Draymond Green rails against ‘agenda to try to keep making me look like an angry Black man’

Draymond Green had a lot to say after Game 2 of the NBA Playoffs series between the Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves.

During the game, Green was assessed a technical foul for elbowing Minnesota’s Naz Reid. After the technical was announced following a review, Green argued with the officials before getting pulled away by his teammates. Eventually, an injured Steph Curry spoke to Green to help calm him down.

Green issued a brief statement after the game. In it, he spoke out against what he feels is “The agenda to try to keep making me look like an angry Black man.”

“I’m not an angry Black man,” he said in a video shared by Anthony Slater of The Athletic. “I’m a very successful, educated Black man with a great family. And I’m great at basketball, I’m great at what I do. The agenda to try to keep making me look like an angry Black man is crazy. I’m sick of it. It’s ridiculous.”

During the postseason, Green has been assessed five technical fouls and two flagrant fouls, both marks are two short of an automatic one-game suspension. His on-court actions have been both defended and highly criticized by announcers, as well as fans.

We’d expect that, much like his on-court activity, these postgame comments will generate a lot of feedback, as well.