Gasol Jr., who has not been seen for a long time, officially announced today, will return to the Basketball Club Girona in the Spanish Second Division, sign a contract until the end of the season, and decide whether to retire after the season.
At that time, Xiao Jia will be 37 years old.
I have to say that the career trajectory of the big plus is really similar to ah, the Grizzlies debuted, changed the team to realize the dream of winning the championship, and then returned to the hometown in the hometown where the career dream began to retire one after another, which is also a good thing.
Xiao Jia probably still wants to continue to play, but his physical condition is really not suitable for continuing to stay in the NBA, too old and too slow.
In September this year, Xiao Jia was traded back to the Grizzlies by the Lakers, and then cut by the Grizzlies, and has been in free agent status until now back in the La Liga. However, how to say, to retire as a Grizzlies player, it is still satisfactory.
If nothing else, the Grizzlies should have retired Xiao Jia's jersey, right? It should be, the Grizzlies are not Timberwolves, after all, they were willing to let go of their merits to win the championship, or quite benevolent.
Trivia: The Grizzlies have not retired any jerseys for the time being. It is also that the ancestors are not very rich.
Soon, however, the Grizzlies will usher in the first jersey retirement ceremony in team history, but the protagonist is not Xiao Jia for the time being, but Randolph, the black bear of the black and white bears.
In half a month, in the home game against the Rockets on December 12 this year, the Grizzlies will retire Randolph's No. 50 jersey, and Randolph will become the Grizzlies' first retired jersey owner.
It should not be said that this pick day or the Grizzlies will pick ah, play rockets to do ceremonies, one can recall the grudge of that year, after all, it was also an old enemy of the same division.
Second, the embarrassing plot of the home team's loss on the night of the jersey retirement happened too much, and with the current situation of the Rockets, the Grizzlies have a great possibility of winning, and this careful machine must make Randolph happy to come in and go out happily.
However, the second jersey retiree in the history of the team has not been so smooth, originally the Grizzlies decided to hold a retirement ceremony for Tony Allen in the game against the Jazz on January 29 next year, but Tony Allen recently took the initiative to ask the Grizzlies to postpone the ceremony until next season.
The reason may be that everyone has heard a little, some time ago in the NBA big case, including Tony Allen, 18 former NBA players were accused of defrauding insurance money, most of the methods are to falsify the information of the teeth and defraud huge insurance.
Tony Allen was still involved in a relatively large amount of money, defrauding a total of $420,000 and paying 500,000 bail before being released.
According to the indictment, Tony Allen has repaid 70,000 of the 420,000 compensation, the remaining 350,000, and he does not know whether he deliberately does not pay it back, does not pay it back for the time being, or does not pay it back at all, after all, the NBA players who have been poor after retiring are also unable to count.
Young someone checked, Tony Allen has earned a total of $40.69 million in 14 seasons of his career, which is really not much in the NBA, after all, today's rookie contracts are more than his entire career.
Probably because of the scandal, Tony Allen made the decision to postpone the retirement ceremony of the jersey.
After all, it is quite humiliating to make such a thing at such a beautiful time.