Ronald Green (basketball)
American-Israeli basketball player
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Ronald Green (Hebrew: רונלד גרין; August 5, 1944 – July 2012) was an American basketball player. He played the forward position.[1] He played in the Israel Basketball Premier League, and for the Israeli national basketball team.
(Miami Beach, Florida)
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| Born | August 5, 1944 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | July 2012 (aged 67) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||||||||||
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| High school | Miami Beach (Miami Beach, Florida) | ||||||||||||||
| College | Vanderbilt (1963–1966) | ||||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 1966: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||
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Biography
Green was born in Miami Beach, Florida, and was Jewish.[2][3][4][5] He was raised by Morris and Florence Green.[5] He was 6 ft 6 in (198 cm) tall.[1] His son Erin Green also played professional basketball in Israel.[6]
He attended Miami Beach High School, where Green played on the basketball team from 1960 to 1962, and was named All-City First Team.[5]
Green attended Vanderbilt University (B.A. in Business Administration, '66; MBA University of Miami, '69), on a full scholarship.[7][1][5] He played for the Vanderbilt Commodores from 1963 to 1966.[1][8][9][10][11][12] In 1964–65, the team won the Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship.[5]
He played basketball for Team USA in the 1965 Maccabiah Games alongside Tal Brody and Steve Chubin, winning a gold medal, and in the 1969 Maccabiah Games alongside Steve Kaplan, Jack Langer, and Neal Walk, winning a silver medal.[13][14][15]
Green played professionally in the Israel Basketball Premier League for Maccabi Tel Aviv in 1970–71, averaging 14.1 points per game.[5][16][17] He played on the Israeli national basketball team, winning a silver medal with the team at the 1970 Asian Games.[18] In addition, he played in the Italian Professional League.[5]
After playing basketball abroad, and marrying an Israeli nurse, Green returned to Miami to work with Green Brothers Food Brokerage, as well as an account manager with Buitoni and Häagen-Dazs.[5][19] Green suffered from a rare disease known as multiple system atrophy.[5] Green married Carol Litman, a high school English teacher, in 1983. She cared for him as MSA took his life.