‘Flipped Off 17 Times:’ Warriors staff describe experience in Boston

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Throughout Sport 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday between the Celtics and Warriors, the sequence’ first recreation in Boston, followers inside TD Backyard chanted “F*** you Draymond.” Ahead Draymond Inexperienced was not be the one one to have been cursed at by Boston followers. Members of Dub Nation had been too.

The Warriors flew a lot of their workers to Boston, and two of them informed KRON4’s Jason Dumas they obtained a lot of vulgar chants. One stated they needed to take off their Warriors shirt the morning of Sport 3 as a result of they stored getting cursed out.

“I’ve been flipped off 17 occasions,” one other Warriors staffer stated.

In reference to the Celtics followers inside the world, Golden State head coach Steve Kerr and guard Klay Thompson sarcastically described them as “elegant.” Inexperienced addressed the chants from the group on his podcast.

“F*** you too,” Inexperienced stated Thursday on The Draymond Inexperienced Present.

Inexperienced additionally addressed his spouse’s feedback of their youngsters having to listen to the Boston crowd yell out expletives for them to listen to. He stated he was blissful his son heard these chants as a result of it will possibly educate him a life lesson. Full soundbite may be listened to here.

Inexperienced’s spouse known as Celtics followers “disgusting” and “shameful” in a message on Instagram.

Then again in response to Boston followers’ vulgarity, a video with over 3 million Twitter views has resurfaced from the 2015 NBA Finals between the Warriors and Cavaliers. It was a Warriors fan who yelled expletives at LeBron James.

Boston’s Historical past of Yelling Expletives In direction of Gamers

In 2017, followers at Fenway Park in Boston yelled the N-word in the direction of then-Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones. That’s certainly one of a number of comparable incidents over the course of the previous few a long time within the metropolis.

Celtics legend Invoice Russell was one of many first Black gamers within the NBA. Regardless of profitable a number of championships within the Nineteen Sixties, Russell was bitter and didn’t really feel embraced by the followers as a result of racist chants he obtained from followers within the metropolis.

The Related Press contributed to this report.