AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Draymond Green is thrilled to be playing in his home state on the night that Ben Wallace, a player he watched and got to know personally, will have his number retired by the Detroit Pistons.
And Green went the extra mile to honor Wallace himself, writing a heartfelt letter to the 2004 NBA champion that was published in the Detroit Free Press.
“What do you do, send a text? He gets a million of those,” Green said Saturday. “What do you do, walk up to him and say, ‘Ben, congrats?’ A million people are going to say that.