Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green has been slapped by the NBA with a $25,000 fine for flipping off Grizzlies fans in Game 2 of their first-round series. Green was incensed by the fact that Memphis supporters started cheering as he made his way to the locker room after he got hit in the head by a Xavier Tillman elbow.

Green has already sent a scathing message to the Grizzlies fans about this issue as he expressed how he'd gladly pay the fine. The Warriors veteran has now doubled down on his tirade but this time around, he's invoking former teammate Kevin Durant as he turns his attention to the general NBA fanbase:

“You probably have seen my press conference by now where I said, ‘Listen, they booed me.' I think it's very distasteful to boo anyone after they have an injury,” said the Warriors star in a recent episode of The Draymond Green Show (h/t Scott Polaceck of Bleacher Report). “I saw some of that—or we saw some of that—when Kevin Durant tore his achilles in Toronto and fans cheered when he went down. I think that’s one of the most distasteful things that can take place in sports.

“Why? As I spoke about before, when you leave the basketball court—any injury that you sustain on the basketball court, that injury does not go away when you walk off that basketball court. It's not like ‘Hey man, I go on the basketball court, and anything that happens to me there, once I walk off that court, I'm fine.'

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“If I get an elbow to the eye and my eye is swollen on that court, when I leave that court it doesn't stay there. You live those things every single day of your life. And so when Toronto fans boo Kevin Durant—or cheer Kevin Durant—cheer when he injures himself, that’s so distasteful.”

It's hard to argue against Green's statement here. At the end of the day, what the Warriors talisman is pointing out here is that it's simply unacceptable to wish harm on anyone — regardless if it's an opponent.

There is clearly some animosity between Dray and the Grizzlies supporters and this flame should be rekindled once the series shifts back to Memphis for Game 5.