Lou Williams, three-time NBA sixth man of the season, announced in a YouTube video on Sunday that he was retiring at age 36 after 17 seasons at the top level. The point guard or guard, who had not found a club in the previous exercise, played his last game with the Atlanta Hawks in 2022.
He averaged 13.9 points, 3.4 assists and 2.2 rebounds in 1,123 games for the Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors, Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets, Clippers. of Los Angeles and the Hawks, between 2005 and 2022.
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Williams, who has started just 122 times in the NBA, is the most prolific substitute player in history with 13,396 points. Only Jamal Crawford has been named best sixth of the season as many times as him. Williams inherited that distinction when he played for Toronto in 2014-15 and with the Clippers in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 campaigns.