Ever since he’s a basketball player, Kemba Walker had never lived an October without playing basketball. Whether it was in high school, college or the NBA, the four-time All-Star always started the fall with a ball in their hands, but this year it went differently. After the sale by the New York Knicks, Walker is formally under contract with the Detroit Pistons, with whom, however, he agrees not to join the team that has other needs in terms of time and space to give to young people. For this Walker is free to find a new team to join after a buyoutbut so far no pretender has come forward: “Nobody called me, but I’m waiting“he said in an interview with the Boston Globe.” I still have something in the tank, that’s for sure. I feel great, I’m in no rush because I know I’ll have another chance. The problem was never basketball, just my knee“. In fact, in recent years the conditions of the left knee (operated on several times during his career) have definitely worsened, making even more evident are its defensive problems already complicated by a height that is certainly not towering (barely reaches 1.80).
Walker and the return to Charlotte: “It would be special”
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Detroit downloads Kemba Walker: the future is uncertain
Walker reiterates his pride, but also that it will not prevent him from making himself available to anyone: “I have nothing to prove to anyone: everyone knows what I have done in the course of my career and what I have done in this league. I just want to be able to play basketball again, I don’t care if I start off the bench or not. I started my career as a reserve, so I don’t care. I am an agonist. I want to play because that’s what I like to do, be with my teammates and have fun. “His last public appearance was in the pre-season match between the Boston Celtics and the Charlotte Hornets. sitting between two top Charlotte executives like COO James Jordan and head of marketing Seth Bennett, being acclaimed by the home crowd and making us imagine the possibility of a return to the franchise of which he is the best scorer ever, especially now that on the bench there is Steve Clifford, his coach in the best years of his career between 2013 and 2018. “It would be special, for sure. I’m not thinking about retirement: I love basketball too much. But I have no regrets: I had a great career, when I was cast in the Draft no one expected me to become the best scorer in an NBA franchise. I can’t complain: I’ve come a long way“.
