{"id":533844,"date":"2026-09-23T19:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=533844"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:14:31","slug":"lonzo-ball-denies-retirement-im-still-waiting-for-a-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lonzo-ball-denies-retirement-im-still-waiting-for-a-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonzo Ball denies retirement: &#8220;I&#8217;m still waiting for a call&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lonzo Ball has jokingly denied reports suggesting that he has retired from basketball. The point guard, currently a free agent, responded on social media to a comment about his alleged retirement, making it clear that he remains interested in continuing his NBA career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI retired? News to me lol cuz I\u2019m still waiting for a call\u2026 NBA season long,\u201d Ball wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 28-year-old guard therefore reiterated that he is still available for an NBA team as the new season approaches, using an ironic response to dismiss the retirement speculation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The point guard jokingly addressed retirement rumors on social media, making it clear he is still waiting for an NBA opportunity this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":389465,"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":true,"_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-533844","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\/2024\/05\/lonzo-ball-bulls.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533844","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533845,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533844\/revisions\/533845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533844"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=533844"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=533844"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=533844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}