Draymond Green has officially doubled down.
The Golden State Warriors star had some advice for women athletes fighting for equal pay: stop complaining and take action.
The three-time All Star made the controversial comments during a recent video interview with Kerith Burke, who asked Green about his previous tweets regarding the gender wage gap within sports.
“I’m really tired of seeing them complain about the lack of pay, because they’re doing themselves a disservice by just complaining,” he said Wednesday. “They’re not laying out steps that they can take to change that. It’s coming off as a complaint because the people that can change it are just going to continue to say, ‘Well, the revenue isn’t there. So if you don’t bring in the revenue, we can’t up your pay.’
They’re going to keep using that, but the reality is, as true as that is, it’s an excuse. Because everyone says, ‘We support women. We support women’s empowerment. We support women in the workplace. We do this for women. We do X for women. Blah, blah, blah. And everyone uses it to their advantage, yet these women are not using these people who are saying these very things to their advantage.”
His new comments come days after he took to Twitter to address the massive pay gap between NBA and WNBA players.
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Soccer star Megan Rapinoe responded to Green’s assessment in a series of tweets:
