Nicknamed "Iron Man", he holds a National Basketball Association (NBA) record for most consecutive regular-season games played with 1,192.

Green played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat.

[3] Green attended Oregon State University, where he finished second in school history in rebounding and fourth in scoring.

Led by Magic Johnson, James Worthy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles captured back-to-back titles in 1987 and 1988, Green's second and third years with the squad.

The Suns had just reached the NBA Finals, losing in six games to the Chicago Bulls, and they viewed Green as the missing piece to their championship puzzle.

Green posted a career-high average of 14.7 points per game in 1993–94, but the Suns were eliminated in the conference semifinals.

Green lost two teeth and sustained a head injury but was still able to continue on with his streak by wearing a protective mask and only playing a couple of minutes a game for a few weeks.

[5][6] Green, Sam Cassell, and Michael Finley were traded two months into the 1996–97 season to the Dallas Mavericks in a deal that brought Jason Kidd, Loren Meyer and Tony Dumas to Phoenix.

He tied Shawn Bradley for the team lead in rebounding in 1997–98 with 8.1 rpg, but his season highlight came on November 20 against Golden State when he played in his 907th consecutive game, becoming the league's all-time iron man, surpassing Randy Smith's mark of 906 consecutive games played.

On September 1, 1999, Green was traded back to the Los Angeles Lakers for Sean Rooks and a 2000 second-round pick.