Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green #23 warms up before their game against the Sacramento Kings at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
A Dallas resident has pledged $25,000 to a charity of Draymond Green’s choosing after the Warriors star was punished earlier this week for swearing at the fan during a game.
Green was slapped with a $25,000 fine Thursday evening for “directing obscene language toward a fan” during the Warriors’ 116-113 loss to the Mavericks Tuesday. The incident occurred with 11:20 remaining in the fourth quarter. A video circulated on Twitter showed Green telling a fan to “enjoy the f—ing game, shut up.”
Alykhan Rehmatullah came forward on Twitter Thursday night and identified himself as the fan engaging with Green. Rehmatullah defended Green and said the two were “just having fun.”
“I’m the guy you yelled at,” Rehmatullah wrote in a tweet directed at Green. “Shouldn’t be like that.”
Rehmatullah agreed to donate money to Green’s favorite charity or NBA Cares, the league’s global community outreach program.
“Your call lmk!” Rehmatullah wrote.
@Money23Green I’m the guy you yelled at. Shouldn’t be like that, we were just having fun.
I’ll match the $25k to your favorite charity, or @nbacares, your call lmk!
https://t.co/EdAUH3h51z
— Alykhan Rehmatullah (@AlykhanR) December 2, 2022
Green learned of Rehmatullah’s offer Friday and told ESPN he thought it was “a cool gesture”
“You don’t see that happen,” he said after the Warriors quashed the Bulls at Chase Center.
Green had yet to reach out to the Mavericks fan, according to ESPN, but planned to in the near future.
“The money should go somewhere,” Green told the website. “It should help someone’s kid.”
Originally published at Madeline Kenney