Two-time NBA champion Mario Chalmers was just lately tapped by Zamboanga Valientes as an import for the 2023 ASEAN Basketball League Invitationals.
Chalmers performed for the Miami Heat from 2008 to 2015 the place he was a part of the workforce’s championship runs in 2012 and 2013. One of his teammates throughout that run was LeBron James, who just lately grew to become the NBA’s all-time scoring king.
For Chalmers, James’ current achievement should not be that shocking given the longevity of the latter’s profession.
“A player like that who has that longevity, that type of career, that’s not hard to break that record,” Chalmers stated in Chino Trinidad’s 24 Oras report on Friday.
“Like he says, he never intended to go out and try to break the record. It’s just something that happened,” stated the NBA champ.
After Chalmers’ chapter within the NBA, which included a stint with the Memphis Grizzlies, he additionally performed for different worldwide groups similar to in Greece and Puerto Rico. With this, he stated he’s grateful to the game, which introduced him everywhere in the world.
“This sport has been with me all my life, something I’m pretty much good at that I’ve been doing for my whole life so it took me all over the world,” he stated.
“The whole point of playing basketball is winning the championship. Once you’ve done that, there’s nothing else you can do on a team aspect. The only thing left after that is individual goals.”
Chalmers’ Zamboanga squad missed the ABL Invitational playoffs as they fell to the Singapore Slingers, 97-87, on Thursday.
—Justin Kenneth Carandang/JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
