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Blair and Neal should both be cautionary tales for any team wanting to throw huge dollars at Green. Blair in particular wanted out of San Antonio because he didn't believe he was playing enough. Wonder what he thinks now

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What kind of money do you think we will throw at Danny? His offensive production was frustrating throughout, but him and Kawhi make a great defensive duo.

Danny is a good role player. He isn't anything more until he can stop air balling 5-10' shots off the dribble. Every team that wins a championship needs great role players. He's basically the equivalent of Bruce Bowen today. Probably not as good on defense but a better shooter. Very similar styles. Both key players for this team as role players, but I don't think either would strive in most other situations. I don't think he can be the #3 guy on a team.

Big difference between Danny and Bowen is Danny has an elite wing defender next to him. And you can put either on 1-3 and KL can guard 4, too.

Danny's not a #3 scorer, but he gets you an efficient 12 a game. He can hit threes at >40% in a variety of ways (contested, off curls, pull up/transition, anywhere along the arc rather than having a small number of spots), which is a LOT rarer than players who are in the 38-42% range as long as they are in a relatively open catch-and-shoot situation. He knows how to drift to the open spot in transition and the half court set to get open or influence the defense, and he's a better cutter than a lot of people realize. He's not usually a volume scorer, but he did score 19 or more points 13 times this year including outings of 27 and 25.

Just as important is that he plays elite defense on ones and twos. Physically, he's 6'6 with a 6'10 wingspan and enough quickness to stay with PGs. He's also got a big bag of tricks in transition defense and scrambling to fix broken defensive plays. He's also tenacious with exceptional conditioning and effort.

Green isn't a max player, but he's worth a lot.

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Green isn't a max player, but he's worth a lot.

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Howeveer, I don't think he is worth a lot to a lot of teams. I think his usefulness is somewhat limited and a team has to build their offense around having a SG that can't put the ball on the floor - which is a major limitation for most teams.