John Elway won a Super Bowl in the final start of his NFL career. So did Jerome Bettis. Bill Russell, at age 35, grabbed 21 rebounds in the last professional game he’d every play—Game 7 of the 1969 NBA Finals—to win his 11th title as a Boston Celtic.
This isn’t the way it usually goes, of course. Late-career triumphs are the exception, rather than the rule, for professional athletes. The modal conclusion to most stints in, for instance, the NBA, isn’t a paroxysm of glorious conquest followed by a parade and a lavish retirement ceremony. Quite the contrary. Most careers fizzle out. They end the way old cars breakdown: Small mechanical problems grow into large ones and eventually the vehicle just isn’t road-worthy any longer. Scrapped and moved on from.
Danny Granger is in the long, sad process of ceasing to be road-worthy.
Due to a grim combination of injury, illness and ineffectiveness, the 31-year-old forward has played only 135 minutes for the Miami Heat in 2014-15. This comes on the heels of two seasons in which the former All-Star played in only 46 games.
Granger just hasn’t been available ...
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Article written by Tom Sunnergren
Danny Granger’s NBA Career Coming to a Swift and Painful Close
December 23rd, 2014 by Tom Sunnergren Leave a reply »
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