Johnny Green: Basketball’s Talented Antique, 1972

[Think back to the NBA of the 1960s and 70s. Okay, let’s play a quick game of free association. Bill Russell. Consummate winner. Jerry West. Mr. Clutch. Dick Barnett. Fall back, baby.  Johnny Green. Old. 

Yes, old. Green spent much of his long NBA career fighting the widespread perception that he was as old as Methuselah. Or Horse Haggerty and the Origin…