Tracking the Preaux Career of Orien Greene

[Hatch]

From The Miami Herald:


• Besides inquiring about inexpensive free agent options Eddie House and Jannero Pargo, the Heat -- seeking point-guard depth -- wants to take a look at 6-4 free agent Orien Greene, who played in 80 games for Boston as a rookie last season.

[Tripple Threat]

From The Miami Herald:


• Besides inquiring about inexpensive free agent options Eddie House and Jannero Pargo, the Heat -- seeking point-guard depth -- wants to take a look at 6-4 free agent Orien Greene, who played in 80 games for Boston as a rookie last season.

Orien Greene learning from Pat Riley, what an awsome opportunity.

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BREAKING NEWS: Pacers Pick Up Greene For Two Years Just over a week ago, Orien Greene fired his agent and hired Jason Levian to represent him. The sense of urgency demonstrated by Levian over the last seven days, and ensuing results, have been remarkable, to say the least -- especially for a guy who'd been Greene's initial agent, and re-hired again. The 6'4" guard made the transition from Boston to Indiana when the Pacers picked him up off waivers. The former Gainesville (Fla.) High and University of Louisiana-Lafeyette star had played 80 games as a Celtic, after landing with the team in a draft pick nearly single-handedly brokered by Levian. Despite being a No. 53 pick in the 2005 NBA Draft. Despite coming into the league with a broken foot. When I first contacted him, I remembered him as a high school player from Florida who left the University of Florida for Louisiana-Lafayette," recalled Levian. "And his senior year he averaged more than 10 points a game. So there were question marks about him. So I contacted him, he was sitting on a couch with a friend of his from Orlando. There was recruiting to represent him at all. He hadn't been invited to Portsmouth and he wasn't going to be invited to Chicago. "We had him work with David Thorpe, get himself in shape, get him focused. He went in to work out for the Celtics and the Celtics promised they'd take him in the second round. They made good on that promise to take him. Immediately after the draft, we were celebrating. He went out to Boston to practice and they found out his foot had still been fractured, and he needed pretty significant surgery that was going to keep him out for 16 weeks. Boston had enough faith in him, that even though he couldn't play in summer league after that, they gave him a guaranteed contract for the first year. And it was a multi-year contract, with the first year guaranteed." The rest of the story By Tracy Graven for HOOPSWORLD.com

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The Indiana Pacers don't have room for another point guard at the moment, but they considered this opportunity too promising to pass on. Former Ragin' Cajun guard Orien Greene, waived by Boston on Friday, was claimed by the Pacers on Sunday and will join their summer-league team in Orlando, this week. Greene, a second-round draft pick in 2005, played 80 games for the Celtics last season - starting five - and averaged 3.2 points in 15.4 minutes. He shot just 39.5 percent from the field, including 22.5 percent from 3-point range, but is regarded as an outstanding defender. He was the Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Year as a senior at Louisiana-Lafayette despite playing with a fractured bone in his right foot. "I was surprised we were able to get him," Pacers president Larry Bird said. "I really like him." The rest of the story Mark Montieth Gannett News Service

[El Sidonio]

Any time Larry Bird says he really likes a player, I think it's a VERY good thing. Geaux Orien! Make us proud.

God Bless

GEAUX UL!!!!!

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Boston Celtics - Acquired guard Sebastian Telfair, center Theo Ratliff and a 2008 second-round pick from the Portland Trail Blazers for forward Raef LaFrentz, guard Dan Dickau and the rights to guard Randy Foye; acquired forward Brian Grant and the rights to guard Rajon Rondo from the Phoenix Suns for a future first-round pick; acquired the rights to forward Leon Powe from the Denver Nuggets for a 2007 second-round pick; waived guard Orien Greene. The source of the story

[Rebel02]

This is VERY old news. The Pacers signed Orien Greene back in July, according to this article.

[MiamiCajun32]

sports center this morning shows highlights from Pacers - Nets pre-season game and a key play late in the game was a monster slam by OG that really revved up the crowd.

[Turbine]

I saw one place that credited another player.

Looks like OG was 2nd on the team with 5 assists in only 14 minutes of play LINK

[MiamiCajun32]

I saw one place that credited another player.

Looks like OG was 2nd on the team with 5 assists in only 14 minutes of play LINK

The description of the play by espn was something like this:

"and then Orien Greene, wow, really comes up with a biiiiig dunk here for his only two points of the game"