Green believes lower-tier NBA players deserve more

Draymond Green is speaking up for all the backups and role players of the NBA world.

While Green insists he has more than enough money – and if he fails to use it wisely over his lifetime that’s his own fault – he is determined to dish out another key assist in a long list of them already this season for Golden State: The Warriors’ player representative vows to do his part in helping the lower-level guys of the league earn a little more.

A day after the sides reached an agreement in principle on a new labor deal, Green offered the idea of a restructuring that would feature fewer players at the minimum salary level.

The average salary is expected to hit $8.5 million next season and rise to $10 million by 2020-21, while minimums across the board will increase by 45 percent starting next season.

So it’s not more so about us, it’s more so about the guys who aren’t on that level,” Green said after Thursday morning’s shootaround ahead of a home game with the Knicks.

Green made it out of Saginaw, Michigan, to attend Michigan State then got drafted 35th overall in the second round of the 2012 draft by the Warriors.

On Thursday, Green stressed that the last thing he wants people to think is that he is somehow complaining or that anybody in the NBA is at the hardship level of many Americans or others facing dire circumstances around the world.