Draymond Green is a top-10 player in the N.B.A. but not for the reasons you’ve been told

…Here’s what Draymond did during game 2 vs. Portland to set him on a path to greatness.

By Andrew J. Pridgen

Draymond Green is a strange kind of budding superstar in a league that has defined itself over the past three decades as a cohort of superstars. Reason being: Draymond Green may be the first superstar role player of all time. Think of it as Paul Giamatti playing Captain Jack Sparrow or Ron Wood fronting the Stones or Tim Cook running Apple. <- ‘K, not all great examples there.

Green, a second-rounder in 2012, one of the deepest drafts in recent memory, wasn’t supposed to be anything more than a five-year-and-out journeyman before tucking tail back to Saginaw to open a healthy sandwich cannabis shop called Draymond’s Green and becoming a cog in the AAU wheel for talented but wayward souls on the come up.

Instead, as a rookie, he…