00:00Draymond Green reveals his pitch to LeBron James and LeBron's response.
00:04Draymond Green is finally opening up about the conversation everyone wanted to hear.
00:08During a recent trip with LeBron James, he made his pitch to bring him to Golden State.
00:12Now, he's revealing how LeBron reacted and it could say a lot about what's coming next.
00:16Let me break it down, so here's how it went down.
00:19Draymond Green and LeBron James went on a golf trip to Puerto Rico together.
00:23Draymond Green and LeBron James recently went on a golf trip to Puerto Rico.
00:28And while they were together, Green pitched James on joining the Golden State Warriors.
00:33Not a quick conversation, not a passing comment on the ninth hole, a real pitch.
00:37Green broke the whole thing down himself on his own podcast, the Draymond Green Show.
00:41He didn't dodge the question.
00:43He didn't play coy about it either.
00:45Speaking on his Draymond Green Show podcast, Green admitted to trying to convince James
00:49that they should play together next season, saying he'd be remiss.
00:52If he didn't take the opportunity to throw his pitch in there, here's the thing about Draymond.
00:56He's not a guy who lets a moment like that slide.
00:59Think about it.
01:00Two future Hall of Famers sharing a week together.
01:03Both free agents.
01:04Both with decisions to make.
01:05Green basically said there was no version of that trip where he doesn't bring it up.
01:09I'd be crazy if we're together for X amount of days and at no point.
01:12Am I like, yo, we need to chop it up.
01:14What the hell going on?
01:15What we doing?
01:16Green said, of course I did that.
01:18And of course the pitch was crazy.
01:19Crazy.
01:20That's the word Draymond used.
01:22Not solid.
01:22Not reasonable.
01:24Crazy.
01:24And when you're talking about recruiting the most accomplished player of his generation
01:27to your team, at 41 years old, in what might be his final season, you don't throw out
01:32a boring pitch.
01:33You throw out everything.
01:34Now what was actually in it?
01:36Draymond didn't lay out a slide deck for the cameras, but he gave us a clue about the
01:39weight of it.
01:40With the things I shared in it, it's definitely going to make the brain work a little bit.
01:43He said, brain work.
01:45Not he'll laugh it off.
01:46Not he'll shrug.
01:47Brain work, meaning whatever Green said, it's stuck.
01:50It's sitting with LeBron right now.
01:52And that's really the headline here.
01:54This wasn't small talk between two guys with a decade and a half of finals battles
01:58behind them.
01:58This was Draymond Green in the middle of his own free agency, using every ounce of his
02:03relationship with LeBron to make a case for a Golden State jersey.
02:06So what was LeBron's response?
02:08Here's where it gets interesting.
02:09Because Draymond didn't get a yes.
02:12He didn't get a no either.
02:13What he got was something in between.
02:15And by his own account, that in-between reaction is exactly what makes him think the pitch worked.
02:20Does it change anything?
02:22Does it make anything happen?
02:24I don't know.
02:25I hope so.
02:26Green said on the podcast, that's not a rejection.
02:29If LeBron had shut it down immediately, Draymond wouldn't be sitting on a podcast weeks
02:34later, still wondering out loud whether it changes anything.
02:38Then Green went a step further, giving fans the clearest signal yet about how seriously
02:42LeBron might be taking it.
02:44I don't think there's a decision that's been made, but say if there was, it'll make you
02:48think twice about it, raid that again.
02:50Green is saying if LeBron already had his mind made up on some other team, this conversation
02:56was strong enough to put a second thought in there.
02:58That's the response, not a handshake, not a commitment.
03:02A seed planted in the head of a guy who's about to make one of the biggest decisions of
03:06his career.
03:07And remember, this isn't some random teammate trying his luck.
03:10This is Draymond Green, a four-time champion, someone who has never worn another jersey in
03:16his NBA life, sitting across from LeBron James, another four-time champion, and essentially
03:21saying, let's do one more run together for real this time.
03:26Because here's what makes this pitch land different than any recruiting call from an
03:30executive or an agent.
03:31Green and James spent the better part of a decade as rivals.
03:34James and his Cavaliers faced off against Curry and Green's Warriors in four consecutive
03:39NBA finals, from 2015 to 2018.
03:42Four straight finals.
03:44That's not two guys who barely know each other, trying to make small talk work into
03:48a pitch.
03:49That's two men who've spent years studying each other, competing against each other,
03:53respecting each other from across the biggest stage in the sport.
03:57So when Draymond leans over during a golf trip and says, what are we doing?
04:01It's loaded with all of that history.
04:03It's not come play for my team.
04:05It's we've spent a decade trying to beat each other.
04:08Imagine what we could do on the same side.
04:10That's the pitch.
04:11That's the moment.
04:12And LeBron's answer, or lack of a clean one, is exactly why this story has legs.
04:17Nobody shut the door.
04:19Nobody's talking like this is dead.
04:21And that on its own is the whole reason the NBA world hasn't stopped talking about it.
04:25Since Draymond opened his mouth on that podcast, to understand why Draymond even had the opening
04:30to make this pitch.
04:31You have to rewind a couple of weeks.
04:33You have to rewind a couple of weeks.
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