{"id":905134,"date":"2026-09-22T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905134\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:34:13","slug":"nba-veteran-nicolas-batum-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905134\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA veteran Nicolas Batum announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2328701\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2328701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-22637752671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2328701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">18-year NBA veteran Nicolas Batum announces his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Versatile forward Nicolas Batum is retiring following an 18-year NBA career and a long stint with the French national team.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Batum announced his retirement in a social media video with his son on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided to retire from basketball for several reasons,\u201d Batum told 10-year-old son, Ayden, in the video. \u201cI want to come home and be with you. I\u2019m going to take care of you and make room for others. I think I\u2019ve done my time. My time with France ended two years ago. And the NBA is over too. You know, when you\u2019ve played as much basketball as I have, at some point, you have to know when to stop. \u2026 I\u2019ve done everything I needed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">21\/09\/1991<br \/>21\/09\/2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0IXH9Rs6wV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/0IXH9Rs6wV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicolas Batum (@nicolas88batum) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nicolas88batum\/status\/2102067098428018955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Batum played two seasons in the French league before being selected in the first round of the NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers. The 6-foot-7 forward spent seven seasons in Portland before playing the next six with Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>Batum spent most of his final six seasons with the Los Angeles Clippers, with a short stint in Philadelphia in 2023-24. He also was a stalwart on French national teams that won silver medals in the 2020 and 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Batum averaged 9.6 points, 4.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists while shooting 37% from 3-point range during his NBA career.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"18-year NBA veteran Nicolas Batum announces his retirement. LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Versatile forward Nicolas Batum is retiring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,14729,1705,82],"class_list":["post-905134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-nicolas-batum","tag-retirement","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}