{"id":288205,"date":"2025-11-17T05:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288205\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:08:17","slug":"warriors-draymond-green-has-another-fan-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288205\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors’ Draymond Green has another fan confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Golden State forward Draymond Green<\/a> went nearly chest-to-chest with a fan during the\u00a0Warriors’ 124-106 road victory\u00a0over the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just kept calling me a woman. It was a good joke at first but you can’t keep calling me a woman,\u201d Green said, clarifying later that the fan was calling him \u201ca woman’s name.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI got four kids and one on the way,” Green added. “Just don’t be disrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fan, who identified himself as Sam Green, 35, of New Orleans, was wearing a black polo with a Pelicans logo on it. He was standing and cheering after Draymond Green had been called for a shooting foul while guarding Pelicans forward Herb Jones.<\/p>\n

While players began taking their positions along the key for Jones’ foul shots, Draymond\u00a0Green strode over to the grinning fan\u00a0and stood just inches from him as they spoke to one another, with the fan holding his arms out on each side.<\/p>\n

Game officials quickly stepped between them and pulled Draymond Green away while ushers gathered around and spoke with the fan, who continued to look amused by the exchange.<\/p>\n

Draymond Green said game official Courtney Kirkland told him, \u201cI got it. I’ve heard him over and over and over again. You’ve handled it well. Don’t get yourself in no trouble. I’ll take care of it. Courtney was great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam Green said he was heckling Draymond Green with chants of \u201cAngel Reese,\u201d because, while the Warriors star had several rebounds, he hadn\u2019t attempted many shots at that point. Draymond Green finished with eight points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Sam Green said the NBA star shouted profanity at him and threatened to punch him out if he continued the \u201cAngel Reese\u201d taunts (a reference to the WNBA and former LSU star who set several LSU and SEC rebounding records).<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn’t using profanity and for him to walk 12 feet off the court to come and get in my face like that, it was a little unnerving,\u201d said Sam Green, who was given a warning by ushers but was allowed to remain in his front-row seat.<\/p>\n

Warriors coach Steve Kerr said in postgame remarks that he couldn’t comment extensively about the confrontation because he wasn’t sure what was said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as it doesn’t escalate, it’s fine (for a player) to go over and have a discussion,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cIt would have been nice if security had gotten there a little bit earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Draymond Green, who has been known to draw technical fouls, fines and ejections for his confrontational and emotionally combustible on-court persona, has been fined for fan interaction before.<\/p>\n

In 2022, he was fined $25,000 (C$35,000) for what the NBA described as \u201cdirecting obscene language toward a fan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green has been critical of fan behaviour, saying fans face relatively few consequences for saying inappropriate things, and are in fact motivated to do so by the fact that players can be fined for engaging with them.<\/p>\n

Green said Sunday night that he is accustomed to heckling at road games and that it generally doesn’t bother him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love disrespect on the road because we win a lot,\u201d Green said. \u201cQuieting a home crowd is always fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the Pelicans have won just two of their first 13 games and\u00a0fired coach Willie Green\u00a0on Saturday, Green said he was surprised to see such a small crowd for a game in which Stephen Curry was playing. Announced attendance was 18,373, close to capacity, but many seats remained empty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Steph Curry show; it usually travels,\u201d Green said. “Man, this place; it’s tough in here.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to go into full arenas (which) also helps the entire league out,\u201d Green said. \u201cSo, you might need to take a look. It’s interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Golden State forward Draymond Green went nearly chest-to-chest with a fan during the\u00a0Warriors’ 124-106 road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-288205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}