Former NBA star AC Green famously abstained from sex before marriage and that topic came up during his appearance on Byron Scott’s Fast Break podcast. Co-host Kid Jay asked Green which of his former Los Angeles Lakers teammates had sent a woman to him and he hilariously revealed it was more than one.
Kid Jay: “Which one of these goons tried to send a female to you to break that?”
Byron Scott: “I just told you my story so you know it wasn’t me…”
AC Green: “Let me make one little correction. You said a female?”
Jay: “Oh! It’s more than one?”
Scott: “It still wasn’t me. I know that. You can say what you want. I was trying to keep them away, ‘Get away from here.'”
Green: “That’s true… That was all and has always been part of my faith, just my own understanding, just my own self-respect. Just something I chose and wanted to do and never forced it upon anyone ’cause it wasn’t about. It’s about what works for you. That was always fun and always cool but I didn’t honestly think of it to be anything to me abnormal, okay?
“That was just me, that’s just what I thought was right for me to do and what I was interested in doing. I was more trying to figure out how to play with these dudes how to live with these guys and function in society. I figured that time was coming, okay? I was cool to wait.”
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Green played in the NBA for 16 seasons after the Lakers selected him with the 23rd pick of the 1985 Draft. He abstained from sex throughout that time despite his teammates’ actions and all the attention he’d have garnered, in general, from being a star.
While Green never forced his teammates to go down the same path as him, he did try to spread the idea among the youth. In 1989, he established the A.C. Green Youth Foundation, which runs youth camps to promote abstinence until marriage.
Green would retire from the NBA, aged 37, in 2001 as a virgin but wouldn’t stay one for long. He tied the knot with his wife Veronique in 2002 and they consummated the marriage some point after that.
It is quite incredible that Green resisted the temptation for so long, especially with some of the stories we have heard about NBA players and women over the years. They find themselves in interesting situations all the time and Green shared one story of his own in this episode.
“I just was driving in this beautiful city called LA and I just started laughing,” Green said. “I literally started laughing because I had a flashback, a traumatic flashback. I checked into the hotel and I remember, I just dropped my bags off and I was going ’cause I had some refreshment some little drinks, and stuff in my room.
“I said I gotta go get me some… I want it cold,” Green stated. “So I dropped my bags off, got my ice bucket out the room and I’m running down to get some ice and I literally, no kidding aside, I saw two fur coat ladies by the ice machine… I got a little clothes and I’m like fur coat? And heels, nails, heels, hair and I’m like, ‘I’m not that thirsty anymore.’
“Something tells me that there’s probably even less under that jacket and I don’t want any (of that). I’m good,” Green added.”
Byron Scott admitted he would run straight to those ladies and that would have been the case for most NBA players. Green was certainly the exception to the norm.
While abstaining from sex until marriage is a big part of Green’s story, it’s important to remember that he had a very good NBA career too. He won three titles and made one All-Star team as well as one All-Defensive Team.
Green also set an NBA record that is unlikely to be broken, as he played in 1,192 consecutive regular season games. Mikal Bridges is the biggest threat to that record among active players but is still some ways away, as he is at 528 consecutive games played.
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