Danny Green Addresses Being Criticized and Cyber-Bullied by Lakers Fans, Sends Message to Haters

Danny Green has sent a message to his haters who continually cyber bully him. He has been a pretty good fit for the Los Angeles Lakers. But that is not enough for some fans in Laker Nation. It is sometimes surprising to see how people act on the internet.

Green recently gave a statement on how this made him feel and what he thinks needs to change.

“I try to see everything from all perspectives. I understand not just the situation I’m in, but the situation everybody is in. There is not much else going on around the world, people are watching basketball. There’s not much else to watch. … There’s a huge focus on what we’re doing and how we’re playing. So a lot of people are tense inside the house, so they take it out on us half the time. …”

Danny Green Addresses Being Criticized and Cyber-Bullied by Lakers Fans, Sends Message to Haters

Green went on, talking about how he grew up.

“But my Nanna used to say, ‘People are gonna talk shit about Jesus and Muhammad, what makes you think you’re safe?’ So I just try to block out the noise, man. Anybody that’s negative that comes across my page, I usually just block them or ignore it. … Just trying to stay focused and have the words of encouragement from my teammates, my coaches and just keep playing basketball. So yeah, especially playing in a big market, that’s expected. They’re gonna talk crazy about you, talk crazy to you, people call it ‘cyberbullying,’ whatever. … People just like to talk s–t.”

He went on to explain how the criticism can get in his head and how he thinks a lot of it is unfair.

“Professional sports is the only job in the world as athletes where people are going to critique you publicly. Where people come to your job and heckle you. There’s not many jobs you have in the world where people from the outside are going to come heckle you and tell you how to do your job. But that’s why you get paid the big bucks. You get paid not just to perform, but to be on that platform and be mentally tough enough to withstand all those things and fight through it. …

Danny Green Addresses Being Criticized and Cyber-Bullied by Lakers Fans, Sends Message to Haters

“We haven’t played great basketball for a while, we had a couple good games in the first round, but hopefully we can build a rhythm, play better, block out the outside noise, continue to push forward, push through, encourage each other and have fun with it, and not focus on the negative.”

Green did reach out to the real fans recently. Here is a statement he made.

“Shout out to the real fans that stuck with us when we were down 0-1,” said Green. “Shout out to the real friends, whether we’re playing good or not, (that) are still by our side. Because those are the real ones. You also know who your true friends are. Some of your true friends have your back, but some of them will still post memes and talk s–t, that’s what they do. When that happens, I say, ‘Memes are cool and all, it’s funny and all, but when it comes to you, you don’t see me doing that to you, so why would you do that to me. And if you’re a true friend, you wouldn’t post something for a laugh.’ … I don’t take it to heart, but you just know where you stand with certain people and certain fans.

Danny Green Addresses Being Criticized and Cyber-Bullied by Lakers Fans, Sends Message to Haters

“So when it’s all said and done, hopefully in October if we continue to play the way I know we’re capable (of), we can tell those fake fans to go somewhere and won’t invite them to the parade. Even though there probably won’t be a parade because of the pandemic, we’ll have to do something virtually, but if we are to win, I can give those fake fans a couple fingers that they might not like too much. … For the bandwagoners: You’re not real fans. You’re just bandwagon fans. You’re only fans when things are going good. Those aren’t true fans.”

What do you think he had to say?