Draymond Green brushes off individual accolades: 'Our team is the MVP'

Draymond Green saved his best performance of the 2016 postseason - and one of his best performances, period - for Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday, when his Golden State Warriors ran roughshod over the Cleveland Cavaliers to take a 2-0 series lead.

After struggling miserably for a large chunk of the conference finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Green has rediscovered himself, and all his swaggering, ebullient, improvisational genius. In Game 2, he went for 28 points, seven rebounds, and five assists, all while helping limit LeBron James to 19 points on 17 shots, with as many turnovers (seven) as made field goals.

Green, though, didn't feel like hogging the limelight after the game, even though he'd have been wholly justified in doing so. For the Warriors to overcome the Thunder, Green needed his teammates to pick him up. Now, with some other Warriors starters struggling, he's just happy to return the favor.

"If anything, these two games show we're so damn deep," Green told The Vertical's Shams Charania, when asked whether he feels there's a Finals MVP in his future. "Our team is the MVP, if it's possible. ...

"If we're giving the MVP after two games, give it to this team."

Green also made a point of crediting the whole team for slowing down James. Though he's typically the most vocal guy in the Warriors' locker room, he said that before the series began, he had no pep talks to give where James was concerned.

"When it came to LeBron, I said nothing," Green told Charania. "It's nothing I needed to tell anyone here. One guy can't stop LeBron, it's as simple as that. We're one of the few teams that understand that. There wasn't a need to talk on it for me. With us, it's always been a team effort."

With just two more team efforts like Sunday's, the Finals MVPs will repeat as world champs.