In the 2019-2020 season, Crawford signed a short contract with the Nets, but he only played one game and has not played a single NBA game since. He has been waiting for an opportunity for the past two years, but as he gets older, the opportunity has not come until he announces his retirement.
Today is Crawford's 42nd birthday, and he posted on social media: "Goodbye to the arena I loved, goodbye to all the accolades and achievements, goodbye to that adrenaline rush. Thank you basketball, you gave me everything..." With Crawford retiring, all the players in the Class of 2000 retired from the NBA stage.
In his 19-year NBA career, Crawford played 1327 games, including 433 games as the starting starter, averaging 29.4 minutes per game, contributing 14.6 points, 2.2 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 0.9 steals and 0.2 blocks, shooting 41% from the field and 34.8% from three-point range.
Crawford averaged 20.6 points, 2.6 rebounds and five assists per game at his peak, and averaged very close to 20 points per game in two seasons, he was a great scorer with a gorgeous style, but the scoring efficiency was not high and more suitable for disrupting the game, so he spent most of his career playing the role of the sixth man on the team, he won the best sixth person award three times, and was the first player in NBA history to win the award three times (and Later Lovell did it).
How much money has such a player with insufficient starting points and more than one bench in the NBA made in the NBA for 19 years? The answer is $117.36 million, or $117.36 million, enough to live a prosperous life after retirement if he hadn't squandered it. How did Crawford get all this money?
For the first four years of his career, Crawford took a rookie contract with annual salaries of $1.76 million, $1.89 million, $2.03 million and $2.58 million. He was then traded to the Knicks by the Bulls, where he earned $5.76 million, $6.48 million, $7.2 million and $7.92 million over the four years he spent with the Knicks.
On November 21, 2008, the Knicks and the Warriors made a deal, and Crawford was traded to the Warriors, where he received $8.64 million in salary for a year. He was later traded to the Hawks, and it was at this time that he slowly found himself more suitable for a substitute role, and then positioned himself as the sixth man on the team.
In the Eagles' two seasons, Crawford earned $9.36 million and $10.8 million a year, and in the Eagles' first season, he won the first best sixth man award of his career.
After ending his contract with the Hawks, Crawford signed with the Trail Blazers as a free agent, signing the two sides to a two-year, $10 million contract that included player options the following year. In the Blazers' first season, Crawford earned $5 million a year, and his performance caught the attention of the Clippers, who were awarded a four-year, $21.7 million contract, and Crawford decided to jump out of the second-year contract with the Blazers to sign with the Clippers.
Crawford was one of the older and older players in the Clippers' second spring, during which time he was twice named the best sixth man, becoming the player with the most best sixth man awards in NBA history, his annual salary was $5 million, $5.23 million, $5.45 million and $5.68 million, and he later signed a two-year contract with the Clippers, with an annual salary of $13.25 million and $10.94 million (the next year he was traded by the Clippers to the Hawks, and then bought out with the Hawks, Lost some money).
After a buyout with the Hawks, Crawford signed a two-year, $8.9 million contract with the Timberwolves, Crawford played one season with the Timberwolves and got $4.33 million, and in the second season he chose to give up the $4.5 million player option and signed with the Suns as a free agent, signing a one-year, $2.39 million contract.
Crawford, who was 38 while on the Suns, performed badly and became a free agent at the end of the season and was left without the ball for a long time. Later signed a short contract with the Nets, only played one game and did not get the opportunity to play, and then has been unemployed so far, and now announced retirement, farewell to the 19-year NBA career, open a new chapter in life, and wish "Ke Liu" can live as dashing as his style of play after retirement.