A.C. Green, Jr., born October 4, 1963, in Portland, Oregon, played in 1192 consecutive games, more than any other player in NBA and ABA history. Throughout the course of his professional career, Green missed only three regular season games. Green attended Oregon State where he was a four-year star, finishing second in school history in rebounding and fourth in scoring. He graduated with a degree in Speech Communication.
In the 1985 NBA Draft, the Los Angeles Lakers, fresh from winning an NBA championship, selected Green as the 23rd overall pick. Green fit well into the Los Angeles flow, as he did not need to have plays run for him in order to be effective. He became the first rookie since LeRoy Ellis to appear in every game of the season. He led the Lakers in rebounding for six of his eight years on the team. Led by Magic Johnson, James Worthy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles captured back-to-back NBA Championships in 1987 and 1988, Green's second and third years with the squad. In the two campaigns combined, he averaged 11.1 points and 8.2 rebounds while shooting better than .500 from the field.
Green left the Lakers after the 1992-1993 season to sign with the Phoenix Suns as a free agent. The Suns had just reached the 1993 NBA Finals, losing in six games to the Chicago Bulls, and they viewed Green as the missing piece to their championship puzzle. Green posted a career-high average of 14.7 points per game in the 1993-94 season, but the Suns were eliminated in the conference semifinals. Green was traded two months into the 1996-97 season to the Dallas Mavericks in the deal that brought Jason Kidd to Phoenix. He brought reliable rebounding to the Mavs, leading the team off the boards in 30 of the 56 games he played in a Dallas uniform.
Green returned to the Los Angeles Lakers for the 1999-00 season where he won his third and final NBA Championship with the team. He played his last NBA season with the Miami Heat where he was reunited with former Lakers’ coach, Pat Riley. Green's consecutive games played streak began on November 19, 1986, when the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio. The streak ended on April 18, 2001 when the Miami Heat defeated the Orlando Magic in Orlando. The 1192 game streak was continued with several games in which an injured Green played less than 10 minutes against a career average of 28.6 minutes per game.
In 1989, Green founded the A.C. Green Youth Foundation with a focus on promoting and providing information about sexual abstinence to young people. Today, he is a youth mentor, author, speaker, and businessman. He was recognized in the House of Representatives’ Congressional Record of October 26, 1999 for being an outstanding role-model. Green was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.
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