Perched quietly at the corner of the Verizon Center basketball court Saturday and somewhat disguised by a winter cap and thick-rimmed glasses, former Georgetown swingman and current NBA free agent Jeff Green calmly watched his old team open its season while the fate of his hung in the balance. Green said he hadn’t seen the “last, best” offer handed to the players union by NBA commissioner David Stern last week. He didn’t have any idea whether it would be rejected or approved. In fact, Green appeared indifferent to the entire process — no help to the public perception that players are to blame for the lockout in the first place, even if it isn’t true.
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“I just want to play,” Green said, having left the details in the hands of his agent, David Falk, who was quoted on the same day in The New York Times advocating a full player vote on the deal.
Green wasn’t advocating anything at all. If the NBA season is lost altogether, at least he won’t have to change his stance.
– Craig Stouffer
