"Green had a verbal altercation with a courtside fan during the second quarter of Sunday's game in New Orleans. In the postgame locker room, Green said that the man had called him a woman's name but declined to specify what name it was. In an interview with the Associated Press, the fan identified himself as Sam Green and said he continually referred to Draymond Green as Angel Reese, the WNBA star who became a household name at nearby LSU."
"To use Angel Reese's name as a negative connotation, I really don't like that for the young queen, because she's done what she's done to become who she is, Green said on his show. It gets to the point as a man with four children and about to be five, once you start the add the different fillers onto your Angel Reese, you're just disrespecting me."
"The continued verbal jabs from the fan was enough to get Draymond Green to approach him with 2:02 left in the second quarter, getting within a few feet but not making physical contact with the fan. 'Hey man, relax. Watch yourself now, you're getting real disrespectful,' is what Draymond Green said he told the fan. You continue to do the same thing and add these little fillers. You're no longer saying what you were saying before. I'm not going to continue being some woman."
During a game in New Orleans, Draymond Green engaged in a verbal altercation with a courtside fan after repeated taunts. The fan later identified himself as Sam Green and said he repeatedly called Draymond "Angel Reese." Green said the fan first used the taunt after a sequence in which Green grabbed offensive rebounds and missed layups, then continued with expletive-laced fillers. Green said using Angel Reese's name negatively was disrespectful to her and to him as a father. He approached the fan near the second-quarter mark without making contact. The NBA issued Green a warning but no fine.
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