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The Woj Pod

Denver's Jeff Green

The Woj Pod

ESPN

Sports

4.6722 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Denver Nuggets' Jeff Green joins The Woj Pod on the 10th anniversary of life changing heart surgery, how it changed him, the Sonics, KD-Russ-Harden OKC Thunder, KG's Celtics, playing with the genius of Nikola Jokic, why he wants to play into his 40's and much, much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Welcome into another edition of the WojPod here in Los Angeles with Denver Nuggets Forward.

0:11.3

Jeff Green, who Jeff is out of COVID, back playing, dunking on people again, but looking for what out here, looking for a haircut, right?

0:21.3

Looking for a haircut, yes.

0:22.8

Well, not looking about to get a much-needed haircut.

0:27.0

Yeah, it's half the country still.

0:29.0

We thought that was behind us.

0:30.2

We'd be able to go get haircuts.

0:31.4

Yeah.

0:33.0

You got to schedule way in advance.

0:36.4

Yeah, well, a lot to talk about Jeff, a really unique NBA career, 11th team now,

0:43.8

15th season, top five pick back in 2007.

0:47.1

But the first thing I want to ask you about, Jeff, and it seemed like it snuck up on you,

0:53.4

I didn't realize until Mike Singer and the Denver

0:55.8

Post wrote a great piece about you the other day the 10th anniversary of your surgery at the

1:01.3

Cleveland Clinic for an aortic aneurysm was coming out of the lockout year you signed with

1:07.9

Boston and at the time I'm not sure anybody knew what it meant for your

1:13.4

future. As a basketball player, you were thinking about something potentially that was life-threatening.

1:19.3

Of course. What do you think, you think back 10 years to that and learning of it, going through it,

1:26.2

and then taking the next step of, I'm going to play in the NBA again.

1:30.9

Yeah, I mean, obviously until this day, I think about it every day.

1:33.8

Seeing the scar, whenever I'm getting dressed, it's a reminder of that incident.

1:40.4

It's something, like you said, it came out of nowhere.

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