Contemplating retirement is strange if you’re only 33. It’s pretty unique to an athlete. Thirty more years of work lie ahead, but, you know that thing you’ve spent your entire life mastering, yeah, that’s ending. Find something else.



“It’s almost like going to college, picking a major,” Shaun Livingston said recently. “What do I want to be?”



Only $2 million of Livingston’s $8 million next season is guaranteed. For the Warriors, so deep into the luxury tax, that $6 million hit is multiplied. They must decide by June 30 whether they’re absorbing it. It appears unlikely that they will.



That contract reality is wrapped in a real-life reality, which has Livingston — caring for a young family rooted in the Bay Area, doing more maintenance than ever on his aching left knee — thinking this could be the final season of his NBA playing career.



It’s not decided officially.