{"id":432390,"date":"2023-03-31T15:21:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T19:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432390"},"modified":"2023-03-31T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T18:34:17","slug":"lamarcus-aldridge-retires-again","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lamarcus-aldridge-retires-again\/","title":{"rendered":"LaMarcus Aldridge retires again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former star of the Portland Trail Blazers and San Antonio Spurs said on Twitter that he is calling it a career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the words of TB12, you only get one big, emotional retirement&#8230; on that note&#8230;I&#8217;m thankful for all the memories, family, and friends I made throughout my career,&#8221; Aldridge tweeted. &#8220;It was one hell of a ride, and I enjoyed every min!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LaMarcus spent 16 years in the NBA but announced retirement for a short period in 2020-21 because of an irregular heartbeat problem while he was part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/brooklyn-nets\/\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Later Aldridge got permission from the doctors to play and took part in 47 matches of Brooklyn in a 1-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Portland picked him with the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> pick in the 2006 NBA draft, and he played 9 years for Trail Blazers. Then he became part of San Antonio, joining them before the beginning of the 2015-16 season as a free agent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">After 16 NBA seasons, LaMarcus Aldridge announces he has retired from basketball. Aldridge was a seven-time NBA All-Star and played for Portland, San Antonio and Brooklyn after going No. 2 in the 2006 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1641852425605611541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 2020-21 he joined Nets as this will be his last team in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>LaMarcus played in 7 All-Star games and averaged almost 20 points per game during his career and over 8 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former star of the Portland Trail Blazers and San Antonio Spurs said on Twitter that he is calling it a career. &#8220;In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432391,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16720,17837,16847,18533],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17842,18534,18063,18132,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Aldridge retired for a 2nd time from NBA.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432390"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432390"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}