{"id":21744,"date":"2013-06-06T15:35:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21744"},"modified":"2013-06-06T15:36:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:36:13","slug":"grant-hill-retires-from-the-nba-after-18-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21744","title":{"rendered":"Grant Hill Retires From The NBA After 18 Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grant Hill <\/strong>announced his retirement Saturday night, moments before Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals. <strong>Hill<\/strong> joined TNT\u2019s <em>\u201cInside the NBA<\/em>\u201d crew and summed up his career closing in two words: \u201cI\u2019m done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hill<\/strong> played 18 NBA seasons with the Pistons, Magic, Suns and Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, <strong>Hill <\/strong>beat out <strong>Michael Jordan<\/strong> as the leading vote-getter in the NBA All-Star Game. He was that popular.<\/p>\n<p>In his first six seasons with the Detroit Pistons, <strong>Hill<\/strong> averaged 21.6 points, 7.9 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game. The third overall pick in 94s draft was a potential triple-double threat on any given night.<\/p>\n<p>His endorsements ranged from Fila sneakers to Sprite. His last 12 seasons in the league were marred by ankle injuries, which first emerged during his final season with the Pistons in 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hill <\/strong>was never the same player after signing a free agent contract with the Orlando Magic that summer and would undergo multiple surgeries throughout what should have been the \u2018prime\u2019 of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Hill announced his retirement Saturday night, moments before Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Hill joined TNT\u2019s \u201cInside the NBA\u201d crew and summed up his career closing in two words: \u201cI\u2019m done.\u201d Hill played 18 NBA seasons with the Pistons, Magic, Suns and Clippers. In 1996, Hill beat out Michael Jordan as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}