About Josh Green (basketball)
Joshua Benjamin Green (born 16 November 2000) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats. Green was part of the Australian basketball team that won bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He was also part of the Australian basketball team at the 2024 Paris Olympics. == Early life == Green was born in Sydney to Australian mother Cahla and American-born father Delmas. His parents met while both were playing semi-professional basketball in Australia. The couple decided to raise a family in the north-west Sydney suburb of Castle Hill where Josh began playing basketball at the age of five when his mother started coaching him. Along with playing local basketball for the Hills Hornets as a child, Green tried an array of sports as a junior and excelled in Australian rules football, athletics, basketball, rugby, soccer and swimming. Green currently holds the world record for 7 year olds in the 500m with a time of 1:29:50. By the age of 10, he had been selected to represent his home state of New South Wales in nine separate sports.
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