- Draymond Green, a basketball player, and his wife, Hazel Renee, are expecting their second child.
- They got married in August 2022 and have a daughter named Cash, born in 2020.
- Draymond frequently shows his love for his wife on Instagram.
Basketball player Draymond Green and his wife, Hazel Renee, are going to have another baby. They got married in August 2022 and are expecting their second child. They already have a daughter named Cash, born in 2020. Hazel has another daughter named Olive Jay, and Draymond has a son, Draymond “D.J.” Green Jr., from their previous relationships. Draymond often shows his love for his wife on Instagram.
“Somehow, you manage to balance staying fly, A million auditions, Staying in shape, My supportive Lady, My Patna in crime,” he wrote on Mother’s Day in 2022. “And you make it look easy. The many hats you wear. Happy Mothers Day SuperWoman! We Love and Appreciate you!!”
Alright, who is Draymond Green’s partner? They met in acting class, and now let’s dive into everything you need to know about Draymond Green’s wife, Hazel Renee, from their acting class meeting to traveling the world with her family.
Before becoming an actress, Renee tried out modeling and music. When she was a teenager, she became the National American Miss Teen Michigan and later modeled for Smooth Girl and Smooth Magazine’s top 100 issue, as mentioned in her YouTube bio. Additionally, she has been in commercials and TV episodes.
Renee is not just an actress; she’s also a singer with an R&B and soul album called LOVE TRIANGLE on SoundCloud. She was part of MTV’s Making the Band 3 and worked in Kandi Burruss’ girl group, Glamour. Later, Burruss brought her on as a friend on The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
She also joined VH1’s Basketball Wives, and during that time, she was connected with NBA player John Wall. She appeared in the 2023 movie Fear, sharing pictures from the premiere on Instagram on January 27, 2023, including snaps from the red carpet and inside the theater.
“Attended the FEAR premiere with my beautiful Wife @lovehazelrenee last week,” he wrote in the caption. “Such an incredible moment. I’ve watched the countless hours you’ve put into your craft. It’s a thankless job. You are told no 99% of the time. Only chasing that 1%. You never stop. I admire the grind!”
Renee is not just a model and musician; she’s also an actress featured in shows like Empire, The Chi, and The Spook Who Sat by the Door, as mentioned on her website. Interestingly, she first crossed paths with Green in a theater class back when they were both students at Michigan State University, before he became a pro basketball player. This info comes from an interview with Essence in August 2022.
“We were in the same theater class and both athletes,” she said. Renee was on the track and field team and Green played basketball for the Spartans, where he led them to two Final Four appearances and a Big Ten tournament championship. “Naturally we gravitated towards one another for group projects because we were already familiar with each other.”
They didn’t become a couple immediately because Green began playing in the NBA in 2012, and during that time, Renee was concentrating on her acting career.
In 2017, Green denied rumors about being in a relationship with Renee. However, in May 2018, he appeared to confirm their romance with an Instagram video. The video showed Renee holding Green’s one-year-old baby at a basketball game, and after the Warriors won, he kissed her on the sidelines.
According to Renee, they reconnected a few years after their first meeting and went on a “casual” date.
“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 explained. “We hadn’t seen each other in a very long time so we hung out all day, talked and caught up. It was really casual but also reflective of our relationship. We really are best friends.”
One year after letting everyone know they were a couple, Green asked Renee to marry him. Renee shared the engagement news on Valentine’s Day 2019 in a video on Instagram, showing Green getting ready for the proposal a month earlier.
“Almost a month ago someone (ahem) really outdid themselves (per norm) and made me feel like the Luckiest Girl In The World!” she wrote. “You really went Big Big😬 I Love You Always…FOREVER!”
In the video, Green and Renee took a helicopter ride over the ocean and landed on a boat full of flowers. Friends and family were there to see the special moment when Green knelt down and asked Renee to marry him. Afterward, they all celebrated and took pictures of the couple with their kids.
Later in that same year, Renee shared a photo on Instagram proudly displaying her shiny engagement ring, along with a caption, “Farewell Summer…So They Say😏” with the hashtag “#HotFianceSummer.”
In an interview with Vogue in August 2022, Renee explained the unexpected engagement, “Our engagement was the most over-the-top, sweetest thing that someone has ever done to express their love for me.”
The couple planned to get married on June 28, 2020, but they had to delay it because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Renee shared a positive message on Instagram on the day they were initially supposed to get married.
“6.28.20….Today’s Date Will Always Be Special To Me❤️,” she wrote. “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 reflected on the postponement. “I just knew that all would fall into place the way it should,” she explained. “The planning process was actually very chilled — impulsively planned, if that’s a thing! … I honestly felt like we woke up one day and said, ‘This year would be great for our wedding.’ ”
Green and Renee are getting ready to welcome another baby into their family! They shared on Instagram in October 2023 that they are expecting a second child, and it’s going to be another girl. In 2020, they had their first child, a daughter named Cash.
“Haze you re-wrote the guide on how pregnancies should be. You the 🐐!” the NBA player wrote on Instagram. “The cherry on top was 27 hours, No Meds! Goat Mama B! Then came our sweet bundle of Joy! SCG! Thank you! Thank You! Thank you! I love you for life!”
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Renee and Green tied the knot on August 14, 2022, in a small San Diego ceremony after being engaged for three and a half years. The wedding had a black-and-white theme and took place at the Fairmont Grand Del Mar.
Green dressed in a green tuxedo made by Rich Fresh, while Renee wore a special ball gown from Ines Di Santo for the ceremony.
“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 outlet. “We both were teary-eyed.”
The children of the pair wore the same outfits to the event. “They were the only two wearing green as they owned that color for the day!” said Hazel of Green and D.J.’s matching tuxes. “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 party went on until 4 in the morning. They had a special cannabis bar and a truck serving In-N-Out Burgers to keep everyone fed. Artists like Roddy Ricch and DaBaby also performed during the celebration.
“Everything happened so fast!” Hazel. “When people kept telling me it would be over quick, boy, were they right! It was like a whirlwind of dreams, laughter and nonstop dancing.”
Renee often posts pictures of her and Green’s kids cheering for him at his basketball games. She captioned a photo of her, Olive, Cash, and D.J. celebrating with Green on the court in February 2022 with the words, “We Love Being Your Favorite Team!”
She also defends her husband and family when needed. When Boston Celtics fans used inappropriate language during a game in June 2022, Renee spoke out against them on Instagram.
“Tough loss tonight but in NO WAY, shape or form should fans be allowed to chant obscenities at players,” she wrote in an Instagram Story, which took aim at both Celtics fans and the NBA. Renee added that their pair’s young children were in attendance and that the NBA could have done more to enforce the “code of conduct” rules.
Green later addressed the incident on an episode of his podcast, The Draymond Green Show.
“I know Hazel is very upset just because our kids were at the game and were listening to that,” he said, explaining that he viewed it as a teachable moment for his young son.
“I’m raising a man so I don’t make much of him hearing or seeing that,” he continued. “We walked out of there smiling with our heads held high … I’m actually happy that he saw that because, for the rest of his life, we’ll have the opportunity to talk about [it]. You can get through it.”
Even though Green is really good at his job, in July 2022, Renee gave him some career advice – he should try to reduce the number of technical fouls he gets.
While walking the red carpet of the 2022 ESPY Awards, Renee joked about Green and his many fouls, calling them “money down the drain.”
“There’s the wedding budget right there,” she said, referring to the several thousand dollar fines that come with each foul. “If anyone wants to know where’s the wedding budget, it’s right there in text.”
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