Gerald Green announced his retirement today and will subsequently join the Rockets' coaching staff as a player development coach. As a Houston native, Green loves the Rockets very much, has sacrificed his own interests to join the Rockets many times, was laid off by the team many times without regrets, when the team has needs, he still comes back to help the team with a sincere heart, his love for his hometown team has touched many fans, he is also known as the "Son of Hugh", and now he joins the coaching staff of the hometown team, which is also a gratifying thing.
Green is 2 meters 03 tall, weighs only 91 kilograms, is a very thin forward swing man, can play a small forward, can also serve as a shooting guard, due to the weight of the weight, his lack of confrontation on the defensive end, coupled with his bounce too good, he is easy to be deceived by the opponent's fake action, often lose fouls, fortunately he has a good shooting ability, can provide fire outside the three-point line.
In the 2005 draft, he became the first-round pick with top bounce and excellent shooting ability, was selected by the Celtics with the 18th pick in the first round, he played for the Celtics, Timberwolves, Lone Rangers, Nets, Pacers, Suns, Heat, and then returned to the Celtics for a year, then played for the Rockets for 3 years, was traded to the Nuggets, but was cut shortly, did not play for the Nuggets in a game, and then signed an unsecured contract with the Rockets. He was cut again more than 10 days later, and a few months after becoming a free agent, he announced his retirement from the NBA.
From the start of the NBA in 2005-2006 to the 2019-2020 season without the ball, Green played a total of 13 seasons in the NBA (with a period of time in between in the CBA and Europa League), played a total of 658 games, started 118 games, averaged 19.8 minutes per game, contributed 9.7 points, 2.5 rebounds, 0.9 assists, 0.5 steals and 0.3 blocks per game, shooting 41.7% from the field and 36.1% from three-point range.
Although he is well known by fans for his wonderful dunks and love for the Rockets, he is only a small person in the NBA, most of the time as a substitute player, in fact, only a few players can become stars, role players like Green are the norm for NBA players, so how much can such a small person who has played in the NBA for 15 seasons make?
In his rookie season, he averaged 5.2 points and 1.3 rebounds per game, earning $1.25 million a year; the second was Aji, who averaged 10.4 points and 2.6 rebounds per game, with an annual salary of $350,000; and in the third season, he averaged 5.1 points and 2.1 rebounds per game, with an annual salary of $1.44 million. Due to his poor performance in his third season, his team did not execute the team option for his fourth year of rookie contract, and he became a free agent.
In the fourth season, he signed with the Lone Ranger, with an annual salary of $850,000, he averaged 5.2 points and 1.4 rebounds per game, after this contract, no NBA team was willing to sign him, he went to the NBA for two years, and then came to the CBA, because he could not bring qualitative changes to the team was cut, in 2011 he was signed by the Lakers, but played a few preseason games before being sent to the development league, this season he received $70,000 salary from the Lakers.
It wasn't until 2012 that he signed a 10-day contract with the Nets before he officially returned to the NBA. In the 2011-2012 season, he signed several short contracts with the Nets, earned $440,000 in salary, averaged 12.9 points and 3.5 rebounds per game, played for the Nets, and was later signed by the Pacers on a three-year, $10 million contract.
Over the next three seasons, he averaged 7 points, 2.4 rebounds, 15.8 points, 3.4 rebounds, 11.9 points and 2.5 rebounds, and he earned $3.5 million in salary for three consecutive years. After the contract ended, he signed a base salary contract with the Heat and the Celtics, with an annual salary of $1.36 million and $1.41 million, respectively.
By 2017, he signed a training camp contract with the Bucks, but it didn't take long to be cut and didn't get a penny, and in December of the same year, he signed an insecure contract with the Rockets, his three-point ability was very suitable for the Rockets' system, and the contract was eventually regularized, and he received $870,000 this season.
The following season, Green signed a base salary contract with the Rockets for $2.39 million a year. On December 1, 2020, he signed an insecure base salary contract with the Rockets, his 13th season in the NBA, but he was cut without playing a single game and did not get a penny.
13 years of NBA career, Green earned a total of $21.87 million, his entire NBA career earned less than a year's salary of stars, but as a person with a broken right ring finger, it is already a success to enter the NBA, not to mention that he also has a lot of highlight moments in the NBA, and has also won the dunk contest championship, and the money earned is far higher than that of ordinary people, and he is also a very successful person.