John Wall made official retired, will join the transmission team “NBA in Prime”
In the end, Wall was uniform and I managed the field in itself a show to see-but the uniform was the clippers and his game had been reduced to splashes of greatness of hitting.
The Clippers visited Washington’s Capital One Arena on December 10, 2022, in the middle of a slogan of 34 games that would have been his last in the NBA. Wizards fans cheered his introduction and the 90 seconds tribute video that Wall was too emotional to be watched.
When the clippers left for a disastrous start of the second quarter, Wall replied with six consecutive points, the last two oscillated on his 13 -foot sweater. He turned to the crowd, aimed both fingers of the index to the court and shouted: “I still my city!”
Wall was so overwhelmed by the encouraging crowd that he started walking to the wrong bench. “In a sense I went back and forgot how, I’m in a different shirt,” he said. “Just being at that moment and electrifying the crowd, is what I did for many years in my career when I was here.”
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Wall announced his retreat on Tuesday, even if most fans have probably thought they had already retired. His times as Clippers ended on January 13, 2022 and never played again. His slide began in 2020 when Washington was unfathomable, exchanging the most popular magician since Wes Unseld to the Houston Rockets for Russell Westbrook.
Wall had undergone a series of legs in the legs and would suffer a little longer. The loss of his signature speed, combined with his mother’s death, sent Wall in a depression that eventually made him contemplate suicide.
“For me, everything happened very quickly,” he wrote in a first -person tribune story. “Over three years, I went from being at the top of the world to lose damn close to everything I was ever interested in.
“In 2017, I was jumping on the presenter’s table in Washing DC after forcing the game 7 against Boston, and I am the king of the city. I am getting a maximum extension, thinking that I am a magician for life. A year later, I torn my Achilles and I lost a year later, I lost a year later a year later, I lost a year later, I lost a year later, I lost a year later, Lost a year later, I lost a year later, I lost a year later, I lost a year later, I lost a year later.
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“My best friend is gone. I can’t play the game I love. Everyone has just pulled out my hand. Nobody controls me Me. It always comes with something related. Who is there to hold me now? What is the point of being here? ”
It doesn’t matter that the Rockets gave him $ 172 million in four years and that in return he gave them only 40 games in 2020-2021. The following season accepted the request of the Rockets not to play, to sit and become a glorified coach assistant while the team has returned.
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Wall agreed to give up a slice of his salary – his career earnings were $ 276 million – to start with the Clippers, but soon it was clear that he had little to offer, with an average of 11.3 points and shooting at 40.3%.
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“This is the most frustrating part because people think: ‘Oh, he got the money, he is ready for life, he doesn’t care,” he recently said Wall at Washington Post. “No, I would have given up all the money to play basketball and I would never have had to do with anyone about those injuries. I haven’t played for money for money. I played the basketball game because I love it”,
He took him two more years to reconcile he had through, and his retirement announcement on Tuesday was scheduled with another who will join the main video for his studio show in his inaugural season that broadcasts the NBA in 2025-2026.
First videos will broadcast 67 games of the regular season, the play-in tournament and some playoffs. Wall called G League Winter Showcase in January, which led to appearances on NBA TV. Now he will join the “NBA in Prime” team together with Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Nash, Dwyane Wade, Blake Griffin, Udonis Haslem and Candace Parker.
For Wall, it will be an opportunity to revisit his first, sharing the knowledge of the basketball that has accumulated through a difficult education in the North Carolina, an all -American season and made in Kentucky and an 11 -year career NBA in which he has an average of 18.7 points and 8.9 assists a game.
“If you’ve never had the opportunity to sit and talk to me, you will not really understand how much basketball I love, where my basketball mind is, where my Qi is located,” Wall said. “Basically I can tell you the best player in the country – from girls to boys, high school, players who are in college, people who are in the NBA and Wnba.”
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.