Oberto retires

http://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/statuses/337477843816448



shame really he played pretty well and had a good NBA career another one of those Argentinian guys you hate to play against but would love to have on your team

 

Hmm....I'll think i'll post in this thread.

 

That was a fast merge

 

If I'm a center, I run like hell from even just an offer from the Trailblazers.

 

Oh Boy!

 

LOL. . dude you have me in tears!

 

More coming.

 

KG just tweeted "I knew that ni++a had no heart! lol!"

 

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/basketball/7280165.html

Sad to see a guy go like this. Cuttino Mobley too.

Well at least he got a ring with the Spurs.

If he decide to take his talents to China where its less banging and competitive, he can be the first NBA player with a ring to play elsewhere

 

No, you misread it. It was:

"You lack the capacity to play with heart for your team and our league."

Doc Rivers vouched for him this morning via Tumblr.

 

Oberto, should of never signed with the blazers he got cursed!

 

I hope it is nothing serious, but he was fun to watch, especially on the Argentinian national team.

DD

 

More from Buford

 

I liked how he played in the Argentina national team, too bad he has to retired, hope he gets well.

 

I think Mengke Bateer got a ring with the Spurs and went back way before this.

 

I am often biased against things Argentinian (Maradona, the blue and white soccer jerseys, their history of harboring Nazis, their persistent inability to manage monetary policy), but I really like this generation of their national team. Tough minded, creative, passionate, winners. They just do the dirty work and don't complain a lick about it. Plus they've brought in two of the more appealing signature moves to the L: Manu's Eurostep and Scola's scoopshot. Oberto was a tough dude--and incidentally one of the reasons we ended up with Scola since they already had a backup PF in Oberto. So I'm grateful to Oberto for that.

 

he only had one really good playoff season in san antonio. then was traded two years later.

 

No, I wouldn't think so. Surely, the team knew this retirement was coming. If they wanted Dampier, they would have tried already.

 

He just announced told his agent to change his contract to unguaranteed cause he didn´t think it was fair to cash in for a full season. Even when the league rules say that in case of retirement a player is due his full salary.
A class guy in all circumstances.
Wish him good health.