Chandler Parsons, who played nine seasons in the NBA, announced on Tuesday his official retirement from professional basketball two years after suffering a serious car accident.
“I don’t even know where to start… It’s been two crazy years and they’ve put a lot of things in perspective“, he explained on his Instagram account.
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The 15 of January of 2020, Parsons was driving in Atlanta (USA) after training with the Hawks when he was involved in an accident caused by a drunk driver.
That collision left him with serious physical consequences that prevented him from continuing to play basketball, so the Hawks terminated his contract in February 2016.
Parsons filed a lawsuit against that driver and The Athletic portal said today that the player has reached an agreement to close that complaint in exchange of “a substantial amount of money”.
In his farewell message, Parsons was very grateful for his years on the court and recalled that his life’s dream was to become a player of the NBA.
“I just wanted to compete and play basketball at the highest level. I can proudly say: I did THAT!“, He pointed out.
Parsons was elected to the position 38 from the draft of 2011 by the Houston Rockets after four years at the University of Florida.
With the Rockets he played three seasons and in the last one he achieved the best numbers of his career: 16.6 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4 assists per game.
In 2014 arrived at the time Tutor of the Dallas Mavericks and there he played two seasons in which he maintained a remarkable level (in the season 2015-2015 averaged a 41,4% shooting from three).
Two years later he signed the great contract of his career: 96 millions dollars for four years with the Memphis Grizzlies.2020
However, his performance was greatly affected from there by his knee problems and he did not live up to the expectations created in Memphis.
After three years with the Grizzlies, Parsons joined 2019 to the Atlanta Hawks squad, with whom he could only play five games before suffering the car accident.
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