There’s no shortage of confidence from Draymond Green. Not after winning a fourth title in eight years.
He joined a live version of his podcast and The Old Man & the Three (hosted by J.J. Redick and Tommy Alter) to let his takes and various opinions fly.
Perhaps the most pronounced? The Warriors will win three of the next four championships. It’s unclear whether Green is including the most recent one.
His explanation revolves around Curry, who at age 34 was clearly in the best shape of his career.
“In 2019 was when Steph [Curry] really locked in on the weight room,” Green said. “So that’s where he kinda starts taking that bump and bumping it up a little bit,. Although it didn’t show immediately, because in 2020 we were terrible and he broke his hand, you started to see in 2021, we were still terrible but Steph was carrying us and carried us to the play-in game.”
That physical development, he believes, altered the trajectory of the organization. It’s why he’s betting on the Warriors again.
“I think you started to see it then, that growth,” Green said. “Like, ‘Ah man, nobody can stop this dude now.’ And I think that really changed the complexity of our organization. And I’m pretty certain that’s why we’ll win three of the next four NBA championships.”
If the Warriors were to win two more championships — assuming the core remains — Curry, Green and Klay Thompson would become just the fifth, sixth and seventh players to win six titles.
If Green meant another three titles, well, only Jim Loscutoff and Frank Ramsey of the 1950s-60s Celtics, and “Big Shot” Robert Horry have seven rings.
That all sounds a bit outlandish, but who knows with this team.
