{"id":190922,"date":"2025-07-24T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/190922\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:54:09","slug":"in-farewell-letter-to-houston-jalen-green-praises-amen-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/190922\/","title":{"rendered":"In farewell letter to Houston, Jalen Green praises Amen Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI can tell you because I had a front row seat for it \u2014 Amen (Thompson) isn\u2019t just gonna be great,\u201d former Rockets guard Jalen Green says. \u201cAmen is gonna be\u00a0crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of his Players Tribune farewell letter<\/a> to Houston, recently traded guard Jalen Green made it clear that he\u2019s a big believer in one of his former Rockets teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you because I had a front row seat for it \u2014 Amen (Thompson) isn\u2019t just gonna be great,\u201d Green wrote<\/a>. \u201cAmen is gonna be\u00a0crazy,\u201d with the final word italicized for emphasis.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that as good as Thompson was last season \u2014 including NBA All-Defensive First Team honors<\/a> \u2014 it was only his second professional season. He remains just 22 years old.<\/p>\n

Showcasing elite defense, athleticism, and positional versatility, Thompson averaged 14.1 points (55.7% FG), 8.2 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 1.4 steals, and 1.3 blocks in 32.2 minutes per game last season. The 22-year-old became a full-time starter in January and never relinquished the job.<\/p>\n

At 6-foot-7, Thompson is tall and athletic enough to play in the frontcourt, and he obtained that starting position once power forward Jabari Smith Jr. went down to a multi-week injury in January. Yet, Thompson also has point-guard skills, making him capable of playing and defending anywhere.<\/p>\n

With Green headed to Phoenix as part of the trade that brought All-Star forward Kevin Durant to Houston, that could put a bit more pressure on Thompson to do more ball-handling and creation in the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n

Per Green\u2019s own observations, Thompson should be up for the task.<\/p>\n

More: In farewell letter, Jalen Green says he agrees with Houston\u2019s Kevin Durant trade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI can tell you because I had a front row seat for it \u2014 Amen (Thompson) isn\u2019t just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[1987,883,7,916,292,194,4066,6175,2497,832,861,106,70,85,6,67,61,134,2065,472,132,211,6176,66,83,604,1988,1928],"class_list":{"0":"post-190922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-amen","9":"tag-amen-thompson","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-green","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-rockets","14":"tag-houstonrockets","15":"tag-jabari","16":"tag-jabari-smith-jr","17":"tag-jalen","18":"tag-jalen-green","19":"tag-jr","20":"tag-national","21":"tag-national-sports","22":"tag-nba","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-overall","25":"tag-overall-positive","26":"tag-phoenix","27":"tag-phoenix-suns","28":"tag-positive","29":"tag-rockets","30":"tag-smith","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-sports-news","33":"tag-suns","34":"tag-thompson","35":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114906193639462743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}