After his mother (Brenda) died of cancer in 1995, his grandmother became a parent figure to him. He stopped playing basketball after his mother died.[4] His father served 20 years in federal prison for bank robbery. Francis later described his stepfather, a garbage collector, as his best friend. As a youth, Francis received food stamps and lived in an apartment with 18 people.
Francis began working for drug dealers at ten years old and began selling crack cocaine on the street as a teenager during the American crack epidemic. He attended six high schools and played in a total of two high school basketball games. He dropped out of school at 18 years old after his mother died.
Dude has been through a lot.After Francis left professional basketball and his stepfather committed suicide, he began drinking heavily.
Dwight is clearly a HOF and it was a disgrace they took him off the 75th anniversary team for Dame
Yeah a lot of those DC area athletes be going through it. West, Beasley, Francis.. it never when I went to college and one of the athletic coaches said back in the day , a lot of dc athletes had a bad reputations for being hard to coach and deal with, basically knuckleheads.