Schröder believes teaming up with Draymond will be ‘special’

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Schröder believes teaming up with Draymond will be ‘special’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

SAN FRANCISCO – Count the slides and keep swiping.

On the same night the Warriors were eliminated from the second round of the 2023 NBA playoffs by the Los Angeles Lakers two seasons ago, Dennis Schröder, then a member of the Lakers, put out a celebratory Instagram post that contained seven pictures. The first six were of Schröder celebrating mid-game in front of Draymond Green.

Those six pictures held a world’s worth of irony. In reality, they were of an incident in which Green shoved the ball in Schröder’s face halfway through the third quarter of Game 6, the final game of the series, resulting in both Green and Schröder receiving technical fouls. It also was Schröder’s second of the game, resulting in an ejection.

Bad blood was easy to assume. Green’s response in the comment section of Schröder’s post said otherwise.

Green wrote, “Much love and respect for you bro! Changed the series! Go finish the job!” He also added three praying hands emojis at the end.

Schröder echoed that same respect Tuesday at Chase Center during his introductory press conference, two days after the Warriors acquired him in a trade with the Brooklyn Nets.

“I feel really, really excited playing with Draymond,” Schröder said. “Like you guys seen, we were going at it. I knew him before. People were saying, ‘How’s it going to work?’ But we got a good relationship, even before that.”

Schröder’s lone start for the Lakers in the 2022 Western Conference semifinals was that Game 6 win. Though he scored only three points on 1-of-6 shooting, Schröder’s energy sucked the life out of Golden State and he was a plus-16 in 25 minutes. Over the final four games of the series in which the Lakers went 3-1, Schröder was a plus-57 overall.

“Really looking forward to playing with another Hall of Famer on the court who was always hell when he was on the other side of it,”Schröder said. “Who was talking smack, trash talking, just being competitive and try to go out there and win.

“To combine that now, I think it’s pretty…

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Publish date : 2024-12-18 02:57:00

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