The Undefeated presents: A Playoff Diary with Draymond Green, Part 2

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Draymond Green has grown into one of the most interesting personalities in the NBA, and perhaps all of sports — the vocal leader and emotional engine for one of the most popular NBA teams in recent memory.

Green has agreed to give Marc J. Spears of ESPN’s The Undefeated an exclusive look into his life on and off the court via a playoff diary that he hopes ends after a second straight NBA championship.

Diary Entry No. 2: March 18, 2016. Warriors defeat Houston Rockets 115-106 in Game 2 with Stephen Curry out nursing an ankle sprain.

As far as Steph being out, I had kind of put it in my head after the last game that he wouldn’t play. Once he came in [Monday] and didn’t go to shootaround, I was like, ‘All right, he is probably not playing.’ And once he did his pregame warm-up, he came right back in and said he couldn’t go. So it was kind of right then that you were sure he was out. But I had been preparing for that for days.

It was frustrating because you want him to be out there, and he brings so much to our team. But at the end of the day, we prepared the last two days like Steph wasn’t playing. It wasn’t a surprise to us. We knew, ‘All right, we got to pick him up.’

As far as Steph being in the next game, I know he doesn’t want to miss two games. But at the end of the day, there is no reason for him to be out there. We have to continue to pick him up. We plan …

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