Draymond Green: If you can kind of score the ball, you get paid. You get paid more for being a 3-point specialist than being a defensive specialist. So ultimately, who gets slighted? It’s defenders. But yet, whenever any team crosses into that territory where we’re saying, ‘Oh, man, this team may have a chance (to win it all),’ then the first thing you go look for is a defender. But any team that’s not crossing into that territory, which is probably 20 teams, (isn’t making defense a priority). That shrinks the market of any defenders drastically, and now you’ve got a third of the league to deal with (as a free agent). All right, but five of those teams don’t have cap space, so now you wipe out five more. Now you’re sitting there with a possibility of four or five teams that would possibly even be willing to pay. Now you take in all of the CBA language, the restrictions, handcuffing you, and now the five teams shrinks to one or two. That’s where you see guys getting squeezed. So it’s very clear what happens to the defenders in this league.
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