{"id":26422,"date":"2025-08-20T05:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/john-wall-nba-legend-announces-his-retirement-after-11-seasons\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:06:16","slug":"john-wall-nba-legend-announces-his-retirement-after-11-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/john-wall-nba-legend-announces-his-retirement-after-11-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wall, NBA legend, announces his retirement after 11 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>John Wall Hangs Up His Sneakers After 11 Seasons in the NBA<\/h2>\n\nThe renowned point guard John Wall has announced his retirement from the NBA after eleven seasons full of action and memorable moments.\n\nWall, 34, developed most of his career with the Washington Wizards, the team that selected him as the first pick in the 2010 draft from Kentucky. The point guard, a five-time All-Star, closes his career in the league with averages of 18.7 points and 8.9 assists per game.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Today, I&#8217;m leaving the court, but I&#8217;m not stepping away from the game. Basketball will always be in my life, and new opportunities are emerging. I feel that now is the time to confidently walk towards my next chapter.<\/p><cite>John Wall<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<strong>John Wall&#8217;s social media post:<\/strong>\n\nThe player shared the news through his platforms, marking the end of an era for one of the most dynamic point guards of the last decade.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Retired but never done. Doing it the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WallWay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WallWay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s1pX9afHfL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/s1pX9afHfL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; John Wall (@JohnWall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnWall\/status\/1957823710540280042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nIn addition to his time with the Wizards, Wall also played for the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Clippers.\n\nHis best season was 2016-17, where he averaged 23.1 points and 10.7 assists for the Wizards, earning him a spot on the All-NBA third team.\n\nAt his best, Wall was one of the fastest and most athletic point guards in the league, and he was the champion of the slam dunk contest in 2014. He also stood out for his defense, being included in the All-Defensive second team in 2015.\n\nInjuries affected the second half of his career. In the last six seasons, he never played more than half the games, and he did not participate in the last two.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wall Hangs Up His Sneakers After 11 Seasons in the NBA The renowned point guard John Wall has announced his retirement from the NBA after eleven seasons full of action and memorable moments. Wall, 34, developed most of his career with the Washington Wizards, the team that selected him as the first pick in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[7506,103,547,4673],"class_list":{"0":"post-26422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-john-wall","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-withdrawal","11":"tag-wizards"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}