Per longtime NBA author Dwindle Vecsey and previous colleague Sam Stith, Unused York Knicks star Johnny Green has passed absent at the age of 89. Green played the primary six-plus seasons of a 14-year NBA career with the Knicks, chosen by the group as the fifth in general choose of the 1959 draft.
The Michigan State alum repped the Knicks in three All-Star Diversions and proceeds to stand as one of the foremost productive rebounders in establishment history:
at 4,825, Green positions 6th in Knicks bounce back (one of as it were 10 Modern Yorkers to drag in at slightest 4,000) and ninth among qualifiers at 10.2 a amusement.
Regularly alluded to as “Jumpin’ Johnny Green,” Green moreover holds the record for most bounce back by a Knicks rookie in a single amusement (25 in a 1960 misfortune to Philadelphia) and was the primary Unused Yorker to win 20 in at slightest three straight
