{"id":400107,"date":"2026-11-13T19:47:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T18:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/?p=400107"},"modified":"2026-11-15T16:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T16:26:32","slug":"doug-mcdermott-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/doug-mcdermott-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug McDermott announces his retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doug McDermott has announced his retirement from basketball at the age of 34, according to his representation agency, <em>Priority Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having played at Creighton University from 2010 to 2014, he was selected by the Denver Nuggets with the 11th pick in the 2014 Draft, although his rights were immediately traded to the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After 12 NBA seasons, Doug McDermott is retiring. \n\nCongrats to Doug on an amazing career! https:\/\/t.co\/AHX69aOxoN<\/p>&mdash; Priority Sports (@PrioritySports) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PrioritySports\/status\/2121272057958633890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He spent three seasons in Chicago before going on to play for the Oklahoma City Thunder, New York Knicks, Dallas Mavericks, Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs and Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In total he played 726 games, with NBA career averages of <strong>8.5 points and 2.1 rebounds<\/strong> while shooting 41% from three-point range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Cover photo: Reuters)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 34, he hangs up his boots for good after playing the last two seasons in Sacramento<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":400108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[163,28],"class_list":["post-400107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-doug-mcdermott","tag-sacramento-kings","no-featured-image-padding","resize-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/2026-04-07T081012Z_1721059427_MT1USATODAY28674515_RTRMADP_3_NBA-LOS-ANGELES-CLIPPERS-AT-SACRAMENTO-KINGS.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kiera Gardner","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/author\/kiera\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400181,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400107\/revisions\/400181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}