The Houston Rockets are entering this season with a lot of pressure to contend for an NBA Championship. Head coach Ime Udoka helped Houston rebuild faster and traded for Kevin Durant last offseason to move further up in the league’s upper echelon.

Green, though, kept his word. As Durant was criticized for joining a powerhouse squad, thereby stacking the odds against every team in the NBA, he never went through it alone. Green, Curry, Iguodala, and every member of the Warriors’ organization stood by him with the strength and ferocity of a lioness guarding her cubs.