Where Are They Now? Here's What Former NBA Players Are Up To
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One of the first allegedly gay players making moves
The Rodney Rodgers outcome still breaks my heart...
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
Robert Whaley - Untraceable since his release from prison, which is better than at least one alternative update.
I remember when this guy was the #1 rated player for the class of 2001 at one point while playing in Benton Harbor. He slept with a 13 year old when he was 17/18 and got off on the charges too.
I remember when this guy was the #1 rated player for the class of 2001 at one point while playing in Benton Harbor. He slept with a 13 year old when he was 17/18 and got off on the charges too.
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Ting ting sauce 
Don't even want to know what's in that brehs
Don't even want to know what's in that brehs
It's good to see so many doing well through investments, coaching and other business ventures.
That's another reason why i think they should go to college. Look at how many are assistants or head coaches at their alma maters.
That's another reason why i think they should go to college. Look at how many are assistants or head coaches at their alma maters.
wow did not hear about the cocaine arrest. i remember there was a thread on here or sohh about the murder trial but it never seemed to go anywhere. how stupid do you have to be.
Whitty Hutton
these posters are TRASH
Obinna Ekezie - Ekezie has run Wakanow, an African travel company, for six years, and claims they nowturn $100 million in revenue.
Bob Sura - Used to play really high stakes poker.Seems the stakes shrunk.
Here's a Bob Sura strip club story.
Bob Sura - Used to play really high stakes poker.Seems the stakes shrunk.
Here's a Bob Sura strip club story.
Joe_tu-pac
Rookie
This was nice to seeBrian Grant - Runs the Brian Grant Foundation that vows to aid the suffering of Parkinson's syndrome, rather than find a cause. Here's a video on how he is doing. And yes, he's shaking noticeably - don't watch it if you don't want to see that.
man i didn't know my nikka had parkinson's
where is eddie jones 
Yeah, that killed me. As did this:
Troy Hudson - Seems to have returned to music, doing so with a Christian message as a part of the collective "Sswag [sic] Movement." (The "Sswag" stands for "Stop Satan's work against God.") Here is some of it.
Sswag?
@tremonthustler1 come get your homie.
http://allball.blogs.nba.com/2013/06/25/kevin-willis-talks-fashion-and-his-willis-and-walker-line/
NBA.com: That’s very true about lingo. How were you able to learn the fashion industry from the inside out?
KW: The NBA offers its players internships in the summer. When we had our annual meetings every year, every basketball season, two or three seasons go by, and I listened to the guys. One year, I broke my foot and I didn’t have to go to the meetings, but I never forgot in those meetings that we would talk about if you want to further your education, if you want to go back and do what you did in college, or if you have a desire to get to dabble into corporate America — any field, we can provide that service for you. We can get that done for you during the offseason. It was my offseason all year because my foot was broken. I remember contacting the league, and telling them ‘I want to do an internship in fashion, can you guys help me?’ They set everything up. They actually flew me to New York. I had to report to the NBA office, every morning at nine o’clock, fully suited. They would give me my schedule for the day. I would take that schedule, jump in a cab, and go to each one of those appointments, an hour, two hours, and learn everything I could. For four summers straight I did that.
NBA.com: That sounds like a unique situation because you didn’t have to just intern with one company, you got exposed to many different brands.
KW: They were setting me up with appointments with say a company like Perry Ellis. I would go into the Perry Ellis office, meet who I needed to meet, they would give me the everyday process from administrative, to back office, warehousing, distribution, fabrics, how the garment was constructed. Even going to the actual manufacturing plants, where they do all the sewing, and you see tons of stuff. So I had to go through all these different processes and channels and learn this. And they’d go from nine o’clock until five every day. And every day it would be a new company. One of the ones I really remember is called the Doneger Group, and they’re a forecasting group for the entire world. Anything that you need to know, what’s coming out for 2018, 2017, that’s their business. They have all these relationships with people all over the world. Retailers, anybody. They taught me a lot of valuable information that I carry along to this day. I’m still today in contact with those principals who helped me back in 1989.
I wonder if these young'uns know about these type of programs. Also, keep in mind that Kevin Willis played over 2 decades in the NBA, more than 1/2 of it at a high level, so it's not like he was BSing in the offseason with his NBA training.
NBA.com: That’s very true about lingo. How were you able to learn the fashion industry from the inside out?
KW: The NBA offers its players internships in the summer. When we had our annual meetings every year, every basketball season, two or three seasons go by, and I listened to the guys. One year, I broke my foot and I didn’t have to go to the meetings, but I never forgot in those meetings that we would talk about if you want to further your education, if you want to go back and do what you did in college, or if you have a desire to get to dabble into corporate America — any field, we can provide that service for you. We can get that done for you during the offseason. It was my offseason all year because my foot was broken. I remember contacting the league, and telling them ‘I want to do an internship in fashion, can you guys help me?’ They set everything up. They actually flew me to New York. I had to report to the NBA office, every morning at nine o’clock, fully suited. They would give me my schedule for the day. I would take that schedule, jump in a cab, and go to each one of those appointments, an hour, two hours, and learn everything I could. For four summers straight I did that.
NBA.com: That sounds like a unique situation because you didn’t have to just intern with one company, you got exposed to many different brands.
KW: They were setting me up with appointments with say a company like Perry Ellis. I would go into the Perry Ellis office, meet who I needed to meet, they would give me the everyday process from administrative, to back office, warehousing, distribution, fabrics, how the garment was constructed. Even going to the actual manufacturing plants, where they do all the sewing, and you see tons of stuff. So I had to go through all these different processes and channels and learn this. And they’d go from nine o’clock until five every day. And every day it would be a new company. One of the ones I really remember is called the Doneger Group, and they’re a forecasting group for the entire world. Anything that you need to know, what’s coming out for 2018, 2017, that’s their business. They have all these relationships with people all over the world. Retailers, anybody. They taught me a lot of valuable information that I carry along to this day. I’m still today in contact with those principals who helped me back in 1989.
I wonder if these young'uns know about these type of programs. Also, keep in mind that Kevin Willis played over 2 decades in the NBA, more than 1/2 of it at a high level, so it's not like he was BSing in the offseason with his NBA training.
iceberg_is_on_fire
Wearing Lions gear when it wasn't cool
Foyle ain't no fool, you got top flight grades to go to Colgate. They have Ivy League like standards.