Javonte Green

Javonte Green's route to the NBA reads like a passport. Undrafted in 2015, he spent five years bouncing through Spain, Italy, and Germany before Boston gave him a look in 2019. Since then he's been a plug-in energy piece — Chicago, New Orleans, Cleveland, and Detroit, where in 2025-26 he was the only Piston to suit up for all 82 games. That durability is the tell: Green doesn't need touches, he needs a matchup to disrupt, and at nearly seven points with 1.7 steals a night he turns defense and open-floor athleticism into steady value. Radford retired his No. 2 for a reason — he left the program as its career leader in both rebounds and steals, and that hard-hat identity never left his game.