Draymond says he knew he had to grow up after Snapchat incident

The recent revelation that Draymond Green texted Kevin Durant in the hours after losing the 2016 Finals is now being viewed as the starting point of the 2016-17 Golden State Warriors juggernaut. Yet Green himself had some turmoil to deal with after that, something he was candid about in the wake of Monday's NBA championship.

"For a minute, I didn't grow with it," Green told The Undefeated's Marc J, Spears. "My career and my life grew. It started to outgrow me, and I had to catch up."

Green's summer of 2016 featured an arrest for an East Lansing, Mich., bar brawl, and then an inadvertent public Snapchat of his genitalia. This came on the heels of his suspension in Game 5 of the Finals collapse to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

"I was still approaching it like I'm just a second-round pick playing basketball, having a good career," Green said. "And I was someone who people were checking on. I became a household name. I became an All-Star. I became an Olympian. So, it just wasn't that anymore. And I don't say that in a cocky way. I say that in the humblest way as possible. But, your life grows, your career grows. It reaches different stages. And I wasn't ready for the stage."

Green revealed that Warriors general manager Bob Myers called him in the wake of his problems last summer in hopes that he would cool it.

"It was like the Finals and then the arrest, and then (Snapchat). Bob Myers called, and he was like, 'Are you done? If not, just tell me. We'll figure it out. But are you done?'" Green said. "I said, 'Bob, I'm done. I got to get my shit together. I'm good. I'm done. I'm on the right track. I'm headed in the right direction.' And that was it. The Snapchat thing was where it was like, 'All right, it's catching up to me.'"