Sixth Man Of The Year And Three-Time Winner Lou Williams Announced His Retirement
After 17 seasons in the NBA, three-time Sixth Man of the Year Lou Williams announced his retirement on Sunday in a YouTube video featuring his daughter Jada as the narrator.
Lou Williams is retiring from the NBA .
After 17 seasons in the NBA, three-time Sixth Man of the Year Lou Williams announced his retirement on Sunday in a YouTube video featuring his daughter Jada as the narrator.
After playing with the Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors, Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets, and Los Angeles Clippers, the 36-year-old retires as the league’s all-time top bench scorer.
Lou Williams last competed for the Atlanta Hawks in 2021–2022.
In 1,001 of the 1,123 regular-season games Lou Williams played throughout his career, he was a substitute. In those outings, he accrued 13,396 points. His 15,593 total points are good for 131st all-time in NBA history.
He outperformed Dell Curry and Jamal Crawford by 2,117 and 2,249 points, respectively, off the bench. In NBA history, Crawford is the only other player to have won the Sixth Man Award three times.
Williams’ retirement video, which is set to Kendrick Lamar‘s “Count Me Out”, depicts the realization of a dream in the face of hardship.
Williams’ status plummeted during pre-draft workouts after being initially projected as a lottery pick during his illustrious prep career. Lou Williams eventually went on to be picked by the 76ers as the 45th overall choice in the 2005 NBA Draft, and he went on to establish a tenacious legacy.
Because of what his abilities allowed him to do in his particular field, he was given several nicknames. You may be familiar with him as “6 Man,” which appears in Drake’s song of the same name. Williams won the award in 2015 while playing for the Toronto Raptors thanks to the rapper’s campaign, which included the release of the song.
He could be recognized as the “Underground Goat.”. Following a 32-point effort for the Clippers against the New York Knicks in January 2020, Williams explained the meaning behind the moniker.
“I’m the GOAT next to all of the superstars. I’m your favorite player’s favorite player.”
Lou Williams
Eight months later, he registered the moniker “Lemon Pepper Lou,” which came from the 10-day NBA quarantine he was put under after being caught with rapper Jack Harlow at Atlanta’s Magic City strip club.
There is also a wing there named “Louwill Lemon Pepper BBQ” after Williams.
In her narrator’s commentary for the retirement video that was made public on Father’s Day, Jada mentioned their nicknames.
“Many will have nicknames for you. But you are a mentee, a teacher, a great friend, a son, a brother, and our father.”
Jada
Williams also has a son, Syx, and a second daughter, Zoe. As he uploaded the video about retirement to Instagram, he thanked them all.
“For 17 years, you moved to your own rhythm in this game. And now is the time that you’ve chosen to announce your farewell. But still fulfilling your legacy within us. You gave it all that you could give. You left nothing more to unturn. And I’m truly proud of you, Dad”.
Jada added in the retirement announcement.
Williams spoke out to Uninterrupted about his challenging beginnings in Atlanta three years ago. He discussed how basketball transformed his life and his desire to inspire the next generation. Jada, who had just recently started playing the sport, was used as an illustration by him.
His eighth-grade AAU squad is now under his supervision, and she has acquired the moniker “Jdub”.
