Robert Swift blows $20m, refuses to move out of house

[Commander in Chiefin]

Robert Swift: Former NBA star's broken hoop dream: Player who blew $20m refuses to quit $1.35m home after bank forecloses and sells to someone else | Mail Online

A former NBA star, who earned $20 million during his career, is refusing to leave his Seattle home which fell into foreclosure last summer and was sold two months ago.

One time Seattle Supersonic Robert Swift, 27, looks to be the latest in a long line of once highly paid sports stars to have squandered their fortune.
Swift purchased the house, in the upmarket Seattle suburb of Sammamish, for $1.35million in 2006.

Since then, the million-dollar home has fallen into a sad state of disrepair.

The garden is littered with empty Budweiser, Four Loko and Coors Light cans, while a sign attached to the front door reads ‘Danger men drinking.’

A garage window has a bullet hole in it, while outside sit several cars which look like they haven’t moved in some time. One is missing a bonnet.

The property, with buckets of festering water dotted along outside it, sticks out like a sore thumb in the wealthy Eastside suburb.

The new owner bought it in January for nearly half the original price, but hasn’t been able to do anything with the place since Swift refuses to co-operate.

And it seems like a very sad story and I definitely feel for him,’ the new owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, told KOMO4.

Built in 2000, the house has four beds, four and half baths, and is approximately 6,240 square feet.

Time is running out for Swift, who has gone past his grace period to leave.
The owner has filled a summons and now the ex-ball player has a week to respond, after that Swift faces being evicted by force.

It is a tragic fall from grace for Swift who was a number one draft pick for the Sonics in 2004. He played for Seattle, Oklahoma City, and eventually in Japan.
When KOMO 4 tried to speak with Swift on Wednesday, a woman who said she was his girlfriend said he couldn't come out because he was asleep after taking pills.

 

[Malta]

 

[Tide Run This]

That's a Bakersfield white boy for ya

 

[Hammer]

dude was a colossal bust but he living the life

 

[Swagnificent]

wasn't he the first white boy to from high school to the pros?

 

[mastermind]

Damn look, there go a white boy lost. (JoJo starts singing: yooooou should be ashamed of yourself. The way you, caaaaary yourself)

 

[Lee_Land]

How'd he earn 20 million tho?? I never remember him having that big of a contract...well anywhere.....

 

[Tide Run This]

wasn't he the first white boy to from high school to the pros?

He flunked out of HS he went to Garces High and Bakersfield High dude was always low IQ this story is no surprise.

 

[pete clemenza]

That's how them Central Valley white boyz do it. He's carrying on tradition

 

[FaTaL]

hes only 27, im sure he can play somewhere

 

[Urahara_Kisuke]

It's a damn shame, throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.

 

[Nino Soprano]

Throw his white a$$ out

 

[beenz]

wasn't he the first white boy to from high school to the pros?

that pick had failure written all over it when the sonics picked him. he was tall as shyt, but skinnier and less skilled than shawn bradley

 

[mastermind]

How'd he earn 20 million tho?? I never remember him hiving that big of a contract...well anywhere.....

maybe a shoe deal? I have no idea, tbh

 

[BlvdBrawler]

#ITWAN