Thursday afternoon of-injured Spartan forward Delvon Roe announced that he would be retiring from the basketball team after degenerative knee pain just became too overwhelming.
“This is the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make,” Roe said in a released statement. “It feels that I’ve been playing through pain throughout my career at MSU, but the daily grind of basketball — the running, cutting, jumping — has finally taken its toll, given the intensity required to play at our level.”
Not only was Roe an irreplaceable veteran leader on the floor, his consistency was simply remarkable. Since his freshman season in 2008-09, Roe’s number have been very uniform staying in that 6 ppg, 5 rpg, 1 bpg range. And even despite the many injuries, Roe never missed a game in his three seasons with the team.
Re: ESPN