He leaves the basketball courts at 35 years old. Nemanja Bjelica announced his retirement today. She did so first through a message on Instagram, accompanied by a video with her career, and then with a broader statement on Twitter.
A player who was NBA champion in 2022 with the Golden State Warriors and who 7 years earlier won the Euroleague MVP award retires, a player who had a long and fruitful career that also included a world silver medal and another European silver medal with Serbia. and a Turkish league with Fenerbahçe, a team to which he returned in 2022 after leaving behind a long journey of 7 seasons in the United States.
“After 20 years in basketball, I think it is necessary to announce that everything is over“, the former player wrote on his personal Twitter account.
In this writing he has included thanks to all those who accompanied him most closely in his career, and he has words for the Warriors coach, Steve Kerrwhich he says was “who taught me that basketball is much more than winning“.
Bjelica played, among others, for Estrella Roja, Caja Laboral Baskonia, where he spent 3 years, Fenerbahçe and, already in the NBA, for Timberwolves, Kings -where he presented his best numbers-, Heat and Warriors, a team with which he won a ring .
There were a total of 449 regular league games with averages of 7.6 points and 4.6 rebounds in 20.4 minutes, starting 162 times and scoring 38.4% of his triples.
He also played 22 playoff games, 15 of them when he was champion with the Warriors in his last year in the United States.
After a career as solid as this one, Bjelica said today that she considers “new goals“, objectives that are within the world of basketball.
2024-03-23 19:32:00
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