NBA veteran Jamal Crawford is still waiting for the phone to ring.

It's been more than a full year since the perennial scoring threat last stepped on NBA hardwood, even after dropping a whopping 51 points off the bench in his last game of the 2018-19 season as a member of the Phoenix Suns.

Nearly an entire season has passed and Crawford hasn't made his way back to the court, which brings up the question of when and how the sizzling dynamo would consider retirement. Crawford explained as best he could during a podcast appearance on Court Vision with Ben Stinar and Jameer Nelson.

Transcript via HoopsHype:

“I don’t know if I have a timetable but I would think for me, it would probably be at some point next season,” said the NBA vet. “Like it may not be the beginning of next season, maybe a team that fighting for the playoffs later on in the season. And at that point, probably if it doesn’t happen, I would probably say, ‘Okay, that’s it.’”

Crawford, now 40 years old, became not only the oldest player to score 50-plus points in an NBA game at 39 years and 20 days of age, but also the first player to have 50-point outings with four different franchises (Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, Golden State Warriors, and Suns).

The league is trending toward giving chances to younger players in the way of a two-way contract, making a Crawford return all the more unlikely.

If no NBA team calls sometime next year, Crawford might have played his last game in grand fashion, splashing down a barrage of jumpers during Dirk Nowitzki's final game — a memory neither of them will forget.