Former NBA center Aron Baynes has officially ended his basketball career, agent Daniel Moldovan of Lighthouse Sports announced (via Twitter).
The Australian native spent time with the Spurs, Pistons, Celtics, Suns and Raptors during his nine NBA seasons. He left the league after the 2020/21 season and played the last two years with the Brisbane Bullets of Australia’s National Basketball League.
Baynes, who will turn 38 in December, said last month that he didn’t feel ready to retire and was hoping for another opportunity in the NBL. That hasn’t materialized, so he decided to bow out.
After playing four years in Europe, Baynes signed with San Antonio midway through the 2012/13 season. He spent two more years with the Spurs and was a backup center on their 2014 title team. He signed with Detroit as a free agent in 2015 and moved on to the Celtics two years later. Boston traded him to Phoenix during the 2019 offseason, and he joined Toronto as a free agent in 2020.
Baynes played in 522 career games, averaging 6.0 points and 4.6 rebounds in 16 minutes per night.
Baynes was also a fixture for many years on the Australian national team, competing in numerous international tournaments, including three Olympics. He suffered a spinal cord injury at the Tokyo Games that sidelined him for more than a year.
Never heard of her.
He was A very good back up center for a decade.
Great career and really enjoyed him on the Celtics. Very glad he’s healthy after the very scary fall he had in the Olympics and glad he could come back to play some ball afterwards even if it wasn’t in the NBA
This dude just called a 6 foot 10, 260 pound professional athlete a girl
Left out millionaire
You must not follow basketball. Most of us have heard of him. He made a 38 million dollars and is better than either of us and 99.999% of all people at this sport.
Clumsy dude. Landed on Stephen Curry’s hand and broke it 5 games into the 2019-2020 season. We were toast the rest of that season without him. No Curry or Klay that season. Was brutal.
Gonna miss that a brick wall of a man, and the Unofficial Aron Baynes Fan Club account. link to x.com
Later
great example of a guy who got everything he could out of the abilities he had. amazing effort to get back on the court after that scary fall, well done to him on having himself a career.