After five seasons with Italian club Virtus Bologna, former San Antonio Spurs champion Marco Belinelli announced his retirement from basketball. A month later, he decided not to leave the game totally behind.
This week, former San Antonio Spurs champion and international legend Marco Belinelli officially announced his retirement from the NBA after 13 seasons.
Belinelli wasn't ever the most famous or accomplished NBA player. But in his 13 NBA seasons, the recently retired guard was part of a number of big NBA moments.
The all-time list of NBA All-Stars is obviously long, and notably distinguished. However, there are some players — for various reasons — who the casual, or even most-dedicated, NBA fans can't recall having earned All-Star nods.
One veteran NBA guard has pulled up for his last triple. Marco Belinelli announced in a post to his Instagram page on Monday that he is retiring as a player.
Looking back on the Sacramento Kings’ rosters of the past, you can’t help but notice a ton of well-known NBA players showing up. Some players’ time in Sacramento was a bit more memorable, while others you likely forgot even played for the Kings.
Belinelli, who turned 39 in March, was selected with the 18th overall pick in the 2007 draft and spent the next 13 seasons in the NBA, appearing in 860 total regular season games for nine teams.
As the NBA offseason has entered the middle of August, things have begun to quiet down as teams are now preparing for the start of training camp and the beginning of the 2025-26 season.
NBA players come in all different sizes and roles, and not all journeys are the same. Some players may only appear in one NBA game in their career, while a select few players have been able to carve out careers with 20 or more seasons played.
Kyle Korver, Sterling Brown, Anthony Tolliver, Marco Belinelli, and Jonathan Isaac are set to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican this morning to discuss the role of social and activism in the league.
Entering the All-Star break, Nuggets guard Gary Harris is shooting only 40 percent from the field and 29.9 percent from three and averaging 10.2 points. Yardbarker's Brett Koremenos also identifies three other players whose year-over-year play has declined.