Draymond Green: Let’s start to get real. You just can’t tell me everybody deserves respect. That’s not a fact. Everybody don’t deserve respect just because you played before me. You don’t deserve respect. There are a lot of people in the club, and not everybody can dance. Facts, BD. Just because you played before me does not mean you deserve respect. I’m sorry. But God had it in His plan for you to be born before me, and you just deserve respect because of that? No. My mom ain’t raise me that way. Respect is earned.” -via YouTube / March 29, 2025

“The bottom? Man. Oh man. How do you find the bottom?” Green says on NBC Sports Bay Area’s “Dubs Talk” podcast, which debuted Friday. “There’s been some moments where … Wow. Wow. “The bottom, I would have to say, for me personally, the bottom was last year. And the reason that was the bottom is basketball is one thing. You can talk about basketball all you want. I really don’t care. I know what I bring to the basketball game. I know what I’m capable of. I know what’s going on. So that don’t really bother me. “But last year, my character was under attack. Who I am as a human being was under attack.” -via NBC Sports Bay Area / March 28, 2025