Draymond Green, a basketball player, isn’t scared to express his affection for his wife.
The power forward has won numerous honours throughout his NBA career, including multiple All-Star selections and the 2017 Defensive Player of the Year Award. He also guided the Golden State Warriors to four titles in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2022, catching up to his courtside adversary and friend Lebron James.
But one of his greatest achievements was marrying Hazel Renee, whom he had loved for a very long time. After a three-year engagement, Green and Renee got hitched on August 14, 2022. In addition to co-parenting Draymond “D.J.” Green Jr. and Olive Jay with their respective ex-partners, they have a daughter named Cash.
In May 2022, he posted pictures of Renee on Instagram along with the caption, “Somehow, you manage to balance remaining fly, A million auditions, Staying in shape, My supportive Lady, My Patna in crime and more important than all, The absolutely best Mother to our 3 amazing children and Gingi.” “And you make it seem simple. the several hats you don. Superwoman, happy Mother’s Day! We adore and value you!”
Who is Green’s partner, then? Here is all there is to know about Draymond Green’s wife, Hazel Renee, from their meeting in acting class to their family’s travels around the globe.
Renee experimented with modelling and music before to becoming an actress. According to her YouTube bio, she won the National American Miss Teen Michigan crown as a teen and then worked as a model for Smooth Girl and the magazine’s top 100 edition. Additionally, she has made appearances in numerous TV shows and commercials.
Renee is also a vocalist; she even has a soul and R&B album called LOVE TRIANGLE on SoundCloud. She collaborated with Kandi Burruss’ girl group, Glamour, on MTV’s Making the Band 3. Renee was then added to The Real Housewives of Atlanta as a friend by Burruss.
She met Green in acting class
Renee has a modelling and singing career in addition to acting. According to her website, she has appeared on Empire, The Chi, and The Spook Who Sat by the Door. In actuality, she had her first encounter with Green in a drama class.
We were both athletes and in the same theatre class, she recalled. Green played basketball for the Spartans, helping them to two Final Four appearances and a Big Ten tournament victory while Renee competed in track and field. Naturally, since we were already acquainted, we gravitated toward one another for group tasks.
Since Green began competing in the NBA in 2012 and Renee was concentrating on her acting career, they didn’t start dating straight away.
In May 2018, Green appeared to confirm their romance with an Instagram video after initially denying claims that he was dating Renee in 2017. The video shows Renee watching a Warriors game versus the Houston Rockets while carrying Green’s infant, who was one year old at the time. He kissed the model on the sidelines after the Warriors triumphed.
After meeting for the first time on a “casual” date, Renee revealed to Essence that they had reconnected years later.
She said, “We went to a rooftop pool and spent the whole day at the cabana, which is still one of our favourite things to do together. “We spent the whole day hanging out, catching up, and talking as we hadn’t seen one other in a very long time. Although very informal, it was also a reflection of our friendship. We are the best of friends.”
Someone (ahem) really went above and above (per usual) and made me feel like the luckiest girl in the world over a month ago, she wrote. You went “Big Big,” and I love you always and forever!
In the footage, it can be seen that Green and Renee had a helicopter flight over the water before landing on a boat covered in flowers. Green dropped down on one knee and proposed to Renee in front of friends and family, who had gathered to witness the memorable occasion. They then celebrated with pictures of the couple and their children.
Later that year, Renee used the hashtag “#HotFianceSummer” to share a photo of her diamond engagement ring on Instagram along with the caption “Farewell Summer…So They Say.”
Renee spoke about the unexpected engagement in an August 2022 interview with Vogue. She remarked that her engagement was the extravagantly romantic gesture anyone had ever made in order to show their love for her.
Renee shared a heartfelt message on Instagram on the day of their scheduled wedding. She wrote, “6.28.20…Today’s Date Will Always Be Special To Me.” “Despite everything that is going on in the world right now, I believe that my life is going precisely as it should.”
Renee later spoke to Vogue about the cancellation. She said, “I just believed that everything would come together as it should.” “Actually, the planning process was quite relaxed — impulsively planned, if there is such a thing! … I genuinely believed that we decided to get married this year when we woke up.”
Although Green and Renee’s wedding had been postponed, their family was still growing! In December 2020, the actress gave birth to Cash, her first child with Green. Olive Jay, who they share with their former partners, is Renee’s daughter, and Draymond “D.J.” Green Jr. is Green’s child.
Green published a message on Instagram to share the birth of Cash. “You revised the manual on how pregnancies should be handled, Haze. You are the! “He composed. “The icing on the cake was 27 hours without medicine! Goat Mother B! Then our adorable bundle of joy arrived! SCG! I’m grateful. I’m grateful. I’m grateful. I will always love you!”
Renee and Green were married on August 14, 2022, in a small ceremony in San Diego, following a three and a half year engagement. The Fairmont Grand Del Mar hosted the celebration with a black-and-white theme.
Green attended the wedding dressed in a custom Ines Di Santo ball gown, while Renee donned an emerald-colored tuxedo by Rich Fresh, according to Vogue. When she put on the sample, she said, “I never envisioned wearing a ball gown for my ceremony, but when I glanced at my mother-in-law, I knew immediately that it was the gown for me.” “We both had tears in our eyes.”
The children of the couple came to the event dressed alike. In reference to Green and D.J.’s matching tuxes, Hazel remarked, “They were the only two wearing green since they owned that colour for the day.” “Olive and baby Cash wore Monnalisa of Italy, and our tailor Erik Gavrilov adjusted their garments so that the precise custom lace from my ceremonial gown was stitched onto their dresses.”
Up until four in the morning, attendees were fed by an In-N-Out Burger truck and a Puff & Parlay cannabis bar while enjoying live performances by Roddy Ricch and DaBaby.
“It all occurred so quickly!” Hazel spoke to Vogue. “Boy, were they correct when they kept promising me it would be done quickly! It was like a whirlwind of dancing, laughing, and fantasies.”
Renee frequently posts pictures of her and Green’s children cheering him on at NBA games. In February 2022, she captioned a photo of herself, Olive, Cash, and D.J. celebrating with Green on the court, “We Love Being Your Favorite Team!”
She also has no qualms about defending her husband and her family. Renee called out the viewers on Instagram when it was discovered that Boston Celtics fans had been using NSFW language in their chants directed towards Green during a game in June 2022.
She addressed both Celtics supporters and the NBA in an Instagram Story, writing, “Tough defeat today but in NO WAY, shape or form should fans be allowed to yell obscenities at players.” Renee stated that the NBA might have done more to police the “code of conduct” guidelines and that their couple’s young children were present.
In a later episode of his podcast, The Draymond Green Show, Green discussed the event.
He explained that he saw it as an educational chance for his little son, “I know Hazel is really unhappy just because our kids were at the game and were listening to that.
I don’t think much of him hearing or seeing that because I’m raising a man, he continued. “We left there grinning and with our heads held high. He seeing that gives us the chance to speak about it for the rest of his life, so I’m genuinely glad he did. You can overcome it.”
In July 2022, Renee offered Green one piece of career advise despite the fact that he may be among the finest in his field: reduce the number of technical fouls.
Renee made light of Green and his numerous fouls while on the red carpet for the 2022 ESPY Awards, calling them “money down the drain.”
She pointed to the multiple thousand dollar fines that come with each offence and remarked, “There’s the wedding budget right there.” The wedding budget is clearly stated in the text if anyone is interested.