With Draymond Green reaching the latter stages of his NBA career, the Warriors would love to find a player to carry on his role when he eventually makes his departure from Golden State. 

Klutch Sports Group’s Rich Paul thinks his client, Warriors guard Moses Moody, should be the one to “push out” his other client in Green. 

Rich Paul on the advice he gives to Moses Moody

“You should be looking to push Draymond OUT. Give them a reason to play you. We know you can shoot the 3, big, strong, gonna defend, everything. What’s the areas to get better on in the summer? My opinion we have to be better at… https://t.co/PfREnwfNrT pic.twitter.com/20ot9lrM5C

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It seems like an odd thing for an agent to pit two of his own clients against each other. But Green, on the latest episode of his podcast, downplayed Paul’s comments. 

“The [comments are] no shocker to me that Rich said that, because Rich and I talked, and he told me that years ago he’s saying that to Moses…” Green explained on “The Draymond Green Show.” “… It’s not that Moses was going to become Draymond Green and push me out. What Rich is saying is you become so valuable to a team that they can’t afford to keep Draymond, but you’re young, [so that] they push him out.” 

It seems that Paul and Green are in agreement about what Moody should do to further his NBA career. And as Paul explained, it’s less about playing one specific role for the Warriors, and more about becoming a valuable player on any NBA team. 

“We know you can shoot the three – which catch-and-shoot, he’s there. Big, strong, going to defend, everything…” Paul said on the “Game Over” podcast. “…In my opinion, we have to be better at being able to rebound, push, go into dribble-handoff, read.”  

“Because if you can do that with what you are already… doing, now it’s not even about the Warriors. You know what it’s about? I can play on any roster in the NBA.” 

Green said this is nothing new. The Warriors have been looking for a new player to carry the flame. 

“For many, many, many years, I felt like the Warriors were trying to push me out,” Green said. “And not that they were saying, ‘Hey, Draymond, we’re pushing you out. You need to leave.’ No, I don’t mean it that way. What I mean is, they drafted Eric Paschall. They drafted Kevon Looney. They drafted Jordan Bell. They drafted really all of these guys to take my spot.”

Paschall and Bell’s Warriors careers were short-lived. Looney played his own significant role, but his time with the team now is over. 

Green sees the attempts to find his replacement as a typical function of roster-building. 

“Jordan Bell had a good run, EP had a good run, but ultimately my spot was never taken. But that’s what general managers are doing,” Green explained. “They are drafting guys to take on the spot of the guys who’s making the big money so they can move off them, reset the cap.”  

“That’s just the job, right? And so I don’t make anything of that, but I definitely understood it.” 

Moody has seen an increased role on the Warriors this season after his insertion into the starting lineup. 

But, as his agent mentioned, Moody will need to build on his skill set to meet a similar impact that Green has had on the franchise.

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