When Darvin Ham received such widespread support across the league upon news of his hiring by the Lakers, many of those reactions came from players he had spent his coaching playing career alongside. One notable exception to that, though, was Draymond Green.
Green’s connection with Ham is one that extends well past the NBA and to their roots in Michigan. Like Green, Ham is from Saginaw, a city of under 50,000 people located northwest of both Detroit and Flint. Despite its size, a number of NBA players have come from the city outside of Green and Ham, including Kenyon Martin and Jason Richardson.