On today's show, Lamarcus Aldridge shocked the basketball world by announcing his retirement after 15 seasons.

The list of presenters at this year's Hall of Fame ceremony were announced, and Boston's Jalen Brown did something that hasn't been done since the NBA merger.

I just wanted to say merger.

Hey, I'm Tasmelis, and this is what you need to know in the NBA for Friday, April 16th.

Hey, what's up, everybody? Good morning. Let's jump right in because there was some shocking news on Thursday.

Lamarcus Aldridge announced his retirement, the seven-time All-Star, five-time All-MBAer, had experienced in a regular heartbeat during his final game with the Nets on April 10th, and it got worse after the game.

And since then, he had been dealing with medical,

or he had been getting medical advice. Excuse me. It's something he's dealt with his entire career since he was diagnosed in his rookie year. And Aldridge made the decision for his family,

putting his crew first before basketball and the potential to get a ring with the

nets this season. 611 Aldridge came into the league in 2006 with a reliable jumper because he

worked at it. And this is a neat story. So I'm going to go through it here. He heard his hip during his

first year at Texas and that knocked him out for the season. But even though he was in all sorts of pain and couldn't stand, he sat on a chair and refined his release point on this shot. He went up higher and higher and higher and he came back with a higher release point. The patented release point we've seen for 15 years in the NBA. Now there may be some romance to that story, sure. But there's also some romance now

that we're celebrating his career. So let's just get into it. But, you know, it was a bit of a

complicated career throughout his years in Portland. Drafted in 06 alongside Brandon Roy. And Brandon

Roy always got a little bit more of the shine there in Portland, and Aldridge felt that all throughout

his career, lots of reports about Aldridge not being entirely happy. Then there was the Greg Oden

draft, and he also felt that there in Portland, despite being an incredible player, as I said,

a seven-time all-star, five-time All-MBA.

Then Damien Lillard came along and became the number one guy on the team.

Even in 2014 when Lamarcus Aldridge had those incredible two games against the Houston Rockets to start that series,

where he was a beast, 40-plus points in the first two games.

Damian Lillard kind of took the spotlight at the end of the series in 2014 against the Rockets by hitting the series ending shot.

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