Erick Green
Green in 2013
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| No. 1 – Olympiacos Piraeus | |
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| Position | Point guard / Shooting guard |
| League |
Greek Basket League EuroLeague |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
May 9, 1991 Inglewood, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Listed weight | 185 lb (84 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | |
| College | Virginia Tech (2009–2013) |
| NBA draft | 2013 / Round: 2 / Pick: 46th overall |
| Selected by the Utah Jazz | |
| Playing career | 2013–present |
| Career history | |
| 2013–2014 | Montepaschi Siena |
| 2014–2015 | Denver Nuggets |
| 2015 | →Fort Wayne Mad Ants |
| 2015–2016 | Reno Bighorns |
| 2016 | Utah Jazz |
| 2016–present | Olympiacos |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Erick O'Brien Green (born May 9, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for Olympiacos Piraeus of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague. He finished the 2012–13 NCAA Division I season as the top scorer in the nation at 25.0 points per game while scoring a total of 801 points. Green was selected by the Utah Jazz with the 46th overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft, but was later traded to the Denver Nuggets.
Green was born in Inglewood, California but grew up in Winchester, Virginia. He spent the first three years of his prep career at his hometown's Millbrook High School, before transferring for his senior year to Fairfax's Paul VI Catholic High School. Between the two schools, Green earned four varsity letters. In his lone year at Paul VI, he led the Panthers to a state championship (coincidentally, Green had led Millbrook to a state championship the previous season) and was named the 2009 Division I Independent League Player of the Year. After Paul VI's championship he was named an EA Sports All-American.The Washington Post also selected him to their All-Metro Team, the Associated Press picked him as their Virginia Group AA Player of the Year, and Green was named the district and region player of the year.
Green struggled his freshman season in 2009–10 and averaged just 2.6 points per game and shot 29.3% from the field. His lack of production, he later admitted, "turned [him] into a gym rat" and motivated him to work harder than everyone else to improve his game. Each progressive season he increased his scoring, rebounding and assist averages. By his senior season in 2012–13, and while leading NCAA Division I in scoring for most of the year, the media was discussing Green as a dark horse candidate for Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year. Despite his production, the Hokies finished the year with a 13–19 overall record, including a 4–14 conference record where they finished in last place. On March 12, 2013, Green was named the ACC Player of the Year by the ACC's media selectors (Miami's Shane Larkin was the coaches' pick). He joined Maryland's Len Bias (1985–86) as the only two players of the year who competed for teams with losing ACC records.
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