Vereen shared that insight with Draymond Green, who then started to check in on Jonathan Kuminga. Sometimes it would be in the locker room or on the team bus and plane. In other cases, it was a text message. The conversations ranged from simply asking about one another, to discussing family or life advice. “I identify with him in the sense that he takes care of everyone — his whole family. You can tell he is the head, and I can identify with that,” Green said. “Twenty-one years old, that pressure, I feel that. Through identifying that and understanding that, I just really want to help.” “[Green] was one of those people who knew me, but never knew me like that,” Kuminga said. “It took him a long time, but he just started checking in every other day. “He’d ask me questions that weren’t related to basketball. … He took that time to get to know me and that really bridged our relationship from just work to personal.” -via ESPN / March 18, 2024
