23Steps
04-06-2009, 09:20 PM
Of all of our kids, Danny has had the hardest college career. He had more motivation then about anyone in college basketball to go pro, but he stayed. I hope all his hard work pays off tonight in a championship and has a long successful career in the NBA.
In March 2006, Green Sr. was sitting in his house watching the McDonald's All-American game on television when he heard the noise: a loud, hard thump.
Figuring someone in his complex had fallen down the steps, he got up to go help. He turned to find his door busted in, cops standing there ready to arrest him.
Long Island's Suffolk County district attorney Tom Spota and police commissioner Richard Dormer said he was part of an international drug ring they had busted, landing them more than 400 pounds of cocaine and $40 million.
In all, 15 people were arrested. Until he got to prison, Green Sr., an assistant high school girls basketball coach and physical ed teacher with a master's degree, said he had met only one of the others arrested -- a corrections officer.
But the district attorney said Green Sr. had been identified through wiretaps used in their investigation.
"Have you ever gone to sleep and had a dream and feel like you couldn't wake up? That's what this was like," Green Sr. said. "I'd wake up and think, 'This can't be happening,' and I'd look around, see where I was."
The night of his father's arrest, Danny got a call from his uncle. He knew little other than the fact that Green Sr. had been taken to jail.
A stunned Danny remembers he didn't sleep at all that night.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/ncaatourney09/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=4044494
In March 2006, Green Sr. was sitting in his house watching the McDonald's All-American game on television when he heard the noise: a loud, hard thump.
Figuring someone in his complex had fallen down the steps, he got up to go help. He turned to find his door busted in, cops standing there ready to arrest him.
Long Island's Suffolk County district attorney Tom Spota and police commissioner Richard Dormer said he was part of an international drug ring they had busted, landing them more than 400 pounds of cocaine and $40 million.
In all, 15 people were arrested. Until he got to prison, Green Sr., an assistant high school girls basketball coach and physical ed teacher with a master's degree, said he had met only one of the others arrested -- a corrections officer.
But the district attorney said Green Sr. had been identified through wiretaps used in their investigation.
"Have you ever gone to sleep and had a dream and feel like you couldn't wake up? That's what this was like," Green Sr. said. "I'd wake up and think, 'This can't be happening,' and I'd look around, see where I was."
The night of his father's arrest, Danny got a call from his uncle. He knew little other than the fact that Green Sr. had been taken to jail.
A stunned Danny remembers he didn't sleep at all that night.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/ncaatourney09/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=4044494