{"id":16793,"date":"2018-08-22T13:17:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T17:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=16793"},"modified":"2018-08-23T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:22:05","slug":"report-manu-ginobili-seriously-considering-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2018\/08\/22\/report-manu-ginobili-seriously-considering-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Manu Ginobili Seriously Considering Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #222222;\">According to reports, <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 15px;\" href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/nba-teams\/san-antonio-spurs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #222222;\">\u00a0guard <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #222222;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/ginobma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manu Ginobili<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #222222;\"> will soon meet with coach <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #222222;\">Gregg Popovich<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #222222;\"> to discuss his future with the team and is seriously considering retirement.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Report: Manu Ginobili Seriously Considering Retirement<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN broke the news on August 22nd:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Story filed to ESPN: No final decision yet, but San Antonio&#39;s Manu Ginobili is seriously considering retirement and will meet with coach Gregg Popovich in coming days to discuss future.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1032296470081400834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ginobili is 41 years old and would be entering his 17th season. He is the second oldest player in the NBA right now. Despite his age, Ginobili is still an effective player. He averaged 8.9 points per game off the bench for the Spurs last season. His three-point shooting did drop to 33.3% last season, but he is only a year removed from shooting 39.2% from deep. Ginobili is still an excellent passer as well. If he returns, he will be a valuable veteran presence off the bench for a Spurs team\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/08\/08\/why-the-san-antonio-spurs-expectations-will-be-exceeded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that expects to be in the playoffs<\/a> and a valuable mentor to young guards<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/walkelo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lonnie Walker<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/murrade01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dejounte Murray<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ginobili has had a great career. He is a four-time NBA champion, a two-time All-Star, and the 2007-08 Sixth Man of the Year. He was named to two All-NBA teams as well. Ginobili was a lethal scorer in his prime and could always be relied on to make an impact on the court. He averaged more than 20 points per 36 minutes for six seasons in a row. In addition, he was always one of the most skilled passers in the league. He had five seasons where he averaged more than six assists per 36 minutes, which is very impressive for a shooting guard.<\/p>\n<p>Ginobili is the last player remaining from the Spurs dynasty.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duncati01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Duncan<\/a><\/strong> retired and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/parketo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tony Parker<\/a><\/strong> recently <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/07\/06\/report-tony-parker-charlotte-hornets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed with the Charlotte Hornets<\/a>. No matter what Ginobili decides, he will be remembered as one of the greatest Spurs ever and could one day end up in the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"T-LxYSe_TLdeuRIWoPaMrw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/450682512\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'T-LxYSe_TLdeuRIWoPaMrw',sig:'W_NKTuMhypZUyGXb6gBYU03JNkjKIjDGF3UxD4FpYOE=',w:'594px',h:'403px',items:'450682512',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili will soon meet with coach Gregg Popovich to discuss his future with the team and is seriously considering retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2689,"featured_media":16809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1608,2,62,34],"tags":[1262,204,1617,530,202,55,56,1215],"class_list":["post-16793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-basketball","category-featured","category-nba","category-spurs","tag-dejounte-murray","tag-gregg-popovich","tag-lonnie-walker","tag-manu-ginobili","tag-nba-news","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tim-duncan","tag-tony-parker"],"modified_by":"Jordan Daly","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}