Draymond Green is running around like he is Pac.
Don’t get me wrong, Draymond is very important to the Warriors, and some of his contributions can’t be seen in a box score, but let’s be honest, 6, 8, and 6 on 33% shooting and 12% from 3 weren’t exactly lighting the Celtics up.
Since the Warriors won, though, he has been taking a victory lap and taking shots at everyone. He called Kendrick Perkins a C**n, and that is when Adam Silver had to step in.
The Warriors star says he spoke with NBA commish Adam Silver and lifelong friend/Pistons legend Joe Dumars over his comments … and he now has a better understanding of why he was in the wrong, even though he didn’t have any racial intent behind it.
“I’m no idiot, I do understand the word c**n is used in a racial way,” Green said on his podcast. “However, I also think growing up, culturally, things are different. We all grow up in different places, we all use words different, and so for me, when I use the word – like I said, I could have very well replaced it with clown – growing up where I grew up, you may say to one of your boys ‘Yo, stop acting like a c**n.'”
“And for me, it’s like, ‘stop acting corny, you’re on some weird-type stuff,” he added. “‘That’s wack, you don’t have to do that, that’s wack.’ So for me, in using the word, that’s what I was implying.”
Green says using the word is “a huge moment for growth and learning for me” as a member of the “new” media … and understands he represents the league as a whole when he takes the mic.
“And, as someone who stands against racism, who you know has stood against it for years and is not afraid to get out in front of it, I can admit right here that I was wrong. And, regardless of how I may use the word with my friends or how that word may be perceived anywhere else in the world, it was wrong here.”
Jaylen Brown has also said Green is out of his mind after Green said he took Brown’s heart.
Flip the pages for all the videos of these interactions.