What follows is a translation of Manu Ginobili’s column, which appeared in La Nación on September 26.
It’s been a month since I announced I wasn’t going to play anymore. I’ve been retired for 30 days, though my last game was actually over five months ago. It’s the longest period I’ve been away from that orange sphere in my entire life. It never happened before. Like I mentioned in the previous column, when I returned from my vacation I touched the ball, I dribbled it, I smelt it, but it wasn’t the same.