Draymond Green reveals a career warning he gave Kings rookie Darius Acuff Jr.

Green finally shared what he told Acuff during that interaction, revealing that the former NBA Defensive Player of the Year warned the rookie about the risks of holding the ball too much without involving his teammates.

“My advice to him was just ‘hey man, who else touched the ball that possession?’, he’s like ‘nobody’ and I was like ‘don’t have many of those’ because you can end up having a bunch of those with the Sacramento Kings this year and a few things can happen,” Green said on a recent episode of “The Draymond Green Show.” 

The Kings are not viewed as a playoff contender heading into the 2026-27 NBA season, which means Acuff could have more freedom with the ball than some other rookies. However, Green believes that this freedom could lead to resentment from Acuff’s teammates.

Green continued: “You can get guys start plotting against you, guys that don’t really wanna see you do well, guys that start bickering on the side to other guys… You can get guys that get upset like ‘aahh man they wanna give this rookie this, they wanna do that, f--k that!’… and so for me when I saw that, I just wanted to give him a little game.”

At the end of the day, it’s up to Acuff how he’ll approach his first year in the pros.

Selected seventh overall by the Kings in the 2026 NBA Draft, Acuff averaged 23.5 points on 44% shooting from the field during the 2025-26 season with Arkansas — his only year in college.