SHAUN LIVINGSTON'S STORY OF OVERCOMING

February 26, 2007 marked a before and after in Shaun Livingston's sports career. His sports career should have ended that day. It was not so. Livingston survived, reinvented himself as a player and ended up winning 3 rings with the Warriors years later.

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In 2019 Livingston announced his retirement from basketball at the age of 34 after spending 15 in the NBA, more than one completely out due to the brutal knee injury he suffered on February 26th, 2007, a devastating situation that forced him not to step on the pitches in the 2007-2008 season and to play only 12 games the following season.

That day he was wearing the Clippers jersey. In a drive to the basket, the landing of his left leg left us all with a chilling image, the likes of which have rarely been seen on a court. In that play he destroyed his left knee, all of it out of place. The anterior cruciate ligament, the posterior cruciate ligament, and the lateral meniscus were torn, the median collateral ligament was also damaged, and the patella was dislocated. A knee to rebuild.

That injury practically meant goodbye to basketball for one of the most promising boys in American basketball, a young man who entered the NBA as number 4 in the 2004 draft without going through college.

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From the injury and a long rehabilitation process, Livingston reinvented himself as a role player, as a luxury secondary. And after going through 9 teams, he ended up joining the Warriors in the last 5 years of his career.

Livingston played in 5 NBA Finals and won 3 championships with Golden State. He played 833 games (190 starts) in an NBA career in which he averaged 6.3 points and 3 assists, but his contribution went far beyond those numbers.

A miracle that made him one of the most beloved players in the NBA and that led him to win 3 rings.

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