The Little Things: Danny Green’s Secret Superpower

Posted Jun 12, 2014
Danny Green is randomly sensational at one skill-within-a-skill: working as the last line of defense in transition. He is plain old Danny Green 99 percent of the time, but on maybe 50 plays per season, he turns into LeBron James. In fact, it was his work against LeBron in transition during last year’s Finals that alerted the world to Green’s secret superpower: And it has just kept on happening since. (Grantland.com)

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