Jeff Green caught the ball at the top of the key and surveyed the defense in the middle of the third quarter of Wednesday’s game.
Green, the sometimes mercurial and frustrating former lottery pick has had a roundabout career of seemingly missed potential and empty promises. Everywhere he goes, hopes get high that he will unlock his versatility and talent and coalesce into a potential star. Each 30-point game — he had 11 games of 20 points or more including a 30-point game against the Orlando Magic in Memphis.
Green bounded through the lane and to the basket, laying it in.