Draymond Green - who leads the league in flagrants and techs - rants in the locker room about how he is “tired of the agenda to make me look like an angry black man”
Isn’t this the guy who punched a teammate at practice?
Yeah but he clearly is a levelheaded individual
Just don’t get in the way of his fists or elbows and we’re gucci
Well to be fair he may not have been angry when he did it
I’m pretty sure it would be worse if he punched Poole without even being angry. That would mean he’s a sociopath rather than just a hothead.
If the sneaker fits…
Not that unlikely.
I feel like saying this, along with all the arguing against the stuff he does every game, and never owning up to it—-
Yea.
He’s a sociopath.
He KO’d a teammate at practice but why would you bring that up hes not just an angry black man that’s racist
I don’t feel comfortable with celtics flares on this thread
[x] Angry
[x] Black
[x] Man
“Don’t call me an angry black man.”
He also choked gobert. Stomped on sabonis’s chest. He kicked Steven Adams balls multiple times. Massive list of elbows to peoples faces
But wait! It’s fine, you see, because the guy has kids!
And “he’s good at basketball” so it’s all good.
He’s actually done so much crazy shit that is completely forgotten half of those things occurred.
I hate that he’s becoming a fixture in sports media. There are plenty of people who know the game without acting like an entitled douche canoe. I’ll be actively avoiding any show that features him.
Haha. I feel the same way about Michael Irvin. I can’t listen to that guy talk about being a good teammate when he literally attempted to murder a teammate.
Draymond will be on “Inside the NBA” immediately after retirement and it will be the last time I watch.
Stop blowing it out of proportion. Name me a single NBA player who hasn’t knocked a teammate out with a straight right in practice.
(Or a left if thats their primary hand. No cheating)
Bobby Portis did and sent dude to the hospital lol. Fractured his jaw bad.
Dudes got crazy eyes. I wouldn’t test him
I remember when this happened and i was surprised. I didn’t know portis had a temper.
Lets face it if you are rich enough you can get away with ANYTHING like verbally and physically assaulting your coworkers, raping and sexually assaulting women and children, being a prolific traitor to your country, etc.
Hell, if you accomplish all these achievements they even elect you president..
It’s also the guy who was accused of r**e (dropped charges) at MSU. We’re talking about a school with an extensive history of mishandling and outright covering up SA reports. No one ever seems to remember this. Sure charges were dropped and he is innocent in legal terms, but at a school that covered for nasty Nassar and athletes for all those years…. that casts some doubts
You got a source on that?
His dropped assault charges were because he slapped a guy. He’s never been accused of rape at MSU
Nah. That was Droymand Grren. They’re unrelated.
but his family loves him.
Natural and calm punching motion
This is what happens when you still have fans and a coach who defend you no matter what. No self-awareness, no accountability. Absolute manchild.
Blame is on the league too for letting this BS go every single time
NBA : People love Steph and Kerr so we don’t enforce any discipline on Draymond. *Ratings Are Down 50% In 15 years* NBA : We’re doing it for you, the fans.
Dray is a asshole and warriors let him get away with it because Steph is his bestie, but that’s not why ratings are down
Cmon man Draymond is not the reason ratings are down.
Greed is why ratings are down. They’re charging a ton for their streaming services and milking the people actually willing to pay.
The viewing experience isn’t good, that’s why ratings are down.
The last 2 minutes can stretch for 30 minutes, one foul after the other, timeouts, it’s exhausting.
NBA should’ve long ago took the route FIBA went, deliberate fouls in the last minutes give the fouled team freethrows and the ball.
How it suddenly stopped!
You can make the game better all you want, but you still won’t bring in customers. People don’t want to pay 20 dollars a month for one team. You aren’t going to bring in any casual fans with the way it is set up. Teams need to start signing deals with the big streaming services.
Last I checked, even if you paid this price, your team was still subject to local blackouts. Did that change such that you can just pay the $20 and reliably watch all games or is it still stupid?
His team consistently pulls among the best ratings in the league lol
Not because of him lol
In spite of him
Obviously not, but if his team specifically is actually getting high ratings it’s pretty dumb to blame him for league-wide ratings being low.
That happened with Rodman.
The difference that everybody on the Bulls (Rodman included) knew he was a mess. Draymond thinks he’s cool and he’s a nice guy.
Draymond wants to be the Rodman or KG of this generation so bad, but then says shit like this
KG and Rodman don’t care. That’s why people have no issues with them, same as Chuck.
Say what you will about Rodman, at least he wasn’t a coward. This dude acts like a tough guy and then plays victim at the pushback, it’s pathetic to behold a grown man behave like that.
Dray: YOU TURNED HER AGAINST ME!
r/nba: YOU HAVE DONE THAT YOURSELF.
Dray: Don’t lecture me r/nba, I see through the lies of the media. I do not fear the dark side as you do.
Draymond: “I will bring chaos, toughness and my podcasts to my new league.”
Watching this is like a child who throws tantrums never get punished due to shitty parenting
He gets rewarded for bad behavior.
There was literally someone here on this sub ardently defending Draymond and his antics a couple weeks ago. I couldn’t believe how irrational some Warriors fans can be.
as soon as game 7 against us ended it was like magic, draymond back to being a paragon of moral virtue lmfao. never mind the decade plus of [gestures at everything]
sub fuckin sucks
There’s no way that Draymond actually believes that there’s an agenda to make him look like an angry black man. Dude is too smart for that. He’s out here making up narratives strategically to be controversial and probably to fuel himself.
Do warriors fans even defend him anymore?
Aside from some crazies, no. If you go to the post about this on our sub it’s nearly everyone in agreement that we’re sick of his antics. And even that’s given the fact that our sub is full of children with bad takes
At this point, if someone is defending Draymond it’s because there is a person with an “all-or-nothing” cognitive distortion somewhere in the conversation. Sometimes it’s the Dubs fan saying shit like “Poole deserved it because he was cocky!!1!”, and sometimes it’s a Dubs fan saying shit like “no, no, Hitler was still worse” lol
I’ve gotten into several arguments with warriors fans who’s reasoning that Draymond wasn’t dirty was because he never seriously injured anyone. There’s someone doing that literally in this post too lmao.
It’s such a crazy cognitive dissonance. The results shouldn’t matter, Draymond tries to seriously injure dozens of players. Him not ending any player’s career yet is not the moral victory they think it is.
I think a lot of it comes down to people really struggling to hold conflicting truths in their heads at the same time. Draymond has never seriously injured anyone? True! Draymond has a long record of dirty plays? Also true! Draymond doesn’t really do the kind of shit that, as an example, Dillon Brooks did to seriously injure Steph by grabbing his thumb? True! Draymond will unnecessarily launch an elbow or foot into a player with all his strength? Also true!
Like there is a conversation to be had about players who are premeditated with their dirtiness vs. players who have impulse control/anger issues, and Draymond is the latter for the most part, but that doesn’t absolve him in the slightest. It just adds context to the discourse about him
Manchild on the glass
THIS. Nobody in that Warriors organisation is willing to stand up to him because they’re scared of him
Hey, you used “manchild” correctly. You could teach Reggie Miller a thing or two.
No, you guys don’t get it. He wasn’t angry when he punched his own teammate in the face.
It was just a prank bro
Not really. Draymond just went for a fast fist bump, but Poole did it with his face.
I don’t get it…. He IS an angry black man who can’t control his emotions and constantly lashes out to intentionally hurt other people
People don’t give him a label because he’s a black man, it’s because he’s a shit head who tries to hurt people and then act like a victim. To be honest he would probably get MORE shit if he looked like Grayson Allen and was doing this shit
Unhinged man demands that people stop calling him unhinged.
I will always hate that BS that happened with Jordan Poole. Dude assaulted a teammate and got away with it
Wcyd when there’s no video to review. It turns into a he said, he said situation
There is a video, Kerr got mad at whoever leaked it for “breaking the code”
Theta was video, it was almost a jump punch
They even made a documentary after it. Batshit crazy.
Steve Kerr will still say that Draymond “Occasionally” gets mad and that he never crosses the line or breaks the code when he’s on the court playing Basketball.
I’m so fucking sick of this raging, narcissistic asshole.
That’s what he is. He is a narcissist. Draymond Green is the Jon Jones of the NBA.
He takes zero responsibility for his actions. He will shamelessly play the victim, blame the actual victim, cry wolf about racism (which is very real in this country, but absolutely not in his rap sheet). Deflect and make whatever excuses he can, no matter how absurd. “Natural shooting motion,” my ass.
You see how smart he is as an athlete, you see how smart he is in his interviews. He clearly can control himself.
He’s not a case of some poor sap who’s intellectually or emotionally disabled and therefore can’t be held to the standards of well-adjusted adults. We don’t need to grade his actions on a curve like he can’t help it.
He just doesn’t want to. He knows he can get away with raging out and being a POS, because he’s rich and talented and will continue to get away with it.
Draymond gets Steph’s superstar whistle. Steph hardly ever complains to the refs, and gets hacked and held all the time when he shoots. Draymond lashes out at opposing players and screams his head off cussing out the refs, and they let him off with a warning.
And then Draymond gets indignant if people bring up any of the shitty things he’s done. He plays the victim. He acts like because he’s done shitty things, that means we aren’t allowed to talk about them. As if he’s the victim, and bringing these incidents up to him is insensitive and triggering. Making him feel uncomfortable about what he’s done is not okay.
This is exactly how Jon Jones acts when DC criticizes his actions, holds him accountable, and says he hasn’t changed and never will. Draymond Green is Jon Jones without a DC to tell to him to his face that’s he’s a POS and is never going to change.
He gives non-apologies and takes zero responsibility for his actions, but expects that others treat him like he’s taken accountability. He thinks apologizing for doing bad things means other people can’t ever bring it up again or hold it against you. It’s a free pass / clean slate.
“I have been tested” / “the world is against me” / “you people have an agenda and I’m sick of it.” Never “I did these things” / “yes this was my fault.”
“I’m a changed man” / “I’ve already been punished so much”, therefore “it’s unfair to hold my past against me” / “why do you guys keep bringing this up” (then proceeds to do the exact same shit).
That’s how he thinks. That’s how Jon Jones thinks. They expect people to treat their past like they’re the victim. Their “apology” means it’s now offensive to bring up their past.
Even though they haven’t actually apologized, nor have they changed their behavior. And even though that’s actually the opposite of how taking accountability works. It means you’re calm when people bring it up, because you’ve realized you were in the wrong, accepted it, and changed who you are.
Kerr enables and defends him the same way that Pop enabled and defended Bruce Bowen. It’s shitty, but the cold reality of this business is that these flagrantly dirty cheapshot artists were also extremely talented basketball players who were vital to their teams’ championship hopes.
But ffs, Kerr needs to actually do something to control him. Force him to get a therapist at the very least. A therapist who specializes in high-performing, highly competitive narcissists. He is only getting worse and more brazen.
It arguably cost the team a historic championship in 2016. It is continuing to affect their championship aspirations today in 2025. 9 years later.
Draymond already has 5 technical fouls and 2 flagrant fouls this postseason. You get suspended at 7 techs and 4 flagrant points. It’s only been 1.5 playoff series.
If they actually make the Finals or even Conference Finals, it will be an exact repeat of 2016. Every opponent will be doing everything they can to set him off, flip out, and get his dumb ass suspended. It is not only awful, unwatchably bad sportsmanship, it is also hurting the team in a basketball sense.
Draymond shows shows no signs of getting better. In fact, rather than mellowing out, it seems like it’s getting even worse these past couple years:
He punched Jordan Poole in 2022. He stomped on Sabonis in 2023. He choked Rudy Gobert in 2023. He spinning backfisted Jusuf Nurkic in 2023.
When he got suspensed for his unhinged pattern of behavior, he went to Adam Silver and said he was retiring. Of course he would play the victim when held accountable. But what was even more infuriating was the rest of the league treating him like a victim too. Even Nurkic was saying things like “that brother needs help.”
No he doesn’t. He needs to get his ass kicked. He needs a Charles Oakley or Rick Mahorn to push his shit in, so he’s scared to ever pull this shit again.
Cherry on top of this shit sundae, but this asshole has been positioning himself for a media career for years. He has a podcast. He’s been elbowing his way in on the legendary Inside the NBA panel, eyeing up Chuck’s spot when he retires.
We are not only going to have to watch this asshole get away with it for his entire basketball career, then we’re gonna have to watch him on TV for another 30 years. Where he’s gonna try to be the lovable elder statesman like Chuck. Makes me sick.
If you don’t like that, you don’t like NBA basketball.
edit: formatting
edit: added some lines to emphasize the Jon Jones parallels
I’m not watching him on any tv show ever. I’ll watch fucking Bluey, I don’t care.
Biggest prick in the NBA
It’s funny because even Warrior fans don’t like him. They just put up with him if it means winning.
Even then, we’re fed up with his antics not just because they’re wrong, but they hurt our chances of winning. Can you imagine a player who’s as good and smart of a defensive player as Draymond without getting dumbass technicals and ejections, starting shit in the locker room, punching a teammate, etc.? He’d probably be considered an all-time great defender.
Not to mention the rest of the Warriors and especially Steph might have a better whistle if the refs weren’t already giving Draymond way more leash than he deserves. Dude could have five-figure technical fouls if they called one every time he got into a shouting match with the refs.
Even with all that, he’s still considered an all-time great defender, actually
Without all that, he would still be considered an all-time great defender too
Dude we got four chips with him and he’s been doing this shit since essentially day one. At times he’s hurt our chance to win but the overwhelming majority of the time, he helps us win. We’ve been lucky af to have had the run we’ve had this last decade. That said, wtf is going on with him this playoffs? It’s definitely worse than normal and is extremely irritating to watch. He’s literally on pace to be suspended before the series is over and this series isn’t even chippy like the Rockets.
At least guys like Laimbeer accepted their bully role and were honest about it. Draymond is a dirty player trying to act like what he is doing is okay and shouldn’t be punished
Listen, no one hates Draymond more than I do but do you know anything about Bill Laimbeer? Bill “I was trying to break his fall” Laimbeer? The guy who never once in his entire career accepted blame or acknowledged fault in anything he ever did.
Bill Laimbeer lived to play the victim. He’d be so proud of Draymond for carrying on his legacy.
While he did assault a teammate there is still people like jaxson hayes in the league
Stop being a dirty player. That’s it.
Stop being a dirty player
Draymond: I ought to punch you for saying that!
Oh so now he’s a dirty black player?
Well he is black yes as you can plainly see.
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Most NBA players are Black, what’s ironic is, a decent amount of the refs are White, and they are the ones who give favorable officiating to Draymond and never eject him.
Also he punched Jordan Poole his own teammate in the face like a madman.
The way he flails his arms and legs and acts like he’s not doing it on purpose or uses whatever motion to continue carrying his arms and legs towards a player is so obvious it’s not even funny.
This was from a couple days ago in the Houston series:
https://streamable.com/exdv2n
Every limb is used
Natural striking motion
He looks so fucking stupid flailing around. I’ll never get over how dumb he looks when he does it.
This is what it looks like after years of enabling
While the “angry black man” stereotype is very much a real thing and a common racist trope, for Draymond to claim it is being applied in this particular instance is just straight up narcissism lmao
He absolutely deserves people to talk about him like this…. It is a stereotype and if anything he is feeding into it by being unhinged and dangerous to other teams and even his teammates
It’s also a stereotype that, ironically, perfectly fits Draymond lol
the second order implication of your statement is that his anger is a function of his blackness—this is the stereotype. you might be meaning to imply this, but if not, figured it’s worth pointing out.
He punched a teammate clean in the face during practice but how dare you push the agenda of him being an “angry black man”.
Draymond playing the poor little innocent victim card will never not be funny
Is Dray angry? Yes
Is Dray black? Yes
Is Dray a man? I don’t think Dray has confirmed this. Dray might have a point.
Please, he’s a father
So is Caitlyn Jenner, what’s your point?
Think of all the… fathers that elbow and choke and stomp on others please
You forgot he posted his weener on Snapchat I see
pull the race card to excuse your out of control behavior on the court… this should go over well
Edit: I very much hope no one from the media made racist comments to Draymond. I was kind of just assuming that he was reacting emotionally to the result of the game but that was a poor assumption on my part.
Apologizing is pathetic. Draymond is absolutely just pulling the race card to deflect criticism pointed at him. This is commonplace.
5 techs in how many games this playoffs???
Don’t forget 2 flagrants as well
And 16 blind eyes turned his way
9 games
I feel like every 5 techs in the playoffs should be a one game suspension
You know there’s no shot of the NBA ever doing that. But I don’t disagree.
Assaulted their best draft pick in years btw
I don’t understand why Kia chose this dude to be in one of their commercials. There’s 500+ NBA players to choose from, and they went with this guy.
stupid as fuck commercial tho so it makes sense to pick him
I want to get the Telluride but I hate Draymond. I’ll 99% still get it, but even that 1% can’t be good for Kia. Makes you wonder what they were thinking.
Just get a Palisade instead. Basically the same company but at least you are saying it’s not okay to pretend Dray is a good person.
Personally, but I enjoyed the VW Atlas more. Way more features. Kia does have the best warranty though
a very very good basketball player and a dumbass it has nothing to do with skin colour
He says while being upset, speaking erratically, and being twitchy af.
Jimmy’s pep talk did not work today lol. Whenever Steph is out Draymond seems to lose his mind
reggie miller trying to control ron artest.
Does he know all the other players are black too? He’s been spending too much time on tumblr.
Why bring color into this ? Just say you angry
I feel like Draymond knows that he sometimes goes too far but since no one holds him accountable, he tries find any “excuse” that could make him look better
I honestly dont understand how nobody has straight fucked him up yet. Hes a bitch. Absolute suckerpunch merchant. Greasy, spineless bully. Has anyone ever squared up to him?
Im confused about it too. He’s not gonna try Julius Randle. He picks and chooses
He picks ppl he knows won’t square up. Here’s a video of him turning into a mollified puppy because Metta won’t put up with his BS.
Holy shit the delusion
I can only laugh at that
I don’t think you are an angry black man….I just think u are a dirty nba player. The fact that your black is irrelevant
that brother needs help
He’s right, he’s a white, not at all angry, woman
Also the same guy who said the NBA’s not set up for players to be financially successful.
“Who leads the league in flagrants and tech” lmao. Poetic he’s up against known good guy Mike Conley this series.
Draymond always plays the victim because his teammates and coach and organization has never made him be accountable for his bullshit
I’m giving him a tech for that comment
Won’t someone PLEASE think of the Draymond
Should’ve been banned from the league years ago. He’s a disgrace to the game.
Fuck this dude and the GSW
He’s angry while saying this.
Just own it.
dude needs help
Fucking clown
I’m looking at an angry black man in this video
Gets a tech for nut kicking next game**
This dude might pass Bill Laimbeer for most hated player ever
Well that didn’t help
Jfc just suspend him preemptively before he gets a flagrant next game
It’s definitely not cool that he’s setting up some strawman argument just to hide behind some loaded, political language. That stuff is impotent and he’s just trying to manipulate things to his advantage
what a piece of shit
Guess therapy isn’t working…
“I’m sick and tired of your fact-based agendas! Stop trying to portray me accurately!”
Race card isn’t going to work when more than half the league is black. He’s just a crap person
boo fucking hoo
We’re trying to find the guy who did this!
LMAO pulls out the race card
Fuck this dude..
You are a very good basketball player and great at what you do. You are also a lunatic psycho angry man. Both statements can be true. Stop gaslighting the fans 😂
I wonder if his former teammate Jordan Poole would agree that portraying him as angry is just an agenda
You are an angry man that happens to be black Draymond shut up lol
He’s a man baby. He gets paid millions a year and behaves like one.
This is so lame and the league is kind of at fault for letting him get away with it. Nobody is making you out to be the “angry black guy”. This isn’t about racial stereotypes at all. You’re a dirty as fuck player and you have maybe the worst track record of doing unhinged shit that should get you damn near suspended every other game.
Alright fuck that, he didn’t need to bring race into this because it’s not a racial thing. He’s just an angry piece of shit, that the league allowed to get away with far too much shit for far too long. He’s a bitch that needs to be dealt with by the league.
If he did what he does on the court to someone on the street he’d literally be arrested at least once by now
A narcisist living in his own delusion trying to gaslight others. What else is new
stop holding the touch pad then Draymond!
There’s a reason they call you one tech dray!
That’s what an angry person will say.
Watch it on mute it’s pretty funny
Just trying to change the conversation and deflect.
90% of the time I see draymond he is being the angry guy. I don’t care what color is. All he does is bitch, moan and talk shit
Angry psycho says what?
No self awareness
Imagine doing everything to confirm stereotypes yet have no self awareness to hold yourself accountable. The sad thing is that he has gotten away with so much that he deserves so many more techs, fines, and suspensions
Yeah this shit doesn’t happen in a vacuum. There’s no way the violent tendencies magically stop when he steps off the court. That’s just not how people work.
Performative
Warriors fan here. Love Draymond but this is a bad look. I’m embarrassed. The warriors leadership needs to get this guy a therapist.
lol. No one said he was angry. He’s just a dipshit and a loser.
Look I love Draymond but this comes off as genuinely unhinged.
Why the literal fuck would you love the dirtiest player in a generation, who does nothing but talk shit being the 4th or 5th best man on the team knowing others have to back it up for him, with no emotional or mental maturity who ALSO whines like a baby bitch?
Tf?
I honestly don’t even believe he buys what he is saying. He’s not stupid, just like his dirty plays aren’t accidental. It’s all gamesmanship.
I mean he’s not completely wrong. He is intelligent, he is great at basketball, and a top defender…he also makes a ridiculous amount of dirty plays (whether intentional or not), is often angry and argumentative, and is black…
So to sum it up, he is an angry black man 🤣
and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
Aaaaand race got brought into that -.- Love that in my basketball discourse
Worlds oldest baby
Nurkic was right. He does need help
Geez. Take some accountability.
Crack addicts sound more reasonable than him in this video
Said the angry black man
Remember when RACIST Steven Adams used EVIL Kiwi Magic to mind control Draymond to kick him in the groin?
Says the angry black man, angrily
He is an angry man… wgaf if he’s black
I see you as more of a tired act and asshole, Dray.
“Draymond Green angrily shouts about not being angry.”
This is what happens if you enable an asshole.
accountabiltiy isnt this guys strong suit