5-time All-Star and former high general draft choose John Wall introduced his retirement from the NBA on Tuesday.
Wall, who will flip 35 on Sept. 6, final performed within the league with the Los Angeles Clippers in the course of the 2022-23 season. Knee accidents restricted him to simply 147 video games because the begin of the 2017-18 season.
“Each jersey I’ve worn meant greater than wins and stats,” Wall stated in a video posted on social media. “It represented one thing larger.”
Wall started the primary of his 9 seasons with Washington after being chosen by the Wizards with the highest general choose of the 2010 NBA Draft out of Kentucky. He averaged 19.0 factors, 9.2 assists and 4.3 rebounds in 573 profession video games (561 begins) with Washington.
“Certainly one of our franchise all-time greats. The definition of an period. An enduring legacy. A without end Wizard. Congratulations in your retirement,” the group wrote on social media.
Wall, who didn’t play in 2019-20, was concerned in a blockbuster commerce with the Houston Rockets on Dec. 2, 2020, that noticed Russell Westbrook despatched to Washington. The Wizards despatched Wall and a first-round choose within the 2023 NBA Draft to the Rockets for Westbrook and a lottery-protected first-round choose in the identical 2023 draft.
Wall performed one season in Houston (2020-21), sat out the 2021-22 season with an damage and got here again to compete in 34 video games with the Clippers in 2022-23.
–Area Degree Media/Reuters
