NBA star Draymond Green isn’t afraid to show his wife how much he loves her.
The power forward led the Golden State Warriors to four championships in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2022, catching up to his friend and rival LeBron James on the court. He has won many awards in his NBA career, including being named to multiple All-Star teams and the Defensive Player of the Year award in 2017.
But getting married to his longtime love, Hazel Renee, is one of his proudest moments. After being together for three years, Green and Renee got married on August 14, 2022. They have a daughter named Cash and two other children, Draymond “D.J.” Green Jr. and Olive Jay, with their ex-partners.
Green often posts sweet things about his actress wife on Instagram.
He wrote about Renee on Instagram in May 2022: “Somehow, you manage to balance staying fly, a million auditions, staying in shape, My supportive Lady, My Patna in crime, and most importantly, The absolute best Mother to our three amazing children and Gingi.” The post included pictures of Renee. “You make it look so easy.” The many things you do. Hey SuperWoman, happy Mother’s Day! We Care About and Love You!!”
Who is Green’s other half? Here is everything you need to know about Hazel Renee Green, Draymond Green’s wife. They met in acting class and now they travel the world with their family.
She has been a model, an artist, and a reality TV star in the past.
Renee tried her hand at modeling and singing before she became an actor. Her YouTube bio says that she was crowned National American Miss Teen Michigan when she was a teenager and went on to model for Smooth Girl and Smooth Magazine’s top 100 issue. She has also been in a number of ads and TV shows.
Renee can also sing. Her R&B and soul record, LOVE TRIANGLE, is on SoundCloud. She was on MTV’s Making the Band 3 and worked with Glamour, Kandi Burruss’ girl group. After that, Burruss made Renee a friend on The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Based on what Ebony reported, she went on to appear on VH1’s Basketball Wives while being tied to NBA player John Wall.
She was also in the 2023 movie Fear. Green shared pictures from the opening on Instagram on January 27, 2023. She posed for pictures on the red carpet and in the theater, among other places.
In the caption, he wrote, “Went to the FEAR premiere with my beautiful wife @lovehazelrenee last week.” “What a wonderful moment. I’ve seen how many hours of work you’ve put into your skill. The job doesn’t pay well. Most of the time, people tell you “no.” Just trying to get that 1%. You don’t stop. I like the grind!”
She met Green in theater class.
Renee is an actress as well as a model and musician. According to her website, she has been in episodes of Empire, The Chi, and The Spook Who Sat by the Door. She actually met Green in a theater class.
A 2022 interview with Essence says that the couple met while they were both students at Michigan State University. He was a professional basketball player at the time.
“We were in the same theater class and both athletes,” she stated. Green coached the Spartans to two Final Fours and a Big Ten tournament title as a basketball player for them. Renee was on the track and field team. “Naturally we gravitated towards one another for group projects because we were already familiar with each other.”
They didn’t start dating right away because Green joined the NBA in 2012 and Renee was busy with her movie job.
It was revealed that she was dating Green in 2018.
In 2017, Green denied reports that he was dating Renee. In May 2018, he seemed to reveal in an Instagram video that they were dating. The video showed Renee sitting courtside with Green’s baby, who was one year old at the time, while the Warriors played the Houston Rockets. During the game, after the Warriors won, he kissed the model.
Renee told Essence that they had met again on a “casual” date a few years after their first meeting.
“We went to a rooftop pool and hung out at the cabana all day, which is still one of our favorite things to do together,” she said. “Because we hadn’t seen each other in a long time, we hung out all day and caught up.” It was very relaxed, but it also showed how we feel about each other. We’re really the best of friends.”
In 2019, she and Green got married.
Green asked Renee to marry him a year after making their relationship public.
On Valentine’s Day 2019, Renee shared an Instagram video of Green getting ready for the proposal, which revealed the news.
“Almost a month ago someone (ahem) really outdid themselves (per norm) and made me feel like the Luckiest Girl In The World!” the writer wrote. “You really went Big Big I Love You Always…FOREVER!”
As you can see in the video, Green and Renee took a chopper ride over the ocean and got off on a flower-filled boat. Green got down on one knee and asked Renee to marry him. Their friends and family were there to watch the special moment. After, they had a party with pictures of the pair with their kids.
They were meant to get married on June 28, 2020, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, they had to move the date.
Renee wrote a happy Instagram post on the day they were supposed to get married. “6.28.20….Today’s Date Will Always Be Special To Me️,” she said. “Here we are in the midst of so much going on in the world and I know things are exactly how they should be for ME.”
Renee later talked about the delay with Vogue. “I just knew that all would fall into place the way it should,” she said. “If there’s such a thing as spontaneously planning, that’s how the planning process went! … There were times when I really thought, “This year would be great for our wedding.”
In 2020, she had her first child with Green.
Late that year, Renee showed off her beautiful engagement ring on Instagram with the caption “Farewell Summer…So They Say” and the phrase “#HotFianceSummer.”
Renee talked about the sudden proposal in an interview with Vogue in August 2022. “Our engagement was the most over-the-top, sweetest thing that someone has ever done to express their love for me,” she stated.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she and Green put off their wedding.
Even though Green and Renee’s wedding was pushed back, their family was still growing! She had her first child with Green, a girl named Cash, in December 2020. Renee has a daughter named Olive Jay, and Green is the dad of Draymond “D.J.” Green Jr., who they both have with ex-dates.
Green wrote on Instagram that Cash had been born. “Why did you rewrite the book on how to be pregnant?” He wrote, “You the !” “The cherry on top was that I didn’t have to take any medicine for 27 hours!” Mama Goat B! Then our sweet bundle of joy came! SCG! Many thanks! Many thanks! Many thanks! I will always love you!”
In August 2022, she married Green.
Renee and Green got married in a small wedding in San Diego on August 14, 2022, after being engaged for three and a half years. The party at the Fairmont Grand Del Mar had a black-and-white theme.
The groom, Green, wore a green tuxedo from Rich Fresh, and the bride, Renee, wore a handmade Ines Di Santo ball gown. “I never imagined wearing a ball gown for my ceremony, but when I put on the sample, I looked at my mother-in-law, and I knew immediately that it was the gown for me,” she told the newspaper. “We both were teary-eyed.”
The kids of the couple wore clothes that matched to the event. “They were the only ones wearing green because that was the color of the day!” Hazel said about Green and D.J.’s tuxes that matched. “Olive and baby Cash wore Monnalisa of Italy, and their dresses were altered to have the exact custom lace from my ceremony gown sewn onto their dresses by our tailor Erik Gavrilov.”
The wedding celebrations went on until 4 a.m., with shows by artists like Roddy Ricch and DaBaby and a Puff & Parlay pot bar that fed the guests fast food.
“Everything happened so fast!” Vogue heard from Hazel. “Everyone kept telling me it would be over quickly, and boy, were they right! It was like a tornado of dreams, laughing, and dancing all the time.
She’s happy for Green’s job.
Renee often posts pictures of her and Green’s kids cheering for him at NBA games. “We Love Being Your Favorite Team!,” she wrote under a picture of herself, Olive, Cash, D.J., and Green celebrating on the court in February 2022.
She will also fight for her family and husband. There were NSFW words used by Boston Celtics fans during a game in June 2022 that were directed at Green. Renee called them out on Instagram.
Her Instagram Story made fun of both Celtics fans and the NBA. It said, “Tough loss tonight, but in NO WAY, shape or form should fans be allowed to chant obscenities at players.” She also said that the NBA could have done more to police the “code of conduct” rules since their young children were there.
Green later talked about what happened on an episode of The Draymond Green Show, his show.
He said, “I know Hazel is very upset because our kids were at the game and heard that.” He went on to say that he saw it as a chance to teach his young son a lesson.
“I’m raising a man so I don’t make much of him hearing or seeing that,” he said. “We left with a smile on our faces and our heads held high… It makes me happy that he saw that because we’ll be able to talk about it for the rest of his life. You’ll be fine.
Even though Green may be one of the best at what he does, Renee did tell him in July 2022 that he should cut down on the technical fouls.
On the red carpet of the 2022 ESPY Awards, Renee made fun of Green’s many fouls by telling PEOPLE that they were “money down the drain.”
When she talked about the fines that come with each foul, she said, “That’s the wedding budget right there.” “If anyone wants to know where’s the wedding budget, it’s right there in text.”