What gets me is the fake-clumsy wrestling stuff he does after his intentional dirty moves. It's a massive tell, but somehow the refs give Draymond the benefit of doubt every single time.
2025-26
Draymond Green
GSW · F · #23
r/NBA's 3rd most hated player.
- PPG
- 8.4
- RPG
- 5.5
- APG
- 5.5
- GP
- 68
- Height
- 6′6″
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Age
- 36
- Born
- Mar 4, 1990
- Experience
- 13 yrs
- From
- Michigan State
Verdict
52.6%31.9%15.5%
52.6%Negative14,302 comments
31.9%Neutral8,683 comments
15.5%Positive4,202 comments
−37Net sentimentpositive minus negative
n=27,187 comments about Draymond Green
Receipts
What the room said about Draymond Green, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.no flair Exhibit 02Negative.no flair Draymond actually just needs to get hit. All of this happens because he's never gotten any real consequences.
Exhibit 03Negative.CLE flair Draymond is an absolute scumbag and I can't wait until he's out of the league.
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Draymond Green that cleared the classifier's confidence bar
and a second pass confirming it is about him. No usernames: the site judges players, not commenters.
Fans
Of what r/NBA says about Draymond Green, his own Warriors fans are 38% negative, rival fans 54%, unflaired commenters 55%. Among the 21 fanbases with at least 200 comments, Bucks fans are hardest on him at 67% negative and Warriors fans kindest at 22% positive.
38.1%Own fansGSW flair · 3,054 comments
53.6%Rival fansevery other flair · 11,820 comments
55.2%Unflairedno flair · 12,313 comments
Who hates him most
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Draymond Green are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Draymond Green was talked about most on the front page: 12,541 of his 27,187 comments, −35 net sentiment against −37 across his season. His harshest room was highlights, −42 on 23% of his comments; his warmest the daily chat thread, −18 on under 1% of his comments.
Game threads10% of his comments54.717.22,745
Post-game threads3% of his comments46.324.9810
Daily chat threadunder 1% of his commentsWarmest46.628.7247
Front page46% of his comments51.015.712,541
Highlights23% of his commentsHarshest56.414.56,385
News15% of his comments51.212.63,943
Lowlightsunder 1% of his comments50.615.1259
Method
A room is the kind of post a comment sat under: a game thread, the front page, a highlight. A room is drawn when it holds at least 200 comments about Draymond Green; left out here: Injury posts (171), Discussion posts (63). The bar is the room's share of his comments, its split the room's sentiment. Harshest and warmest are by net sentiment, positive minus negative, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Timeline
Over 4-week windows, the negative share of comments about Draymond Green ran between 44% and 60%. His worst week was the week of Dec 15, 65% negative of 957 comments; his best the week of Apr 13, 33% positive.
Method
Lines are 4-week rolling rates from summed counts (Σ negative ÷ Σ comments), drawn only where the window holds at least 30 comments. Dots are single weeks, sized by n. Bands follow the season calendar.
Games
The room talked about Draymond Green in 24 of his 74 games, at least 20 comments each. It was harsher after losses: net sentiment −47 in losses (60% negative, 13% positive) against −9 in wins (42% negative, 33% positive), on a season net sentiment of −37.
−9In wins42% neg · 33% pos · 1,049 comments
−47In losses60% neg · 13% pos · 755 comments
−37His season53% neg · 15% pos · 27,187 comments
| Date | Phase | Opp | Result | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast | FG | 3P | TOV | +/− | P/R/A | Comments | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17Play-in | Play-in | @ PHXL 96–111 | L 96–111 | 36 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 5 | -13 | 5/2/6 | 478 | 10 points harsher than his season, from 203 comments. |
| Apr 15Play-in | Play-in | @ LACW 126–121 | W 126–121 | 35 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 3-5 | 1-3 | 3 | 0 | 7/6/9 | 6,468 | 79 points warmer than his season, from 350 comments. |
| Apr 5 | vs HOUL 116–117 | L 116–117 | 34 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 3-4 | 1-1 | 1 | +6 | 7/6/12 | 885 | 33 points warmer than his season, from 26 comments. | |
| Apr 1 | vs SASL 113–127 | L 113–127 | 21 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 4-7 | 4-6 | 0 | -11 | 14/2/1 | 631 | 10 points harsher than his season, from 30 comments. | |
| Mar 5 | @ HOUW 115–113 | W 115–113 | 35 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 4-6 | 1-3 | 2 | +12 | 10/5/8 | 866 | 26 points warmer than his season, from 45 comments. | |
| Feb 11 | vs SASL 113–126 | L 113–126 | 30 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 6-14 | 2-8 | 2 | -5 | 17/12/8 | 644 | 20 points warmer than his season, from 34 comments. | |
| Feb 7 | @ LALL 99–105 | L 99–105 | 33 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3-9 | 2-6 | 2 | +11 | 9/4/6 | 994 | 30 points harsher than his season, from 97 comments. | |
| Jan 22 | @ DALL 115–123 | L 115–123 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 3 | -15 | 4/4/5 | 541 | 20 points harsher than his season, from 95 comments. | |
| Jan 15 | vs NYKW 126–113 | W 126–113 | 27 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1-4 | 1-4 | 2 | +6 | 6/5/3 | 612 | 27 points harsher than his season, from 25 comments. | |
| Jan 5 | @ LACL 102–103 | L 102–103 | 32 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 2-8 | 0-6 | 1 | +15 | 6/5/12 | 1,039 | 13 points warmer than his season, from 21 comments. |
Bad nights get punished: across 24 games the room talked about, net sentiment rises with Draymond Green's Game Score.