For the seventh time: Golden State NBA Champion
The Avengers: Kerry, Green and Thompson have proven they do not forgive commentators, including the "clowns"
Elephant skin?
Is it just entertainment?
Even after winning a sweet championship, Kerry, Thompson and Green do not forget the people who mocked and eulogized them in the past, and take care to sting them in public.
Golden State stars show: this is how you take "nonsense" and turn it into positive energy
Paz Hasdai
18/06/2022
Saturday, June 18, 2022, 8 p.m.
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Golden State players celebrate in the locker room (from Instagram)
Steph Kerry, Drymond Green and Clay Thompson.
All three reached the final against Boston with three championships, and a list of accomplishments that most basketball players can only dream of.
They are the core of one of the best teams ever, and without a doubt one that changed the game.
Their name is immortalized in league history, even if they had not won the fourth championship in eight years.
They get respect and appreciation, not to mention being multimillionaires.
They are supposed to be confident, calm, aware of their status - and yet, this trio is angry, charged, nervous and vindictive.
They just won a fourth career championship, and it all comes out.
They remember everything.
Everything is absorbed.
The cliché says that after so many years as professional athletes "elephant skin develops", but Steph, Drymond and Clay show not only how much rage they have accumulated within them - but how nonsense thrown into the air by commentators and actors, even fans, just burns in their head and does not let go.
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Stephen Kerry, Drymond Green, Clay Thompson: Three Golden State Warriors Celebrate Winning NBA Championship, June 2022 (Photo: GettyImages, Adam Glanzman)
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Steph Kerry for example has heard a lot of slander about him over the years.
That he has never won the MVP of the final series, that he does not appear in the finals, that he is incapable without Durant and so on and so forth.
Nas ended Game 6 against Boston, he fulfilled his big dream, and just got into commentators.
Brian Windhorst of ESPN said a few days ago that "the Warriors are paying $ 340 million in salaries, so you not only have to beat them on the field, you have to beat their checkbook too ... it was a check win for the Warriors ".
So maybe Steph has just fulfilled the dream of his life, but on this comment of the commentator he must respond.
"I've heard someone talk about checkbook wins, and all sorts of things like that," he says, "but it starts with a bunch of champions who want to come back again and again."
Then, even at his peak moment, Kerry enjoys mentioning a negligible pre-season program from August 2021, in which ESPN commentators were asked to give a forecast for the upcoming season, and when asked how many championships Steph will win in the next four years after his contract extension, some pointed with "zero".
I doubt anyone remembers this plan other than him, but Steph avenges.
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"I clearly remember some experts with talking heads marking a big zero on the number of championships we won, after all we went through," Kerry said at the press conference after the win, repeating the "0" sign, as if it was said yesterday and engraved in his head for a year, not letting go.
It should be noted that these bites by Steph come even after he responded to a restaurant in Boston that wrote on a street sign that his wife "does not know how to cook" and showed a shirt with an inverted message and a "bye Boston" signature.
Everything is personal.
Clay Thompson has recovered from two very serious injuries, which threatened the continuation of his career.
He went through a long and grueling playoff, signed it symbolically, winning after a confrontation with Boston fans, and yet after the championship he was free to settle an account for a tiny tweet that no one but him remembers.
"There was one player from the Grizzlies who tweeted 'Power in the Numbers' after they beat us in the regular season, and it got me so annoyed. I can no longer wait to tweet that," Thompson said, "What a bum!"
It was Jaren Jackson of Memphis who stung the Warriors, and Thompson admitted how much that tweet would frustrate him, and how he would not forget him, even in one of the sweetest moments of his life: "I said to myself, this stupid clown ... Okay, sorry, that memory popped up. "Suddenly ... what, are you coming down on us? Listen, you've never been here bro, we are. We know what's needed. So we're here again, get it."
If LeBron James has previously said that during the playoffs he goes into a special silence and disconnects from social media so as not to be distracted, Golden State players prove just the opposite: they see everything, hear everything, dive inside.
They obviously underestimate commentators and the media, but fail to ignore them.
Drymond Green, for example, recorded his (infamous) podcast in the press room, of course full of vengeful trash talk full of hostility.
Moments after the championship he recalled how on ESPN there were those who gave the Warriors only 20 percent to win the final.
"Who determines these things?", He said, "What's the source of their job security? Because they lie to people. Is anyone responsible for what they say these days? Are you crazy? Do you know who you are dealing with? It's us. To dismiss us like that, it's crazy. Where did you get those numbers from? "
Green then turned to Fox "commentator" Nick Wright, who had previously stated that Steph would not make it to the finals again and doubted the trade of Andrew Wiggins.
"Explain to us what went through your mind," says Green, as mentioned, a short time after he won the championship, "Tell us why throughout the series Barbara and Barbara, and now all of a sudden you compliment us. Tell us why. Because now what is in question is your knowledge of basketball." .
Green illustrated his hostility to the media, complimenting commentators like JJ Reddick and CJ McCallum (whom he called the "new media"), saying: "They talk about the game, they teach, it's a sport. He's not trying to build someone for a week, just so that a week later they will try to slaughter him so that there will be something to talk about. The new media is respect, fairness. It's over. Stand by your word. "
Sometimes it's hard to understand why such big stars continue to get excited by critics' criticism.
How after such a long career they are still surprised by "professionals" who kill decisively.
Most sports fans today seem to dismiss the outspoken commentary genre (Israel has also been blessed with quite a few, thank God) and are aware of their commitment to entertainment value, but Golden State players show how much even superstars like them are hurt by irresponsible "clown swans" , By the way, without thought or reservation.
"Just score threes and take championships," Kerry and Thompson were seen shouting after the win, "What do you say now ?!".
Barkley says to Clay in 2019: There is no chance you will return to the finals
The fact that even in their happy moments they mentioned past reviews that they have absorbed illustrates the intensity of the frustration of the athletes, who have to deal with such a baseless “interpretation”, and how much they felt their dignity was harmed.
In the case of Golden State, a key point is how these big stars knew how to exploit the hostility towards them to produce more and more energies, and continue the hunger for achievement.
"We hear it all, carry it with us, try to keep the goal and stay focused, not let it get in the way of distracting us from the path, but you carry it with you," Kerry concluded, "and then you get here, and it all comes out."
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