NBA: Trevor Booker wraps up 8-year career, retires at the age of 32

On Tuesday night, NBA free agent Trevor Booker announced his retirement in a video on Twitter. He played eight seasons and calls it quits at the age of 32.

On Tuesday, Trevor Booker let it be known he was retiring from the NBA. A free agent since 2018, he played eight seasons in the league, spending four years with the Washington Wizards, two seasons with the Utah Jazz, two with the Brooklyn Nets, and his final season was split between the Net, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Indiana Pacers.

Booker made the announcement by video on Twitter:

He was a serviceable and reliable backup throughout his career, playing an average of 66.5 games per season and averaged 20.4 minutes per game.

Booker’s peak in the NBA came in 2016-17 hen he played 71 games, starting 43 of them. He averaged 10.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, 1.9 steals and 1.1 blocks in 24.3 minutes per game.

After the 2018 season he signed a one-year deal with the Shanxi Brave Dragons in the Chinese Basketball Association, but just three months later returned to the United States to have surgery on his foot.

That was his last professional basketball action and he’s waited for a call ever since, at least up until this point.

It’s a shame Booker was never able to make it back to the NBA. He was “on the radar” of several contenders as recently as this January, but it seems as though he reached the point where enough was enough, it was time to move on with his life.

Of course, sometimes the end doesn’t come when we expect it to. If contenders have him on their radar now, there’s no reason there won’t be interest in him next season.

Maybe the situation isn’t right at this point, especially given the uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, but what about sometime down the road? Maybe we’ll see Trevor Booker back in the league in the future after all.