Defeating opponents to win championships is the dream of all NBA players, but winning the championship depends not only on strength, but also on luck. Lucky players just entered the league and followed the team to win the championship, and unlucky players do not know how many teams have been changed, do not know how many salary cuts have not won the championship, which is a very regrettable thing, so many people hope that veterans who have made many sacrifices for the championship can win the championship, hope that they can realize the championship dream before retiring, and take stock of the players who retired after the realization of the dream.
Gary Payton
Payton is an offensive and defensive defender who averaged 16.3 points, 3.9 rebounds, 6.7 assists, 1.8 steals and 0.2 blocks per game in his career and shooting 67.6 percent from the field. He has been named to the All-Defensive Team 2 times, the All-Team 2nd Team 5 times, the All-Team 3rd Team 2 times, the Best Defensive Team 9 times, the Best Defensive Player 1 time, the Steal King 1 time, and the All-Star 9 times.
Payton partnered Camp "Rainman" at his peak, leading the Supersonics to the Finals in 1996, only to be defeated by Jordan's Bulls. Since then, Payton has stuck to the supersonics, but the team has never reached the Finals again. In the 2003-2004 season, at the age of 35, he joined the Lakers for the basic salary of the championship, and formed the "Big Four" with O'Neal, Kobe Bryant and Malone, but Malone and Payton did not perform well when they were older, and there was a contradiction between O'Neal and Kobe, which led to their upset loss to the Pistons in the Finals, after which Malone regretted retirement, and Payton continued to work hard for the championship.
In the 2005-2006 season, Payton joined the Heat, under the leadership of O'Neal and Wade, the Heat reached the Finals, Although Payton is 37 years old, but also made a lot of contributions in the Finals, provided a lot of help for the team, and finally the Heat defeated the Lone Rangers 4-2, Payton successfully lifted the championship trophy. He played only 2 games in the following season, retired from the NBA, and was able to win the championship before retiring, which was much luckier than Players such as Malone, Barkley, stockton and so on.
Juwan Howard
Uncle Huo has excellent shooting ability, the second season on the average of 22.1 points per game, when he was only 22 years old, the Wizards felt that he had a bright future, provided a contract of 100 million yuan, which made Uncle Huo become the first Mr. 100 million yuan in the history of the NBA, but unfortunately Uncle Huo failed to go further after signing a big contract, averaging about 19 points per game for 3 consecutive years, and did not grow into a superstar.
After the contract with the Wizards expired, Uncle Huo played two years in the Lone Rangers, one year on the Magic, three years on the Rockets, and one year back to the Lone Rangers, and then signed a year with the Nuggets, Bobcats and Trail Blazers for one year each.
In 2011, the Heat reached the Finals, but were defeated by the Lone Rangers. In 2012, the Heat finally defeated the Thunder to win the championship, Uncle Huo won the NBA championship for the first time, in 2013, the Heat defeated the Spurs to win the championship, Uncle Huo achieved two consecutive championships, after which he announced his retirement, with two consecutive championships for his career to draw a successful end.
Peja Stojakovic
Peja is a member of the "Golden Generation of '96", he was selected by the Kings with the 14th pick in the first round, the draft pick is only one place behind Kobe Bryant, his achievements and strength are far less than Bryant, but he is also a very good player, he is a top scorer, averaging 17 points per game in his career and shooting 40.1% from three-point range.
Playing for the Kings was peja's peak, he averaged 20+ in four seasons, the highest one averaged 24.2 points per game, shooting 43.3% from three-point range, but unfortunately, the gorgeous kings team could not break out of the West. Peja later played for the Pacers, Hornets, raptors, and in the 2010-2011 season, he signed with the Hornets again, playing 6 games and being traded to the Lone Ranger, he did not expect that the deal would make his dream come true.
At that time, the Lone Ranger only Nowitzki was selected as an All-Star, most of the veterans, who could have imagined that Nowitzki had no one to stop in the playoffs, and the veterans' rich experience also played a huge role, Kidd's passing, Terry and Peja's three-pointers, Chandler protected rebounds and guarded the inside line, all the staff had a heart, and finally defeated the Heat Triumvirate in an unpopular situation to win the championship, Peja won the only NBA championship of his career, and he announced his retirement at the end of the season.
David West
West averaged 20+ in two seasons, and he was named to the All-Star Team in both seasons. He has since gone on to play an average of 20+ per game, but he is also a quality big forward, starting as a big forward during the Hornets and Pacers, and his annual salary is around $10 million.
However, in the 2015-2016 season, he became a substitute player, the annual salary was only $12 million to $1.5 million, the 35-year-old at the time was still able to play a good performance, but he joined the Spurs for the championship base salary and accepted the role of substitute, but unfortunately he failed to realize his dream that year.
He joined the Warriors again after the season, and in the two seasons he played for the Warriors, his annual salaries were $1.55 million and $1.47 million, and he played on the bench, he sacrificed a lot and got rewards - the Warriors won the championship in those two seasons, West announced his farewell basketball career after completing two consecutive championships, sleeping with two championship trophies would be more fragrant, and there were more memorable moments after retiring.
PJ Brown
Brown, who entered the draft in 1992 and was selected by the Nets with the second pick in the second round, is a 2.11-meter-tall center with average scoring ability and rebounding ability, averaging 9.1 points and 7.7 rebounds per game in his career, but his defense is excellent, he has been selected to the best defensive team two teams three times.
Brown has played for the Nets, Heat, Hornets, Bulls and Celtics in his career. He announced his retirement at the end of the 2006–2007 season, but made a comeback in the middle of the 2007–2008 season and joined the Celtics, who own the Big Three of Pierce, Garnett and Ray Allen, with the obvious purpose of fulfilling his championship dream.
In the playoffs that year, he averaged 13.6 minutes per game, averaging 2.9 points, 2.4 rebounds, 0.5 assists, 0.2 steals, 0.4 blocks, shooting 46.4% from the field, although he did not contribute much, but he did not completely lie down to win the championship, and after winning the championship, he completely bid farewell to basketball.
In addition to the above five, there are matt Barnes, Sandton Anderson, Danny Ferry and other players who also retired after winning the championship, in addition, what else do you know?