Draymond Green has learned a valuable lesson.
Don’t snapchat and speed.
Hopefully, though, he learned a more valuable lesson.
Don’t snapchat while driving, period.
Green snapchatted a video of himself driving 118 miles per hour in his BMW. That, needless to say, is illegal and reckless. And, per the Bay Area News Group’s Diamond Leung, Green knows it:
Warriors forward Draymond Green says he learned to use better judgment after a video posted on his Snapchat account showed the speedometer of a BMW reaching 118 mph.
“It’s one of those things where it’s not something that’s the end of the world, and it’s not something that’s costly in any type of way, but it’s something that’s harsh enough to show me and teach me a lesson of you have to understand where you are in your life, where your life has went, and act accordingly,” Green told KNBR on Thursday.
“I actually appreciate the lesson because it could have been a way worse lesson than the one that I had to learn from, but yet it was a good enough lesson to where I am able to learn. Not everybody gets the opportunity to where the lesson that they learn they can recover from in a sense or learn and still be in a position of where it didn’t cost them anything … I’m thankful that it’s something to teach me and show me the things that I can and can’t do, the things that I have to stay away from, but yet not in the position to where I hurt an organization in any type of way, hurt my reputation in any type of way, become a real distraction to this team in any type of way or anything like that.”
Green is a smart and, seemingly, genuine dude. He’s also 26 years young. These things happen. These mistakes are a part of life, of young adulthood. That doesn’t make it OK, but an incident like this doesn’t make Green an all-around reckless person.
That said, I’m always curious to know what would be going through someone’s mind at that time. Like, Green knows how many followers he has, how public his life is as an NBA player. How did he think this video was going to be recieved? He had to know there would be some kind of fallout, didn’t he? Or did he really not?
Whatever the case, Green has apologized, so the world at large moves on. The important thing is no one was hurt, including Green, and that he seems prepared to use better judgement when driving and, equally important, using social media.
