Why Draymond Green, Jimmy Butler’s joint offseason workout matters for Warriors

Summer, in technical terms, still has almost three more weeks until the lights go out and fall rears its head from the shadows. Draymond Green doesn’t ascribe to that calendar. It ended with the passing of Labor Day, he announced Tuesday on Threads, his apparent preferred social media website. The offseason still very much is ongoing for the Warriors as a team that hasn’t made a move more than two months since free agency began. The roster only consists of nine players. But players are beginning to trickle in through Chase Center to work out and scrimmage with training camp starting at the end of the month. Before veteran stars Green and Jimmy Butler make their way to the Warriors’ home arena, the two shared the floor in Los Angeles for a workout at the end of August. Butler shared photos and videos of the workout Sunday with a 20-slide post to his Instagram, using the caption “whatever @money23green said on the last slide.” And on that slide, Green made the same prediction he proclaimed during NBA All-Star Weekend less than two weeks after the Warriors acquired Butler from the Miami Heat at the trade deadline. “We...