Draymond Green’s very long statement on the KD situation pic.twitter.com/itXd3a7SMP
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) November 15, 2018
Draymond Green spoke to reporters on Thursday, for the first time since his blowup with Kevin Durant on the Warriors bench Monday night. Here are his comments in full.
“I’m going to speak on this one time and one time only,” Green began. “With what happened a few nights ago, you know Kevin and I spoke. We’re moving forward. I think there’s no secret that I am an emotional player. I wear my emotions on my sleeve, and I play with that same emotion. Sometimes it gets the best of me and it doesn’t work to my favor. I’m going to live with that, because it works to my favor in the good — as my resume speaks, and this team’s resume speaks — more so than it doesn’t.
“I’m never going to change who I am, I’m going to approach the game the same way that I always do, and like I said we’ll continue to move forward. I’ve read a lot about how, ‘is this the end of the run?’ Or is it over? Or did I ruin it? Or did I force Kevin to leave? You know at the end of the day as I’ve said before, whatever Kevin decides to do, whatever Klay (Thompson) decides to do, whatever who decides to do, we’ve had great years together. And I support everybody, wholeheartedly, 100 percent. Cause as a man, as a human being, you’ve got the right to do what you want to do with your life, and so I’ll never question that.
“What you must know is nobody in this organization from a player — not myself, not Kevin, not anybody else — is going to beat us. If you’re one of them other 29 teams in this league you’ve got to beat us, we’re not going to beat us. We’re going to continue to do what we do and I’m sorry if that ruins everybody’s stories. I know everybody got a job to do. I apologize for ruining y’all’s stories if it did, if this only makes Kevin, myself, and the rest of my teammates stronger, that’s what it’s going to do. If you think you saw something before, good luck with us now. We’re not going to crumble off of an argument, we’re going to move forward.”
When asked about his relationship with management, Green refused to speak on the matter any further.
Draymond Green ended his opening statement saying he wouldn’t take questions on the KD situation. Asked him about the management side of this (suspension decision), he wouldn’t discuss. pic.twitter.com/aR2QfrapDA
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) November 15, 2018