'My knees are very grateful': Erin Phillips ready for basketball retirement

Jed Wells

'My knees are very grateful': Erin Phillips ready for basketball retirement image

Erin Phillips is one of Australia's most dominant cross-code athletes, a star of both the basketball court and the Australian rules football field. 

Since 2002, Phillips has been one of the countries most elite basketball players, and she also found time to squeeze in a six-year AFLW career that saw her elected to the Australian Football Hall of Fame. 

But after nearly three decades of professional sport in two different codes, the 40-year-old has said she is more than ready to call time on her athletic career. 

Erin Phillips ready for basketball retirement

Former WNBA champion Erin Phillips is set to retire from basketball, with her swansong approaching for the Woodville Warriors. 

Phillips is in her final professional season in the NBL1, and her Warriors will contend for a title in her final time on the court.

"My knees are very grateful this is the last game," Phillips told ESPN.

"I think during finals I've turned the corner a little bit, everything depends on physically how I'm going and my body. If it's feeling good, I can contribute how I would like but obviously not completely because my mind goes quicker than my body.

"I genuinely mean that's it, the boots are hanging up. I'm one and done. I retired once from AFLW and I'll retire from basketball once.

"This is it, this is the final chapter closing."

The final game of Phillips' career will come on Saturday, August 16, when her Woodville squad takes on the Sturt Sabres at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

Jed Wells

Jed is a writer and social media producer, who has a keen interest in the intersection of sports and popular culture, especially basketball.