HOUSTON — Media members were huddled around the microphone at the Rockets’ practice facility, still laughing about rookie Alperen Sengun’s disclosure of his favorite English phrase (“FaSho,” meaning for sure) learned during his first year in the United States. Another young man walked in with a massive smile, greeting everyone in his presence.
That humbleness and smile have become a mainstay for Jalen Green during his rookie season in Houston. Even through the adversity he experienced this season, dealing with an injury that kept him out from late November to late December — or the mini-slump he went through as a shooter in late January — Green never stopped smiling and remained confident that he would overcome those types of issues, in time.
That attitude, along with his obvious athletic ability, has general manager Rafael Stone and head coach Stephen Silas excited about the future.
