<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Texas high school star Gerald Green, a likely top-six pick in the June 28 NBA Draft, declined earlier this week to work out against other draft prospects in Portland. He has agreed, however, to work out for the Jazz ? probably Tuesday. How did the Jazz talk Green into it when the Trail Blazers could not? "What he asked was that he not work out 'against' anybody. We explained to him that if he's going to come in, we want him to work out 'with' people," Jazz basketball operations senior vice president Kevin O'Connor said. "Going 1-on-1 is not something that's a big concern of ours. "But seeing how he does drills and seeing how he incorporates the coaching with other people on the court is something we talked about, and they (Green and his agent) seem comfortable with." Green will not be the first highly regarded high school prospect to audition this month in Utah. Martell Webster, a shooting guard from Seattle and a cousin of Dallas' Jason Terry, was in Friday. O'Connor called the physically mature Webster "a terrific talent" and "a stone shooter." "He's a little bit behind in some things," O'Connor said, "but to watch him shoot the basketball, how easy it is, and how fluid it was . . . basketball comes very easy to him. He doesn't know all of it yet. He doesn't know a lot of it yet. But it comes real easy to him."</div> Source
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting shapecity:</div><div class="quote_post"> Source </div> Nash backed off according to Draft Express. See the quote below! Gerald Green WILL work out for Portland!! Gerald Green completed a workout with the New Orleans Hornets today and is now on his way to Utah to work out for the Jazz tomorrow. Green impressed Byron Scott and co. by measuring a 43? inch vertical leap off a one step approach. Green will be headed to Portland Wednesday before finishing up in New York and Toronto. All of his workouts will be conducted individually. Portland GM John Nash eventually decided to cave in and let Green work out by himself as he could not afford to pass on taking a look at what the 19 year stud has to offer. Green is expected to be drafted between 3-7, with the Lakers and possibly even the Knicks making strong pushes to trade up and get him.
