By Lee Dresie | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2024-10-15 01:08:16
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丹尼·格林是马刺球迷的最爱，他也是身披银黑战袍的最友善的球员之一。
除了大家最爱的“我的哥们”马努·吉诺比利，丹尼·格林一直是我最喜欢的马刺球员，也许是因为他引人入胜的篮球经历。他差一点就进不了NBA。他在北卡罗来纳大学打了四年球，勉强被选中，然后被裁掉了好几次，包括被马刺裁掉。但他坚持了下来，成为了NBA历史上仅有的四名随三支不同球队赢得三次NBA总冠军的球员之一。而且这三个总冠军都不是他在板凳席末端混来的：格林是这三支NBA冠军球队的首发球员。你可能听说过另一个做到这一点的球员。他的名字叫勒布朗。
我为Pounding the Rock网站撰写的关于丹尼·格林的文章可能比其他任何马刺球员都多。我在下面列出了一些精彩片段。但在我们开始之前，我想谈谈格林是多么伟大的人。
当他还在湖人队的时候，他曾在曼哈顿海滩一家餐厅的早餐吧台边上随便找了个座位坐下，旁边是我的儿子巴勃罗和巴勃罗的超级女儿肯尼迪。那天是肯尼迪的生日，巴勃罗和丹尼聊了起来，当他离开的时候，丹尼祝肯尼迪生日快乐。两周后，丹尼偶遇巴勃罗，问他肯尼迪怎么样了。有多少NBA球员会记得见过巴勃罗，更不用说记得肯尼迪的名字了？这个问题的答案不超过两个。(帕蒂·米尔斯是另一个。)
格林在湖人队的时候，我和他有过类似的经历。我在2020年3月5日的一篇文章中描述了那次见面，就在世界因疫情封锁之前。
这两点在我最近一次访问斯台普斯中心参加球迷见面会时得到了印证。这次球迷见面会的部分赞助商是我的律师事务所。在球迷见面会上，你可以到球场上投篮，参观湖人队的更衣室，与前湖人队球员聊天并合影，偶尔，现役球员也会露面。
丹尼·格林并没有出现在今年球迷见面会的名单上。我对此一点也不感到惊讶——这次活动是在上周一，就在湖人队结束周六/周日在孟菲斯和新奥尔良的背靠背客场之旅之后，紧接着是周二在主场迎战76人队。即使没有客场之旅，前一天晚上还要长途飞行，老将们一般也不会被要求参加这些活动，只有新秀和资历较浅的球员才会参加。最后，正如我之前报道的那样，《洛杉矶时报》报道说，两周前湖人队曾提出用格林交换尼克斯队的马库斯·莫里斯。
后来，我和詹姆斯·沃西合影留念。当我站在他旁边准备拍照时，他对我说：“你是马刺队的球迷，嗯？”我很惊讶他还记得我们去年在球迷见面会上的相遇，当时我和他谈起马刺队，他评论说格雷格·波波维奇是个“正直的人”。事实证明，他根本不记得那次相遇了；他是在拍照的时候看到了我手机壳上的马刺队标志。真是个有趣的时刻。
但随后，我在活动现场的一位朋友给我发短信说：“丹尼·格林的照片。”事实证明，尽管格林有各种理由不参加，但他还是自愿在他唯一的一个休息日里和一群想和他合影的球迷们坐在一起。老将，刚来球队不久，差点被交易，旅途劳顿。所有这些可能的借口都没有阻止他自愿贡献自己的时间，而没有人会期望他这样做。像我这样的球迷就得到了与我最喜欢的“前马刺球员”丹尼·格林的合影。
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还有一件事。第二天晚上，我去看了湖人队对阵76人队的比赛。就在比赛开始前，格林冲到76人队的板凳席，给了主教练、前马刺队助理教练布雷特·布朗一个大大的拥抱。尽管他已经离开了，但丹尼·格林仍然是马刺“好人文化”的化身。
以下是我为我的偶像丹尼·格林写的另外两篇文章的节选。第一篇的标题很不错，“是时候记住丹尼·格林有多棒了” ，我写于2017年。
他被裁掉过好几次，包括被当时还不太强的骑士队裁掉，以及被慧眼识珠的马刺队裁掉。他不会运球，没有绝招，无法一对一单打，传球技术也很一般。尽管如此，一位比我聪明得多的教练认为，丹尼·格林应该在这支世界上最棒的篮球队中担任首发。格林确实是布鲁斯·鲍文那句话的缩影：马刺队不关注球员不能做什么，而是关注球员能做什么。
今年，他高达79%的出手来自三分线外。(想想看，这很像我的比赛风格。)因为他的三分命中率高达44%，而且五次出手中有四次来自三分线外，所以他的真实命中率是62%。与其他马刺球员相比，他的真实命中率如何？*他是全队最高的 *。这就是为什么他一直是马刺队的首发得分后卫，而我每次看到他起身投篮时都会大喊“加油，丹尼格林”。
我还将借用我在2020年底格林随湖人队获得第三个总冠军后写的一篇文章中的一段话。这篇文章的标题是“丹尼·格林一直在前进，也一直在赢球”。
多年来，我为Pounding the Rock网站写了很多关于丹尼·格林的文章。有一次，我写了一篇文章， 将他与臭名昭著的非射手 托尼·艾伦相提并论，后者效力于 灰熊队 。在那篇文章发表后，丹尼在 2016年的一篇文章 中在愚人节当天给我打了一个深夜电话，当然，这是我虚构的。在那通电话中，格林指出，他的胜率是有史以来最高的。我刚刚查了一下最新的数据：格林的胜率仍然是NBA历史上第六高的，为72.7%。这意味着他每个赛季能赢59场球。这些数字令人惊叹。(如果你好奇的话，NBA历史上的胜率之王是科怀·莱昂纳德。)丹尼也是2010-2019这十年间赢球场次第六多的球员。
2018年的一篇文章中包含了一项针对Pounding the Rock网站读者的调查，要求他们选出自己最喜欢的现役前马刺球员。结果毫无悬念，丹尼·格林高居榜首。
在我结束之前，还有一件事。对于那些仍在打篮球的人，我给你们一些建议。在你的下一场比赛之前，在谷歌上搜索“丹尼·格林在2013年NBA总决赛上的27记三分球”，并在上场前观看。享受迈克·布林在每一个三分球后高呼“丹尼格林！！”，就好像“丹尼格林”是一个词一样。(它就是一个词。)当你观看了这段视频之后再去比赛，你一定会充满激情地在场上奔跑，而不会只顾着自己持球进攻。当你拿到球的时候，就把它投出去，并在每次球空心入网的时候高喊“丹尼格林！”昨天我在周日早上的比赛中就这么做了，每次我投进三分球的时候，感觉都非常好。
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An ode to Danny Green, an all-time favorite Spur
Danny Green is fan favorite Spur, but he’s also one of the nicest players to ever wear Silver and Black.
Other than everyone’s favorite My Man Manu Ginobili, Danny Green has always been my favorite Spur, perhaps because his back story is so compelling. He barely even made the NBA. He played four years at North Carolina, barely got drafted, and was cut several times, including by the Spurs. But he persevered and became one of the four players in the entire NBA history to win three NBA crowns with three different teams. And none of those titles were ring chasers where he was at the end of the bench: DG started for each of those three NBA champions. You may have heard of the only other player to do that. His first name is LeBron.
I have probably written more Pounding the Rock articles about Danny Green than I have about any other Spurs player. I have pulled out some highlights below. But before we get there, I want to talk about what a great person DG is.
When he was with the Lakers, he randomly sat next to my son Pablo and Pablo’s super daughter Kennedy at a breakfast bar at a diner in Manhattan Beach. It was Kennedy’s birthday, Pablo and Danny got to talking, and when he left, Danny wished Kennedy a big happy birthday. Two weeks later, Danny ran into Pablo and asked him how Kennedy was doing. How many NBA players would even remember meeting Pablo, let alone remember Kennedy’s name? Over-under on that question is two. (Patty Mills is the other.)
I had a similar experience with DG when he played with the Lakers. I described that meeting in a post from March 5, 2020, just before the world shut down.
Those two points coalesced in my recent visit to Staples Center for a Fan All-Access event partially sponsored by my law firm. At these Fan All-Access events, you can go on the court to shoot baskets, visit the Lakers locker room, hobnob and get pictures taken with former Lakers players and, occasionally, an active player will also show up.
Danny Green was not on the program as an attendee for this year’s Fan All-Access event. I did not find this at all surprising — the event was this past Monday, immediately after the Lakers finished a back-to-back Saturday/Sunday road trip to Memphis and New Orleans, with a Tuesday home game against the 76ers to follow. Even without the road trip, with a long post-game flight the night before, veterans generally are not asked to appear at these events, only rookies and much more junior guys are. Finally, as I reported earlier, the LA Times reported that the Lakers had offered up DG in a trade to the Knicks for Marquis Morris two weeks earlier.
Later, I had my picture taken with James Worthy. As I stood next to him for the picture, he said to me, “Spurs guy, huh?” I was amazed that he remembered our encounter from last year’s All-Access event when I had talked to him about the Spurs, and he had commented that Gregg Popovich was a “righteous dude.” It turns out that he did not remember the encounter at all; he saw the Spurs logo on my cell phone cover while our picture was being taken. Funny moment.
But then a friend at the event texted me: “Danny Green photo.” It turns out that DG, despite all the reasons for him to not attend, had volunteered to sit around on his one night off with a bunch of fans who wanted to have their picture taken with Lakers players. Veteran guy, new to the organization, almost just traded, tired from the road trip. None of those possible excuses prevented him from volunteering his time when no one would expect him to do so. And fans like me got their picture taken with my favorite ex-Spur Danny Green.
One more thing. I went to the Lakers game against the 76ers the next night. Just before the tip-off, DG sprinted over to the 76ers bench to give head coach and former Spurs assistant Brett Brown a big hug. Even though he has moved on, Danny Green still personifies the Spurs’ culture of “good people.”
Here are excerpts from two of my other posts that honor my guy Danny Green. The first has the great title “Its Time to Remember How Awesome Danny Green is”, which I wrote in 2017.
He has been cut several times, including by Cleveland when the Cavs were not very good, and the Spurs when they were good and recognized talent when they saw it. He can’t really dribble, has no go-to moves, can’t take his man one on one, and his passing skills are pedestrian. Nonetheless, a coach much smarter than I am has decided that Danny Green deserves to start on one of the best basketball teams on the planet. DG is truly the epitome of Bruce Bowen’s comment that the Spurs don’t focus on what a player cannot do, but instead they focus on what a player can do.
This year, an incredible 79% of his shots come from three. (Come to think of it, that’s a lot like my game.) Because he shoots 44% from three, and four out of five shots are from beyond the arc, his true shooting percentage is 62%. How does that compare to the rest of the Spurs? He leads the team**.** Which is why he continues to be the Spurs’ starting shooting guard, and I continue to shout “C’mon Dannygreen” whenever he rises up to shoot.
I will also steal from something I wrote in late 2020, after DG won his third crown, with the Lakers. This one was titled “Danny Green Keeps Moving But He Also Keeps Winning”.
I have written a great deal about Danny Green for Pounding the Rock over the years. At one point I wrote a piece which compared him to notorious non-shooter Tony Allen of the Grizzlies. That piece led directly to a faux late night call from Danny to me in my annual April Fool’s Day post in a 2016 piece. In that phone call, DG pointed out that his winning percentage was the highest ever. I just checked for an update: DG still has the sixth highest winning percentage in the history of the NBA at 72.7%. That translates to 59 wins per season. Those are amazing numbers. (If you are curious, the all-time NBA leader in winning percentage is Kawhi Leonard.) Danny also had the sixth most wins in the 2010-2019 decade.
An article from 2018 included a poll of Pounding the Rock readers asking them to identify their favorite active ex-Spur. The winner, handily, was Danny Green.
One more thing before I sign off. For those of you who are still hooping, let me give you some advice. Before your next game, Google “Danny Green’s 27 threes in the 2013 NBA Finals” — and watch it before you go play. Enjoy Mike Breen shouting “DannyGreen!!” after each three-pointer, as if DannyGreen was one word. (It is.) When you play after watching that, you will definitely be pumped up to move without the ball hunting three-pointers. And when you get the ball, let if fly, and shout “DannyGreen!” each time the ball splashes through. I did that in my Sunday morning game yesterday, and it felt very good each time I drilled another three.
By Lee Dresie, via Pounding The Rock