Kings’ forward Shareef Abdur-Rahim announces his retirement

Understood. I never noticed him before but I'll try to remember. All good cereals have a few flakes and nuts. LOL!

 

and later on they became teammates...

I always like SAR game, he wasn't fancy, he was an inside/out guy, but later on his career, he became a jump shooter like Al Harrington is going through right now, if I remember correctly, he hit a game winning 3 same day as Tmac's 13/37 second game.

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that guy was a great player in a bad team. im pretty sure he averaged around and over 20 ppg for 8 straight seasons, including 18 in his rookie season and he averaged 9 rebounds a game during his prime. he was more than just a solid player for a very long time almost a decade . sure they were bad teams but it looks like the injury never let him get back to form

 

Nice stats....and he couldnt win a damn thing.


TMac is next.....

 

He was my favorite player in Vancouver...sad to see him retire, but it is also overdue.

 

actually he was going down as setting the record for not making the playoffs ever for a decent player until the Kings got Ron Artest
and lifted
the SAR curse.

 

i hope ron ron lifts the tmac curse in the coming season too...

 

He's my favorite player then too. I wish he could have accomplished more.

 

Feel bad that he never did truly break through to become an perennial All-Star or elite forward. Always so close, like a slightly better Juwan Howard.

Too bad he never got success in the postseason either.

Evan

 

Congratulations on a superb career to one of America's greatest Olympic champions ~ Sir Shareef Abdur-Rahim.

 

Agree with you for the most part. Shareef was a good guy on and off the court. I used to always pick him up on my fantasy team. The NBA needs more players like Shareef.

 

Yeah, I agree. Good guy, very good player and very underrated for many years. But I had pretty much forgotten about him to be honest.

 

Strange, he's a decent player.

But I guess he's a millionare with no fame, that's good for him, he can now enjoy his life in a different way.

 

I will always remember him by this:

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He used to be one of my favorite players. Its sad a bad knee had to get the best of him.

 

They got into a fight in a game when they played on seperate teams, and they got in a fight while on the same team.

 

SAR was the man. Like others have said, good guy on and off the court.

 

Is SAR the most irrelevant "very good" player in NBA history?

 

I'm really not sure about the whole "he was just a good player on a bad team theory" with SAR. The only time he was really healthy was when he happened to be playing on the bad teams. Injuries limited what he could do, a lot like Antonio McDyess

Anyways, he had a solid career and seems to be a really good person, so I wish him the best

 

Wasn't this guy a playoff virgin?