Three ESPN reporters dragged Draymond Green for saying there is a media agenda to portray him as an “angry Black man.”
Green, the Golden State Warriors’ hyper-temperamental and often explosive power forward, unleashed a tirade on the media following their loss in Game 2 of the Western Conference playoffs to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
The mercurial Green picked up his fifth technical of the postseason when he swung and hit an opponent in the face after getting the ball knocked out of his hand.
Warriors’ coach Steve Kerr pulled Green out of the game while teammate Steph Curry tried to calm the easily ignitable Green before he detonated again, which he has done frequently in his career.
Draymond Green hates being stereotyped
“Looked like the 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 and great at what I do,” Green said during the postgame rage.
“The agenda to keep trying to make me look like an angry Black man is crazy. I’m sick of it. It’s ridiculous.”
ESPN reporters sound off on Draymond Green
According to SFGate.com and Yahoo! Sports, many in the media are exasperated with Green adopting the victim stance after displaying aggression on the court.
“Oh, God. Go away, Draymond,” ESPN’s Tim MacMahon said on the ‘Brian Windhorst & Hoopes Collective’ podcast. “Shut up, dude. Do not play victim here. Don’t play the victim here. Stop doing crazy and stupid stuff. We’re sick of you doing stupid, flagrant, crap on a regular basis. It’s not an agenda, Draymond. You get break after break, after break, after break, after break. And you keep on pushing the line.
“It was not an agenda to make you look angry when you punched your teammate in the face,” McMahon continued. “It was not an agenda to make you look angry when you grabbed Rudy Gobert and put him in a sleeper hold. It was not an agenda to make you look angry when you punched or smacked or whatever the hell you want to call it Jusuf Nurkic upside the head. … Draymond is full of crap. He’s so full of crap his breath stinks.”
Fellow ESPN writer Tim Bontemps was even more severe in his evisceration of Green.
“It’s truly embarrassing the way the league has allowed this to fester to the point where this guy just walks around and acts like he’s aggrieved every second he’s on the court while he’s committing a flagrant or a technical foul every single game to the point where Stephen Curry has to come over to him and say, ‘Hey man, I’m already out, we can’t have you doing this.’ And then Steve Kerr has to take him out of the game because they think he’s going to get himself thrown out of the game in the second quarter.
“It’s nine years since this guy cost his team a title in 2016. And we are still dealing with this absolute garbage on a day by day basis. It’s a joke, and the league has allowed this to turn into a circus where this guy can threaten the refs and domineer at the refs and do whatever he wants. And when he gets one technical he knows that they’re not going to want to throw him out of the game because they want the best players on the court — which is a admirable goal for everyone to have — and then he just acts like a crazy person and … I’m so tired of it on every level.”
