For some NBA players, lockout means whole new world San Antonio Express (blog)
Jmcdonald@express-news.netDanny Green didn’t grow up with a green and white replica Union Olimpija jersey on his back. He did not have posters of Slovenian basketball greats such as Jure Zdovc and Rasho Nesterovic adorning the walls of his childhood bedroom in Long Island.
His hoops dreams have always been, and still are, as American as apple pie and monster trucks.
“I always wanted to play in the NBA,” Green said.
Green accomplished that goal in 2009-10, appearing in 20 games with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He played in 12, including four playoff games, last season with the Spurs.
Yet earlier this month, Green found himself with bag in hand at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, about to board a flight ultimately bound for Slovenia, his new, foreign basketball home for the time being.
While the NBA lockout limps along, threatening to cancel all or part of the 2011-12 season, Green found a soft landing in Ljubljana, Slovenia, playing for the same team — Union Olimpija — as 2011 Spurs draft pick Davis Bertrans.


