Retirement

Manu Ginobili may have played his last game in the NBA. But not if Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has his way. Following the Warriors’ Game 5 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night, TNT’s camera’s caught Kerr delivering a pretty straightforward message to the 40-year-old Ginobili: [tweet https://twitter.com/danfavale/status/989011009401774080] If you [...]

Kevin Durant is many things. An MVP. An All-Star. A champion. A future Hall of Famer. And now, if he has his way, we can add “Future owner of an NBA team” to this illustrious list. From ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes: Over the last year and a half, sources say Durant and his business partner Rich [...]

Add another player to the list of mid-season retirements after failing to be able to catch on with an NBA team. Carlos Boozer has announced his retirement after 14 seasons in the NBA and a season playing in the Chinese Basketball Association. [tweet https://twitter.com/hoopshype/status/942867341574098944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Boozer averaged 16.2 points, 9.5 rebounds and 2.2 assists in his [...]

Matt Barnes has been controversial his entire NBA career. The classic guy that you loved to play with but hated to play against. Barnes played for nine different teams in 14 NBA seasons. Because of his inability to catch on with an NBA roster thus far this season, Barnes announced his retirement from the NBA [...]

It doesn’t feel that long ago that David Lee was putting up double-doubles on a near nightly basis for a young Warriors team with his knack for cleaning up the glass and his soft touch around the rim. Lee, who hasn’t been on an NBA roster this season, announced his retirement from the NBA Sunday [...]

Good news for people who don’t want Dirk Nowitzki to retire after this season: The Dallas Mavericks’ record won’t have any bearing on whether he hangs it up for good this summer. As he told ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon: Year 20 could potentially be it for Nowitzki, who has matched Kobe Bryant’s record for longest career [...]

Life for Dwight Howard since being traded from the Orlando Magic in the summer of 2012 (his request) hasn’t exactly been rosy. Formerly a superstar and seen as one of the five to 10 best and most popular players in the NBA, Howard began to deal with a slew of injuries leading to a decline [...]

It’s been about a month since the San Antonio Spurs wrapped their 2016-17 season, but Manu Ginobili still hasn’t decided whether he’ll retire from the NBA or return for 2017-18. On the bright side, though, his brother, Sepo Ginobili, did say Manu will keep playing if he feels like he can help a team, per [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers shot their shot, and they missed. After Andrew Bogut suffered his season-ending leg injury less than one minute into his Cavs tenure, head coach Tyronn Lue apparently tried coaxing Kevin Garnett out of retirement. Here’s what Lue told Dave McMenamin on ESPN’s NBA Lockdown podcast (via Dan Devine of Yahoo Sports): McMenamin: After Bogut [...]

Vince Carter, at the age of 40, has experienced another late-career revival in Memphis. He is now a valuable contributor for the No. 6 seed in the western conference. Most would think making it to 40 and 19 seasons in the NBA that have included a hall of fame resume as one of the most [...]