Matt Bonner Retires: Latest Comments and Reaction

January 6th, 2017 by Adam Wells Leave a reply »

Matt Bonner's 12-year NBA career has officially come to an end. 

Bonner announced his retirement in a video posted on YouTube:



Bonner also posted a short essay on The Players' Tribune:

Today, I’m announcing my retirement from the NBA. Thank you to everyone who supported this humble redheaded role player through the years. I loved every team I played for and every city I lived in.

Staying true to myself, I made this mildly humorous video. Unless a professional “spot shooting” league miraculously crops up, I hope you will continue the support for whatever comes for me after basketball.

Bonner will be a studio analyst for Spurs TV, per Mike Monroe of the Rivard Report. 

After becoming a star in four years at the University of Florida, where he was named to the All-SEC first team as a senior in 2003, Bonner was drafted 45th overall by the Chicago Bulls, who traded his rights to the Toronto Raptors that same night. 

After spending the 2003-04 season playing in the Italian League, Bonner joined the Raptors, where he pla ...

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