Draymond Green says he has no aspirations of coaching Michigan State basketball

Fans have been bringing up the name Draymond Green when talking about a future Tom Izzo replacement, but he’s not interested.

Tom Izzo’s coaching career is winding down and Michigan State basketball fans are well aware of this.

The Hall of Fame head coach is clearly on the back-nine of his coaching career as he approaches the age of 70 (January of 2025) and everyone is kind of throwing names out there of guys who could eventually replace him when he retires.

Although Izzo has shot down the notion of retirement on numerous occasions, we all know it’s going to come.

The names have been interesting from Nate Oates to Drew Valentine to even former Michigan State star Draymond Green. Everyone has an opinion on who would be the best fit, but no one seems to disagree that Draymond would be an interesting choice.

Just picture it: the former Michigan State star and arguably the best leader from the Izzo era comes back to coach his alma mater and finish the job that his former coach (and now good friend and mentor) started. It would be a storybook ending.

The problem is, Draymond isn’t interested.

Draymond Green doesn’t have interest in coaching at Michigan State after his nba career😂 pic.twitter.com/deRrF6CXsJ

— Michigan State Content (@msucontent) July 31, 2024

“I love Michigan State so much… but I’m just not sure I can coach Michigan State.”

Draymond talked about his love for the school and the fact that he’ll always bleed green and have love for the Spartans, but he doesn’t love the idea of chasing around high school kids and taking advice from their parents about what he already knows. He doesn’t want to have to deal with kids who think they’re the “best thing since sliced bread” — and I don’t blame him.

Coaching isn’t for everyone, especially at the collegiate level where you have to recruit and kind of be a salesman for your program and Draymond doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who’s going to sugarcoat things to a recruit to get him to commit.

Green also said that he’s been on a “basketball schedule” his whole life and he’s ready to spend time with his family. Coaching basketball won’t allow for that so he said “I’m cool” about veering away from the court after his NBA days are done.

So there you have it, folks. No “head coach Draymond Green” in our future.