Warriors' Draymond Green Doubles Down On Claim Steve Kerr Hindered His Career

Warriors’ Draymond Green doubles down on claim Steve Kerr hindered his career originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Draymond Green has created quite a stir since making a comment about coach Steve Kerr hindering the trajectory of his NBA career.

Despite the negative reaction his take has received, the Warriors star defended his statements and doubled down that other basketball players have similar opinions about their coaches.

“You can talk to any basketball player in the world,” Green said on the latest episode of “The Draymond Green Show.”

“They’re going to have a gripe about their coach. Some gripe. All things could be great. They’re going to say one thing negative about their coach. Not negative, but just something that they felt could be better for them. That’s every player in the world. You go ask LeBron James about each coach he’s played for. I guarantee you he has some gripe about that coach when he played for him.

“That’s basketball. That’s the sport. That’s what we’re in. There’s going to be a gripe. You go talk to Steph Curry right now, who has never had a bad negative thing to say about Steve, and if you talk to him, and obviously in private, I guarantee you he’s going to have some gripe because that’s every basketball player in the world.”

With Kerr as his coach, Green won four NBA championships and one Defensive Player of the Year award, with four All-Star appearances, two All-NBA and nine All-Defensive Team selections.

“If you talk to coach Kerr about playing for Phil Jackson, he’s going to have some gripe,” Green added. “That is basketball, so I’m a little bewildered that I could say all of these great things, and the one thing that I say that was my small gripe, it’s like, ‘Oh my God, it’s world news.’”

In a previous episode of “The Draymond Green Show,” Green expressed how he feels he could have done more during his NBA career and that Kerr might have been a factor.

“As much as he’s done for me in basketball, a part of me thinks he’s hindered me in my career and what I could have become,” Green stated. “But what he’s also helped me become. Like you got to take the good with the bad, man.

“You know, when I think of who I was offensively as a player and who I became, I think a part of that is due to him. I don’t hold that against him. I’m forever grateful that he still put me in a position to be successful and that I could become Draymond Green despite my offensive role on our team.”

Throughout his career, Green has earned a reputation as one of the NBA’s best defensive players and as the Warriors’ vocal leader.

The 36-year-old never has averaged more than 14.0 points per game in the NBA and has not had a season in which he averaged double-digit points since 2018.

Even though Green feels that his offensive development was impeded, he still has expressed his gratitude for Kerr as his coach and for all the successes they have shared together.

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