{"id":329389,"date":"2023-05-04T23:05:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T21:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=329389"},"modified":"2023-05-04T23:05:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T21:05:39","slug":"two-time-euroleague-top-scorer-keith-langford-retires-at-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/two-time-euroleague-top-scorer-keith-langford-retires-at-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time Euroleague top scorer Keith Langford retires at 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Langford, a two-time Euroleague top scorer and one of the most distinguished guards in recent decades of European basketball, announced his retirement from basketball on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">May of 2022 I had surgery for an Achilles tendinopathy that for the previous 10 months, I tried to conservatively rehabilitate. <\/p>\n<p>In what turned out to be an extremely trying time period, I was consumed by denial, anger, depression and bargaining.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Keith (@keith_langford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keith_langford\/status\/1654212817518579712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After 17 years and the age of 38, I selfishly denied the last stage of grief that I knew was upon me. Acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, as I humbly &amp; excitedly accept an invitation to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thetournament?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thetournament<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MassStreetTBT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MassStreetTBT<\/a>.. <\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t be in a better space to<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Keith (@keith_langford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keith_langford\/status\/1654212819972243461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">announce my RETIREMENT from basketball and have this full circle moment to play for the last time in representation of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KUHoops?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kuhoops<\/a><br \/>I\u2019ve given everything physically and mentally I have to this game. 6 knee surgeries, a herniated disc, broken foot, broken nose, broken<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Keith (@keith_langford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keith_langford\/status\/1654212822576910336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">finger, hamstring\/groin strains, and not to mention an unlimited amount of ankle sprains have all been worth it!! The journey has been the best part as well as the part I\u2019ll miss most<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t wait to play one last time this July and phase into the next part life\u2026<\/p>\n<p>-KL <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0K4n6Qv5JF\">pic.twitter.com\/0K4n6Qv5JF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Keith (@keith_langford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keith_langford\/status\/1654212833331101696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the five players with multiple top scorers titles announced his retirement on his social media profiles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":329377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[393],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-329389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/phpimmg860199.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329389"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=329389"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=329389"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=329389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}