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By Christopher Dempsey
The Denver Post
POSTED:   03/18/2015 03:58:08 PM MDTADD A COMMENT
UPDATED:   03/18/2015 05:20:26 PM MDT


HOUSTON — Sixteen years in the NBA can be a blur, Al Harrington can attest
to that. He lived it.

On Wednesday, he recounted near two-decades worth of just sheer fun, allowing
the words that put an end to things kick off the conversation.

He sat courtside at the Toyota Center after helping out during a Nuggets
practice, and finally said it.

"I'm officially retired," Harrington said. "I don't know if there's paperwork
that I gotta fill out or anything. But my career is over."

And what a career it was.

He'll be known for a number of things, the least of which was being one of
the first true success stories of the prep-to-pros era. A first-round pick of
the Indiana Pacers in 1998, he'd only begun playing organized basketball four
years earlier for St. Patrick High School in Elizabeth, N.J.

"I'm very happy with what I was able to accomplish," Harrington said. "I was
able to change a lot of people's lives in my family, including myself in a
game that I eventually fell in love with and will always be in love with. And
hopefully I can stay around the game until I die. It was a fun ride. It went
by fast, too. It was like one minute I was 18, the next I was 25 then was 30
and now I'm 35. It was a fun run. Met a lot of great people."














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