{"id":2417,"date":"2023-01-19T05:14:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/draymond-green-details-his-welcoming-gesture-honest-reaction-from-n-word-last-nba-finals-ahead-of-dubs-celtics-clash-in-boston-talkbasket-net\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T05:14:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:14:21","slug":"draymond-green-details-his-welcoming-gesture-honest-reaction-from-n-word-last-nba-finals-ahead-of-dubs-celtics-clash-in-boston-talkbasket-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/draymond-green-details-his-welcoming-gesture-honest-reaction-from-n-word-last-nba-finals-ahead-of-dubs-celtics-clash-in-boston-talkbasket-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green details his welcoming gesture, honest reaction from N-word last NBA Finals ahead of Dubs-Celtics clash in Boston &#8211; TalkBasket.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1241218965-e1655128508556.jpg\" data-caption=\"Photo: Jim Davis\/The Boston Globe via Getty Images\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1241218965-e1655128508556-696x392.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1241218965-e1655128508556-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1241218965-e1655128508556-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1241218965-e1655128508556.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"GettyImages-1241218965-e1655128508556\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Jim Davis\/The Boston Globe via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>As expected, Draymond Green isn\u2019t very much expecting of a warm reception from the Celtics fans ahead of their visit in Boston for the first time since clinching their fifth overall title back in June last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden State Warriors veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/35468249\/warriors-green-set-greet-hostile-boston-crowd-champ?platform=amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> ESPN\u2019s Kendra Andrews that he can only give nothing but a good response for the diehard Cs faithful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll greet them with a nice smile,\u201d Green said. \u201cJust as I did after we won the championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green, who narrated his unwanted\u00a0 encounter from Boston fans in the last NBA Finals, was very much particular on the N-word he received from all the three games they played within the jampacked TD Garden.<\/p>\n<p>The star big man is very much honest by noting that the said moments took time for him to adjust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou usually have situations where people talk crazy, but not the entire arena,\u201d Green told Andrews. \u201cYou\u2019ll have a situation where an entire arena will boo you, but not what the Boston fans were doing. So, it was just a different situation than I had ever seen. It took a while to adjust to it. \u2026 It was just so unexpected. It caught me off guard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors and the Celtics are set to collide for the second time this 2022-23 season on Thursday, with the former clawing the first blood last Dec. 10 in San Francisco, 123-107.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/158277-draymond-green-details-his-welcoming-gesture-honest-reaction-from-n-word-last-nba-finals-ahead-of-dubs-celtics-clash-in-boston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Jim Davis\/The Boston Globe via Getty Images As expected, Draymond Green isn\u2019t very much expecting of a warm reception from the Celtics fans ahead of their visit in Boston for the first time since clinching their fifth overall title back in June last year. The Golden State Warriors veteran told ESPN\u2019s Kendra Andrews that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}