Warriors star Draymond Green has confrontation with Pelicans fan during game in New Orleans

Warriors star Draymond Green has confrontation with Pelicans fan during game in New Orleans

DECEMBER 8TH. ALL RIGHT, 642. LET’S GET ANOTHER CHECK OF YOUR FIRST WARNING WEATHER ON THIS IMPACT DAY. WE’RE CONTINUING TO TRACK FOG THIS MORNING. AND RAVEN, IT REALLY JUST DEPENDS WHERE YOU’RE WAKING UP. IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU’RE WAKING UP. AND SOME OF IT LOOKS BAD, SOME OF IT NOT LOOKING THAT BAD. YES, INDEED. AND THEN ALSO DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU ARE. MAYBE YOU CAN KIND OF SEE IT AS YOU’RE SIPPING COFFEE OR WHATEVER YOU’RE DOING FOR THE SUNDAY MORNING. BUT YEAH, IT IS A HEADS UP, THOUGH, FOR SOME FOLKS WHO MAYBE DON’T NORMALLY DRIVE A WHOLE LOT. AND SO YOU’RE GETTING OUT TO YOUR SUNDAY SERVICES. YOU COULD BE RUNNING INTO FOG, ESPECIALLY OVER THE OVERPASSES. JUST A HEADS UP, EVERYBODY. HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING AS YOU’RE CROSSING OVER THE CC THIS MORNING. IT LOOKS FINE, BUT ONCE YOU GET TO A LOOK OVER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER, YOU CAN SEE THAT LAYER OF FOG STARTING TO DEVELOP. SO CHECK OUT THE OTHER CAMERAS. MOST OF THINGS LOOK OKAY, BUT IT’S GOING TO BE MORE IN THE BAYOU REGIONS WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO START TO SEE SOME OF THAT DENSE FOG REALLY DEVELOP. SO DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL NINE THIS MORNING. HERE’S WHERE IT IS. SO NEW ORLEANS NOT IMPACTED BY THIS. MAYBE SOME REDUCED VISIBILITY OUT TOWARDS THE AIRPORT, BUT NOT THE WORST THOUGH. BUT LOOK AT THE NORTH SHORE. YOU GOT THE SPREADING ALL THE WAY FROM HOUMA, BOGALUSA, SLIDELL AND THEN ALL ACROSS THE SOUTH SHORE THIS MORNING. SO JUST A HEADS UP FOR FOLKS AS YOU’RE GETTING OUT AND ABOUT. OF COURSE, WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT SUPER FOG, THE POTENTIAL FOR SUPER FOG, BECAUSE WE’RE LOOKING AT SOME SMOKE IN OUR AREA. LOOK AT ALL THE SMOKE IN THE REGION. REALLY. AND THEN THESE ARE SOME OF THE HOT SPOTS WHERE YOU COULD SEE SOME SMOLDERING CONDITIONS. BUT HERE’S WHERE OUR SMOKE FORECAST IS SHOWING YOU. WE COULD SEE QUITE A BIT. YOU SEE DOWN TO BAYOU, BUT WE’RE EXPECTING THIS TO POTENTIALLY CAUSE US SOME ISSUES FOR TOMORROW AS WELL. SPEAKING OF TOMORROW, HERE’S THE FOG FORECAST FOR TOMORROW. DO YOU THINK NORTH SHORE HEADS UP PROBABLY GOING TO RUN INTO SOME MORE FOG ON YOUR MORNING COMMUTE. AND THEN FOR TUESDAY, WE’RE ALSO WATCHING FOR THAT AS WELL. AND THEN ONCE WE GET TO THE END OF THE WEEK, THE NEXT STORY WILL TRANSITION OVER TO RAIN. YES, WE DO NEED SOME RAIN. HAVEN’T HAD SOME A DECENT AMOUNT IN QUITE SOME TIME, BUT WIND SPEEDS FOR YOU THIS MORNING? NOT REALLY A WHOLE LOT. MOST OF US ARE STILL ON THE CALM SIDE AND SO THAT’S NOT REALLY HELPING OUT WITH OUR FOG. HERE’S AS FAR AS YOUR TEMPERATURES GO. STEPPING OUTSIDE 50 FOR YOU. COUPLE OF 60S I WOULD SAY THIS IS NOT THAT BAD IN THIS IS PRETTY MUCH GOING TO BE THE TREND FOR US AS WE’RE HEADING TO THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS OR NEXT COUPLE OF MORNINGS AS WELL. LET’S GO TO THE RIVER PARISHES. 57 FOR YOU OUT IN RESERVE. 56 OVER IN LAPLACE THIS MORNING. SO DECENT START AND PRETTY MUCH SEE THIS NEXT COUPLE OF MORNINGS NOW AS WE GO THROUGHOUT THE DAY, WE’RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEE THAT FOG ICON, AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. AGAIN, NOT IMPACTING EVERYBODY. ONCE WE GET TO THE AFTERNOON, LATE MORNING, AFTERNOON, PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES FOR A QUICK WARM UP IS IN STORE. SO ANOTHER WARM DAY. THIS IS STILL WELL ABOVE AVERAGE. THIS IS ALMOST ABOUT TEN DEGREES ABOVE WHERE WE USUALLY ARE FOR THIS TIME IN NOVEMBER. SO UPPER 70S LOWER 80S. I HAD FOLKS ASKING ME YESTERDAY, OKAY, WHEN ARE WE GOING TO FEEL LIKE FALL AGAIN? WELL, IT’S GOING TO BE A MINUTE. WE’RE GOING TO STAY ON THE WARM SIDE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS, GOING INTO EVEN NEXT WEEK. SO THINK ABOUT THANKSGIVING, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT ON THE WARMER SIDE. BUT HERE’S WHAT’S EXPECTED FOR YOUR OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES ON INTO TOMORROW MORNING AT THE SAME START AS THIS MORNING. SO MILD CONDITIONS FOR US. ALSO WHAT’S GOING UP. HUMIDITY START TO FEEL THAT AS WE GET TO THE END OF THE WEEK. SO YES, WE DID HAVE THAT RISE THE OTHER DAY. NOW IT’S GOING BACK UP AS WE GET TO THE END OF THE WEEK BECAUSE WE ARE LOOKING AT RAIN CHANCES THAT WILL START TO MOVE IN. SPEAKING OF RAIN, CHANCES, LOOK WHAT’S DEVELOPING IN A WATCH ON OUT. JUST TO OUR WEST. YOU CAN SEE THE STORMS LINING UP THAT’S LIKELY GOING TO PRODUCE SOME SEVERE WEATHER FOR FOLKS UP TO THE NORTH. SO MAYBE OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS, PORTIONS OF TEXAS. AND THEN BY THE TIME IT CONTINUES TO MAKE ITS WAY ON ACROSS IT VERY WELL COULD WEAKEN. SO WE’RE STILL THIS IS ONLY SUNDAY. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY. SO EXPECT THAT TO CHANGE. THINGS WILL GET A LITTLE MORE CLEAR AS WE DO GET CLOSER TO THAT TIME. SO JUST A HEADS UP. BUT AS FAR AS PRECIPITATION GOES, IT DOES LOOK LIKE WE COULD SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE RAIN, WHICH WE NEEDED. WE COULD USE IT. AND THEN ALSO AGAIN, AS I WAS MENTIONING, TEMPERATURES LIKELY GOING TO STAY ABOVE AVERAGE FOR US. SO WE WILL SEE SOME DIPS AT THE END OF THE WEEK AS WE GET LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF A LATE WEEK COLD FRONT PUSHING THROUGH, AND THAT’S ONLY GOING TO DIP US INTO THE 70S. I’M TALKING ABOUT THE MID TO CLOSE TO SOME UPPER 70S, SO NOT A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE AT ALL FOR YOU AS YOU’RE HEADING OUT. HERE’S WHAT THE REST OF THE FORECAST LOOKS LIKE FOR YOU FOR TODAY. SO AGAIN, IMPACT DAY THIS MORNING BECAUSE OF THE FOG THAT’S HEADS UP FOR FOLKS TRAVELING. MAYBE YOU’RE GOING TO CHURCH THIS MORNING. HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS THOUGH FOR YOU. WE DO HAVE THAT POTENTIAL TO SEE FOG FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY. WE’LL JUST HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE ONCE WE GET A LITTLE CLOSER. IF WE COULD HAVE ANY DENSE FOG ADVISORIES, THEN AGAIN, LATE WEEK RAIN THAT COULD END UP BEING M


By Brett Martel, The Associated Press

Golden State forward Draymond Green went nearly chest-to-chest with a fan during the Warriors’ road game against the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday night.The fan, who identified himself as Sam Green, 35, of New Orleans, was wearing a black polo with a Pelicans logo on it. He was standing and cheering after Draymond Green had been called for a shooting foul while guarding Pelicans forward Herb Jones.While players began taking their positions along the key for Jones’ foul shots, Draymond Green strode over to the grinning fan and stood just inches from him as they spoke to one another, with the fan holding his arms out on each side.Game officials quickly stepped between them and pulled Draymond Green away while ushers gathered around and spoke with the fan, who continued to look amused by the exchange.Sam Green said he was taunting Draymond Green with chants of “Angel Reese,” because, while the Warriors star had several rebounds, he hadn’t attempted any shots.Sam Green said his namesake NBA star shouted profanity at him and threatened to punch him out if he continued the “Angel Reese” taunts (a refence to the WNBA and former LSU star who set several LSU and SEC rebounding records).“I wasn’t using profanity and for him to walk 12 feet off the court to come and get in my face like that, it was a little unnerving,” said Sam Green, who was given a warning by ushers but was allowed to remain in his front-row seat. Draymond Green, who has been known to draw technical fouls, fines and ejections for his confrontational and emotionally combustible on-court persona, has been fined for fan interaction before.In 2022, he was fined $25,000 for what the NBA described as “directing obscene language toward a fan.”Green has been critical of fan behavior, saying fans face relatively few consequences for saying inappropriate things, and are in fact motivated to do so by the fact that players can be fined for engaging with them.

NEW ORLEANS —

Golden State forward Draymond Green went nearly chest-to-chest with a fan during the Warriors’ road game against the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday night.

The fan, who identified himself as Sam Green, 35, of New Orleans, was wearing a black polo with a Pelicans logo on it. He was standing and cheering after Draymond Green had been called for a shooting foul while guarding Pelicans forward Herb Jones.

While players began taking their positions along the key for Jones’ foul shots, Draymond Green strode over to the grinning fan and stood just inches from him as they spoke to one another, with the fan holding his arms out on each side.

Game officials quickly stepped between them and pulled Draymond Green away while ushers gathered around and spoke with the fan, who continued to look amused by the exchange.

Sam Green said he was taunting Draymond Green with chants of “Angel Reese,” because, while the Warriors star had several rebounds, he hadn’t attempted any shots.

Sam Green said his namesake NBA star shouted profanity at him and threatened to punch him out if he continued the “Angel Reese” taunts (a refence to the WNBA and former LSU star who set several LSU and SEC rebounding records).

“I wasn’t using profanity and for him to walk 12 feet off the court to come and get in my face like that, it was a little unnerving,” said Sam Green, who was given a warning by ushers but was allowed to remain in his front-row seat.

Draymond Green, who has been known to draw technical fouls, fines and ejections for his confrontational and emotionally combustible on-court persona, has been fined for fan interaction before.

In 2022, he was fined $25,000 for what the NBA described as “directing obscene language toward a fan.”

Green has been critical of fan behavior, saying fans face relatively few consequences for saying inappropriate things, and are in fact motivated to do so by the fact that players can be fined for engaging with them.