{"id":445122,"date":"2025-06-05T13:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=445122"},"modified":"2025-06-05T13:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:17:46","slug":"ricky-rubio-hints-at-retirement-this-is-not-a-goodbye-its-a-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ricky-rubio-hints-at-retirement-this-is-not-a-goodbye-its-a-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Rubio hints at retirement: \u201cThis is not a goodbye, it\u2019s a thank you\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a year away from professional basketball, Ricky Rubio shared a heartfelt message that suggests he is stepping away from the game for good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a goodbye, it\u2019s a thank you,\u201d the Spanish point guard wrote on social media, alongside an image listing all the teams he played for and a phrase in Catalan: \u201cGr\u00e0cies per l\u2019assist\u00e8ncia.\u201d A quiet yet emotional farewell to the sport he embraced from a young age.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio, 34, hasn\u2019t played since June 2024. Over the past year, he\u2019s focused on family and personal pursuits, enjoying basketball away from the spotlight. His latest post strongly hints at retirement\u2014even if it stops short of an official announcement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2026 I took this year to reflect on my career and my life, and I\u2019ve realized that if I\u2019ve gotten to<br \/>\nwhere I am today, it\u2019s not because of the assists I\u2019ve given, but because of the assists I\u2019ve received. This isn\u2019t a goodbye, it\u2019s a thank you to all the people who have helped me\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nzf8AQIlaa\">pic.twitter.com\/nzf8AQIlaa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ricky Rubio (@rickyrubio9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rickyrubio9\/status\/1930572000465969569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2025<\/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>After a year away from professional basketball, Ricky Rubio shared a heartfelt message that suggests he is stepping away from the game for good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":445121,"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":[305],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-445122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/GsrFABNXAAAuoZn.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445122","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445122"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=445122"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=445122"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=445122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}