Draymond Green confronted a Pelicans fan seated courtside during the Warriors’ clash in New Orleans on Sunday evening.
The two could be seen face-to-face in what looked like a pretty heated discussion after the fan had been heckling Green.
On the latest episode of his podcast, , Green explained what was said by the fan, and what led to him getting in his face in the now-viral moment.
“One of the first couple plays of the game, I lay the ball up and I miss it. And I tap the ball up a couple times to try to get a put-back. Tapped up, missed. Tapped up, missed. Obviously, those are offensive rebounds. I come down the court, and [the fan] goes ‘You Angel Reese!’ And so I laugh, that was a little funny. As the night goes on, he continues to go ‘You Angel Reese! Hey, Draymond, you’re f––ing Angel Reese!’” Green explained.
“It gets to a point where, as a man with four children soon to be five, once you start to add the different fillers… at a certain point, now you’re disrespecting me as a man.”
Green made clear that he didn’t mind a bit of banter between himself and the fan, but the fan crossed the line and got a bit disrespectful when things escalated beyond that. Green said that the fan’s underlying message became more and more clear as he continued to “add fillers” to his comments.
“So I said to him, ‘Relax. Watch yourself now, you’re getting really disrespectful… You’re no longer saying what you were saying before,” Green said.
The fan received a warning for his antics, but was not removed from the arena and was able to remain in his front-row seat.