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3x NBA champ Danny Green announces retirement

Three-time NBA champion Danny Green officially announced his retirement from basketball after playing for 15 seasons.

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Green announces retirement

Green, 37, announced his retirement on his podcast on Thursday.

“I’m officially moving on from the game of basketball, the NBA. It’s been a great run,” he said. “To me, I’m very proud to be able to walk away from the game. I’m at peace with it.”

The 6-foot-6 wingman was known as a 3-point specialist, as he was a career 40% shooter behind the arc.

Green is one of four players in NBA history to win championships with three different teams — 2014 with the Spurs, 2019 with the Raptors, and 2020 with the Lakers.

Drafted in the second round by the Cavaliers in 2009, Green spent one season in Cleveland before eventually settling in San Antonio for seven seasons.

Green became a starter for Spurs and helped the franchise win the 2014 title.

He was later traded to Toronto as part of the Kawhi Leonard deal and was a key starter on the Raptors’ 2019 title-winning team, the first in franchise history.

The former North Carolina standout signed with the Lakers the season after and won another title with LeBron James and Anthony Davis during the 2020 pandemic season.

“It’s been a hell of a ride”

Green tore his ACL and LCL when teammate Joel Embiid fell on him during Philadelphia’s season-ending playoff loss to Miami in May 2022.

He only played a total of 11 games with Memphis and Cleveland in 2022-23 and two games with the Sixers last season.

“My body was letting me know. I was getting little calf strains here and there,” Green said. “But also, when you get older, teams aren’t calling as much. Unfortunately, my services weren’t as sought after as they were when I was younger. It’s been a hell of a ride.”

Overall, Green finishes with career averages of 8.7 points and 3.4 rebounds in 832 games.

His 1,577 3-pointers rank 43rd in NBA history and also ninth in postseason 3-pointers with 315.

“People ask me, ‘How did you learn how to become a winner? How do you become a leader?'” Green said. “And it’s the people before me, the people that have taught me, my coaches. They prepared me to be successful because ultimately I’m just a normal kid. I had some height, but I was not freakishly athletic. I just worked very hard, and I had the good resources around me to learn how to be professional and do things the right way.”