Paul Millsap Retires After 16 NBA Seasons; PF Was 4-Time All-Star with Hawks
December 3, 2024
Paul Millsap, a 16-year NBA forward and four-time All-Star, retired Tuesday.
Shams Charania @ShamsCharaniaAfter 16 NBA seasons, four-time All-Star Paul Millsap has retired from basketball. Millsap, the No. 47 pick in the 2006 NBA draft, spent his career with the Jazz, Hawks, Nuggets, Nets and 76ers. One of eight players all-time with 500 3-pointers, 1,000 blocks and 1,000 steals. <a href="https://t.co/gftfvGHgnf">pic.twitter.com/gftfvGHgnf</a>
The 39-year-old played for the Utah Jazz, Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets, Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers.
Millsap's best seasons occurred during his four years with the Hawks (2013-2017). He made the All-Star team each season and averaged 17.4 points and 8.3 rebounds per game.
All four of those Hawks teams made the playoffs. Atlanta's best showing occurred in 2014-15, when it went 60-22, finished first in the Eastern Conference and reached the East finals, where it fell to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Millsap was the leading scorer and rebounder on that well-rounded team.
The Louisiana Tech product started his career with the Jazz, which selected him with the 47th pick in the 2006 draft. He was a reserve for three of his first four seasons before entering the starting lineup full-time in 2010.
After the 2012-13 season, Millsap signed with the Hawks. Four years later, he left via free agency for the Denver Nuggets and became a complementary piece in the team's rise to the perennial playoff contender it is today.
After four seasons in Denver, the Monroe, Louisiana, native signed with the Nets before the 2021-22 campaign. He didn't see much playing time, though, and the team and he agreed to a mutual parting of ways, per Charania.
The Nets eventually dealt him to the 76ers in the James Harden-Ben Simmons deal in February 2022. He finished out the season in Philadelphia in 2022, marking his final NBA appearance.
In sum, Millsap enjoyed an excellent career. He was a star player on one of the best teams in the league in 2014-15, made four straight All-Star games and started on competitive playoff teams for a decade. That's impressive work for a second-round pick.
