Danny Green on Lakers: 'If we had stayed together we for sure would have won one more championship'

Danny Green: I think if we stayed together I think we for sure would have won one more championship. People say it's very hard to go back to back but I think we had a really good group and we would have got one more.

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Danny Green: I put some years in man, I was trying to get a couple more. Q. Do you ever think that you could have had the chance to transition into a star… Danny Green: I wouldn't say a star but I could have been a super role player. I could have been a watered-down version of Klay Thompson. Klay is very good at what he does. It's not easy just being that guy, being in that role. -via YouTube / October 25, 2024

Gregg Popovich views Danny Green as the poster boy for the Spurs' pounding the rock ethos. Green announced his retirement from the NBA last week after 15 seasons, including an eight-year run with the Spurs highlighted by helping the team win a championship in 2014. He also won titles with Toronto in 2019 and the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. "He worked for it," Popovich said Saturday of Green, 37. -via San Antonio Express-News / October 13, 2024

A second-round pick by Cleveland in 2009, Green was waived twice in his first two years in the league before finding a home with the Spurs as a 3-point sharpshooter and rugged defender. "He failed a couple of times here and elsewhere, and he just stuck with it and showed persistence, kind of like the saying we have in the locker room," Popovich said. "On that 101st blow, it happened for him and he had a great career from then on. A special guy." -via San Antonio Express-News / October 13, 2024

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