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By Brian Hews
Three-time NBA star A.C. Green will be the headline speaker at Cerritos-based Trinity Reprographics’ Monthly Speaker Forum next Friday, April 17. The event will take place from 9 to 10 a.m. in the Sierra Room at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.
It is a free event and all are welcome, a light breakfast and refreshments will be served.
Green played in more consecutive games than any other player in NBA and ABA history. With 1,192 straight games played, he earned the nickname “Iron Man“. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat.
Green was a member of the 2000 Los Angeles Lakers championship team, starting in all six games of the finals, and a member of the Lakers’ 1987 and 1988 back-to-back championship teams.
Green is known as deeply religious and is well known for proclaiming that he began and ended his NBA career as a virgin. During his playing days, his teammates would frequently send women to tempt him to compromise his morals. Green would respond by calmly quoting scripture.
He runs youth camps through his A.C. Green Youth Foundation promoting abstinence until marriage. In 2000, he wore a green bear on his head while on the bench during basketball games to promote his foundation. Green married his wife Veronique on April 20, 2002.
For more information call 562.567.2050
