A lot has been stated within the disagreement between Golden State Warriors ahead Draymond Inexperienced and the Memphis Grizzlies group that it’s arduous to consider simply how shut he got here to signing there as a free agent in the summertime of 2023. “Very,” a source close to Green told ESPN, when asked how serious Green was about leaving the franchise he’d won four titles with to join the young upstarts he’d feuded with so publicly during a heated six-game playoff series a year earlier. Inexperienced had even referred to as Warriors coach Steve Kerr and teammates Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson to warn them that he was near becoming a member of the Grizzlies through a profitable sign-and-trade deal, sources informed ESPN, earlier than Warriors proprietor Joe Lacob and new normal supervisor Mike Dunleavy swooped in with a four-year, $100 million extension to maintain him within the Bay. -via ESPN / April 1, 2025
