{"id":847981,"date":"2026-09-14T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847981\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:04:12","slug":"17-year-nba-veteran-taj-gibson-announces-his-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847981\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year NBA veteran Taj Gibson announces his retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2322909\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2322909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-467083246-scaled-e1789420105488-1568x884.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"884\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2322909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taj Gibson played the first 8-plus seasons of his career with Chicago after being drafted No. 26 overall in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran NBA center Taj Gibson officially closed the chapter on his playing career and started his coaching career on Monday after 17 seasons in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson, who announced his retirement on social media, will join the Chicago Bulls as an assistant coach on Tiago Splitter\u2019s coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is a very emotional day for me.<\/p>\n<p>After 17 seasons in the NBA, I can honestly say I gave this game everything I had.<\/p>\n<p>Basketball gave me the opportunity to live a dream. As a kid from Brooklyn, NY, I was lucky to get a chance to display my talent on the biggest stage. From\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tQAgHoUYl6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tQAgHoUYl6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taj Gibson (@TajGibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TajGibson\/status\/2099572121290645556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter 17 seasons in the NBA, I can honestly say I gave this game everything I had,\u201d Gibson said on social media. \u201cBut this isn\u2019t goodbye to basketball. It\u2019s the beginning of a new chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gibson started his career in Chicago in 2009 and played eight-plus seasons with the Bulls as the team\u2019s hard-nosed leader off the bench. He played with seven different franchises (Oklahoma City, Minnesota, New York, Washington, Detroit, Charlotte and Memphis) over the final nine seasons of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson retires with career averages of 8.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.0 blocks over 1,012 games.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chicago will always love Taj \ud83e\udee1<\/p>\n<p>Congrats on retirement, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TajGibson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@TajGibson<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/roCcna7DaM\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/roCcna7DaM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chicagobulls\/status\/2099572253620846683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taj Gibson played the first 8-plus seasons of his career with Chicago after being drafted No. 26 overall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99,358676,358675],"class_list":["post-847981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-taj-gibson-bulls-coach","tag-taj-gibson-retires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}