Lonzo Ball retirement announcement Baltimore Ravens

    by Souleymane Popov: Lonzo Ball

    Lonzo Ball says he's officially retired from basketball after reflecting on his NBA career and the injuries that came with it. He admits he never got to his peak potential and thinks that sh*t sucks, but points out there are people who don't have meals at night to eat. That's how he looks at the world. #LonzoBall

    Transcript (en)

    It wasn't as hard as probably people would think, only because I felt like I never shortchanged the game. Like, I feel like I gave everything I had to hoop, and I feel like everything I got in my life is because of hoop. So I'm grateful to even make it to the league and even be able to play for nine years, you feel me? So that's how I look at it. I kind of look at it like halfway full and not halfway empty type of thing. But I'm also grateful that I got to sign the 82 before the shit happened. Like, that helped a lot too, honestly. Speaking truthful. The same thing with mine. I got injured. I got injured. And mine, I came back for two games. Right? Thugged it out for two games. Like, yeah, I told you I'm back. Like, no, shit. No, for sure. Then I got the 1-11. Then, you know. I had like three surgeries in 14 months. It was really hard because it's like, the people you were catching up to, they going. And then people behind you is catching. It's like, oh. It just takes the joy out of like, cause your game changes. And then like you said, you see where you're supposed to be and then you physically can't get there. So it's just like, I don't know. You gotta be comfortable with yourself to be honest with you. Like that's how I am. I feel like, to be honest, I don't think I ever got to my peak. And it's like, damn that shit sucks. But at the same time, there's a lot of people like that don't have meals at night to eat type shit. That's how I look at the world. So it's like, damn, I still got to make it up there and got to play and put the jersey on and do everything I wanted to do as a kid. So that was enough for me to be happy.