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One collector is trying to find a single signature from every man who ever played for the Jazz — all 370 of them, from the 1974 New Orleans team to today. For many of them, this page is the only one on the internet. Here is Tommie Green: what he did on the floor, a few things most people never knew, and every card that carries his name. If you own something he signed — or you know who might — there is a note at the foot of this page.
Southern University's point guard heard his name called by the New Orleans Jazz in the second round of the 1978 draft, 35th overall. His NBA career was a single season, 1978-79, spent entirely with the Jazz.
Home called him back. Green returned to Southern in 1987 as an assistant coach and later ran the program as head coach from 1996 to 2001. He died in September 2015 at age 59.
HOW HE CAME & WENTThe pick came to New Orleans in the Slick Watts trade, and the Jazz used it on the Louisiana product, 35th overall in 1978. He was waived in October 1979.
- Full name
- Tommy L. Green
- New Orleans Jazz tenure
- 1978–79
- Position
- Guard
- Born
- 1956
- Died
- 2015
- Height
- 6′2″ (188 cm)
- Weight
- 185 lb (84 kg)
- College
- Southern
- Drafted
- 1978, 2nd round, New Orleans
- Why this player is hard to find
- Fifty-nine games for the Jazz in 1978-79. Only photographs are known to exist, no trading card. He has since died, which closes the set permanently.
A card. A photo. A program. A page from an old autograph book. Anything he put his name on.
You do not need to know what it is. Take a photo with your phone and send it to me. I will tell you what you have, for free, whether or not anything comes of it. I pay the postage both ways. I answer every message myself, usually the same day.
With the Jazz
TOMMIE GREEN · 1978–79 · PER GAME| SEASON | TEAM | G | MPG | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978–79 | NOJ | 59 | 13.7 | 3.9 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.1 | .388 | — | .762 |
| JAZZ TOTAL | 1 SEASON | 59 | 13.7 | 3.9 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.1 | .388 | — | .762 |
Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗ · Wikipedia ↗
Did you know
TOMMIE GREEN · 4 NOTES- Came out of Southern University, a historically Black college in Louisiana.
- Only photographs of him are known to exist — no trading card was ever printed.
- A Baton Rouge point guard out of McKinley High who never left home, playing his college ball at Southern.
- His 59 games came in the Jazz's final season in New Orleans, before the franchise moved to Salt Lake City.