{"id":835450,"date":"2026-09-15T00:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/835450\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T00:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:54:42","slug":"after-17-seasons-in-the-nba-i-can-honestly-say-i-gave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/835450\/","title":{"rendered":"After 17 seasons in the NBA, I can honestly say I gave \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/4631\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taj Gibson<\/a>: Today is a very emotional day for me. <a data-ylk=\"slk:After 17 seasons in the NBA, I can honestly say I gave this game everything I had;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;After 17 seasons in the NBA, I can honestly say I gave this game everything I had&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TajGibson\/status\/2099572121290645556?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">After 17 seasons in the NBA, I can honestly say I gave this game everything I had<\/a>. Basketball gave me the opportunity to live a dream. As a kid from Brooklyn, NY, I was lucky to get a chance to display my talent on the biggest stage. From Fort Greene Projects to USC, to the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bulls;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chicago Bulls&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/chicago-bulls\/4\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> , and every team and city that came after, I&#8217;m grateful for every moment, every teammate, every coach, and every person who believed in me. I wanted to be the guy my teammates could count on someone who brought toughness, energy, leadership, and heart every time I stepped on the court. To my family, my friends, my teammates, my coaches, my agent, the NBA , NBPA and the fans, thank you. You were all a part of this journey. But this isn&#8217;t goodbye to Basketball. It&#8217;s the beginning of a new chapter. After 31 years of basketball, I can walk away with no regrets, knowing I left everything on the floor. God has truly blessed me. Thank you Basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taj Gibson: Today is a very emotional day for me. After 17 seasons in the NBA, I can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,329,98935,6,11,7915],"class_list":["post-835450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-playoffs","tag-basketball","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-from-fort-greene-projects","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-taj-gibson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117272331106816582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}