{"id":515571,"date":"2026-09-14T22:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=515571"},"modified":"2026-09-14T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:17:06","slug":"taj-gibson-retires-after-17-nba-seasons-joins-bulls-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/taj-gibson-retires-after-17-nba-seasons-joins-bulls-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Taj Gibson Retires After 17 NBA Seasons, Joins Bulls Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taj Gibson is stepping away from his playing career to join the Chicago Bulls\u2019 coaching staff as one of Tiago Splitter\u2019s assistants.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old big man spent 17 seasons battling in the NBA. He played his first seven and a half seasons with the Bulls before making several stops, reuniting with coach Tom Thibodeau in Minnesota and New York.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last four seasons, the former USC standout saw his playing time decrease as he increasingly took on a mentoring role for younger players.<\/p>\n<p>Below is Gibson\u2019s message announcing his retirement:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">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\">pic.twitter.com\/tQAgHoUYl6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taj Gibson (@TajGibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TajGibson\/status\/2099572121290645556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 41-year-old big man spent 17 seasons battling in the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":515570,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-515571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/taj-gibson-bulls.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515571","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515571"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=515571"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=515571"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=515571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}