A second-round pick by Cleveland in 2009, Green was waived twice in his first two years in the league before finding a home with the Spurs as a 3-point sharpshooter and rugged defender. “He failed a couple of times here and elsewhere, and he just stuck with it and showed persistence, kind of like the saying we have in the locker room,” Popovich said. “On that 101st blow, it happened for him and he had a great career from then on. A special guy.”