{"id":16362,"date":"2025-07-23T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16362\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:25:08","slug":"former-okc-thunder-alex-abrines-retires-from-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16362\/","title":{"rendered":"Former OKC Thunder Alex Abrines retires from basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fan favorite for his beard celebrations after every bucket, Alex Abrines announced his retirement on Tuesday. He spent three seasons on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oklahoma City Thunder;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> from 2016-19.<\/p>\n<p>Drafted with the No. 32 pick of the 2013 NBA draft, Abrines was your classic draft-and-stash candidate. He stayed in Spain for three more years before finally making the NBA jump on the Thunder in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He was a popular role player during his brief time in OKC. Abrines was the textbook catch-and-shoot player that Russell Westbrook thrived in when he attacked the teeth of the defense.<\/p>\n<p>His stay was cut short as both sides decided to part ways for personal reasons when he missed a handful of games in a row. He returned to Spain and played there for six more years before he announced his retirement. The 31-year-old surprised most with the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Abrines averaged 5.3 points and 1.4 rebounds during his time on the Thunder. He shot 36.8% from 3 on 3.4 attempts.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on OKC Thunder Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/okcthunderwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/thunder\/2025\/07\/23\/former-okc-thunder-alex-abrines-retires-from-basketball\/85338293007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former OKC Thunder Alex Abrines retires from basketball;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Former OKC Thunder Alex Abrines retires from basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fan favorite for his beard celebrations after every bucket, Alex Abrines announced his retirement on Tuesday. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[17732,64,63,726,590,5548,10113,2020,85],"class_list":["post-16362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-alex-abrines","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-spain","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}