魔术球员、球员工会第一副主席阿多纳尔-福耶尔(Adonal Foyle)正式发布退役。
今年35岁的福耶尔在NBA征战了13年，先后效率过金州勇士、奥兰多魔术和孟菲斯灰熊，他在733场惯例赛中有过登场，场均得到4.1分4.7个篮板1.6次盖帽。
由于退役，福耶尔将在之后几天辞去球员工会第一副主席的职位。
据悉，魔术队目前的球员发展主管职位还有空缺，福耶尔可能是这个职位的幻想人选。
福耶尔一直在从事人道主义工作，2005年，他还建立了“Kerosene Lamp Foundation”慈善机构，以帮助儿童。退役后，他还将持续做他的慈善工作。“现在，我只盼望完成我人生的这一部分工作，之后再来考虑如何达到人生的下一站。”福耶尔说道。
在离开之前，福耶尔特意写了一首诗，与球迷、球队、队友以及NBA告别。内容如下：
Love Song to a Game
By: Adonal Foyle
How should I tell thee goodbye?
What can you say about a love affair to rival that of Romeo & Juliet? This is not just some melancholy ode to a hackneyed love of mortals.
I found our love deep in the entrails of the Caribbean Sea. Love that swept me to a land where our embrace became mythical.
You showed me a world that few have dreamt of.
Colgate's golden steeple, a sojurn where ancient teachings flooded my mind.
There in the Chenango Valley where 13 sang my soul to flight, basketball laid siege to my soul.
I do not cry for the passing of our love for it stands radiant while my brittle bones crumble through swift time.
I have known you by so many faces; I will spend my end of days recalling.
You have infected so many with the allure of riches and black gold. But I am not angry with you my love. For to a boy who was lost in the bosom of nothing you gave hope and home.
Like the flickering of a light we come and go without much fuss. So I leave you to fend off seekers, hoping they too will cherish your unyielding countenance.
As for me, I will forever live in the glare of your loving embrace. From time to time I hope you will look in on this pitiful fool.
I will miss brothers of a quilt struggling with burning lights. If I offer advice, pierce beyond the glaring lights and see the faces behind the wall. Don't be fooled by the magicians' nibble fingers. For this is a life with mirrors and screens. Its only truth lies in the understanding it will all end.
The sound I will take home is the symphony of thousands of screaming friends.
Warriors, Magic and yes, Memphis too, I sing you praise, hope, blessings,
Flowing from a boy's songs of thanks to you and you and you,to all I knew.
Please stay my "immortal love."
诗歌起源：Orlando Sentinel
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