JaMychal Green was ready to join a different team when Steve Kerr called him to join Warriors

Kendra Andrews: Green says he sees his main role with the Warriors will be to “be a dog, do the dirty work. Help Draymond out with the dirty work.” -via Twitter @kendra__andrews / August 1, 2022

Kylen Mills: Newly signed Warriors forward JaMychal Green says he had a wrist injury last season which was a big factor in his shooting numbers being down. He said by the end of the season he just wasn’t shooting. He doesn’t expect it to be an issue. @kron4news #dubnation -via Twitter @KylenMills / August 1, 2022

Golden State Warriors PR: Warriors sign free agent forward JaMychal Green -via Twitter @WarriorsPR / August 1, 2022

“The conversation turned to ‘Come to the Warriors,’ and you were like, ‘F—, no. I’m not coming there. I’m not coming to play with y’all,’” DeMar DeRozan said to Draymond Green. -via YouTube / July 29, 2022

By now, DeMar DeRozan’s unexpected path to the Chicago Bulls during 2021 free agency is well documented. But approaching the one-year anniversary of his sign-and-trade acquisition from the San Antonio Spurs, DeRozan added a new layer of eloquence to the process during his appearance on “The Draymond Green Show.” On Green’s podcast, DeRozan detailed the depths of uncertainty that the process created for him when he didn’t initially sign with a team. Multiple reports at the time projected DeRozan to land with his hometown Los Angeles Lakers before that franchise pivoted to their acquisition of Russell Westbrook. -via NBC Sports / July 28, 2022

“It didn’t go as planned. That kind of brought so much doubt in it for me and put me in a dark place because I started to question like, ‘Alright, where am I going now? What player am I going to be?’” DeRozan told Green. “So many of these questions started to creep in and a lot of people didn’t realize, big names kind of always sign in the first day or two. I think I went a couple days into free agency with still such a question mark. Was I going to go somewhere with a one-year deal? Was I going to take the minimum? The narrative… put me in a (expletive) place, honestly. “I remember through that whole time — it was three, four days in a row — I didn’t leave out the room. I didn’t see the sun set. I didn’t see the sun come up. I was depressed. It put me in a depressed mindset because I didn’t know what was going to happen. Was I going to come to LA? That fell through and didn’t happen. You seeing guys sign other places. Everybody hitting me, like, ‘What you going to do?’ And there were certain moments where I had no (expletive) clue what I was going to do.” -via NBC Sports / July 28, 2022