After 15 seasons, longtime sharpshooter Danny Green is retiring from the NBA, he announced Thursday on his podcast, Danny Green x Inside the Green Room .
“It’s been a great run,” he said. “I’m very proud to walk away from the game. I’m at peace with it. I wasn’t at first, but once I turned 37, the body started reacting a little differently. And the mind was lose its passion and lose its same hunger that I had when I was in it.
“I don’t have that much left to prove in that space to where I need to kill my body, and my body was letting me know … when you get older, teams ain’t call as much. My services were not sought after as they were once when I was younger.
Here is an excerpt from a statement he wrote on social media Thursday morning as part of the announcement:
“It’s been a helluva journey that I’m immensely proud of, and I couldn’t have achieved it without the support of so many,” he said . “I hope I make you proud as I hang up this jersey and sneakers and officially step away from the game.”
Green only played two games with the Philadelphia 76ers last season before getting waived in early November after playing 11 combined games with the Memphis Grizzlies and Cleveland Cavaliers the year prior.
For his career, the three-time champion averaged 8.7 points and 3.4 rebounds on 40.0 percent shooting from 3-point range, where he attempted over 65.3 percent of his attempts. He made 1,577 triples over his career, the 43rd-most all-time, and is only one of 12 players to can at least 1,500 3s at a 40.0 percent clip for his career–a few others being Kyle Korver, Steve Nash, Stephen Curry, JJ Redick, Klay Thompson, Ray Allen and Peja Stojakovic.
He played for six different organizations, but spent eight of his 15 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs from 2010-18, where he averaged 9.1 points and 3.5 rebounds on 41.8/39.6/81.6 shooting splits. During his 2013-14 NBA Title run, Green posted 9.2 points on 45.0 percent shooting from deep, including a 15-point, five-steal performance in Game 3 against the Miami Heat.
Green made second-team All-Defense with the San Antonio Spurs in 2016-17. He was never an elite scorer, but was a deadeye sharpshooter and one of the better two-way guards in the sport during his prime, helping three teams (Spurs, Lakers, Raptors) to three championships. He was the exact role player that thrived in the modern era that multiple teams coveted.
“People ask me, ‘How did you learn how to become a winner? How do you become a leader?’ And it’s the people before me,” he said. “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. And I put in the effort. I can step away from this game very proudly with my held high, and I can move on to the next chapter.”
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