Former NBA champion P.J. Tucker has announced his retirement from basketball at the age of 41.
The high point of his career came in 2021 when Tucker won an NBA Championship with the Milwaukee Bucks.
That year, he was traded from the Houston Rockets to the Bucks and went on to appear in 20 regular season games and another 23 in the playoffs.
But he also played for the Toronto Raptors, Phoenix Suns, Miami Heat, Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Clippers and New York Knicks.
‘[Twenty] years being my job but 40 plus years of not being able to fathom doing anything other than it,’ he posted on social media on Thursday.
‘So here’s to retiring from the NBA… because I will NEVER stop ballin.’
Ex-NBA champion P.J. Tucker has announced his retirement from basketball at the age of 41
The high point of his career came when Tucker won an NBA Championship with the Bucks
He also played for the Raptors, Suns, Heat, 76ers, Clippers and Knicks during his career
Tucker was selected by the Raptors with the 35th overall pick in the 2006 NBA Draft after playing his college basketball at Texas.
He also enjoyed fruitful spells in Israel and Germany during what was a journeyman career. He was named Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP in 2008.
Tucker, who is married to and shares three children with wife Tracey, spent part of his childhood in Germany while his father served in the American military.
He is also a self-proclaimed ‘sneakerhead’ and has boasted about owning thousands of pairs of sneakers in the past.
