Vintage Draymond postgame on Wembanyama’s MVP “defense is 50%” plea, Steph Curry vs. “kick the can”, Moody, Gui, etc.
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Draymond Green gave an impassioned eighteen-minute postgame Q&A! Only comments I’d like to make are:
I’m still not sure I agree with letting one Wardell Stephen Curry come back and play (see previous article). The loss of Moses Moody to a long-term injury effectively leaves the Warriors with nine players under contract for 2026-27, seven of which are playable on Opening Night. I would be really careful with those remaining seven. You have to be more and more careful the more bodies you lose.
On that note, I would actually want to shut down Green himself, although the team only played ten players against Brooklyn. It’ s all about asset management and, in this case, asset protection. Nate Williams has only six games remaining where he can be active under the two-way contract rules and there are still nine games to go. Malevy Leons was listed as out with an illness. LJ Cryer, De’Anthony Melton and Kristaps Porzingis all seem to be playing with minutes restrictions, still. It might be hard to shut down Draymond just due to the need for bodies to get through any given 48-minute game without wearing guys out, but we shall see.
I’m not as worked up about Victor Wembanyama’s campaigning for MVP as Draymond is, because I am at peace with the fact that a select group of media members votes on the award. I’ve said it a million times: I don’t waste my time with CRAP (comparisons, rankings, awards and predictions). I’m all about the process, so when a select group of media members have voted for decades along the lines of “what name will look credible on the Wikipedia page (it used to be in sports almanacs) for NBA MVPs,” you will get a certain type of selection. I also understand that an NBA player like Dray would be extra-sensitive to these awards because they are literally tied to salaries, whether directly or indirectly. That part is unfortunate and that rule should be improvised.
Here is ye embedded video and ye transcript (paywalled) from postgame vs. the Nets. It will be taken out from under the paywall when the next article on this Substack gets posted, so if you are a free subscriber, you will just have to wait a little bit…
