Jalen Green used the canvas provided by The Players’ Tribune to paint a picture of the good times he had in the city of Houston and to credit all of his Rockets teammates who helped him grow from teenager to father at his first NBA stop.
Green also used the opportunity to look forward to Phoenix, where he and star Devin Booker will be tasked with rebuilding a winning culture from the ground up.
“Listen, nobody likes to get traded,” Green wrote. “But I can honestly say that I get it, bro. This is a business, and if I was up there in the executive chair, I probably would’ve made the deal, too. I think it’s a better situation for both sides, and I’m just excited to get it popping with Book, and to create that winning culture that we figured out down here in Houston.”
The Suns, of course, traded Kevin Durant to the Rockets for Green, Dillon Brooks and the No. 10 pick used on Duke center Khaman Maluach.
Green is the centerpiece of the deal headed to Phoenix.
The 2021 second overall pick is still just 23 years old and has stagnated to some degree in the past few years.
Last season, he averaged 21.0 points and 3.4 assists per game for the second-best team in the Western Conference, numbers that are not personal bests (his sophomore season in 2022-23 was a few ticks better).
Green then struggled in his first postseason, a seven-game series where he averaged 13.3 points on 37.2% shooting. He will be faced with shedding the narratives that he’s topped out as a scorer.
“I got a team out in Phoenix who wants me to be me,” he wrote. “I get to play alongside one of the best in the game in Book. It’s another opportunity to build a winning culture. Another opportunity to show people how deep my love for this game really is. And another opportunity to shut up y’all petty-ass haters, too. (I see everything, and I thank you for it.)”
Green also wrote that there might be a little extra juice to Brooks’ game this season.
The 29-year-old who’s earned the reputation as one of the NBA’s biggest instigators averaged 14.0 points and 3.7 rebounds last year, shooting a career-high 39.7% from 3.
“Thank God at least DB is coming out to Phoenix with me,” Green wrote. “I can’t wait to see a traded DB. He’s gonna be out there creating chaos, bro.”
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