along as

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a passer. I don't know if
you view Clay or Wiggins as those tertiary

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ball handlers. Maybe Wiggins has more
to offer. Clay is still going to

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be best moving away from the ball. So you could argue right now Jordan

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Poole was also in a contract year
or extension eligible himself, is more valuable

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to the Warriors in the short and
long term than Draymond. If you really

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wanted to make that case, I
would probably push it back against it.

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This season when you're looking at the
defensive but trying to project forward. Yeah,

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I mean this title. This window
could close at any point, and

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Pool's younger, so that's going to
help him as well. Then it gets

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interesting if you want to go to
Wiggins and Clay versus Draymonds, and I

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just think as wings they're going to
be inherently more valuable if Drey continues to

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be limited on offense. And look, he's still dangerous out of the short

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role, but he needs space to
work with, and there were teams that

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were able to give him a headache
at points with that style. I mean,

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you look at you know, Dallas
gave him some fits. You look

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at Boston definitely gave him some fits
with that. In the the NBA Finals,

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I still think he had some really
impactful games, especially on the defensive

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end. But Wiggins and Clay as
wings on offense are just inherently more valuable.

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They shoot threes and they make threes
defensively, That's the question moving forward,

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not next season. Draymond is still
much better than them, I argue

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moving forward, he's still probably gonna
be more transcendent than Clay. But just

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looking at someone who as a one
on one wing defender, does Wiggins become

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more mission critical to this team than
Draymond I don't I don't know, And

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there's so much prior to this happening. There's so much, you know,

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intangibility that needs to be ascribed to
the situation, and now I'm wondering that

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that buoyed Draymond's case. I don't
know if it does anymore after this,

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And I don't think. I'm not
saying he's a terrible human being, but

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I also can't sit here and defend
him. It was nice to hear some

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of the things that he said,
and I really do he was candid.

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I think that he's sorry. I
just don't know if there's any coming back

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from from this this time, and
I could see it being I think the

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Warriors are going to still end up
being in the top three conversation in the

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West and put up a that viable
defense of their title. But I don't

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think this is something around which they're
going to rally and become inspired. And

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my guests would be at this moment
if if Draymond Green is still on the

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Warriors next season, it's almost because
he picked up his player option and was

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so bad that like there wasn't going
to be a market for him in free

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agency and that might almost be maybe
I'm being hyperbolic there, but and being

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too caught in the moment. There's
so much that can change. We've seen

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them overcome the game five sespecially in
twenty and sixteen, and when you're looking

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at the stakes of this specifically,
that is clearly more pivotal than a practice

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punch, if we want to phrase
it that way. And so like,

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maybe I am assigning too much value
there, but we know the Warriors have

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to pay all these other people,
and that they can say We've already seen

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limits to their tax bills and I'm
not gonna I would just pay everybody,

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you know, but I'm not a
billionaire. My whole thing is they were

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never going to pay everybody. That's
the reality of the situation. And it

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always felt like Steph would be here. I could see Clay either them just

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deciding to pay him because he's Clay, or he would stay here no matter

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what. And then it kind of
comes down to you, are you willing

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to keep two of Jordan Pool,
Wiggins and Dre And at this point,

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especially depending how this season goes,
I think you would pick Wiggins in Pool

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long term. I don't even think
it's a question at this point, and

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I don't Draymond is like the central
nervous system to the way that they defend

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and was one of the best defenders
of all time, maybe the best defender

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of his generation, depending on how
you measure that up with Kauai or even

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you think Janice is going to wind
up factory into that discussion. So I'm

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not trying to discredit how much he's
meant to the Warriors, but there comes

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a point where the math wasn't mathing
for the Warriors already if you're looking at

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how much he wanted to get paid, and now it's even harder to make

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the math work when this happens.
And I do think, though I'm not

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gonna speak in absolutes here, I
would leave the door open for anything.

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I'll leave the door open for the
Warriors to win sixty games with Draymond winning

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Defensive Player of the Year at this
point, I wouldn't shock me. I

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think the big thing to watch is
how Jordan Poole responds to this and what

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becomes of their relationship moving forward,
because there was just there was a line

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cross no matter what, but it
was a different sort of line this time

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when you're just looking at the relationship
he had with Pool, the backdrop of

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the extension talks, with Wiggins being
factored in there as well, and then

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just I have to come back to
I'm not Jordan Pool is an adult.

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I'm not trying to give him a
pass if he was to have done anything

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just the way that Stephen Kerr we're
talking, I don't know that Jordan Pool

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could have said anything even remotely sinister
enough to warrant that kind of a reaction

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from Draymond. And that's just where
I land on this. I am it's

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weird, the whole stepping away from
the team again that they probably don't want

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to fall into the trap of,
oh, the video came out, now,

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let's suspend him. At the same
time, I think there probably should

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have been the suspension regardless if it's
a mutual party of the ways for a

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while. I don't know how he's
supposed to work on himself then in a

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few days, like he said,
and so is this going to be a

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protracted absence, I don't know.
And the other thing is just like whatever's

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happening with him, I hope he's
okay. I don't want anyone in the

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world to hurt. It still doesn't
excuse you're a thirty two year old adult

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like this, you know, if
you were in nineteen year old rookie and

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letting the emotions get the best of
you. But like, we've been here,

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done that, watch some iteration of
this, like a handful of times

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since he's been in the league,
And I don't like using the word outburst

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because I don't think that's what it
is. I really hope that he is

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like everything that's going on, his
personal life is fine. He talks about

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being a good dad. I don't
think that Draymond is a bad don't know

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him personally, but I don't think
he's this terrible bad person. I also

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think it's well within the rights,
especially if you're a fan who only cares

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about these players as athletes of your
favorite team, to be fed up with

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Draymond and take that stance. I
think we all need to juggle the nmac

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of athletes or people too, though, and so I wouldn't be just,

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oh, we need to trade Drey
for whatever. There's no coming back from

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this. I won't rule it out, but increasingly so it feels like this

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was just a breaking point that I
don't it won't undo the Warriors this season,

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but the idea of them looking even
like, not remotely, but bearing

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resemblance to the core four of drey
Clay, Jordan Pool and Draymond that just

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I mean, even the thought,
it feels increasingly likely. Let's raise it

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this way. As I alluded to
already, it feels increasingly likely that this

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might be that this will be the
last season we see Draymond, Clay and

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Steph Curry on the same team.
That's where I'm at with this. Maybe

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