The luckiest basketball player in the world might be Larry Sanders and he is not playing in the National Basketball Association. However, that might change in a few weeks as he is reported to return in the league for a team that is bound in the playoffs.
Sanders, who decided to quit basketball and the Milwaukee Bucks in 2015, recently tried out for six teams over a two-day period in Miami, Racine Journal Times' Gery Woelfel reported in his Woefel's Press Box. According to Joe Bell, Sanders' agent, the former Bucks starting center did well in the workouts and expressed his desire of returning to basketball amid dealing with past issues.
The veteran agent added that a lot of teams around the league have expressed their curiosity in the defensive specialist and that they already have an offer that they might get done during the NBA All-Star Weekend which will begin next week.
Sanders, despite not playing for more than a year, is still benefitting from his four-year, $44 million contract he signed with the Bucks. Milwaukee used the "stretch provision" to waive Sanders and turn his original contract to a seven-year, $13.3 million contract that pays him $1.9 million every year, Fansided reported.
In a video interview by The Players' Tribune, Sanders said he will always love basketball but had to quit the game to deal with his personal issues as basketball had already consumed much of his life. The 28-year-old also mentioned people who turned to him to ask for money and the necessity to be "correct in your statements."
The six-foot-evelen slotman, who played five years for the Bucks, has a career average of 6.5 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.8 blocks with his best season coming in the 2012-2013 season when he normed 9.8 points, 9.5 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 2.5 blocks.
Watch the video below of Sanders recording a triple-double: