{"id":504393,"date":"2025-12-30T02:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/504393\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:14:18","slug":"draymond-green-says-playing-on-christmas-fing-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/504393\/","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green says playing on Christmas \u201cf***ing sucks\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This year, on Christmas Day, the Warriors faced off against the Dallas Mavericks, beating them 126-116.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Warriors, ever-popular since the beginning of the dynasty, have played on Christmas every year for the past 13 years straight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Draymond Green, 35 years old, has not been able to enjoy Christmas Day with his family since 2012 \u2014 his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cPlaying on Christmas Day also f*cking sucks. And the reason it sucks is, number one, what I\u2014what I just said, uh, it can affect your mood,\u201d Draymond <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheDunkCentral\/status\/2005672360087626195?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> on his podcast before this year\u2019s Christmas game. \u201cNumber two, we are human beings and, just like everyone else, enjoy Christmas Day with our families. That kinda gets messed up for us. Um, they\u2019re in their homes or on vacation with their families, makin\u2019 memories. We don\u2019t\u2014we don\u2019t get that opportunity. So I hate when people are like, \u2018Oh man, it\u2019s an honor to play on Christmas Day.\u2019 People should shut up. Like, no\u2014you should shut up, because whether you played on Christmas Day or not, I don\u2019t\u2014I don\u2019t really care about the perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It brings in the ratings, but Draymond\u2019s perspective makes sense \u2014 maybe the league should give a little holiday time off to the teams they schedule on Christmas every year. Although NBA Christmas games are an important tradition, the players deserve to get to participate in their own holiday traditions, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year, on Christmas Day, the Warriors faced off against the Dallas Mavericks, beating them 126-116. The Warriors,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,479,164,4025,4024,6,255,38987],"class_list":{"0":"post-504393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-golden-state","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-goldenstate","12":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-warriors","15":"tag-warriors-features"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115806107618472834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}