Draymond reveals TJD's ‘selfless' act for Post in Warriors' win
Draymond reveals TJD's 'selfless' act for Post in Warriors' win originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
Warriors veteran Draymond Green noticed second-year center Trayce Jackson-Davis made an honorable sacrifice for rookie center Quinten Post in Golden State's 121-116 win over the Memphis Grizzlies in the NBA play-in tournament on Tuesday night.
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And Green made sure to highlight it when talking to reporters postgame.
'I want to mention something that I saw today that no one will give a s–t about,' Green prefaced. 'Trayce Jackson-Davis did something on the bench today. He didn't play in the game. There were no seats on the bench, Quinten Post said, 'Trayce, can I get that seat?' and Trayce just got up. And a part of me was baffled that he got up for the rookie. Because the rookie – if there's no seat, you sit on the floor. [Jackson-Davis] just got up and gave him the seat.
'And I walked over to [Jackson-Davis] and said that's one of the more selfless things I've ever seen. Ninety-nine percent of the time, you're going to be like, 'You going to go sit on the floor, rook. Go find a seat somewhere else.' But [Jackson-Davis] knew he wasn't part of the rotation, and yet the rookie was. They're playing the same position, and [Jackson-Davis] got up and went and stood in the tunnel because there were no seats.'
Jackson-Davis, 25, has the class of a pro's pro.
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It isn't easy to be out of coach Steve Kerr's rotation during the Warriors' biggest game of the 2024-25 NBA season. It also isn't easy to give up your seat for a less-experienced player who is playing crucial minutes over you.
Yet, Jackson-Davis did exactly that for Post – who finished with 11 points on 4-of-5 shooting, five rebounds and tied with Green as a game-high plus-12 – and the respectful moment clearly helped Golden State reach its first-round NBA playoff series against the Houston Rockets, even if he didn't find his way onto the court.
'I just wanted to put that out there because that to me – that's why you win games,' Green told reporters. 'It's chemistry, selflessness, togetherness, and I just thought that was a huge moment. Nobody else saw it except us three. And so I wanted to share that. I thought that was a really big moment for our bench.
'You know, you can make [Post] sit on the floor and nothing happens, or you can get up and boost confidence in him and he'll go back out there and hit a [three-point shot]. And I thought that was special.'
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Green has seen it all over his illustrious 14-year Warriors career. And even he was 'baffled' by Jackson-Davis' willingness to give up his seat for the fellow 25-year-old.
The type of honorability displayed by Jackson-Davis is exactly what Golden State needs moving forward in the postseason.
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