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Draymond Green Breaks Down Heated Pelicans Fan "Angel Reese" Moment

17 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In a post‑game interview, Draymond Green recounts an exchange with a New Orleans Pelicans fan who repeatedly called him "Angel Reese" after a series of missed shots. Green initially laughed at the joke but grew increasingly uncomfortable as the fan persisted, interpreting the repeated use of a woman's name as a gender‑based taunt. He explains that, as a father of four (soon five), being called a woman's name feels disrespectful to his identity as a man. Green asserts his own name and asks the fan to stop the name‑calling, emphasizing respect and sportsmanship while clarifying there is no disrespect intended toward Angel Reese herself.

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Draymond Green. The fan actually had a pretty good joke. One of the first couple plays of the game, I laid the ball up and I miss it. Tapped up, miss, tapped up, miss. Obviously those are offensive rebounds. He's like, "Oh, you Angel Reese." And so I laugh, I'm like, "Oh, okay, that was a little funny." As the night goes on, he continues to go, "You Angel Reese." And then there's a little more said with it. As a man with 4 children, soon to be 5, once you start to add the different fillers onto you, Angel Reese. At a certain point, now you're disrespecting me as a man to where your message is a little different than what you were saying before. Like, you're not gonna just keep calling me a woman's name. I am Draymond Green, make no mistake about it. No disrespect to Angel Reese, but you're not going to continue to just call me a woman. Enjoy the game, watch the game, cheer your team on. To continue to yell to me that I'm a woman, that just ain't gonna work. [FOREIGN LANGUAGE]