Personal Life
- At the 2011 All Star Breakfast, A.C. Green was awarded the Bobby Jones Award for character, leadership, and faith in the world of basketball in the home and the community.
- 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. Instead, Green would respond by calmly quoting scripture. Currently, he runs youth camps through his A.C. Green Youth Foundation promoting abstinence until marriage.
- On his homepage, he states that the initials in his name do not stand for anything. His given name is simply "A. C.", similar to the case of fellow basketball star K. C. Jones.
- Green is married to Veronique Green. The two were wed on April 20, 2002.
- Green converted to Christianity in the town of Hermiston, Oregon, while he was still in high school.
- Green suffered from singultus, or chronic hiccups, during his NBA career, the hiccups only stopping when Green was running or working out. Reportedly, Green never slept more than two hours at a time due to the condition. He has since recovered.
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