Larry Hughes is not ready to retire and hopes to return to the NBA. Hughes sat out last season after being unable to find the deal he sought as a free agent.

“Obviously, I wanted to play,” Hughes said recently. “At the same time I wanted to be stable. I didn’t want to go to a situation where it was a one-year deal, or partial guarantee deal where at any time you could be out of there moving on. I wanted certain things after moving around the past three years, to different teams, I wanted something solid. If I didn’t get that, I wasn’t coming back.”