Kenyon Martin on why Warriors’ Draymond Green is a ‘fake tough guy’
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by former NBA player Kenyon Mitchell to discuss Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green ’s latest ejection. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
Video Transcript
I watched Draymond get ejected this weekend, and I know you've gone on record.
You've called Draymond a fake tough guy before.
What do you mean when you say "fake tough guy,"?
What do you mean by that?
Prime example.
Um, someone who, um, doesn't treat everyone the same, Um, who's selective in their approach to who they want to play that way with.
Um, the physicality is a part of the game; we know that.
But like I just stated before, what II feel my personal opinion when you are selective, Uh, in picking on guys that's half your size and knowing that those guys are not gonna Do anything back to you, that's probably, if you look into Webster, Um, that's probably the definition of it.
So put melike Im justIm just saying, like its... Yeah.
No, it's very fair, and it put me in that warrior's locker room.
'Cause you've been there.
You understand locker room and team dynamics.
The extracurriculars, let's call them, that Draymond has had really over the last several Years and the majority of his career.
What effect does that have on the team and on The locker room?
At this point, II don't think it has any Effect.
Um, if game five of the Finals went his way, Them a finals game, um, against the Cavs, I think that that if that didn't tell the team anything and the organization, anything about the person.
Um, that he'she's not able to control it, and that... Whenwhen it's on the biggest stages, at this point, there's nothing you can do nor say.
Um, it is what it is.
The antics are what they are.
Mm-hmm.
Um, yeah, it's just it's just who the person is and what the person is gonna do.
Do you feel like modern players now hear more Outside noise than they did when you were playing?
Yeah, they're sensitive.
Yeah, because it'swhen youwhenwe didn't Listen to the other... 'Cause you had to be directly in front of me to Say things, and picking up the Beat writer's newspaper was not the first thing that I did When I woke up in the morning.
You know, me looking at the New York Post.
Wasn't the first thing I did, or The Times, or anything.
The Denver Post, when I played, it wasn't it wasn't a thing.
So I really didn't care what people said, 'cause I had a job I needed to do.
And people's opinions of me didn't really matter, because people didn't know me.
So these days, and these athletes in the sports world, They're more sensitive because everybody has a platform to speak on things.
And when you're not glazing these guys, then everything Is everything negative when you are questioning, um, Certain things and certain aspects ofof today's athlete.
