Former Florida basketball great, current coach Taurean Green named SEC Legend
Florida basketball great Taurean Green — the starting point guard on UF's back-to-back national title teams in 2006 and 2007 — was named the 2024 SEC Legends honoree for the Florida Gators this week.
Green will be one of 14 players from each SEC team honored at the 2024 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament in Nashville.
Green earned AP All-American honors in 2007, scoring a team-high 13.3 points per game for the Gators. He was named to the 2006 All-Final Four Team and earned Regional All-Tournament team recognition in 2006 and 2007. His 52 assists and 476 minutes played in the NCAA Tournament are both the most by a Gator, and his 164 points are fourth in UF history.
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In three years at UF. Green scored 1,174 points as a Gator and dished 397 assists, while shooting .389 from the 3-point line. He owns the two highest minutes-played seasons in school history, logging 1,328 in 2006-07 and 1,302 in 2005-06. He also owns UF top-10 single seasons in assists (184, sixth, 2005-06), free throws made (171, fourth, 2005-06), free-throw percentage (.886, sixth, 2005-06) and 3-pointers made (88, ninth, 2005-06; 82, 10th, 2006-07).
A 2007 second-round NBA Draft pick by the Portland Trail Blazers, Green played with Portland and the Denver Nuggets before embarking on a decorated overseas career. He won league championships in France and Poland and an All-Star honor in Greece.
After coaching on Billy Donovan’s Chicago Bulls staff in 2021-22, Green returned to Gainesville as director of player development on Todd Golden’s staff in 2022-23. Golden promoted Green to assistant coach, player development ahead of the 2023-24 season.
This article originally appeared on The Gainesville Sun: Former Florida Gators basketball great Taurean Green named SEC legend
