Although Draymond Green continues to play for the Golden State Warriors, he also works part time as an analyst for TNT. Green is certainly credible when it comes to sharing his basketball opinions, having won four NBA championships, four All-Star selections, and a Defensive Player of the Year Award.

However, he's also a polarizing figure, thanks to his antics on the court and wild statements off it. Let's rank Draymond Green's 10 wildest NBA takes.

10. 2022 NBA championship was the toughest to win

The Warriors have won four NBA championships during their dynasty, the last one being in 2022. Green believes their latest championship conquest was the toughest one to win.

It's worth noting that it was also the time when Stephen Curry elevated to another level, claiming his first Finals MVP award. However, Warriors fans may also consider the 2015 championship, which was the first title that got the dynasty going.

9. Warriors wouldn't have won 2017 and 2018 NBA championships without Kevin Durant

After losing the 2016 NBA Finals in shocking fashion, the Warriors quickly secured the services of top free agent Kevin Durant in controversial fashion.

Nonetheless, the acquisition of KD led to back-to-back NBA championships for the franchise, both at the expense of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Green boldly claimed that the Warriors wouldn't win without Durant. However, Curry fans and diehard Warriors fans might say otherwise.

8. Victor Wembanyama should be Defensive Player of the Year

After a spectacular rookie season, Victor Wembanyama somehow missed the Defensive Player of the Year Award to fellow French center Rudy Gobert. Although Green initially had reservations about Wemby winning the DPOY, he retracted that statement and claimed that The Alien deserved to win the award as a rookie.

7. Forecasting Bronny James' success in the NBA

There has been quite a lot of buzz in the upcoming 2024 NBA Draft centered around Bronny James, who wasn't even projected to be drafted. However, with his father LeBron James entering free agency, the draft stock of the younger James instantly took a major shift.

While there have been plenty of doubts about Bronny's readiness at the NBA level, the four-time NBA champion believes that the younger James will be successful in the league.

6. Draymond Green calls most general managers in the NBA dumb

In the 2012 NBA Draft, Green wasn't high in any NBA team's draft choices. The overlooked prospect was eventually drafted in the second round.

However, Green wasn't forgetting how he was overlooked by several general managers in the NBA. In fact, he revealed his harsh opinions about them in a podcast with Paul George. He isn't exactly wrong, given how impactful he was in the Warriors dynasty.

5. Warriors would have been 2024 NBA champions if they traded for LeBron James

Just before the trade deadline, the Warriors pushed for a trade that would have landed LeBron James in Golden State. James' acquisition would help the Warriors have another super team with an unstoppable combination of James, Green, Stephen Curry, and Klay Thompson.

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With a team like this, Green believed the Warriors would have won the championship in 2024. Unfortunately, James stayed put in Los Angeles. Nonetheless, with a tough Western Conference, that statement might have been a stretch.

4. Draymond Green would have been 2016 Finals MVP

Despite going 73-9 during the 2015-16 season, the Warriors' season that year ended in disastrous fashion by letting the Cavaliers come back from a 3-1 Finals deficit. Of course, a lot of the Warriors' failure had to be Green's untimely suspension.

Fast forward, the 2017 Defensive Player of the Year claimed that had he not gotten suspended, the Warriors would have won the championship with him as the Finals MVP. It was a bold statement that certainly raised some eyebrows.

3. Claiming 2017 Warriors would beat Michael Jordan's 1998 Bulls

There's no doubt that the 2016-17 Warriors were nearly unstoppable after going 16-1 in the playoffs. However, Green did ruffle some feathers after claiming that this very team could very well defeat Michael Jordan's 1998 Bulls, a team that completed the franchise's second edition of the three-peat. Although fans can only wonder, Jordan fanatics didn't sit still with this statement.

2. Claiming that his Warriors team could beat Shaquille O'Neal's Lakers

Aside from controversially involving the 1998 Bulls, Green also had something to say about Shaquille O'Neal's Lakers, a team that also notched a three-peat. Green went as far as claiming that he could successfully deny O'Neal the ball with Klay Thompson locking up Kobe Bryant.

Green's claims certainly left the Big Diesel discombobulated. Furthermore, Purple and Gold fans easily had something to say about Green's statements.

1. Draymond Green's bold statement on NBA fines

Green is certainly a polarizing figure. However, he certainly made a statement that got everyone's attention. The Warriors forward criticized how NBA fines do more harm to a player's wealth, setting them up for financial insecurity during retirement.

While Green has collected several fines for his wild behavior, the four-time NBA champion just recently signed a four-year contract worth $100 million with the Warriors. Furthermore, he also collected $156 million in NBA salary throughout his basketball career.