Greene Growing as a Rocket

Greene is averaging 25.3 points per game in the summer league. LAS VEGAS, July 19, 2008 -- Before the Rockets’ summer league game against the Nuggets on Friday, Houston rookie was engaged in a playful game of one-on-one with a ball boy that couldn’t have been more than 13-years old. The 6-11, 226-pound manchild is only 20-years old himself and looked just as joyful to be playing with the kid as the kid was to be mixing it up with a legitimate professional basketball player. When the game started and Greene was matched up with five-year NBA veteran , Donté took on the role of the ball boy while Dahntay looked delighted to be carving up Greene and the Rockets’ defense like the guy who cuts the roast beef under the heat lamp in a Vegas buffet line. Jones, with 246 regular season games under his belt, as opposed to Greene’s three... [read full story]