Draymond Green explodes: "I am tired of being turned into an angry black man"

Draymond Green has played nine games so far this postseason, and in all of them he has been frequently penalized. He has accumulated two flagrant fouls, leaving him just two points away from an automatic one-game suspension due to flagrant fouls. Additionally, in the Golden State Warriors' loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second game of the series, he received his fifth technical foul of the playoffs, leaving him just two away from reaching the threshold of seven, which also carries a mandatory suspension.

The play that led to the technical foul occurred in the second quarter when Minnesota's center, Naz Reid, was defending him on the perimeter. Reid committed a foul on Green, but after the whistle, the Golden State player sharply turned and struck Reid in the back of the head. Subsequently, he fell to the floor, leading the referees to penalize him with a technical foul. Green's reaction was so angry that coach Steve Kerr decided to remove him from the game, apparently to calm him down.

After the defeat, Green addressed the media visibly upset about the perception of him. “I am not an angry black man,” he stated. “I am a very successful, educated black man with a great family. And I am excellent in basketball, excellent at what I do. The agenda of trying to portray me as an angry black man is crazy. I'm fed up. It's ridiculous.”

Green's history regarding technical fouls, flagrant fouls, and suspensions is extensive, especially in the playoffs. He was notably suspended in the fifth game of the 2016 Finals for exceeding the limit of points for flagrant fouls. Last season, he was indefinitely suspended after committing a flagrant foul on Jusuf Nurkić, then a player for the Phoenix Suns, which led him to miss 12 games. In total, he has been fined 227 times totaling $938,000 and has been suspended six times, accumulating 21 games out, according to Spotrac data.

Green did not specify exactly what he means by an "agenda" against him. It is unclear whether he is referring to the referees, league decisions, or media coverage. After his brief statement, he did not take any questions.

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