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Five-Time NBA All-Star John Wall Retires From Basketball After 11 Seasons

Wall announced the news himself on Instagram.

Brigid Kennedy

Wall played for the Wizards, Clippers and Rockets throughout his career.
Wall played for the Wizards, Clippers and Rockets throughout his career. / Brad Mills-Imagn Images

Five-time NBA All-Star John Wall has retired from basketball after 11 seasons, he announced on social media on Tuesday.

The official news came from Wall's Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) accounts, where the Kentucky export and point guard posted an emotional retrospective video with the caption, "Retired but never done. Doing it the#WallWay."

Watch that below:

Prior to Tuesday's announcement, Wall, 34, had last played in an NBA game in January 2023, and had been dealing with a bevy of injuries in the back half of his tenure.

He finishes his career with an average of 18.7 points, 4.2 rebounds and 8.9 assists across a total of 647 games played. Though his longest run was with the Wizards, Wall also spent time with the Clippers and the Rockets across his eleven seasons in the league.

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Brigid Kennedy is a contributor to the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in November 2024, she covered political news, sporting news and culture at TheWeek.com before moving to Livingetc, an interior design magazine. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, dual majoring in television, radio and film (from the Newhouse School of Public Communications) and marketing managment (from the Whitman School of Management). Offline, she enjoys going to the movies, reading and watching the Steelers.

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