Jeff Green (basketball)

Jeffrey Lynn Green (born August 28, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Green attended Georgetown University until his junior year, when he entered the 2007 NBA draft. He was selected fifth overall by the Boston Celtics, and was subsequently traded to the Seattle SuperSonics (now known as the Oklahoma City Thunder) in a trade for Ray Allen and Glen Davis. Green would be traded back to the Celtics during the 2010–11 NBA season, where he played until 2015 before being traded to Memphis. He plays the forward position.

College career

Green was born in Cheverly, Maryland, to Jeffrey Green Sr. and Felicia Akingube. He attended Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, where he led the NHS Wildcats to the state basketball championship in 2004.

Green was recruited to Georgetown University by coach Craig Esherick in 2003. However, Esherick was fired before Green arrived on campus and John Thompson III was hired as the new coach. The two top recruits of Esherick's tenure, Green and center Roy Hibbert, would be the key components of Thompson's future success.