{"id":160780,"date":"2025-08-20T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/160780\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:47:10","slug":"john-wall-joins-nba-on-prime-after-retirement-news-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/160780\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wall joins NBA on Prime after retirement news breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Wall\u2019s career in the NBA may be over, but he isn\u2019t walking away from the game he loves just yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wall, who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/19\/sports\/john-wall-retires-from-nba-after-injuries-derailed-all-stars-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officially retired on Tuesday<\/a>, is joining the Prime Video studio crew as the streaming service enters its first season carrying NBA broadcasts as part of an 11-year rights deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former Wizards star will join Blake Griffin and Dirk Nowitzki, who previously had been announced as the primary analysts, as well as Dwyane Wade, Steve Nash, and Candace Parker, who will be splitting time between calling games and working in the studio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.51032448;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36877426\" width=\"891\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/washington-wizards-vs-new-york-23327659.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Wizards guard John Wall drives to the basket against the Knicks.\" class=\"wp-image-36877426\"  \/>Wizards guard John Wall, who has retired from the NBA, drives to the basket during a past game against the Knicks. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Wall, 34, is hoping that he can connect with fans and share his deep knowledge of the game with them through broadcasting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2025\/08\/19\/john-wall-retires-nba-amazon-tv\/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU1NTc2MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU2OTU4Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTU1NzYwMDAsImp0aSI6ImE4OGVkMmVjLWU4MDItNGRhNy05MWI5LWEwNmFhNjE4MjZlMyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9zcG9ydHMvMjAyNS8wOC8xOS9qb2huLXdhbGwtcmV0aXJlcy1uYmEtYW1hem9uLXR2LyJ9.Qyd9wYdY-kRXaGLDZtSWaX77Boz65fTB_zuSefOSDWI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he told the Washington Post.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you never really had the opportunity to sit down and talk to me, you won\u2019t really understand how much I love basketball, where my basketball mind is at, where my IQ is,\u201d Wall said. \u201cI can basically tell you the best player in the country \u2014 from girls to boys, high school, to the players that\u2019s in college, to the people that\u2019s at the NBA and WNBA.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wall has limited broadcast experience, having worked a pair of G League Winter Showcase games on ESPN and NBA TV last winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the experience, he <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nba-john-wall-e482d20e5f7dc0691f2202d5a488bab1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Associated Press<\/a> that it was an outlet for him to talk about basketball, something \u201cI love to do\u201d and that it was what he did \u201cwhen I\u2019m home, watching with my friends and kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He joked that they all would eventually end up telling him to \u201c\u2018shut up and let us watch.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36877442\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nba-player-john-wall-washington-24270144.jpg\" alt=\"John Wall at the Power TV series premiere.\" class=\"wp-image-36877442\"  \/>John Wall at the Power TV series premiere. WireImage<\/p>\n<p>Wall retired after 11 seasons in the NBA and finished with five All-Star nods and averaging 18.7 points per game and 8.9 assists per game during his career.<\/p>\n<p>He played nine seasons with the Wizards before spending a season with the Rockets and Clippers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Wall\u2019s career in the NBA may be over, but he isn\u2019t walking away from the game he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[93218,1260,62,3581,67,132,68,3117],"class_list":{"0":"post-160780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-john-wall","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-media","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-washington-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160780","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=160780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}