Is Gerald Green the Most Improved Player in the NBA?

April 5th, 2014 by Jim Cavan Leave a reply »

Peruse the past 28 recipients of the NBA’s Most Improved Player (MIP) Award, you might notice something of a common thread: With only a handful of notable exceptions (Hedo Turkoglu in 2008, for example), most received the accolade after no more than three or four years in the league,

Gerald Green might be poised to puncture that narrative.

The Phoenix Suns’ high-flying swingman is undoubtedly having the best season in this, his seventh year in the NBA. He was selected out of high school by the Boston Celtics with the 18th overall pick in the 2005 draft.



Note the glaring gap between 2009 and 2011, when Green was biding his time in the Russian Professional Basketball League before being waived by the Foshan Dralions of the Chinese Basketball Association after less than two months on the roster.

Green would be back stateside later that year, attending—and being promptly cut from—the Los Angeles Lakers' training camp, ahead of the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season.

After a brief stint with the Los Angeles D-Fenders, the Lakers' D-League affiliate, Green was signed by ...

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