Monday, August 9th, 2010 at 2:51 pm  |  54 responses

It’s Final: Rasheed Wallace Is Retiring

Contrary to Shaq’s rumor mongering, Rasheed Wallace is done with the NBA. At least that’s what his agent told the Boston Globe: “After weeks of speculation about his status for next year, Rasheed Wallace indeed plans to retire, according to his agent, Bill Strickland. Newest Celtic Shaquille O’Neal told reporters in Orlando this weekend that Wallace was rethinking his decision to retire and pleaded with the four-time All-Star to return for at least another season. Strickland told the Globe on Monday that his client will not return to the Celtics…Wallace has two years and $13 million left on his contract and the Celtics could reach a settlement with the power forward or trade his contract to a club who could receive the salary cap relief after the 2012 season.”

(H/T The Captain AKA The San Franciso Smasher)

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  • http://www.slamonline.com J

    i never really liked sheed to be honest.. and i hated him many times at some point, but i got respect for him overall, well goodluck dwight stopper..

  • T-Money

    brian: robert horry played in a billion playoffs games, d-fish too. sheed and kg can’t be compared because sheed never had to be the focal point of a team and played with more talent in detroit and portland than kg in minny. also, kg is twice the player that sheed is. / what is there to respect? he was lazy as hell on the boards. didn’t want to put in the work to improve his body or conditioning. shied away from responsibilities. constantly put his team in precarious situations by going off on refs. yeah, ok, he had talent. so what? he didn’t care enough to maximize that talent and we should applaud him for that?

  • vtrobot

    @ TrailBlazing&SportingLisbon: The JailBlazers era was soley Sheed’s fault? Wow. Bonzi, Qyntel, J.R., Z-Bo, “Kobe-stopper/Rapist” and none of those guys were responsible for those dark days? Hmmm. Sheed may have been part of the reason that the Blazers were in the WCFs. The Blazers got so much better when Sharif came to town. That was also coincidence that Sheed’s arrival put DET over the top? OK. I see. Thanks for clearing everything up. AND THANK YOU, RASHEED.

  • vtrobot

    oh, i love Sheed and there’s no f*cking way that he’s getting into the HOF. maaaaaybe for some of the T’s records, but that’s it. and one more thing to TrailBlazing&SportingLisbon, “disrespectful to some teammates”? how about “disrespectful to one teammate whose giant, lithuanian arm hit him hit him square in the face during a flop”. i loved sabas too, but the towel incident got a little overblown by the sheed-hating/sabonis-loving portland media.

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