By Aris Barkas/ barkas@eurohoops.net
Nocioni made the announcement himself via twitter and at his 37 years of age his basketball career is over.
He was a two-time All-EuroLeague selection before spending eight seasons in the NBA, from 2004 to 2012. Nocioni won a EuroLeague title in 2015 with Real Madrid, earning also the EuroLeague Final Four MVP award.
A regular member of the Argentine national team, Nocioni was a part of the team that won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He also helped the Argentine national team to win the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 FIBA World Championship in Indianapolis.
He has played in Argentina for Olimpia Venado Tuerto and Independiente de General Pico, before coming to Europe for Baskonia – then called Tay Ceramica -in 1999 and staying until 2004, when he was signed by the Chicago Bulls where he spend five season. In the summer of 2010 he ended up in Sacramento and after a season in the West he returned to the East for Philadelphia until 2012.
He ended his career in Europe, first with Baskonia (2012-14) and then with Real Madrid (2014-17). He has also won three Spanish League champions title, four Spanish cups, one Spanish Supercopa and he was ACB MVP in 2004.
Me retiro!!! Pero con la tranquilidad de haber dejado todo para los equipo que estuve!
— Andrés Nocioni (@SoyElChapu) June 17, 2017