Larry Sanders speaks on Why he walked away from the NBA *video*

[Alexander The Great]

LARRY SANDERS
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR


Everyone’s come up with their own theories about why I’ve been absent since leaving the Bucks. I knew people would speculate, but the crazy thing to me is that people are making it about the money. As a person who grew up with nothing, I know money is important. I’m incredibly grateful to have had the chance to play in the NBA. But at the same time, that’s not what fuels me. I’ve never chased money. It’s never been how I define success. Happiness isn’t behind a golden gate.

Everyone has to make a living. I’m no different from the person whose 9-to-5 isn’t their dream job. It’s a scary thing to walk away from security but I’m more afraid of living with the “what if.”

I love basketball, and if I get to a point where I feel I’m capable of playing basketball again, I will. I’ve had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition, and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.

 

[Arcavian]

Hope dude finds happiness

 

[Detroit Wave]

good for him

 

[BXKingPin82]

be's like that sometimes
hope this brother finds what he's lookin for

 

[SuburbanPimp]

Don't see how anybody can really be mad at that

 

[GetInTheTruck]

I respect it.

 

[Osmar]

I want to smoke weed.

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

 

[Malta]

I can't blame him, if you dumped a max contract on me at the age of 22-23 I'd probably want to stop playing an enjoy the wealth & freedom it would give me.

You can tell the same thing happened with Bynum to a lesser extent, he never really seemed to enjoy playing and always had that look on his face that he wanted to be somewhere else.

 

[holidayinn21]

sounds like another ricky williams situation.

 

[Bernie Madoff]

7 foot tall mental midget smh.. Vape some kush and go play some ball breh

 

[Crown Bearer]

Respect him for recognizing what's important to him and not worrying about it'll be perceived or anybody getting in his ear.

 

[se1f_made]

Dude won the genetic lottery and can make enough bread to feed your family for generations but you'd throw it away to chase the illusion of freedom. Cant hate the kid but its obvious hes misguided

 

[ChemicalBk]

Smoke ya bud n play overseas breh

 

[GoldenGlove]

He'll be back