The jokes seem to be over, but nobody will ever forget the Warriors blew a 3-1 lead in the 2016 NBA Finals.
Steve Kerr refuses to ever think about Game 7 from that season. Draymond Green, on the other hand, uses the heart breaking loss as daily motivation.
“You don’t want to lose that feeling because you never want to experience it again,” Green said to the Mercury News. “You can never guarantee that you’ll never experience it again. But the best way you can get as close as possible to guaranteeing it is remembering that feeling and fighting so hard against it.”
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One thing is also clear about the 2016 NBA Finals -- Draymond Green has no regrets when it comes to what led to his Game 5 suspension.
“If I did play Game 5, everything is different,” Green said. “I’ll always hold that view. But what I don’t hold is the regret. I don’t regret it at all."
With Green on the ground, LeBron James stepped right over his facel. That infuriated Green, prompting him to swipe his arm up at James' groin with the Cavs star standing over him. Don't think for a second anything would change if Green could go back in time.
"I don’t regret anything. I don’t live my life with regret,” Green said. “[Stuff] happens. You move on from it. I would never let anybody just stand over the top of me. If the same thing happened again, I’d do the same thing.”
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The Warriors lost the 2016 NBA Finals, but gained Kevin Durant in free agency. And Green got his revenge on James and the Cavs with the Warriors winning the NBA Finals a year later in five games.
