Top Five Things You Did Not Know About NBA Superstar Draymond Green

Draymond Green is a four-time NBA champion, four-time NBA All-Star, two-time All-NBA Team member, seven-time All-Defensive Team member, and two-time Olympic gold medalist who predominantly plays at the power forward position. Green, who was born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan, played basketball in college for Michigan State, where he helped the Spartans reach two Final Fours and win the Big Ten tournament that year.

The Golden State Warriors selected Draymond Green as the 35th overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, and he went on to play a significant part in the Warriors’ championship teams in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2022.

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Few facts about Draymond Green:

College nickname: “The Dancing Bear”

Green’s spectacular transition and charge down the floor earned him the nickname “The Dancing Bear” in college. He can display his strength and barrel to the hoop while lofting flawless alley-oop passes to his teammates with this sheer force. Draymond Green is like a bear in the wild because of his skill as a power forward and point guard.

Parents forced him to play defense

Being able to play big on defense and point guard on offense is one of Green’s best assets for any NBA club. Draymond Green informed the reporters that his father and uncle had him play point guard on offense and always play defense against the largest kids.

Remember names of all 34 players drafted ahead of him

Draymond Green can still name the 34 players that were selected before him in the draught. In reality, Green had learned their names as well as the teams from which they had been selected. If you ask him, he can correctly list all of them off without consulting a piece of paper.

Best +/- of any player in the past 20 years

Draymond Green has the ability to be a very terrifying force on the floor and can rack up a tonne of points, grab a tonne of rebounds, and dish out a tonne of assists with not much time remaining in the game. He had the best raw plus/minus of any player over the previous 20 seasons in the 2016 season. When just one player is on the floor, the plus/minus statistic calculates the difference between the points scored for and against a team.

3rd player in NCAA history to have 2 career triple-doubles

Draymond Green joined Oscar Robertson and Magic Johnson as the only players in NCAA history to have two career triple-doubles in the NCAA tournament on March 16, 2012, when he earned his third career triple-double against LIU-Brooklyn in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

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