The NBA regular season is in full swing, and players who have rested all summer are beginning to show their style on the court, but some players choose to leave the court.
Earlier today, the Rockets officially announced that the team's veteran Gerald Green announced his retirement from the NBA, officially ending his 12-year playing career.
At the same time, the Rockets also officially announced that after retiring, Green will join the Rockets again and enter the coaching staff of The Offcrow City as a player development coach.
A Houston native, Green, born in 1986, entered the draft in 2005 and was selected by the Green Army with the 18th pick in the first round.
In his 12-year career, Green has worked with the Celtics, Timberwolves, Rockets, Lone Rangers, Nets, 76ers and Heat, and has been a typical tramp player for most of the time.
But he can still average 9.7 points, 2.5 rebounds, 0.9 assists and 0.5 steals per game, and is a very good bench bandit with excellent dunk and shooting ability.
The highlight of his career came in the 2007 dunk contest, facing opponent "Little Potato" Nate Robinson, Green successfully won the dunk king with the last imaginative dunk and showed top talent.
This gave Green the reputation of the "King of Nine-FingerEd Dunks", and the reason why he was called the "King of Nine-Fingered Dunks" was because when he was young, like all children, he was willing to play a game of touching heights.
As a result, in the process of touching the height, he took the ring finger of his right hand with his mother's ring, unfortunately hung on the nail on the door panel, and then had to choose to cut off this finger.
Due to injuries and playing style, Gerald Green has been adrift in the early stages of his career, and has been to a number of teams, but has not been able to find a clear position.
It was not until he joined his hometown team rocket in the later period that Green gradually found a "feeling of home", and he also became the most important force on the bench in the rocket's impact on the championship in those years.
During this period, In order to facilitate the team's reinforcements, Green entered and exited the team many times, which made him gain the reputation of "son of Hugh City" and paved the way for Green to return to Hugh City after retiring.
Therefore, in the interview after announcing his retirement, the theme of his conversation was not separated from the Rockets, the team he loved deeply.
Green first said he was excited to join the Rockets coaching staff after retiring, but until then, he might have some tearful nights.
Green then expressed his deep love for the Rockets and Houston again, saying that when everything was settled, he might go to the bathroom and cry.
Green admits that he grew up in Houston, eating, sleeping, playing ball, and breathing the city's breath.
He already belongs to the city completely, and he is also the only coach in the NBA who has a tattoo of the word Houston.
The Rockets are also looking forward to Green's joining, and admit that the team has been preparing for this moment for a long time.
Rockets general manager Stone said in an interview that in order to recruit Gerrard to work on the team, he will maintain a conversation with him 2-3 times a year, and the two sides have talked about a lot of things in the past few days, some happy and some unhappy.
But like he and Green said, he retired at the age of 22, and Green was already much better than himself.
At the end of the interview, Stone praised Gerald Green again, bluntly saying that he was the kind of person who could give you a smile.
There's no team in the world that doesn't need such a person, his joining will make the team better and the team is really very happy that he is willing to be with us.
Finally, once again, bless Gerald Green, a passionate bench gangster, for embarking on another legendary journey on the Rockets' coaching staff.