Former Spurs center Tiago Splitter has officially announced his retirement from the NBA.
After battling a chronic hip injury the last two years, the 33-year-old from Brazil said in a post on his Twitter account that "the time to say goodbye" has come after a seven-year NBA career.
There's nothing better in the world than being a basketball player! The time has come, perhaps the most difficult in an athlete's career, time to say goodbye to the courts.
I say goodbye with a broken heart but in the certainty of duty.
Thank you all u270cud83cudffbud83dude4fud83cudffb— Tiago Splitter (@tiagosplitter) February 19, 2018
Splitter, a member of the 2014 San Antonio Spurs championship team, suffered a hip injury in 2016 while with the Atlanta Hawks.