{"id":241901,"date":"2026-05-05T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/wnba-all-time-great-tina-charles-announces-retirement-with-plenty-left-in-the-tank\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:42:54","slug":"wnba-all-time-great-tina-charles-announces-retirement-with-plenty-left-in-the-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/wnba-all-time-great-tina-charles-announces-retirement-with-plenty-left-in-the-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA all-time great Tina Charles announces retirement with plenty left in the tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WNBA<\/a> all-time leading rebounder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/players\/tina_charles\/128014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tina Charles\u00a0<\/a>announced her retirement on Tuesday, marking a premature end to the 15-year veteran&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being the fifth-oldest player in the league in 2025, Charles, 37, put up impressive numbers while also showing durability by playing in 43 of a possible 44 games. The 2012 MVP averaged 16.3 points and 5.8 rebounds in a career-low 28.4 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted to social media, Charles wrote, &#8220;At some point, you have to edit your life. Not everything and not everyone is meant for the whole journey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Growth requires honesty, and for me, that meant recognizing when my impact was being called in a new direction. That&#8217;s not failure, that&#8217;s clarity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/articles\/wnba_all_time_great_tina_charles_announces_retirement_with_plenty_left_in_the_tank\/s1_13132_43808211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA all-time leading rebounder Tina Charles\u00a0announced her retirement on Tuesday, marking a premature end to the 15-year veteran&#8217;s career. Despite being the fifth-oldest player in the league in 2025, Charles, 37, put up impressive numbers while also showing durability by playing in 43 of a possible 44 games. The 2012 MVP averaged 16.3 points and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}