Warriors’ Draymond Green says he doesn’t feel pressure to win another NBA title

Warriors’ Draymond Green says he doesn’t feel pressure to win another NBA title originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Draymond Green has won four NBA championships with the Warriors during his NBA career.

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So what is it like for him when he doesn’t end the season with a parade and instead has to watch another team celebrate — that team this year being the New York Knicks, who celebrated their historic win on Thursday.

In an interview this week on “The Draymond Green Show,” actor and singer Taye Diggs asked Green about if he can be truly happy seeing the Knicks win a title, or if any perceived happiness for another team is simply an “act.”

“I’ll tell you what’s a little bit of an act,” Green explained. “When you put on an act is when you don’t want to see people like kind of wipe out your stuff for instance, right? Like you’re going to put on an act and be like, ‘Uh-huh. You know, I don’t really care if OKC win again or not.’ Deep down inside, you don’t want to see another team go back-to-back, like, we did that, we were the last team to do that, right?

“You want to hold on to some of that, so some of that becomes like the act in it. However, I think for me personally, when you initially lose and you’re done, you’re feeling just the competitive fire in you, it’s like, ‘God damn it, we’re done.’

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“For me personally, and it could be different for me just because of the trajectory of my career, right? I’m so fortunate and blessed that I don’t have to spend every playoff season with the pressure or feeling of, ‘I have to get a championship,’ because I’ve experienced it, you know, I’ve done it four times.

“So I don’t deal with the pressure that most athletes that [have] not won deal with when it comes playoff time, which is like, ‘I need to win. I need to experience that. I need to feel it.’ Because of that, I think is why I’m able to separate and be like, all right, it’s cool. I got mine.”

In other words, once the initial disappointment of the Warriors’ season ending fades, it seems as though Green is rooting for a…

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