Ten-year NBA veteran Mario Chalmers has been playing basketball almost non-stop since sitting out the 2016-17 season, one in which he healed his ruptured right Achilles tendon.
Chalmers, the 32-year-old former KU combo guard who is best known for winning an NCAA title at Kansas (2008) and then two NBA championships with the Miami Heat (2012 and ’13), averaged 7.7 points across 66 games for the Memphis Grizzlies last season — for him a completely healthy season.
Since the end of that 2017-18 campaign, one in which he averaged 21.5 minutes per game, the 6-foot-2, 190-pound Chalmers has been competing in pro-am leagues in both Miami and Houston.