JALEN GREEN'S FIRST week in Las Vegas as an NBA player ended with a pulled hamstring and early exit from preseason Summer League action in 2021. A return to the desert two summers later marked a turning point for the Houston Rockets 22-year-old guard.
Green, the No. 2 pick in the 2021 NBA draft, spent his first two seasons as an untamed guard on a struggling Rockets squad. He was tabbed to spend a week in July 2023 in Las Vegas as a member of the USA Basketball Select squad with 2021 No.