Pour le plus bref des moments de dimanche, les cavaliers de Cleveland avait 13 joueurs sur la Cour tandis que la balle était en jeu dans leur match pré-saison contre les Wizards de Washington.

Ne blâmez pas Cavs entraîneur Tyronn lue pour une substitution de masse a mal tourné. Blâme Jeff Green.

Le Dunk en avant gauche de la sauvegarde sur le centre de Washington 6-11 Ian MAHINMI au deuxième trimestre a causé le banc de Cleveland de perdre son esprit collectif pour un moment et le printemps en avant de leurs sièges dans la célébration délirante.

«Je les ai vus comme j'étais en marche arrière, vert, un alun de Georgetown, a déclaré après son match de retour.» "ils étaient tous sur le sol." Littéralement sur le sol. C'était amusant, c'était cool.

Dans ce qui figurait être un gaspillage d'un jeu d'exposition avec le Cavs tenant neuf de leurs 20 joueurs hors de la gamme-y compris leur alignement de départ complet-pour soit le repos ou la réhabilitation, vert tourné dans une performance qui vaut la peine de syntoniser. Le vétéran de 10 ans avait 19 points et sept rebonds en 24 minutes dans la défaite 102-94 de Cleveland à Washington.

Ce n'était pas seulement la production, non plus. C'était de la production avec style. Cinq de ses huit objectifs de terrain ont été dunks-y compris celui qu'il jaune sur MAHINMI-et il a également contribué un bloc Chasedown sur Kelly oubre Jr., avec le 31-Year-Old Green regardé tous les bits aussi athlétique que les 21-Year-Old Wizards avant.

«Ce sont les choses qu'il est capable de faire», a déclaré l'entraîneur Cavs Tyronn Lue. "je dois continuer à les faire." Très talentueux, très habile, je le dis depuis qu'il est arrivé ici jour 1. Très intelligent.

Lue coached Green as an assistant coach in Boston under Doc Rivers. With their bond established, Lue called up Green this past summer with an offer to come to Cleveland to play backup minutes behind LeBron James and Kevin Love. Green made $15 million for the Orlando Magic last year but put up career-lows across the board - 9.1 points on 39.4 percent shooting overall, 27.5 percent from 3 and 3.1 rebounds per game. The Cavs were only offering a veteran minimum deal of $2.1 million. Why did Green accept?

Cleveland Cavaliers Magasin,"Look around the locker room," he said. "Look at the opportunity we have ... to learn from LeBron and (Dwyane) Wade now. ... I had that opportunity when they called and now I have it. It was a no-brainer to pick Cleveland to win the championship this year."

Lue offers praise for Green the person, as much as he does for Green the player - a 6-foot-9, 235-pound swingman with perhaps the most chiseled body on the Cavs - James included.

"I always talk about, if I had a daughter, he'd be the guy I'd want her to bring home because he's a great guy, great person," Lue said.

Green appreciates the confidence Lue instills in him.

"He's put me in great positions to succeed," Green said. "That's all you can ask for as a coach and he's given me that. I'm working hard to prove myself to him that I can do it."

He's proven enough so far in training camp to leapfrog Channing Frye in Lue's rotation.

"We talked, me and Channing, I was like, 'Man, I'm sorry,'" Lue said. "He said, 'Listen, I'm very excited about our team, not too many opportunities to get to play on a team like this.' He said, 'If I have to wear a suit all season for us to win, that's what I'll do.'"

Green will be a part of what's considered the deepest Cavs bench since James returned to Cleveland in 2014. It's a bench that desperately needed to be upgraded after the Golden State Warriors' reserves outscored Cleveland's substitutions 113-69 in their four Finals wins. Frye, who averaged 9.1 points in the regular season, barely played against Warriors because of matchup problems.

Green knows he is coming off the worst season of his career and only a few years removed from missing the entire 2011-12 season after undergoing heart surgery at the Cleveland Clinic to repair an aortic root aneurysm. He says he doesn't dwell on the past and the "road blocks" he hit in Orlando, but he acknowledges that this season can serve as a reminder of the type of talent he has.

"It's proving to everybody," Green said. "Everybody has their opinions of what Jeff Green should be or what I can do, but I have to go out there and prove it to myself that I work hard and I put in the work to be in the position I'm in. So I got to go out there and do it."

He's happy to do it in a city that gave him a second chance once before already.

"It saved my life," Green said of the Cleveland Clinic. "It saved my life. When you think about it, it's a place that gave me new life and hopefully this year it can give me a refresher on my career. So I guess Cleveland is a city for me that brings a lot of newness to my life. We'll see at the end of this year -- in June -- what that turns out to be."