Days after the Denver Nuggets won their first NBA Championship, we have our first significant retirement of the NBA off-season.
Lou Williams, 36, announced on YouTube that he is calling it a career as an NBA professional and leaves behind a legacy as one of the game’s best bench players, currently holding the record for the most NBA Games for a player coming off of the bench.
Drafted in the 2nd Round in 2005 by the Philadelphia 76ers as a Georgia High School player, Williams and after a few years, the Guard found his groove in a top bench role. Williams remained with the Sixers until 2012, where he signed with Atlanta. After two seasons there, Williams joined Toronto for one year, where he won his first Sixth Man of the Year Award, the first in Raptors history.
With his higher profile and playing time, Williams joined the Los Angeles Lakers for a year-and-a-half before he was traded to Houston. Williams signed with the Los Angeles Clippers in 2017, winning his second and third Sixth Man of the Year Awards in back-to-back fashion in 2018 and 2019. He closed his career out with two years in Atlanta.
Williams is eligible for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2026, though is unlikely to gain any serious consideration, but any player with 16 years of service is worth honoring on this platform.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to wish Lou Williams the best in his post-NBA career.
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