One of the greatest European players of all time retires from basketball

Nicolas Batum has announced his retirement from professional basketball at the age of 37. The Frenchman brings an end to an 18-season career in the NBA and has stated that he will remain involved in the world of basketball, although he has not yet specified what his next step will be.

Selected 25th in the 2008 Draft by Houston and immediately traded to Portland, Batum also played for Charlotte, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles Clippers. In the NBA, he played 1,205 games, second among the French with the most games after Tony Parker, and finished with 11,553 points, 5,656 rebounds, 3,612 assists, 1,842 three-pointers, 1,075 steals, and 720 blocks.

With France, Batum played 177 games and won seven medals, a record for the national team. He won the Eurobasket 2013, in addition to two Olympic silver medals, in Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, and four other medals in Eurobasket and World Championships. He was also instrumental in the historic block against Klemen Prepelič in the semifinals of the Tokyo Games, which allowed France to reach the final.

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