Richard Jefferson dunked on the Knicks from the broadcast booth Sunday when the former small forward said he chose retirement over playing for the woebegone franchise.
“They were the one team that offered me a job, and I decided to retire,” Jefferson said on-air during the Nets-Knicks game. ” I just knew it was time. When the Knicks were looking for me to play for them, I knew my time in the league was over.”
Jefferson played 17 seasons in the league, including his first seven with the Nets, before retiring at 38 years old in 2018.
He won a championship with the Cavaliers in 2017 as a pivotal bench player, and currently works for ESPN and the YES Network as an NBA pundit.
The Knicks, meanwhile, are no stranger to missing out on free agents after watching Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant sign with the Nets this summer.
