Rasheed Wallace(notes) was pressed into the starting five for the Boston Celtics on Thursday night when the injured Kendrick Perkins(notes) couldn't play. Wallace delivered 11 points, eight rebounds, two assists and two blocked shots in a game the Celtics led nearly the whole way before finally succumbing to the Los Angeles Lakers, 83-79, to lose the championship.
Wallace has two years and $13 million left on his contract, but Celtics coach Doc Rivers suggested after the game that the 35-year-old would retire this summer, the Boston Herald reports.
"You know, I don't know if Rasheed will ever play again. I think he took that out on the floor with him," Rivers said. "I think he is thinking about retiring, and I thought you could see that in his play. He was dying out there. When he got the cramps and the strains, he was just trying to figure out a way of staying on the floor."
Wallace didn't say anything about it after the game. Instead, he hung out around the door of the referees' dressing room, reportedly wanting to talk to an official. "I'm trying to give him a compliment, and he thinks I'm trying to say something (bad)," Wallace said, according to the Herald.
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