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[转帖]Bruce Bowen retires from NBA

Bruce Bowen retires from NBA
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/spurs/Bruce_Bowen_is_retiring_today.html
By Richard Oliver - Express-News


A few moments after officially retiring from the NBA on Thursday afternoon, Bruce Bowen delivered a message to one of the players he’d harassed on the court for more than a decade.

Your long nightmare is over.

Steve Nash, he said, “can go ahead and hang up his cup.”

The Phoenix Suns guard, famously kneed in the groin by Bowen during the postseason three years ago, joins bedeviled scorers such as Kobe Bryant, Jason Kidd and Ray Allen in breathing a little easier today.

The 38-year-old Bowen, regarded as one of the league’s most dogged — and notorious — defenders during an eight-year stint with the Spurs, told a media gathering at Yardley’s Salon and Spa, the business he owns with his wife, that he was done after a “blessed” career.

“It was a joyous occasion for me to be able to play this long in the NBA,” Bowen said. But, he added, “I’m no spring chicken, but more like a rooster now.”

The announcement puts the exclamation point on a 12-season career that saw the former Cal State-Fullerton headliner remake himself as a smothering lock-down defender in San Antonio after a mercurial career that previously had taken him to France, the CBA, and NBA stops in Miami, Boston and Philadelphia.

Signed by the Spurs in the summer of 2001, Bowen made the NBA’s all-defensive first team for five straight years beginning in 2003-04. He also became a solid 3-point threat while serving as the blue-collar background catalyst to three league championships in San Antonio.

“Bruce contributed a great deal to the success of our franchise,” Spurs general manager R.C. Buford said. “He’s built a great legacy in the San Antonio community and we all wish him well as he enters into the next phase of his life with his family.”

Bowen, who will remain in San Antonio, plans to remain close to basketball through a hoped-for broadcasting career. He has auditioned for a role with ESPN’s coverage of the NBA, and is scheduled to work in an unspecified role with Turner Broadcasting.

“The thing for Bruce is, he needs to find a sense of purpose and something to fill that void,” said former Spurs standout Sean Elliott, a analyst on the team’s television broadcasts. “That’s going to be the toughest thing for someone like Bruce because he works so hard at it.”

Bowen also hopes to remain proactive in his many charity and promotional works.

“He’s always on the go,” said Yardley, his wife of five years. “He’s hyper.”

As a result, she joked, “I told him when we got married that I expect him out of the house at least four times a week.”

Bowen’s tenure with the Spurs ended on June 24 when he was part of a three-team trade with the Milwaukee Bucks and Detroit Pistons that brought scorer Richard Jefferson to San Antonio. After an extended and frustrating wait, during which Milwaukee shopped him around, the Bucks waived him last month.

Bowen officially became a free agent Aug. 1 when the Bucks paid $2 million to buy out his $4 million contract for the 2009-10 campaign. But the player, who admitted he had considered retiring after the past five seasons, ignored overtures from a scattering of teams, some reportedly contenders.

“They said all the right things,” Bowen said of the flirtations, “but I’m in a different stage in my career.”

He stressed that he would not be returning to play later, noting that he has seen several players do that and regret it afterward. But had the Spurs welcomed him back, he likely would have played another season with the Spurs.

By late last season, however, Bowen sensed he would not be part of San Antonio’s roster plans. After the deal with Milwaukee, a moribund franchise that he had no intention of joining, his decision was in place.

“I always wanted to leave on my own terms,” he said. “I’m able to do that now.”

There is fallout, however, and Bowen let his wife know.

“Now,” he said, “instead of filet mignon, she’s going to have to get the chicken.”




Long Live The Defensive Specialist: Bruce Bowen Retires As The Quintessential Spur

http://www.poundingtherock.com/2009/9/3/1013356/long-live-the-defensive-specialist





So, you've probably heard the news by now. Bruce Bowen is retiring. While I'm sure we're all glad Bruce didn't sign with another team to haunt our playoff dreams, now is the time to pay tribute to one of the most prototypical Spurs players ever.



The Man
When Bruce Bowen played college ball at Cal State Fullerton, nobody would have imagined him becoming a defensive specialist. Bruce's game at that time was mostly scoring, and he averaged an impressive 16.3 points/game in his senior year(he never averaged more than 8 in the NBA). He was a solid prospect, if raw, and entered the NBA draft in 1993.

Unfortunately for Bruce, he wasn't drafted, and was exiled to the basketball wilderness that was France at the time. He would spend four seasons bouncing back and forth between France, the CBA, and even a brief stint with the Miami Heat (he played 1 minute for the Heat during the 1996-97 season). In the CBA and France, he was once again a scorer, even becoming one of the most prolific scorers in the French league at the time.

Then, in the summer of 1997, he was signed, traded, waived, and then picked off waivers by various NBA franchises. The team he ended up with - the Celtics - gave him plenty of minutes off the bench in a supporting role. His playing time steadily decreased during the two seasons after his first with the Celts, and in his third NBA season, he was traded from Philadelphia to the same Miami team that gave him his first brief taste of NBA competition. In Miami, Bruce changed his number and re-fashioned himself as a defensive specialist. He spent one and a half seasons with the Heat, before the Spurs picked him up in free agency during the summer of 2001, leading some Spurs fans (this one included) scratching their heads. Little did we they know what kind of difference #12 would make for their favorite team.

And the rest, as they say, is history. History that we can all relive right now.


The Legend


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Bottom Line
After watching Bruce for 8 seasons, we all know now what the Spurs were hoping for when they signed him. Bruce became one of the most hated men in the NBA, because for years he made it nearly impossible for his man to get any breathing room, much less an open look at the basket. Of course, some of those guys he harassed were quick to cry like babies call him a dirty player, but Bruce "dirtiest player in the league" Bowen was consistently called for less fouls per 40 minutes than almost any of his NBA small forward counterparts. His reputation as a student of the game, and one of the hardest workers in the NBA, is one that is well deserved. What Bruce lacked in athletic ability, he made up for in his work ethic and basketball IQ.

Work ethic, dedication to community service, and basketball IQ: If Pop could design the ideal Spurs player with only 3 qualities, those would no doubt be at the top of the list. With that said, those are qualities that would also be very useful in an assistant coach, nudge-nudge(just saying). The benefits of having a guy like Bruce on the bench and at practices are obvious, but Bruce should only do it if he sincerely wants to.

Bruce Bowen will forever be remembered as a Spur. His contributions to 3 Spurs championships, combined with the embrace of Spurs philosophy on and off the court, should be more than enough to justify hanging #12 in the rafters at the AT&T Center. He will be missed.

Say it one last time, Spurs fans: BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCE!!!!!

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Bruce Bowen Announces Retirement From Basketball(链接中有视频)
http://www.nba.com/spurs/news/090903_bowen.html

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Bruce Bowen won't be pestering the NBA's best anymore.

The 38-year-old former San Antonio Spurs forward retired Thursday after 12 seasons and a reputation as one of the league's most menacing defenders, hounding opponents with a tenacity that some players groused was more dirty than dogged.

He called it quits after being waived this summer by Milwaukee, where the Spurs dealt him in a veteran dump-off for swingman Richard Jefferson -- a decision Bowen said he understood.

"You need to do things to better the business, and the Spurs definitely got better in the players they received, so I'm looking forward to continuously supporting the Spurs, but from more of a distance now," he said in a news conference at his wife's San Antonio salon.

Bowen said he had been weighing retirement for the last five years.

Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili get most of the glory for bringing three NBA championships to San Antonio this decade. But Bowen gladly did the dirty work, relishing his role as the pesky, lockdown defender who covered the other team's best player.

Asked about the likely reaction to his retirement from stars like the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant and the Phoenix Suns' Steve Nash, Bowen chuckled, "I'm sure a lot of people are happy."

Bowen was named eight times to the NBA's all-defensive team. He finished runner-up three times in defensive player of the year voting. And though he never averaged more than 8.2 points a season, Bowen didn't shy from taking a clutch 3-pointer.

He started alongside the Big Three during the championship runs in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Bowen went on to start 500 straight games before kicking New Orleans' Chris Paul in March 2008 and drawing a one-game suspension -- justice in the eyes of Bowen's critics. Opposing fans vilified Bowen as a master of cheap shots and sneaky shoves. Amare Stoudemire once insisted Bowen purposely kicked him in the playoffs. Dirk Nowitzki said after a physical April playoff game that it was the Spurs who had a dirty player, not Dallas.

Nowitzki didn't mention Bowen by name. He didn't have to.

Bowen acknowledged Thursday only one play in which he purposely kicked another player: Ray Allen in a March 2006 game against the Seattle SuperSonics, a scuffle that earned him a $10,000 fine.

"That play, I remember and I regret because of me intentionally doing that," Bowen said.

But he said that his reputation as a sometimes dirty player is unfair.

"People are entitled to their own opinions. I've been fighting that for quite some time," said Bowen, who added he drew a lot of calls because of bad timing. "It just so happened that I was there after everyone stuck their hands in the cookie jar and then the lights came on and I had a cookie."

Bowen was not the most obvious starter for a championship team early in his career. Drafted by Miami from Cal State Fullerton, he spent several seasons bouncing between clubs and earning little playing time.

But after his 2001 arrival in San Antonio, he found his place, eventually earning defensive player accolades and a regular starting job.

He said he hopes that will be his legacy.

"It's not how you start but how you finish," Bowen said. "I hope my legacy would be as someone that never was satisfied with just being where they were."

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After retirement, what’s next for Bruce Bowen?
http://dimemag.com/2009/09/bruce-bowen-announces-retirement/
By Austin Burton

Bruce Bowen
In the end, the fact that Bruce Bowen was essentially sacrificed so that the San Antonio Spurs could have a better chance at winning another championship was somewhat symbolic of what he meant to the team.

When Bowen was traded to Milwaukee this offseason as part of the deal to get Richard Jefferson, I expected he would eventually get bought out and return to the Spurs as a minimum-salary player, similar to Antonio McDyess spending five minutes on the Nuggets last year before returning to the Pistons. But realistically, there wouldn’t have been much room for Bowen in the team’s rotation, which is why he became expendable in the first place. After drawing some interest from contenders like the Celtics and Cavs, Bowen ultimately decided to walk away from the game at 38 years old, which he announced in a press conference earlier today.

“It was just about being able to say, ‘All right, it’s done,’” Bowen was quoted in the San Antonio Express-News. Bowen said he already had an audition with ESPN earlier this week, and will talk to TNT soon.

With three NBA championships, eight NBA All-Defensive selections, and always a crucial part of the Spurs’ offense with his corner threes, Bowen will go down as one of the greatest role players of his era and one of its top defenders. And, whether you think he deserves it or not, he’ll also be remembered as one of the League’s dirtiest players. He was a self-made pro, an undrafted wing out of Cal State-Fullerton who played in France and in some American minor leagues before finally getting his shot in the NBA. Eventually changing his style into a defensive lock-down specialist, Bowen found his niche and grew into a champion. And even at 38 and clearly declining, he could still get on a roster if he wanted to.

Bowen isn’t a Hall of Famer, but do you think the Spurs should someday retire #12 in his honor?
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Bruce Bowen won't be pestering the NBA's best anymore.

The 38-year-old former San Antonio Spurs forward retired Thursday after 12 seasons and a reputation as one of the league's most menacing defenders, hounding opponents with a tenacity that some players groused was more dirty than dogged.

He called it quits after being waived this summer by Milwaukee, where the Spurs dealt him in a veteran dump-off for swingman Richard Jefferson -- a decision Bowen said he understood.

"You need to do things to better the business, and the Spurs definitely got better in the players they received, so I'm looking forward to continuously supporting the Spurs, but from more of a distance now," he said in a news conference at his wife's San Antonio salon.

Bowen said he had been weighing retirement for the last five years.

Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili get most of the glory for bringing three NBA championships to San Antonio this decade. But Bowen gladly did the dirty work, relishing his role as the pesky, lockdown defender who covered the other team's best player.

Asked about the likely reaction to his retirement from stars like the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant and the Phoenix Suns' Steve Nash, Bowen chuckled, "I'm sure a lot of people are happy."

Bowen was named eight times to the NBA's all-defensive team. He finished runner-up three times in defensive player of the year voting. And though he never averaged more than 8.2 points a season, Bowen didn't shy from taking a clutch 3-pointer.

He started alongside the Big Three during the championship runs in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Bowen went on to start 500 straight games before kicking New Orleans' Chris Paul in March 2008 and drawing a one-game suspension -- justice in the eyes of Bowen's critics. Opposing fans vilified Bowen as a master of cheap shots and sneaky shoves. Amare Stoudemire once insisted Bowen purposely kicked him in the playoffs. Dirk Nowitzki said after a physical April playoff game that it was the Spurs who had a dirty player, not Dallas.

Nowitzki didn't mention Bowen by name. He didn't have to.

Bowen acknowledged Thursday only one play in which he purposely kicked another player: Ray Allen in a March 2006 game against the Seattle SuperSonics, a scuffle that earned him a $10,000 fine.

"That play, I remember and I regret because of me intentionally doing that," Bowen said.

But he said that his reputation as a sometimes dirty player is unfair.

"People are entitled to their own opinions. I've been fighting that for quite some time," said Bowen, who added he drew a lot of calls because of bad timing. "It just so happened that I was there after everyone stuck their hands in the cookie jar and then the lights came on and I had a cookie."

Bowen was not the most obvious starter for a championship team early in his career. Drafted by Miami from Cal State Fullerton, he spent several seasons bouncing between clubs and earning little playing time.

But after his 2001 arrival in San Antonio, he found his place, eventually earning defensive player accolades and a regular starting job.

He said he hopes that will be his legacy.

"It's not how you start but how you finish," Bowen said. "I hope my legacy would be as someone that never was satisfied with just being where they were."


http://www.nba.com/spurs/news/090903_bowen.html
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