Jeff Green – #22 Forward

• Height: 6-9
• Weight: 235
• Born: Aug 8, 1986 – Cheverly, Maryland
• College: Georgetown
• Draft: 2007 – 1st round (5th pick) by the Boston Celtics

Jeffrey Lynn Green (born August 28, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder and a former college basketball player in the NCAA. He attended Georgetown University until his junior year, before deciding to enter the 2007 NBA Draft. Green was selected fifth overall by the Boston Celtics, who then traded his rights to the Seattle SuperSonics in a trade including Ray Allen.

Jeff Green was born in Cheverly, Maryland to Jeffrey Green Sr. and Felicia Akingube. He attended Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, where he led the NHS Wildcats to the state basketball championship in 2004.

Green was successfully recruited by Georgetown University coach Craig Esherick in 2003. However, Esherick was fired before Green arrived on campus (Esherick’s last season as coach went 13-15). John Thompson III was hired as the new coach. Ironically, the two key recruits of Esherick’s tenure, Green and center Roy Hibbert, would be the key components of Thompson’s future success.