Things are still heating up in the NBA Playoffs, and things are only ramping up in the second round. The Minnesota Timberwolves tied up the Conference Semifinals at one game apiece against the Golden State Warriors Thursday night. The Warriors did not play well without injured point guard Stephen Curry, who, per Bleacher Report, may not play until Game Six. The team is frustrated without their best player, including power forward Draymond Green, who got ejected in the second quarter of Game Two.
After flailing his arms behind a foul from Minnesota center Naz Reid, Green got a technical foul. Per The Athletic, officials determined that the blow to the face was unnecessary. Reports also state that fans were chirping Green with racially charged comments later in the game, which set off the veteran. Racially charged hate has no place in sports, but Draymond has a reputation for avoiding responsibility.
Green took the anger from the ejection and paired it with the ignorant comments from the fans. Per The Athletic, “I’m not an angry Black man, I’m a very successful, educated Black man with a great family,” Green said, “And I’m great at basketball, I’m great at what I do. The agenda trying to make me look like an angry Black man is crazy. I’m sick of it. It’s ridiculous.” Yahoo! Sports reports he has lost roughly $900,000 in fines and $3.2 million in lost salary from suspension.
The Warriors’ head coach, Steve Kerr, was asked about Green after the game, who is two technical fouls away from a one-game suspension. Per The Athletic, “He’s going to have to be careful,” Kerr said after the game. “He’s going to have to stay composed and I’m confident he will because he knows the circumstances.”
It was an unsuccessful attempt to change the narrative around his technical foul. While he should not have to deal with racism, he also has a history in the league as an angry black man. Two wrongs do not make a right, so the disgruntled athlete will have to stay in the bed he has made. With a history that includes a 2023 indefinite suspension for violently clubbing Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the head and a low blow to Lebron James in the 2016 NBA Finals, the delusional Green has earned that reputation.
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