Darren Collison shocked the NBA last summer when he walked away from the game at age 32 — and a likely contract in the four-year, $70+ million range — and retired. His reasons were legitimate, he wanted to focus on his religion — “While I still love basketball, I know there is something more important, which is my family and my faith,” Collison said at the time — but the league has seen a lot of players say they were walking away for good reasons only to come running back.
The rumors about a Collison return started just after January 1 and spun out of control in Los Angeles when he sat with Lakers’ owner Jeanie Buss at a game.
Collison stayed retired, and told the “Minute til 6” podcast it wasn’t even close. He was never coming back.
Darren Collison on the “Minute til 6” podcast says he never thought about coming out of retirement to join Lakers or Clippers. The veteran guard called it “overhyped” as he opens up about that period and his future.
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“To keep it 100, they overhyped the whole thing. Like, I wasn’t even thinking about coming back.”
That game he went to? He just came to watch his friend Russell Westbrook.
“I just wanted to come watch the game as a fan.”
Collison also is smart enough to know how him sitting with Buss would be perceived.
Collison was wanted. The Lakers run LeBron James at the point but could have used the veteran Collison in the role Rajon Rondo filled as a secondary playmaker (Rondo is currently out with a thumb injury). Collison was rumored to the Clippers as well, and Doc Rivers can always find a way to use more guard depth.
Collison, however, seems at peace with his decision. If he wanted to return, he would have done it last summer for 10 figures a season, not for the minimum in January.
Darren Collison says talk of him playing for Lakers was “overhyped” originally appeared on NBCSports.com
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