Tony Parker has watched old rivals Allen Iverson, Steve Nash, Chauncey Billups and Jason Kidd end their playing careers in recent years. Parker, however, isn't eying his own retirement party anytime soon. If everything goes right for him, the longtime San Antonio Spurs point guard won't quit until after his 20th NBA season.

View photos Tony Parker hopes to bounce back from a difficult season. (Getty Images) More

"The Spurs know I want to play until I'm 38," Parker told Yahoo Sports in a recent phone interview. "That will be 20 seasons for me. That's my goal. This year is No. 15. And if I'm lucky enough and I'm healthy, hopefully I can play 20 seasons and then I'll be ready to retire."

Parker, 33, made $12.5 million in the final year of his last contract last season. This season will be the first year of the 14-year NBA veteran's new contract paying him a total of $43.3 million over the next three seasons. Parker said he has told Spurs coach Gregg Popovich and general manager R.C. Buford he wants a career-ending three-year contract in San Antonio after his new deal expires.

The big question is whether Parker will be healthy enough to play that long. He was hampered, most notably, by a left hamstring strain last season. He averaged 14.4 points and 4.9 assists, his lowest production in each category since he was a 19-year-old rookie. He played in 68 regular-season games last season and fewer than 70 in each of the past three seasons.

"Last year was the first year in my whole career where I had a lot of nagging injuries," Parker said. "When I compare to all the other guys when you look at D-Rose [Derrick Rose], [Paul] George and Wesley Matthews, I feel very lucky and blessed that I have been able with my little body to play all those years."

Parker also shot just 34.3 percent while playing in Eurobasket 2015 for his native France this summer. He said he felt "great physically" and his lackluster performance was because of rust, not recent injuries. Parker has told Popovich and Buford he will play his final season internationally for France next summer in its attempt to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

"I was just not in a good rhythm," Parker said. "I didn't play a lot in the [exhibition] games and I didn't play a lot in the [preliminary] rounds because coach was sitting me because of my age."

Spurs assistant coach Ettore Messina, who attended Eurobasket 2015, said Parker's low shooting percentage for France was more a product of defenses focusing on primarily stopping him.

"He carried the load for their team for many games," Messina said. "He was public enemy No. 1. He didn't shoot that well because he was always crowded and people were all over the place against him."

View photos Parker (right) plans to keep playing even after Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili retire. (AP) More

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