{"id":129777,"date":"2025-03-20T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=129777"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:31:19","slug":"steve-kerr-hot-take-golden-state-warriors-draymond-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/20\/steve-kerr-hot-take-golden-state-warriors-draymond-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Kerr Provides Incredibly Hot Take About Warriors Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Led by Stephen Curry<\/a>, Draymond Green<\/a>, and Klay Thompson<\/a> (and coached by Steve Kerr<\/a>), the Golden State Warriors<\/a>‘ recent dynasty is one of the history books. Together, they won four NBA championships, made six NBA Finals appearances, and won numerous awards. Additionally, their 73-win season in 2015-16 is the winningest regular season in league history.<\/p>\n

While they are not in their glory days anymore, the Warriors are still a solid team. Furthermore, they are still competing for a championship. While Thompson has since joined the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>, Curry, Green, and Kerr remain with the Warriors. Recently, Kerr made a comment regarding Green that many fans will surely disagree with.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with Dalton Johnson<\/a> of NBC Sports Bay Area, Kerr called Green the “best defender I’ve ever seen.”<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the best defender I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. \u201cI mean, you see the pick-and-roll with Dame. If he\u2019s in it, he kind of does this fake blitz thing with his speed, with his anticipation. He forces Dame back out towards halfcourt and he\u2019s able to get back. The speed and recovery with Draymond is just stunning. \u201cAnd then the brain that goes with it. If he\u2019s on the weak side, he\u2019s constantly coming over to help. He\u2019s one of the great defenders of all time, and he\u2019s still doing it at a high level.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Steve Kerr Provides Incredibly Hot Take About Draymond Green<\/h2>\n

Draymond Green Says He Can Win DPOY This Year<\/h3>\n

Despite being one of the greatest defenders in NBA history, Green has won the Defensive Player of the Year award just one time. However, the Michigan State alum recently said he thinks he can win the award<\/a> for a second time this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, if we keep winning and close this year out strong, most definitely,\u201d Green said when asked if he thinks he has a case to be named the league\u2019s best defender. \u201cI look around the league and don\u2019t see many players impacting the game on the defensive end the way I do. I don\u2019t see many players completely throwing off an entire team\u2019s offense the way I do. One thousand percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially with Wemby [the San Antonio Spurs\u2019 Victor Wembanyama<\/a>] going down, seemed like he had it won. And now it is right there. So 1 million percent I have a case, and I will continue to build that case for these next 13 games. Tonight was a prime example of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently, Green (+600) has the second-highest odds to win the award, according to Bovada. Only Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> big man Evan Mobley<\/a> (-250) has better odds.<\/p>\n

The Last Word<\/h3>\n

Green is certainly one of the best defenders in league history. He is versatile and ferocious. Additionally, he remains the anchor on one of the best defenses in the NBA. However, this is an interesting take regardless. This is especially true since Kerr played alongside some of the game’s greatest defenders, such as Michael Jordan<\/a>, Scottie Pippen<\/a>, and Tim Duncan<\/a>. Regardless, Green is fantastic as well and deserves his flowers.<\/p>\n

Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Led by Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson (and coached by Steve Kerr), the Golden State Warriors‘ recent dynasty is one of the history books. Together, they won four NBA championships, made six NBA Finals appearances, and won numerous awards. Additionally, their 73-win season in 2015-16 is the winningest regular season in league history. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":50934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,2,25,62,3],"tags":[409,528],"class_list":["post-129777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-featured","category-warriors","category-nba","category-news","tag-draymond-green","tag-steve-kerr"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180909,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129777\/revisions\/180909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}