Warriors’ Draymond Green Says Fans Who Boo Injuries Are ‘Very Distasteful’

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Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green made headlines when he decided to flip off Memphis Grizzlies fans as he was leaving the floor with an injury during Game 2 of their second-round playoff series, but he provided some insight into his mindset at the moment.

He explained on The Draymond Green Show that he had a problem with fans booing him after he suffered an injury and was bleeding from a Xavier Tillman elbow to the face:

“You probably have seen my press conference by now where I said, ‘Listen, they booed me.’ I think it’s very distasteful to boo anyone after they have an injury. I saw some of that—or we saw some of that—when Kevin Durant tore his achilles in Toronto and fans cheered when he went down. I think that’s one of the most distasteful things that can take place in sports.

“Why? As I spoke about before, when you leave the basketball court—any injury that you sustain on the basketball court, that injury does not go away when you walk off that basketball court. It’s not like ‘Hey man, I go on the basketball court, and anything that happens to me there, once I walk off that court, I’m fine.’

“If I get an elbow to the eye and my eye is swollen on that court, when I leave that court it doesn’t stay there. You live those things every single day of your life. And so when Toronto fans boo Kevin Durant—or cheer Kevin Durant—cheer when he injures himself, that’s so distasteful.”

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