Yep, ol' "Gotta change my shoes if I got the halftime blues" is finally hanging up those shoes after almost 2 decades of professional basketball life, almost all of it starring overseas.
Rock Chalk, KL, and thanks for all the memories and all the great years repping The University of Kansas! Best of luck in wherever course you pursue in your post-playing life!
From Twitter (copy & paste in your browser to see the actual thread )
https://twitter.com/keith_langford/status/1654212817518579712?s=20
Keith
@keith_langford 2:54 PM · May 4, 2023
May of 2022 I had surgery for an Achilles tendinopathy that for the previous 10 months, I tried to conservatively rehabilitate.
In what turned out to be an extremely trying time period, I was consumed by denial, anger, depression and bargaining.
After 17 years and the age of 38, I selfishly denied the last stage of grief that I knew was upon me. Acceptance.
That being said, as I humbly & excitedly accept an invitation to participate in the
@thetournament with @MassStreetTBT, I couldn’t be in a better space to announce my RETIREMENT from basketball and have this full circle moment to play for the last time in representation of @kuhoops. I’ve given everything physically and mentally I have to this game. 6 knee surgeries, a herniated disc, broken foot, broken nose, broken finger, hamstring/groin strains, and not to mention an unlimited amount of ankle sprains have all been worth it!! The journey has been the best part as well as the part I’ll miss most
Can’t wait to play one last time this July and phase into the next part life…
-KL
