Draymond Green picked up his fifth technical foul of the 2025 NBA playoffs during the Warriors’ 117-93 Game 2 loss to the Timberwolves on Thursday.
The incident occurred early in the second quarter when Timberwolves big Naz Reid fouled Green at the top of the key. Green flailed and elbowed Reid in the head. The referees reviewed the play and slapped Green with a dead-ball technical foul.
The call left Green irate, with Stephen Curry, Steve Kerr and other Warriors trying to calm him down. Kerr immediately benched Green and kept him out of the game for nearly six minutes.
After the game, Green ripped what he sees as an “agenda” to portray him as “an angry Black man.”
“I’m not an angry Black man,” Green said in the locker room, via The Athletic’s Anthony Slater. “I’m a very successful, educated Black man with a great family. And I’m great at basketball, I’m great at what I do. The agenda to try to keep making me look like an angry Black man is crazy. I’m sick of it. It’s ridiculous.”
