Gator Great, UF assistant Taurean Green selected as SEC Legend
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Taurean Green has been selected as Florida‘s 2024 SEC Legends honoree and will be recognized at the 2024 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament in Nashville.
Green, the starting point guard on Florida’s 2006 and 2007 national championship teams, led the 2007 team with 13.3 points per game and earned AP All-American honors. 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.
During Green’s three seasons at Florida, he helped the Gators to the 2007 SEC Championship and the 2005, 2006 and 2007 SEC Tournament titles. Green earned All-SEC honors in 2006 and 2007 and was the 2006 SEC Tournament MVP and earned 2007 All-SEC Tournament Team honors. He was the SEC’s free throw percentage leader in 2006-07, hitting at an .849 clip from the line.
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, 6th, 2005-06), free throws made (171, 4th, 2005-06), free throw percentage (.886, 6th, 2005-06) and 3-pointers made (88, 9th, 2005-06; 82, 10th, 2006-07), while his 37 consecutive free throws made in 2005-06 were a school record at the time and are still the second-longest streak by a Gator on record.
Green was a 2007 NBA Draft pick by the Portland Trail Blazers and played with Portland and the Denver Nuggets before embarking on a decorated overseas career that included league championships in France and Poland and an All-Star honor in Greece.
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After retiring in 2021, Green reunited with Billy Donovan in a player development role with the Chicago Bulls franchise. His father, former NBA player Sidney Green, works as a Chicago Bulls team ambassador.
The Gator Great enjoyed being back in the league and working alongside his father and Donovan in 2021-22, but he couldn’t turn down the opportunity to return home.
“It feels great. Everything comes full circle,” Green said last June. “I’m just appreciative Coach Golden giving me an opportunity to be part of the staff, to come back to the University of Florida. It’s a great opportunity with a young, energetic staff that really knows basketball.”
Golden hired Green as his director of player development before promoting him to assistant coach ahead of the 2023-24 season.
