'I'm not an angry black man': NBA player Draymond Green lays into media members over their 'agenda' about his race



Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green accused the media of perpetuating a slanted narrative that paints him in a bad light because he's black.

The Minnesota Timberwolves eliminated Green's team from the NBA Playoffs on Wednesday night, but it was just a few days earlier when the star player was in the spotlight for comments he made to reporters.

'To keep the agenda, to try to keep making me look like an angry black man, is crazy.'

After a 117-93 loss on May 8, Green was in the locker room when he accused media members of constantly painting him as an "angry black man."

"I'm not an angry black man. I'm a very successful, educated black man with a great family, and I'm great at basketball," Green said in a video posted by the Athletic's Anthony Slater.

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Draymond Green during a playoff game, May 8, 2025. Photo by David Berding/Getty Images

After rattling off the self-boasting remarks, Green said reporters continually have been perpetuating the idea to the point where it seemed like they had an agenda.

"I'm great at what I do. To keep the agenda, to try to keep making me look like an angry black man, is crazy. I'm sick of it. It's ridiculous," Green added as he walked off.

Fans immediately responded to Green's comments with videos of his on-court antics, which included stomping on another player's chest, and some of his more aggressive fouls.

Others pointed to some of Green's most serious altercations, such as a fight with a teammate at a Warriors practice in 2022.

"Any time someone tells you what they aren't, they're exactly that," sports analyst Gary Sheffield Jr. told Blaze News, in reference to Green's comments.

After the Warriors lost 102-97 two days later on May 10, Green was once again in the spotlight for remarks he made late in the fourth quarter after fouling out.

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Draymond Green reacts after fouling out of a playoff game, May 10, 2025. Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

As podcaster Pat McAfee pointed out, Green was seen saying the "[the spread is] five and a half, I know what they're doing," referring to gambling odds before the game with the Timberwolves.

According to McAfee, some fans even accused Green of trying to the fix the game, but the NBA felt differently and handed down a suspension for the 35-year-old for questioning officials.

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"Draymond Green has been fined $50,000 for making an inappropriate comment that questions the integrity of game officials," the NBA wrote.

According to Sheffield, Green's behavior has become part and parcel of his playing style. The broadcaster said Green possesses "the maturity of a pickup basketball dad in the driveway."

The forward's complaints aren't a cause for alarm, Sheffield said, claiming that "any time the Warriors are down two scores, they start fouling and whining."

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Draymond Green weighs in on LeBron James vs. Stephen A. Smith feud: 'That's a**-backwards'



The beef between LeBron James and Stephen A. Smith just got more complicated. Draymond Green, Golden State Warriors power forward and James’ ride-or-die, has entered the chat.

Here’s a recap for those who missed it: On March 6, James confronted Smith courtside during the Lakers’ matchup against the Knicks. Enraged by Smith’s previous comments that Bronny was pushed prematurely into the NBA by his father, James, according to Smith’s recounting the following day on “The Stephen A. Smith Show," yelled “stop f**king with my son!” Smith called the public confrontation “weak” and “bulls**t.”

Last Saturday on “The Draymond Green Show,” Green involved himself in the feud, obviously taking LeBron’s side.

“You go on national TV calling out this African-American, this black father, who's raised another successful black young man, and you go on TV calling him out as a father because his son plays in the NBA? That's a**-backwards,” he told Baron Davis.

Jason Whitlock weighs in on this latest flare-up in the scandal.

“I've never seen a love affair quite like Draymond Green's affinity for LeBron James,” he tells "Fearless" contributor Steve Kim. “We all know that Draymond Green would love to have LeBron James' baby.”

“[Smith] gave an opinion that, by the way, most people agree with,” adds Steve, noting that “Stephen A. Smith’s job, whether we like his opinions or not, is to give his opinion.”

The fact that Smith is doing his job and catching so much flak for it has become “really unfair” to him, Steve argues.

Jason agrees that it’s unfair to Smith, but he also speculates that some of this feuding is “manufactured.”

Even so, he condemns Green’s comments as toxic — specifically the emphasis on LeBron being a black father, “as if there's some special level of treatment that Stephen A. owes LeBron James because of the color of his skin.”

Whitlock can’t understand why having “more melanin in your skin” means “you're not supposed to say certain things about people that share some level of your melanin.”

“For this to be normalized and sent out to young people that hey, there's a special set of rules for black people that they have to adhere to or they're outside the norm … I just can't believe that's where we are as a society,” he says. “LeBron James is a billionaire — a billionaire. He needs a special level of treatment” because of slavery and Jim Crow laws that ended decades ago?

Steve agrees and brings up a Thomas Sowell quote that captures the double standard Green is promoting: “When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination."

“A marvelous statement,” says Jason.

To hear more of their conversation and more about the LeBron-Stephen A. Smith-Draymond Green feud, watch the clip above.

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'People worry about you': Draymond Green bizarrely questioned by journalist who insists his suspensions are a problem



Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green faced a strange line of questioning from a reporter who insisted people are worried about him.

During a press conference, a media member stepped up to the mic without introducing himself and asked, "Draymond, you know people worry about you? Fans, many of your teammates—"

'I would have told them they're out of their mind!'

"Why they worry about me?" Green interrupted. "I am a successful black man in America doing incredibly well."

"They worry about you," the reporter continued.

"There are way more people in this world to worry about than me, that's for sure," Green continued from the podium.

"But we're here now," the reporter strangely stated.

"We're all here; I don't think you should worry about me," Green replied.

Most viewers interpreted the reporter's line of questioning as meaning fans and teammates are concerned with the 34-year-old missing games due to suspension.

Last season, Green missed 17 games and lost $2.6 million in salary due to two suspensions from separate incidents.

In December 2023, he missed 12 games after a flagrant foul when he swung his arm into a Phoenix Suns player's face.

The month prior, he was suspended five games after an altercation with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

With two more suspensions the year prior and six total in his career, Green has lost $3,223,073 in salary, according to Spotrac numbers.

Despite this, he is a four-time NBA champion.

The forward continued his exchange with the reporter and explained that if he knew as a child how successful he would become, he wouldn't imagine some one saying they should be worried about him.

"If someone told me, 'They're worried about you,' I would have told them they're out of their mind!" Green explained.

"[Fans] are worried for themselves, too. They know the team needs you," the reporter replied again.

"So why are they worried?" Green asked while smiling. "They don't feed their families doing this," the player said, interrupting the reporter's response.

"And you've been here every night?" the reporter said snidely.

Green went on to defend himself, saying that suspension guidelines are in place because it is "a possibility." He added that many other of his teammates had missed games, and the fact his Warriors teammate Kevon Looney played a full season was celebrated.

"I think my mindset has helped us do some great things," Green concluded, before delivering one of his all-time greatest remarks.

"That's pretty cool. So it's all about how you spin it. I love how you're trying to spin it, but it ain't my spin to it, player."

For reference, five-time NBA champion and known agitator Dennis Rodman was suspended 11 times throughout his career.

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Team USA superstars call out American media after winning gold medal: 'Teach these people some loyalty'



NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Draymond Green sharply criticized American media on Saturday after Team USA won the gold medal for men's basketball in the Tokyo Olympics.

What is the background?

Last month, ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins, a former NBA player himself, voiced doubt about Team USA's ability to win the gold medal.

"I'm not confident at all," Perkins said. "And it's no disrespect but you look at the players they have [Durant], [Green]— they play cute, right? In a good way, right. They get buckets? They're not guys that are going to go down there and mix it up in the trenches."

Perkins added that other teams played more physically, which he said was key to winning basketball games in the Olympics.

The comments, from Perkins and other sports commentators, followed two back-to-back losses by Team USA in exhibition games prior to the Olympics. The losses were notable because Team USA rarely loses basketball games on the world stage.

What did the athletes say?

After Team USA beat France to win the gold medal, Durant, who scored 29 points en route to victory, blasted critics on social media. He was joined by Green.

"Everybody who said we were going to take the L— they had some power rankings out," Durant began before being interrupted, referring to FIBA rankings.

"Kendrick Perkins, you talk a lot of s***, a lot of s***. Act like you're American," Green interrupted.

Durant then continued, "They had some power rankings out. They had us fourth behind Slovenia. Come on, man. Talking about they're catching up to us, like, are you serious? This skill is unmatched, you dig? ... I had to talk my s*** real quick."

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“I had to talk to my sh*t real quick” KD and Draymond letting the doubters have it! 🤣🤣 https://t.co/htDBi1A2vt

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Green continued his criticism of American media — and Perkins, in particular — at a post-game press conference in which he explained why winning gold in Tokyo felt a "lot sweeter" than winning gold in the 2016 Olympics, citing "doubters."

You turn on American sports talk TV, and you got guys like Kendrick Perkins, you know, doubting us. Somebody needs to teach these people some loyalty. How about you cheer for your country? But then when guys don't play, "Oh, you need to go represent the country." And then you lose, hit a little bump in the road. And everybody's, "Oh, everybody's caught America." You are an American, too. Act like it.

Do your job. You know, I do some media stuff. I understand doing your job. But, when you talk about a special group, you better be sure you're right. And a lot of people got it wrong. And trust me, I'll be posting those guys. I'll be posting everybody I found who said something. No one holds people accountable anymore, but I will.

For his part, Perkins congratulated Team USA on Twitter, but said he was going to "keep talking my Sh$t."