Draymond Green is already thinking beyond the next contract.
The Warriors forward said he’d like to land a company partnership someday, pointing to the kind of arrangement LeBron James has with Polymarket as the model. Green made it clear he sees value in that lane, especially for players with strong opinions and a big public platform.
“I hope to one day, you know, have a partnership; I definitely have an interest. You know, there's a prediction for everything, and I definitely have a ton of opinions, so, 1,000%,” Green told FOS.
That interest comes as James’ reported Polymarket deal has become part of the conversation around how stars can still cash in even when they take less on their playing contract. Front Office Sports reported that James will make $15 million a year from the partnership, and that he is not an investor in Polymarket, only an endorser.
“LeBron James will make more money from his Polymarket partnership than from playing for the 76ers, Front Office Sports has learned. The prediction-market platform is paying James $15 million a year under the recently announced partnership, sources tell FOS. James is not an investor in Polymarket, just an endorser, one source says," Front Office Sports' Ryan Glasspiegel and Ben Horney wrote.
Green also pushed back on the idea that a player can simply give up money in one place and easily replace it elsewhere. In his view, the numbers don’t work that cleanly.
“There's this common misconception like, oh well, like for instance, we'll use LeBron James as an example. LeBron took a $4 million deal.
He can go make the 40 million somewhere else. No the fu*k he can't.
He can go make 40 somewhere else, but it ain't that same 40 that he just gave up. Like, so say next year, all right, that 40 takes him in total for a year 60 million make on a year.
Well, the other 40 would have taken him to 100. Like, you don't just go make that money up somewhere else," Green said.
James’ deal, as described in the report, is part of a shift Green seems to recognize. The Warriors veteran suggested that players will start paying more attention to these kinds of partnerships, and his own comments showed he’s at least open to joining that trend.
That could matter for Green, too, if he wants to stay in Golden State next year and has to sign a smaller deal with the Warriors.
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