Trail Blazers center Fabricio Oberto has announced today that he has retired from the game of basketball due to recurrent palpitations related to a prior cardiac condition.

Oberto experienced lightheadedness and dizziness during the first half of Portland?s game at Milwaukee on Nov. 2.

?I made this decision to put my health and my family in front of basketball,? said Oberto. ?It was a tough decision to make after playing for so many years, but it was the right one.?