Tal Burstein, who led the Maccabee Tel Aviv basketball team to three European championships, announced Monday that he was retiring from basketball. Burstein, 32, has been suffering from numerous injuries, and on Monday he said that the injuries had recently become more serious, to the extent that he did not feel he could play effectively anymore.
At a press conference Monday, Burstein told reporters that he had had “a fantastic career in which I reached goals and championships I never dreamed of.”