{"id":492582,"date":"2025-05-09T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492582"},"modified":"2025-05-09T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:05:59","slug":"warriors-star-draymond-green-im-not-an-angry-black-man","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/warriors-star-draymond-green-im-not-an-angry-black-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors star Draymond Green: I&#8217;m not an angry Black man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a Game 2 defeat in which Green received his 5<sup>th<\/sup> technical foul of the postseason, the Warriors leader Draymond Green shared his frustration over what he called an &#8220;agenda&#8221; that shows him as an &#8220;angry Black man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Draymond was fouled by the Wolves\u2019 Naz Reid while holding the ball at the beginning of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> quarter of Minnesota\u2019s 99-80 victory. After being fouled, Golden State star flailed his left arm at Reid&#8217;s head, and Reid fell to the floor. Naz received a personal foul, but Draymond was assessed a dead-ball technical foul after review. Green is 2 technical fouls short of being banned for 1 match.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, Draymond shared his opinion about that with the media as he claimed there is &#8220;agenda&#8221; against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey try to portray me as the angry Black man,\u201d the Warriors star shared after the defeat. \u201cBut that\u2019s not the case as a very successful, educated Black man with a fantastic family, and I\u2019m one of the best players in the NBA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green added that he is tired and angry with the agenda against him and claimed that it is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Draymond Green just wanted to give one quick postgame statement: \u201cThe agenda to continue to keep making me look like an angry black man is crazy. I\u2019m sick of it. It\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ay7TLFhjWL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ay7TLFhjWL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/1920689619999289793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a Game 2 defeat in which Green received his 5th technical foul of the postseason, the Warriors leader Draymond Green shared his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":492583,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20327,16989,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[20328,17876,1067],"acf":{"announce":"He was upset with the agenda against him with technical fouls.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492584,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492582\/revisions\/492584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492582"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492582"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}