{"id":452516,"date":"2025-07-22T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=452516"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:19:28","slug":"alex-abrines-announces-retirement-from-professional-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/alex-abrines-announces-retirement-from-professional-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Abrines announces retirement from professional basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"398\"><strong data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"187\">Alex Abrines<\/strong> has officially announced his <strong data-start=\"217\" data-end=\"231\">retirement<\/strong> from basketball. The <strong data-start=\"253\" data-end=\"269\">FC Barcelona<\/strong> captain, who turns 32 on August 1, played <strong data-start=\"312\" data-end=\"327\">ten seasons<\/strong> with the club, winning <strong data-start=\"351\" data-end=\"366\">15 trophies<\/strong> and appearing in <strong data-start=\"384\" data-end=\"397\">660 games<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"400\" data-end=\"618\">Abrines joined Bar\u00e7a at 18 from <strong data-start=\"432\" data-end=\"443\">Unicaja<\/strong>, played in the <strong data-start=\"459\" data-end=\"485\">NBA with Oklahoma City<\/strong> from 2016 to 2019, then returned to the Palau for another successful stint. He is the <strong data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"601\">second-most capped player<\/strong> in club history.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"620\" data-end=\"811\">In his farewell letter, he wrote: \u201cThe Palau will always be my home. Now I want to be with my family. Basketball and Bar\u00e7a have given me everything.\u201d The club thanked him and wished him well.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"813\" data-end=\"830\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bar\u00e7a captain ends his career after 660 games and 15 titles. \u201cIt\u2019s time to live the life I want.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":452515,"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":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[20],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-452516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","typology-ufficiale"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/GwdDC76X0AEGEM_.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452516","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=452516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452516"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=452516"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=452516"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=452516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}