Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green is coming off the best all-around playoff series of his seven-year career. Yet despite coming off two straight triple-doubles and four throughout this playoff stretch, Green is hoping to be remembered by something beyond the numbers he puts up on the stat sheet.
“I want to be remembered as a winner,” Green told Logan Murdock of NBC Sports Bay Area. “If I leave this game and you ask somebody, ‘What about Draymond?' and they say, ‘Oh, he was a winner,' my mission is accomplished.”
Green has been playing with the ultimate intensity, but he's turned it up another notch in the absence of Kevin Durant, turning it up to 11 with more urgency to win without the team's leading scorer in sight of what's at stake at the end of the road.
Asked to describe Green's play yet another time, head coach Steve Kerr has nearly run out of superlatives.
“I don't know,” said Kerr. “I've run out of things to say about Draymond. He's just a champion. He can't shoot, but he hits big shots. He's not tall enough, but he gets every rebound. He's not supposed to be doing this, he's the 35th pick in the draft or whatever. A guy who's just the ultimate winner.”
Green hit the biggest shot of the night, an uncontested wing 3-pointer off a Stephen Curry trap — despite hitting only one of his previous seven shots from deep in the series. The defensive maestro took the shot with no hesitation, swishing the trey with confidence to give the Warriors a four-point lead late in overtime.
Draymond Green's first made three of the game came in the clutch 👌👌👌 pic.twitter.com/8bCP0gKJ8W
— Def Pen Hoops (@DefPenHoops) May 21, 2019
“Every time I step on the floor, if a shot needs to be made, I'm not afraid to take it,” Green said. “When it's all said and done, I just want to be remembered as a winner. When I knot my shoe strings up and throw them on the telephone line, if they can say I was a winner, I did my job.”
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