The Houston Rockets signed free agent forward Jeff Green.
Green (6-8, 235) recently finished his 15th NBA season averaging 17.2 minutes during the Denver Championship playoff run. In 1,107 games with 650 starts, he averaged 12.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 28.5 minutes per game.
Over the past three seasons, Green has averaged 9.8 ppg, 3.2 rpg and 1.4 apg in 24.0 mpg while shooting 50.3% from the ground. In 68 games with Brooklyn in 2020-21, he averaged 1.5 three-pointers for a career-best 41.2%. Rockets head coach Im Udoka was an assistant coach with the Nets that season.
This will mark Green’s second mission as a rocket. He joined the team during the 2019-20 season and helped Houston advance to the Conference Semifinals as part of Orlando’s “bubble” experience.
Green made his NBA debut as a 21-year-old with the Seattle SuperSonics in 2007 and has teamed with eight players who have won MVP awards at some point during their careers: Kevin Durant, Kevin Garnett, James Harden, LeBron James, Nikola Jokic and Shaquille O’Neal, Derrick Rose, and Russell Westbrook.