Richard Jefferson made it official on Saturday, announcing via his new Instagram account that it was time for him to “move on from basketball.”
Jefferson played 17 NBA seasons and became a free agent on July 1 after spending last season with the Denver Nuggets.
He spent time with eight NBA teams in all, but almost half of his 1.181 regular-season games came at the beginning of his career, when Jefferson played his first seven seasons as part of the New Jersey Nets.
Jefferson became a key piece of the franchise’s longest sustained period of success since joining the NBA in 1976, as the Nets made the playoffs in each of his first six seasons and reached the NBA Finals in each of his first two years with the club.