The NBA champion Marco Belinelli officially announces retirement from basketball

Marco Belinelli, the Italian wing that spent 13 seasons in the NBA and won a ring with the San Antonio Spurs, officially announced his retreat from basketball at the age of 39, something He announced on his Instagram page.

“I gave my heart. Every piece of me,” he wrote. “Every single day. The basketball gave me everything … and I gave everything I have had. To say goodbye is not easy. But it is now. I carry every emotion with me, every sacrifice, every joy. Thanks to those who have always believed. To the next generation – I leave a dream.”

Belinelli was the number 18 of the Golden State Warriors in 2007 and continued to play a couple of seasons in the Bay Area before the stops in Toronto, New Orleans (with the Hornes), Chicago, San Antonio, Sacramento, Charlotte, Atlanta and Philadelphia. It could be better remembered for the four seasons with the Spurs, which included it to be a sixth key man for the spurs of the 2014 championship, with an average of 11.4 points to a game on the bench in that season. For his career in the NBA he marked on average 9.7 points in a match that fired 37.6% from over the arch.

Belinelli last played in the NBA in the 2019-2020 season, then spent the last five seasons in Italy for the club with which he started his career, Virtus Bologna. The sixth man of the year was appointed MVP of Lega Basket Serie A for the two seasons earlier, and he helped conduct Bologna to two Serie A titles A.