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International player goes out on top, retires after winning NBA title in lone season

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Sasha Kaun is retiring from professional basketball just five weeks after winning a championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Russian center who won an NCAA title with the Kansas Jayhawks eight years ago told the Lawrence Journal-World's Gary Bedore that his first season in the NBA would be his last:

Kaun said he started thinking seriously about retirement "toward the end of the season. I kind of feel my ankle has been bothering me awhile. With the amount of pain I was going through, I just wanted to be done.