The Brooklyn Nets have been trying to improve the roster for the upcoming 2025-26 NBA season as the franchise continues what it hopes will be a short rebuild process. Between now and when training camp begins in September, Brooklyn’s last bit of business is re-signing guard Cam Thomas. However, there is another guard that some players on the team are paying attention to.
John Wall, formerly of the Washington Wizards, Houston Rockets, and Los Angeles Clippers, announced his retirement on Tuesday in a video that he posted to his account on X. Wall retired from the NBA after spending 11 seasons in the league, most of that time spent with the Wizards as he established himself as one of the marquee point guards during the 2010s.
Nets forward Terance Mann, who spent one season as Wall’s teammate during the 2022-23 season when both were with the Clippers, posted on his X account that Tuesday was an “emotional” day for him. After the 2016-17 season when he made his fourth of his five All-Star appearances, Wall did not play more than 41 games in a season as he dealt with various injuries during that time.
Brooklyn center Day’Ron Sharpe who, like Wall, hails from North Carolina, gave a shoutout to Wall on his Instagram Story calling Wall an “NC Legend” for the work that he did since leaving North Carolina to pursue his professional basketball aspirations. Wall was a one-and-done at the University of Kentucky before entering the 2010 NBA Draft, where the Wizards took him with the first overall pick.
Wall, 34, did not win a championship in the NBA, but he has plenty of accomplishments from his time in the league. Wall was part of the 2011 All-Rookie First-Team, five-time All-Star, won the Slam Dunk Contest in 2014, Second-Team All-Defense in 2015, and was Third-Team All-NBA in 2017. As Mann and Sharpe showed, Wall will always be remembered fondly for what he did was one of the better players during his prime.
Emotional day for me, John Wall retired mannnnnnn
— Terance Mann (@terance_mann) August 19, 2025