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NBA 15-year-veteran forward LaMarcus Aldridge announced his retirement from the league after an irregular heartbeat scare, he said on social media Thursday.
“Though I’m better now, what I felt with my heart that night was still one of the scariest things I’ve experienced,” Aldridge said on Twitter.
Aldridge signed with the Brooklyn Nets in March after being bought out by the San Antonio Spurs. He had played just five games with the Net, playing his last game on April 10.
For the season, he was averaging 13.5 points and 4.5 rebounds per game.
The 35-year-old was the No. 2 pick in the 2006 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls before being traded to the Portland Trail Blazers in a draft night deal. Aldridge spent his first nine seasons in Portland, before signing with the Spurs. He has been selected to five All-NBA teams and is a seven-time NBA All-Star.
Brandon Marshall's Passionate But Incorrect Take About NBA Contracts Has Twitter Saying He Was Loud & Wrong
Continue reading Brandon Marshall’s Passionate But Incorrect Take About NBA Contracts Has Twitter Saying He Was Loud & Wrong
Brandon Marshall's Passionate But Incorrect Take About NBA Contracts Has Twitter Saying He Was Loud & Wrong
[caption id="attachment_415663" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Source: Cindy Ord / Getty[/caption] There has always been a debate when it comes to the contracts the NFL players sign compared to those NBA athletes put ink to. Retired NFL superstar Brandon Marshall put on full display he has a lot to learn when it comes to that conversation. During a recent episode of the I Am Athlete show that Marshall cohosts with fellow NFL ballers Chad "Ocho Cinco" Johnson and Channing Crowder, things got very heated when Chad and Channing said it's easier for the NBA players to run the league because they have guaranteed contracts. Marshall however vehemently disagreed with Johnson and Crowder and is now being called "loud and wrong" becuase he argued that only four players on an NBA team have guaranteed contracts. You don't have to be an NBA expert to know that is FALSE. "Not everybody that’s on an NBA roster has a guaranteed contract…There’s four guys on an NBA team that got guaranteed contracts and everybody else can be cut today and don’t got nothing," Marshall yelled with every vein in his neck bulging out. https://twitter.com/JustRyCole/status/1379206052512628737?s=20 If there was ever a visual representation of being loud and wrong, that clip of Marshall is it. Of course, the video has spawned plenty of reactions, NBA player Jared Dudley chimed in, sharing the clip in a retweet writing, "This man can’t be serious??? 95% of players have guaranteed contracts... Sometimes 1 person per roster will sign a partial with a later date to either being cut or signed for the remainder of the season.. Only top Elite QBs have similar NBA deals." https://twitter.com/JaredDudley619/status/1379425238748909568?s=20 D'Angelo Russell responded to Dudley's tweet implying the both of them should take a trip to the show to educate the world. https://twitter.com/Dloading/status/1379472161396690948?s=20 Twitter isn't being so nice and has been clowning Marshall all day. You can peep those reactions in the gallery below. Photo: Cindy Ord / Getty
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