Draymond Green made a powerful statement after the Warriors’ playoff loss.

Green, 35, was handed his fifth technical foul of the NBA postseason — meaning he is just two technicals short of receiving a one-game suspension — during Golden State’s 117-93 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday, May 8, following an incident with opponent Naz Reid.

Reid was the one who fouled Green on the play, but the Warriors star was called for a dead-ball technical when he struck Reid’s head while flailing his arm. Reid fell to the floor, likely in an effort to sell the contact to officials. Green, clearly upset by the call, spoke to reporters in the locker room after the game, where he spoke out against the “agenda” to make him look like “an angry Black man.”

In a video shared on X by Anthony Slater of The Athletic, Green said, “Looked like the angry Black man. I’m not an angry Black man.”

“I’m a very successful, educated Black man with a great family, and I’m great at basketball and great at what I do,” Green said passionately. “The agenda to keep trying to make me look like an angry Black man is crazy. I’m sick of it. It’s ridiculous.”

According to ESPN, during the game, Green was the target of a fan who yelled a racial slur at the NBA star. The outlet reported that a Warriors security guard confirmed Green was on a stationary bike near the tunnel when a fan directed the slur towards him in the fourth quarter.

The fan was promptly removed from the arena, per ESPN.

Green’s teammate Jimmy Butler spoke to ESPN after the game, agreeing that Green’s reputation and history of receiving technical fouls contributes to the way officials referee him.

“I thought he got fouled and was maybe trying to sell the call. Someone got hit, but it’s crazy,” Butler said. “Every time he does something, it’s always a review and always ends up being something of that nature.”

Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said Green “had gotten pretty upset” after earning his fifth technical.

“I just didn’t want him to get another technical, so I took him out at that point and I know he’s going to have to be careful now that he’s two techs away,” Kerr said. “He’s going to have to stay composed. Obviously, we need him, and I’m confident that he will because he knows the circumstances.”

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Green has been the subject of several controversies during his NBA career. Just before the 2022 season, he had to step away from the team after video surfaced of him punching his teammate Jordan Poole during a practice.

In April 2023, the NBA suspended him after he appeared to stomp on an opponent during a game.

On the ESPYs red carpet in 2022, Green’s now-wife Hazel Renee joked that her then-fiancé was getting so many technicals that it was affecting their wedding fund. “Money down the drain,” Renee joked.