The ability of a player to retire a jersey on a team is a supreme honor and a team's praise for meritorious players, such as the Los Angeles Lakers who changed their usual style and directly retired Kobe Bryant's two jerseys. So it's true that in the future, the problem of teams retiring all their numbers is only a matter of time. In the history of the NBA, the Celtics and Lakers are the teams with the largest number of championships, but the Greenshirts basically retired a jersey in three years.
Today's players often change teams, which will also cause difficulties in retiring jerseys. The condition for the team to retire the jersey is that you must make a remarkable contribution to the team and pay a considerable amount of sweat so that you have the possibility of being retired, and now the players are constantly changing the team, hugging or passively trading, and the difficulty of retiring the jersey is self-evident. Like Celtic Pierce, although he has only won the championship once, he has spent most of his career with the Celtics, so it is normal for his jersey to be retired. Despite Durant's two-game winning streak with the Warriors, his numbers have made it difficult for the Warriors to retire, let alone in the Thunder era and now the Nets era.
There are almost no players in one man, one city. Nowadays, there are still a few one-man and one-city in the NBA, players usually choose to hold a group in order to compete for the championship, and now the players of one-man and one-city are only Curry, Clay and Lillard, and the possibility of them being retired by the team is the greatest. We went on to say, what if all the numbers were really retired?
Use the senior number, according to the NBA league rules: as long as the approval of the team's retired jersey owner, the new player can use this number, just like the former Spurs player Aldridge's favorite Number 12, in fact, has been retired by the team, belongs to Bruce Bowen, but Bowen supports Aldridge to a large extent. But this approach does not solve the underlying problem, such as some old players have passed away, let's say what if some people do not support it? Perhaps, the NBA league and all teams should think of other ways. Although the NBA is a business league, there are always some special cases where the warm side is reflected in other ways, such as jersey retirement. Behind every retired trench coat, there is an exciting story.
Create a new number segment. In recent years, like many new segments of phone numbers, the numbers have increased dramatically. Similarly, it is entirely possible for the NBA to introduce the 100-999 number, or even the 1000-9999 number segment, and even a little exaggerated, using a combination of letters and numbers, it is also possible.
The uncertainty of the future development of the NBA, because jersey retirement does not happen every year, NBA teams can produce a historical level of player is not easy, maybe a long time to produce such a player, you see the Lakers, 20 years only out of a Kobe, the Lakers last retired jersey is O'Neal, the Lakers were established more than seventy years ago, the Lakers retired 10 players 11 numbers, new players also have a lot of numbers to choose from, we count according to 10 years of retirement a number, that will take hundreds of years, at that time No one knows what the NBA will become, and maybe the NBA is gone.
Considering the current frequent change of players in the league, there may be fewer and fewer players who can enjoy jersey retirement in the future! As the team with the most retired jerseys today, the Celtics do not need to consider whether to change the number, let alone other teams!