After a taxing 16th NBA season, followed by a summer of leisure and contemplation in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and three sons, Manu Ginobili insists he was sure of his decision to finally move on from basketball — one that was, in many ways, at least a year in the making. And yet, the weight of finalizing that choice wasn’t lost on his nerves as he announced it via tweet:
“My finger shook as I hit enter... It wasn’t an easy decision, in the sense of after 23 seasons of doing this it was hard to put that last nail in that coffin.