Draymond Green got on the podium today and spoke to the media for 40 minutes about his altercation with Jordan Poole. Below is a compilation of soundbites from the full interview on the scene.
Here is the entire interview:
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• Draymond in his opening statement said that any reports of Jordan being a problem are false. “I don’t hide from anything. I own my mistakes. To go sit on my podcast would be not taking questions and hiding from the issue at hand.” (Dalton Johnson, Mark Medina, 95.7 The Game)
• “Number one, I was wrong for my actions that took place on Wednesday and for that, I have apologized to my team. I have apologized to Jordan.” (95.7 The Game, Madeline Kenney)
• Green calls the video being released a “huge embarrassment” not just for him, but for Jordan, the team and Poole’s family: “With the video leaking, there is a huge embarrassment that comes with that not only for myself with the own committing the action. But the embarrassment that Jordan has to deal with, the team has to deal with, the organization has to deal with and his family…Quite frankly if my mother saw that video, I know how she would feel…I apologize to his mother and father, his family& friends who care for him.” He also apologized to his family, adding his wife is receiving comments that he’ll do that to her at home. (Monte Poole, Mark Medina, Madeline Kenney, Melissa Rohlin)
• Green: “That is the task at hand to rebuild trust in our locker room and pull everything back together in order to repeat and defend a championship. Although that is the least of my worries right now, that has to stay at the forefront.” (Mark Medina)
• Green: “I don’t think brotherhood is gone but in brotherhood sometimes that splintered…It’s important that I do the work to put that back together…That is on me to do the work to rebuild but on his time. If he ever wants to do that. That is a personal choice for Jordan and I have to accept whatever comes with that.” Green said he has a really good personal relationship with Jordan Poole. He took him under his wing, advocated for him and encouraged him to have a voice. (Madeline Kenney, Melissa Rohlin, 95.7 The Game)
• Draymond denies his punch was about contracts: “I can assure you I don’t count other people’s pockets. That’s nothing I would ever stop doing.” He said the ongoing contract negotiations “had absolutely nothing to do with anything. (Dalton Johnson, Kerith Burke, Mark Medina, Madeline Kenney)
• “I am a very flawed human being. I am a constant work in progress and I’ll continue to do the work…I look forward to doing the work…that it takes to make it right…That day that took place I was in a very very very bad space mentally dealing with some things in my personal life …When you are doing something when you step on the court, that doesn’t go away. As a leader of this team, I needed to have a better feel for myself and where my wicks end was…One thing I lack is knowing how to let my emotions out…I can walk you everything that got to me to that point, but that doesn’t make it right.” (Monte Poole, Mark Medina, Kendra Andrews, 95.7 The Game, Madeline Kenney, Shayna Rubin, Kerith Burke)
• “I failed as a leader. I failed as man.” (Marcus Thompson)
• On the video of his punch being leaked: “I thought it was bullshit. No other videos leak from practice. When we’re working on our sets, that don’t leak…If I’m being honest it’s 100% bullshit.” He says he watched it 15 times, “it looks even worse than I thought it was. It’s pathetic…But what I did was wrong, regardless of how the video was leaked with audio or without audio, I was wrong. I accept that and will move forward with that.” Draymond also thanked the Warriors for taking it so seriously and launching an investigation. (Mark Medina, Kendra Andrews, Dalton Johnson, Shayna Rubin, 95.7 The Game)
• Green said he’s leaving the team for a few days to work on himself and to give team and Jordan some space. He didn’t give a clear response on when he would return: “I’m going to take a few days. Or I don’t know how many days. Just take some time to myself. Allow our team to start their healing process. But take some time to myself and get deep in my thoughts. Do things that I have to do to continue to work on me.” (Madeline Kenney, Mark Haynes, 95.7 The Game)
• Green declined to tell his side of the story and what made him so upset. He said that would be a “sympathy tactic.”: “I’m not looking for sympathy…If anyone deserves sympathy it’s Jordan and this team…I can walk you everything that got to me to that point, but that doesn’t make it right.” (Melissa Rohlin, Kerith Burke)
• Draymond: “We’ve been through some shit to win at the level we’ve won. Some of it public but a lot of it private…Winners find a way to win. I’ve been a winner my whole life and I’m going to find a way to win…We’re professionals. We have a job to do and we’re winners. And winners win…That’s from a winning standpoint. From a human being standpoint, from a personal standpoint, I have some things to fix.” Says it’s “hard to walk up to Jordan right now.” (Marcus Thompson, 95.7 The Game, Dalton Johnson)
• Green: “I have an issue with how to let my emotions out. What I do need to change and work on is how they ended up coming out…Hurt people hurt people…I hurt someone because I was in a place of hurt.” (Melissa Rohlin, 95.7 The Game, Chris Haynes)
• Draymond: “You apologize with words. But your actions show your apology. I’ve apologized with my words. Now my actions have to show my apology…I’ll allow my actions to show my apology going forward.” (Marcus Thompson, Kerith Burke)
• “This is something that I regret. There aren’t many things in life that I regret.” (95.7 The Game)
