Back in December, Antoine Walker was waived by the Memphis Grizzlies and wasn't picked up by another team. So what did he do with all that free time? It looks like he was gambling. According to the Associated Press, Walker is facing criminal charges over $822,500 in gambling debt to three Las Vegas casinos.The Clark County District Attorney's office says that Walker is facing three felony counts of writing 10 bad checks totaling $1 million to Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood and the Red Rock Resort. Apparently, Walked repaid $178,000 of that debt but is still on the hook for more than $800,000. He also owes the district attorney's office more than $82,000 in legal fees regarding the criminal charges. A warrant was issued for his arrest.
In Walker's 12-year career, he has earned more than $100 million. He has played for the Boston Celtics, Dallas Mavericks, Atlanta Hawks, Miami Heat and the Minnesota Timberwolves before being traded to the Memphis Grizzlies, which released him.
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By: warren on 7/16/2009 12:58PM
A FOOL AND HIS MONEY WILL SOON PART AND THE CASINO WILL HELP WITH THE PROCESS.
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By: MITA on 7/22/2009 9:31AM
WHY ARE WHITE PEOPLE SO JEALOUS OF BLACK PEOPLE? YOU PEOPLE JUST LOVE WHEN SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS TO A BLACK PERSON OF WEALTH.
WHY?....BECAUSE YOUR JEALOUS...SMH
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By: Dred Scott on 7/22/2009 10:03AM
Why don't white and Jewishly owned media sations and reporters keep Blacks out of their info-grams? Blacks don't daily report on them.
This is all a means to keep us psychologically enslaved, ashamed of our heroes, and paranoid they're wathing us; like the police do in our communlas. What if a Blackman has debt--it's all our slave money anyway. Everything in N. America is slave wealth. No Black REPARATIONS. No Peace.
Where are all the colonoscopy reports on Semitic, Asian, Hispanic, Cuban, Native American races? Whites and Jews must really want ther slaves back?
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By: jackie smurf on 7/22/2009 10:10AM
You should be asking--Why didn't he invest his money wisely instead of playing the popular "race" card!
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By: MITA on 7/22/2009 10:37AM
THE MONEY HE MESSED UP IS NOT MY MONEY NOR IS YOUR MONEY OR THE NEWS MEDIA'S MONEY....IT'S HIS MONEY TO SCREW UP ANY WAY HE CHOOSES.
IF HE CHOSE TO SCREW IT UP....THAT'S HIS PROBLEM NOT YOURS NOR THE NEWS MEDIA'S.
THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT HIS MISHANDLING OF HIS MONEY WOULD BE HIS WIFE AND FAMILY....THE NEWS MEDIA AND JEALOUS WHITE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A THING TO SAY....IT'S NOT THEIR MONEY.
THE PROBLEM....EVERY TIME SOME BLACK ATHLETE DOES SOMETHING THE JEALOUS....I WILL NOT SAY RACIST...(BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S JEALOUSY)....THE JEALOUS WHITE NEWS MEDIA....WANT'S TO TALK ABOUT IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
YOU CAN HAVE A WHITE ATHLETE WHO HAS DONE THE SAME THING AND YET....IT IS A SMALL BLUR IN THE PAPERS....NEVER EVEN MAKES IT TO TELEVISION NEWS.
IF IT IS A BLACK ATHLETE THEY GO ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON.
THEY ARE JEALOUS OF WEALTHY BLACK PEOPLE....THEY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AND THEY ALWAYS WILL BE.
ONLY IDIOTS ARE NOT ABLE TO SEE THAT WHITE PEOPLE AND WHITE MEDIA ARE JEALOUS OF BLACK WEALTHY PEOPLE.
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By: MITA on 7/22/2009 10:42AM
THE MONEY HE MESSED UP IS NOT MY MONEY NOR IS YOUR MONEY OR THE NEWS MEDIA'S MONEY....IT'S HIS MONEY TO SCREW UP ANY WAY HE CHOOSES!
IF HE CHOSE TO SCREW IT UP....THAT'S HIS PROBLEM NOT YOURS NOR THE NEWS MEDIA'S!
THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT HIS MISHANDLING OF HIS MONEY WOULD BE HIS WIFE AND FAMILY....THE NEWS MEDIA AND JEALOUS WHITE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A THING TO SAY....IT'S NOT THEIR MONEY.
THE PROBLEM....EVERY TIME SOME BLACK ATHLETE DOES SOMETHING THE JEALOUS....I WILL NOT SAY RACIST...(BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S JEALOUSY)....THE JEALOUS WHITE NEWS MEDIA....WANT'S TO TALK ABOUT IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
YOU CAN HAVE A WHITE ATHLETE WHO HAS DONE THE SAME THING AND YET....IT IS A SMALL BLUR IN THE PAPERS....NEVER EVEN MAKES IT TO TELEVISION NEWS.
IF IT IS A BLACK ATHLETE THEY GO ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON.
THEY ARE JEALOUS OF WEALTHY BLACK PEOPLE....THEY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AND THEY ALWAYS WILL BE.
ONLY IDIOTS ARE NOT ABLE TO SEE THAT WHITE PEOPLE AND WHITE MEDIA ARE JEALOUS OF BLACK WEALTHY PEOPLE.
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By: Lily White on 7/22/2009 12:54PM
He must have married a white woman who got him into gambling....Shame on her...
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By: fedup on 7/22/2009 3:56PM
yep its a damn shame too too busy makin' it rain and trickin' off lol no investing no flipping thier money none of that just livin' for today just plain stupid and its a shame that more blacks end up like this than the whites and thats just being real no racism and for the record im not white im black
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By: kando on 7/22/2009 4:17PM
Fools like him, Once they attain wealth they continue to think that it wil continue to keep coming in that way. I called him a fool, not because i want to degrade him, but because he didn't or wouldn't want to see the day that this all would come to an end. Instead of saving or investing in his future, so When that day came, he still continued to spend like there was no tomorrow. Not he's got to pay the piper, probably with the goverment auctioning all of his personal belongings at a pittance of it's value leaving him broke busted and out in the cold. I just feel for his family, he deserve no pity for being so stupid.
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By: KEVIN LEWIS on 7/22/2009 8:24PM
YES, A FOOL AND HIS MONEY WILL DEPART ONE FROM ANOTHER...BUT ONLY IF NOT MANAGED PROPERLY...I REALLY DON'T THINK THIS BROTHER IS BROKE...I THINK HE'S TRYING TO GET SOME ATTENTION. SEE WHEN THE SPOTLIGHT DIMS ON THESE PRO BALL PLAYERS THEY GET DEPRESSED. THIS BROTHER WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO BE A BRAND NAME, BUT HIS MANAGEMENT LET HIM DOWN. THATS THE SHAME IN IT ALL...NOT KNOWING WHO OR WHAT YOU REALLY ARE IN THIS GAME. PAY YOUR DEBTS AND JUST FADE INTO THE SUNSET BROTHER...YOU MISSED YOUR CHANCE TO KEEP THE SPOTLIGHT,
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