Jamal Crawford, three-time NBA Sixth Man of the Year, announces retirement from basketball

For years, Jamal Crawford was the gold standard of NBA reserves. He managed to stay on an NBA court beyond his 40th birthday, but now, more than two decades after his career began, he is finally hanging it up and retiring from professional basketball. "Goodbye to the game, all the spoils the adrenaline rush," Crawford said in a tweet posted late Sunday night. "Thank you basketball, I owe you everything."

Crawford was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 2000, but across his nearly two decades in the NBA, he managed to play for quite a few other teams. Before he was done, he suited up for the Knicks, Warriors, Hawks, Blazers, Clippers, Timberwolves, Suns and Nets. In that time, he became the NBA's premier bench scorer. The Seattle native averaged 14.6 points per game and won the league's Sixth Man of the Year award three times, once with the Hawks and twice with the Clippers.

“ Goodbye to the game, all the spoils the adrenaline rush.”

Thank you basketball, I owe you everything …..✌🏾

In addition, Crawford is revered as one of the best teammates of his generation. In 2018, he won the NBA's Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year award, and that reputation helped him find work far beyond what is considered the expiration date for most players.

Crawford was a full-time NBA reserve at the age of 38 for the Suns. In his final game for Phoenix, he became the oldest player in NBA history to score 50 or more points at 39 years and 20 days of age.

That would have been an appropriate time to retire, but Crawford still felt he had basketball in him. He managed to convince the Nets to give him a try in the Orlando bubble after his 40th birthday, and afterward, he still held out hope that he could return to the league and contribute. But nearly two years beyond that final showing with the Nets, the 42-year-old Crawford is finally ready to acknowledge that even if he can still get buckets, his time as an NBA player has come to a close.

Comments

Dennis Rodman Once Said He, Michael Jordan, And Scottie Pippen Could Lock Up LeBron James: "LeBron Is So Easy To Play. He’s So F**king Easy To Play. He Doesn’t Have Any Moves."

If there is something that will never end it is the comparison between players from different eras. Even in that niche, most comparisons revolve around the legendary players from the Chicago Bulls. Yes, we are talking about the likes of Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman. A perfect example of that was seen by fans back in a 2019 interview featuring Dennis Rodman. The Worm was asked about his thoughts on guarding none other than LeBron James. Rodman replied: (starts at 6:06) "You know who could lock up LeBron? Me, Mike, and Scottie could. F*ck yeah. I would have locked his a** up. LeBron is so easy to play. He’s so f*cking easy to play, he don’t have any moves. Only move he has is streak down the line. He ain’t got no moves. Where he going?? Where is he going that’s quick? That’ll be sh*t, you can stop that. Scottie Pippen would have shut his f*cking a** down quick before I get to him. His game is too simple, he’s just big. I’m 260 and 6’8” and 6’9”, that’s the onl...

From Deep: At long last, Nikola Jokic's Nuggets can envision getting to the top of the mountain

Jamal Murray tore his ACL on April 12, 2021. Leading up to that night, he'd been playing at an All-NBA level for two months: In a 25-game stretch, Murray averaged 24.1 points on .509/.459/.935 shooting splits, 4.2 rebounds and 5.2 assists. He was even more efficient than he was in the bubble playoffs, and his defense had improved, too. Murray only got to play with Aaron Gordon, the Denver Nuggets' big trade-deadline addition, for five games. They won them all except the one in which Murray got injured. In 110 minutes, their new starting five scored slightly more efficiently than any iteration of the Kevin Durant-era death lineup in Golden State and defended like a top-five team. Two Nikola Jokic MVP awards later, Murray is back. So is Michael Porter Jr., who signed a five-year extension about a year ago and needed back surgery nine games into the 2020-21 season. The Nuggets remember how easily everything slid into place with Gordon in the mix. Newcomer Kentavious Caldwell-Pop...

Michael Jordan On LeBron James: "He's An Unbelievable Player, He's One Of The Best Players In The World... I'm A Fan Of His, I Love Watching Him Play..."

Even before he made it to the NBA, LeBron James was already compared to the greatest player of all time, Michael Jordan. His Airness made a huge impact on the league, winning six championships in eight years, dominating rivals every night, and becoming one of the best two-way players in NBA history. During his career, and even during his retirement, many players were compared to Jordan, but nobody could live up to the expectations. LeBron James was deemed 'The Chosen One' when he was a teenager, and comparisons between him and MJ never stopped coming. They have mutual respect, and the biggest proof of that came during the 2022 All-Star Game, where MJ and Bron embraced each other in Cleveland. James would post a big pic of his first and most recent encounter with Jordan, paying respect to the man that inspired him. Just like the Los Angeles Lakers superstar has always shown his admiration for James, Jordan has done the same before. Back in 2020, during a press co...

Crossover World

Search This Blog