Toronto Raptors member has announced that he will be retiring from basketball this summer

Goran Dragic is stepping away from professional basketball.

After 15 NBA seasons, the former Toronto Raptors guard has decided to hang it up and will play one final game in August before retiring officially from basketball, per EuroHoops.

Dragic will go down as one of Toronto’s most disliked athletes of all time. He joined the Raptors in the sign-and-trade that sent Kyle Lowry to the Miami Heat in 2021 and immediately his relationship with the fans went south.

Following the trade, he told reporters in Slovenian that he had higher ambitions than playing in Toronto. He apologized for the comments and said they were misinterpreted, but by then the damage was done.

Dragic started one game for the Raptors before being moved to the bench following the 2021-22 season opener. He played in each of Toronto’s first four games before falling out of the rotation. In November of that season, he stepped away from the team for personal reasons and never returned.

The reasons for his departure were never entirely clear, but it was not good optics for him or the team. Within the organization, Toronto never appeared upset with Dragic who was praised as a good teammate by almost everyone on the roster.

Dragic was traded to the San Antonio Spurs at the trade deadline in 2022 in the deal that brought Thad Young to Toronto. He was immediately waived in San Antonio before latching on with the Brooklyn Nets.

Toronto fans weren’t particularly kind to Dragic when he did return to the city. He was booed relentlessly every time he played the Raptors.

“I was surprised,” Pascal Siakam said in 2022 when Dragic returned to Toronto and was booed. “I like Goran, so I don’t know. Like, what happened?”

Dragic played one more season following his stint in Brooklyn with the Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks before heading overseas.