By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Tensions apparently ran high during the game between the Golden State Warriors and Milwaukee Bucks.
Midway through the third quarter, Warriors star Draymond Green interrupted play to request a fan in the crowd be ejected from the Fiserv Forum. After Green’s conversation with crew chief James Capers and official Ray Acosta, arena security escorted the man away.
The Bucks crowd didn’t exactly appreciate what they were seeing.
Green was seen exchanging some course language with the fan a minute or so earlier.
After the game, a 128-111 Bucks win, Green said a spoken death threat from the fan led to the ejection.
“He said some threatening stuff to my life. I was this close to really going back, diving all the way in, but I kinda just went back and told the official. When I told the official what he said, he’s like ‘He gotta get outta here.'”
The game was not going according to plan for Green and the Warriors, who were down 21 points at the time of the ejection. The deficit didn’t get much better from there, with Green subbing out seemingly for good with 4:18 left in the quarter.
Green had two points on 1-of-3 shooting with six rebounds, seven assists, and three turnovers at the time of his exit.