The 41-year-old man of the Argentinian basketball career Manu Ginobili has closed today, after 16 seasons in the NBA, all the San Antonio Spurs shirt, decided to withdraw from the sport. The news was confirmed by NBA legend itself through a post on his official Twitter page, surprising everyone, as the Argentine had a year contract with Spurs.
Ginobili won with the San Antonio team 4 championship titles in the NBA (2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014), but he is also the winner of the gold medal at the Athens 2004 Olympics and of the bronze medal in “Beijing 2008 “. The Argentine has also won a title at the Euroleague with the Virtus Bologna team in 2001, before moving to America, where it turned into legend.
The Argentinean basketball player has written one of NBA’s most historic sites and the San Antonio team, where he played 1057 matches and scored 14,043 points in total. An Icon !!!
“Today, amid a great regret and amidst a lot of sadness and emotion, I suggest that I have taken the decision to leave the basketball. I thank everyone, my family, friends, teammates, trainers and fans, all who have been involved in my life in the last 23 years. It has been an extraordinary journey that has surpassed all the expectations of my most rampant dreams, “he wrote in his farewell message Manu Ginobili.
