Draymond Green stated being known as Angel Reese throughout a sport wasn’t simply trash speak—it felt like a direct insult to his manhood.

Draymond Green didn’t simply hear a courtside heckle in the course of the Golden State Warriors’ matchup towards the New Orleans Pelicans; he felt it hit his satisfaction.

The veteran ahead stated being repeatedly in comparison with Angel Reese by a fan crossed a line, not due to the WNBA star herself, however as a result of the insult struck at his id as a person and father.

The incident unfolded Sunday evening when a Pelicans fan started mocking Green after a missed layup and failed put-backs early within the sport. The taunt? “You Angel Reese!”

“One of the first couple plays of the game, I lay the ball up and I miss it. And I tap the ball up a couple times to try to get a put-back. Tapped up, missed. Tapped up, missed. Obviously, those are offensive rebounds. I come down the court, and [the heckler] goes ‘You Angel Reese!’ And so I laugh, that was a little funny,” Green stated on The Draymond Green Show.

But the joke wore skinny quick.

“As the night goes on, he continues to go ‘You Angel Reese! Hey, Draymond, you’re f###### Angel Reese!’” Green continued. “It gets to a point where, as a man with four children soon to be five, once you start to add the different fillers… at a certain point, now you’re disrespecting me as a man.”

The back-and-forth escalated when Green approached the fan mid-game, a tense second caught on video and broadly shared on-line. Green advised the heckler to “relax” and warned him he was getting “really disrespectful.”

The NBA later issued a proper warning to Green for violating player-fan interplay guidelines, although he averted a wonderful. According to league sources, the warning was tied to sustaining skilled conduct throughout video games.

The fan, in the meantime, acquired a verbal warning from enviornment safety however was not ejected and stayed in his courtside seat for the remainder of the sport. Golden State pulled off the win towards New Orleans.

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