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Danny Green is the 6’6” shooting guard/small forward playing on the new-look 2019 Los Angeles Lakers team with LeBron James and fellow newcomers Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins, and Avery Bradley.
Green played college basketball at North Carolina where he won the NCAA championship his senior year before being drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2009 NBA draft. The two-time NBA champion (2014 with the San Antonio Spurs, 2018 with the Toronto Raptors) signed a two-year, $30 million contract with the Lakers in July 2019. In his debut with the Lakers, Green scored 28 points, breaking the Lakers debut record (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scored 27 points in his Lakers debut in 1975.)
When not on the court, Green spends time with his girlfriend of four years, Blair Alise Bashen, who played women’s volleyball at Purdue University, where she graduated in 2012. So not only can she spike with the best of them, but she has a fascinating family history.
The 5’10” blonde beauty is the daughter of inventor Janet Emerson Bashen, the first African-American woman to hold a software patent (LinkLine, a software program that helps with Equal Employment Opportunity investigations). Blair’s maternal grandmother was the first black nurse in Huntsville, Alabama — during the 1950s in the segregated South.
The Los Angeles Lakers vs. Dallas Mavericks game will be broadcast live on Friday, November 1 at 9:30 pm on ESPN.
