Steve Kerr knows that Golden State Warriors power forward Draymond Green is a former Defensive Player of the Year and a three-time NBA champion, but even a veteran gets jabbed and pranked by teammates and friends from time to time.
According to Drew Shiller in NBC Sports Bay Area, via Yahoo Sports, the Warriors have a yearly tradition of jibing the 30-year-old three-time All-Star Green for a failed stint playing football.
“I would say Draymond Green — he's got the body type, he's got the competitiveness, he's got the fight — (but) the problem is every year we show one clip of Draymond playing in the spring game at Michigan State,” Kerr explained to Chris Long on the “Green Light” podcast. “He jumps offsides as a tight end and then he drops a pass.
“We show that in our film session once a year just to make fun of him. So I don't think I can say Draymond.”
Kerr and the Warriors have a habit of making fun Green's Michigan State Spartans spring football involvement, but it appears the former second-round selection of the 2012 NBA Draft can take the jokes.
“It's never as easy as it looks,” Draymond told Hugh Bernreuter of mlive.com in June 2011, via Yahoo Sports. “I thought I knew what I was doing, until I got jammed at the line of scrimmage. It's not easy. It's like basketball. It looks easy, but it's not.
“I like my future in basketball a little better.”
Just because you have the body for football, doesn't mean you have the heart and makings for the sport, even at the amateur level in the NCAA. For the Warriors' Green, he's just happy he stuck through with basketball.
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