Four-Time All-Star Retiring from the NBA After 16 Seasons
It's the end of another era in the NBA. Paul Millsap has announced his retirement after 16 seasons playing in the NBA. Millsap was the 47th pick in the 2006 NBA Draft. He came out of Louisiana Tech University where he played from 2003-2006. The four-time all-star was already making strides by the end of his first season where he was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team. He spent the rest of his career playing on several different teams such as the Utah Jazz, Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets, Brooklyn Nets, and the Philadelphia 76ers. Millsap has seen it all. The last time he played in the NBA was during the 2021-2022 season.
He was one of the eight players in all of the NBA's history to have reached 500 3-pointers, 1, 000 blocks, and 1,000 steals. Millsap and Draymond Green were the only two to record these stats between the 2013 and 2017 seasons. From 2013-2017 with the Hawks, he made four consecutive Eastern Conference all-star appearances. The four-time all-star averaged 17.3 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 3.3 assists per game in those four all-star seasons. He was a part of multiple postseason runs when he was with Atlanta. He was also a part of the Hawks team that took a trip to the 2015 Eastern Conference Finals after the team had won a franchise record of 60 games that season.
Millsap then joined with the Nuggets in 2017 as a major free agent where he also made waves. He made three playoff runs in the four seasons when he was in Denver, which included a trip to the Western Conference Finals in 2020 while serving as an outstanding performer and team leader both on and off of the court. It’s unfortunate he wasn’t there on the roster when the Nuggets won the 2023 NBA Finals. His career stats include 13.4 points, 7.1 rebounds, and 2.2 assists over 1,085 regular season games. Millsap. also played in well over 130 postseason games averaging out to 12.1 points and 6.8 rebounds. He was truly a phenomenal basketball player, but one question still arises; is he worthy enough for the NBA Hall of Fame?
