Nov 22, 2003 10:24 AM EST

Tim Hardaway has decided to call it quits.

''I wanted to play another year because I didn't go out the way I wanted to go out,'' Hardaway, 37, said via telephone Friday, sounding like no retirement is ever official. ``I went out being hurt. I never went out on my own terms. The coaches don't think I can play anymore. If they don't want me, forget it.''

Via Israel Gutierrez of the Miami Herald