Suddenly announced his retirement!6 years of NBA career is over!Goodbye, Yuta Watanabe

On April 20, Beijing time, the second round of the NBA play-offs was in full swing! In the two games just ended, the Heat eliminated the Bulls 112-91 to advance to the playoffs, and the Pelicans beat the Kings 105-98 to enter the playoffs. With the final two play-off games finalized, the top eight in the East and West are officially born, and the playoffs are about to start!

But just as we were looking forward to the NBA playoffs, someone suddenly announced that they were going to withdraw from the NBA and move to another league. Just ask you if you are surprised, surprised or not? If you don't play in the NBA, you want to go to the lower leagues, and he is Grizzlies forward Yuta Watanabe!

Japanese player Yuta Watanabe announced on his personal social media today that he will officially end his six-year NBA career and will return to the Japanese league next season.

Yuta Watanabe's sudden decision to quit the NBA really caught people off guard! You must know that he is not unplaying in the NBA, and he is not unwanted! You must know that he still has a $2.6 million player option for next season. It is really unbelievable that he chose to give up the exercise of the player option when he had the initiative to play there next season! You must know that Thomas Jr. waited for two full years to realize his dream in order to get a ten-day NBA contract. Yuta Watanabe, you're good, you have the ball to play, you have money to earn and you have a contract to get, but you have to give up on your own initiative.

So, why did Yuta Watanabe, who had been in the NBA for six years, suddenly announce his retirement from the NBA? There are two reasons: first, he wants to enjoy basketball more purely, and second, he thinks that he had a hard time at the age of 20, so he wants to return to his original intention of playing after the age of 30.

This means that Yuta Watanabe will face the rest of his basketball career with the mentality of enjoying basketball, rather than facing high-intensity basketball at the NBA level like before. Of course, there is probably a more important point that he wants to take better care of his family, and he doesn't want his beloved wife to follow him to continue to leave his hometown and work hard in the United States!

Yuta Watanabe has played in just 34 games this season, and after being traded to the Grizzlies by the Suns, he missed the rest of the season due to a wrist injury and personal reasons. In his six-year NBA career, Yuta Watanabe has played for the Raptors, Nets, Suns, and Grizzlies, playing an average of 13.3 minutes per game, scoring 4.2 points, 2.3 rebounds, 0.6 assists and 0.4 steals, shooting 42.6% from the field and 37% from three-point range.

Although Yuta Watanabe's NBA career is over, his basketball career will continue! According to relevant Japanese media reports, nearly 20 teams in the Japanese league have expressed interest in Yuta Watanabe, and a battle for Yuta Watanabe is about to break out!

Goodbye, Yuta Watanabe, may you find the pure basketball you want in the Japanese league.