2029 - Retiring player list

[Flaming Homer]

We went with the game for the retirement, it seems the craziness didn't happen in 22.

Following players decided to call it quits (shown in game):

Bryce Cotton after 15 years
Willie Cauley-Stein after 14 years
TJ McConnell after 13 years
Matthew Dellavedova after 11 years
Okaro White after 15 years
Justin Holiday after 11 years
Kadeem Allen after 7 years
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist after 17 years

[Marcos_Beck]

Kadeem Allen retiring after starting for a conf finals team is mind boggling
The rest had nice careers and will be missed!

[KW]

Kadeem Allen is an absolute lockdown defender and only 31. He turned Monk into Jordan Clarkson in our first round series. That's a wild retirement.

Between Okaro, Allen, and MKG, that's three of the best defenders in league history. WCS and Holiday were really good defenders too.

[hardenwithnod]

Kadeem Allen’s retirement makes no sense, but the rest all makes sense. Some very good careers there!

[Flaming Homer]

Kadeem Allen is an absolute lockdown defender and only 31. He turned Monk into Jordan Clarkson in our first round series. That's a wild retirement.

I always thought he was drafted already 27 or something like that?

[KW]

Kadeem Allen is an absolute lockdown defender and only 31. He turned Monk into Jordan Clarkson in our first round series. That's a wild retirement.

I always thought he was drafted already 27 or something like that?

yeah he was 24, same draft as Ayton. Dude played 5 years at the minimum, got big bucks for a couple from Denver and peaced out

[Flaming Homer]

Would have liked to retire with 31

[Jestor]

I always felt like we should rename DPotY the Okaro White Award. Dude was hands down the greatest defender for years

[cb4raptorscb4]

Damn, Allen is a surprise. He just started 102 games this year lol.

Quite a few nostalgic top defenders on that short list.

[mgtr81]

Dellavedova was a Buck for some time. We wish him the best. A 31-year-old starter in a good team retiring is a bit worrying moving forward, I hope it's some kind of outlier.

[OneNole]

More reasons why I hate this engine. A first team all defensive player who started on a conference finals team and would likely have gotten paid this offseason decided to retire. Has this ever happened in basketball before?

Its happened a couple times in football but I can't think of one example in basketball.

[KW]

More reasons why I hate this engine. A first team all defensive player who started on a conference finals team and would likely have gotten paid this offseason decided to retire. Has this ever happened in basketball before?

Its happened a couple times in football but I can't think of one example in basketball.

obviously not that caliber at one skill but I remember Darren Collison turning down a pretty large sumbof money to retire

[Rizzo]

Wow, Okaro and MKG hanging it up. Two defensive legends in this league.

[bt]

More reasons why I hate this engine. A first team all defensive player who started on a conference finals team and would likely have gotten paid this offseason decided to retire. Has this ever happened in basketball before?

Its happened a couple times in football but I can't think of one example in basketball.

Crazy shit happens in sports all the time that would turn heads here and it just is but in a sim engine, hang on a sec

Dude probably wants to spend more time with his family or beat on his missus and steps away or play baseball or is heading to the UFC

[Andrewu91]

More reasons why I hate this engine. A first team all defensive player who started on a conference finals team and would likely have gotten paid this offseason decided to retire. Has this ever happened in basketball before?

Its happened a couple times in football but I can't think of one example in basketball.

I mean once my manager gave up on me, I would consider leaving too.

[WillyJakkz]

Okaro White!!!