Taurean Green is a professional basketball player, who was born on the 28th of November, 1986 and is currently 29 years of age. He was born in Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America to a single mother named Sidney Green, who worked as an attorney. With no other siblings, there is also no news regarding his father and Taurean has never met him in his life. Brought up by his mother, he studied in four different schools as a child, until he reached graduation. His schools were Howell High School during his freshman year, while he attended Westminster Academy for his soph 0re years. Then, he joined the Bradenton Pendleton Academy for his junior year and finally attended Cardinal Gibbons High School for his senior year. From his second school, he found out his interest and pa s sion towards basketball and started to play on a regular basis.
With Westminster Academy, he and his team won the Florida Cla s s 2A State Championship, which recognized Green as the Most Valuable Player. With his outstanding performance in the finals against Dillard High School, which helped his team secure the Cla s s 6A State Champions, he single handedly won the game after scoring a total of 38 points. With such outstanding records in such early time of his career, Green graduated high school from Cardinal Gibbons High School and attended the University of Florida from 2004. He was raised as a Christian and follows the same religion. Born and raised as an American citizen, Green belongs to black ethnicity.
He went into the university with an athletic scholarship and soon joined the Florida Gators men's basketball squad, which was coached by former player Billy Donovan. He was the first team player and started almost regularly, and in 2006 won the first title which was NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament along with the SEC Tournament the same year. Then the team repeated their success and year later as they again won the double on 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and also the SEC Tournament of that year as well. With his outstanding performances, he quickly succeed to pa s s the 1000 points bench mark with just his 3rd season running.
After his college was completed, Green joined the Portland Trail Blazers and played his first ever NBA game in 2007. He was scouted by the Blazers' development league in 2007 initially and later recalled to join the first team in the 22nd of December, 2007. The then coach Nate McMillan said that Green had the potential to be one of the best players he had, but since he didn’t have enough play time for practice, Green was moved to Denver Nuggets in the February of 2008. Then in the July of same year, he was traded to New York Knicks and was exchanged for Renaldo Balkman.
With a very successful and well known career in his sports, however there is not much relevant data regarding his dating life and affairs. Although he had a lot of media attention as a player, still no news regarding his relationships has come forward. As a result, we cannot be certain about his current relationship affairs, or even the past ones. He is not married till date, and thus has got no children or wife.
by sanjeet, 20 May, 2015
