Draymond Green is attempting 1.2 fewer field goals and 1.2 fewer free throws per game, and his shooting percentage is down overall and on 3-pointers. But he's become even more committed on defense to continue being an invaluable part of the Golden State Warriors' core even with Kevin Durant.

“It’s been fun from Day 1,” he said. “The one thing we knew coming into this is we’d get a lot of criticism, where it’s one guy, two guys, the entire team, there’s going to be criticism. The way we look at, if it’s one guy then it’s all of us. It’s something that we expected and it’s happened, but we enjoy each other. It continues to get better and better as we jell more. The better you get, the more enjoyable it is.”

Green also understood he would likely be the one singled out for criticism as potentially divisive.

“It didn’t really [tick] me off because one thing I know is people don’t know me anyway and I don’t expect them to know me,” he said. “I wouldn’t necessarily say it [ticked] me off because everything they judge on me is wrong anyway. And I don’t expect them to judge that one right.”