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Teel Time: Nuggets acquire Virginia Tech's Green in NBA draft's second round
Virginia Tech's Erick Green was part of a trade-crazed NBA draft Thursday night and landed with the Denver Nuggets.
The Utah Jazz selected Green with the 46th overall pick, midway through the second round, but sent Green to Denver for cash and Rudy Gobert, a 7-foot-2 center from France, whom the Nuggets chose late in the first round.
"So happy right now dreams come true. Glad to be heading to Denver," Green tweeted shortly after midnight and less than an hour after his selection.
Green worked out in Denver June 19, according to the Nuggets' website. That was the last of...
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