{"id":157974,"date":"2025-08-19T08:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157974\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:52:15","slug":"nba-players-send-love-to-san-antonio-spurs-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157974\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Players Send Love To San Antonio Spurs Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_28miwqawy\">Marco Belinelli last played in the NBA during the 2019-20 season when he was in his second stint with the San Antonio Spurs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_uerixkow5\">On Monday, the 39-year-old officially announced that he has retired from basketball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_gq3atjbzt\"><strong>He wrote via <\/strong><a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_ksj615\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNgKGZEMFFn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a><strong> (translated to English): &#8220;I put my heart into it. Every bits of mi self. Every single day. Basketball gave me everything&#8230; and i gave it all to her. It&#8217;s never easy to say goodbye. But it&#8217;s the time. I carry with me every emotion, every sacrifice, every applause. Thank you to those who have always been there. To the younger ones, I leave a dream. Make it count&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_d1k9yo3qf\"><strong>I gave it my heart. Every piece of me. Every single day. Basketball gave me everything\u2026 and I gave it everything I had. Saying goodbye isn\u2019t easy. But it\u2019s time. I carry with me every emotion, every sacrifice, every cheer. Thank you to those who always believed. To the next generation\u2014I leave a dream. Make it count.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DNgKGZEMFFn\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_36b17vf19\">NBA players sent love to the 2014 Champion in the comments. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_8pgpcuwbv\"><strong>Dennis Schroder: &#8220;LEGEND!!!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_1spu8b5q2\"><strong>Justin Holiday: &#8220;Congrats brother!!\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffe&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_6ji7vccmq\"><strong>Danny Green: &#8220;\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffd congrats big dawg!!!\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffd&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_r6m3n82i5\"><strong>Bogdan Bogdanovic: &#8220;Grande leggenda!! \ud83d\ude4c\ud83e\udee1&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_mlb2hvpjr\"><strong>Joakim Noah: &#8220;It was an honor brother&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"base_1emrqjj-o_O-initial_fzbddc-o_O-style_1a1csmw\" alt=\"Spurs \" title=\"Spurs \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jan 19, 2020; San Antonio, Texas, USA;  San Antonio Spurs guard Marco Belinelli (18) celebrates a three point shot in the second half against the Miami Heat at the AT&amp;T Center. Mandatory Credit: Daniel Dunn-Imagn Images \/ Daniel Dunn-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_idlxi9c8d\">Belinelli was the 18th pick in the 2007 NBA Draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_jfrzg9tm1\">He also spent time with the New Orleans Hornets, Golden State Warriors, Charlotte Hornets, Chicago Bulls, Sacramento Kings, Toronto Raptors, Atlanta Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers over 13 NBA seasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_65my6j5fr\">During the 2014 season, Belinelli averaged 11.4 points per contest (for the Spurs who won the title).<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marco Belinelli last played in the NBA during the 2019-20 season when he was in his second stint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-157974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115054585029111063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}