Draymond Green says being called “Angel Reese” during games was more than just trash talk, it felt like a direct insult to his manhood.
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During the Golden State Warriors’ game against the New Orleans Pelicans, Draymond Green didn’t just hear heckling from the sidelines; He felt like it was a blow to his self-esteem.
The veteran forward said a fan’s repeated comparisons to Angel Reese crossed a line, not because of the WNBA star himself, but because the insult violated who he is as a man and father.
The incident occurred on Sunday night when a Pelicans fan began taunting Green after he missed a layup and failed ball return early in the game. ridicule? “You angel Rhys!”
“The first few times in the game, I put the ball up for a layup and I missed it. Then I batted the ball a couple times trying to push it back. Shot it, missed it. Shot it, missed it. Obviously, those were offensive rebounds. I came out to the court and then [the heckler] ‘You’re Angel Reese!’ So I laughed, it was kind of funny,” Green said on The Draymond Green Show.
But the joke quickly faded.
“As the night went on, he continued to say ‘You Angel Reese! Hey, Draymond, you fucking Angel Reese!'” Green continued. “It gets to the point where, as a man with four kids and soon to be five, once you start adding different filler…in a way, you’re disrespecting me as a man.”
The altercation escalated when Green approached the fan midway through the game, and the tense moment was captured on video and widely shared online. Green told the heckler to “relax” and warned him it was “really disrespectful.”
The NBA later issued Green a formal warning for violating player-fan interaction rules, but he avoided a fine. According to league sources, the warning is related to maintaining professional conduct during the game.
The fan, meanwhile, received a verbal warning from venue security but was not ejected and remained in his courtside seat for the remainder of the game. Golden State Warriors beat New Orleans.
