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Antoine Walker Good Ole’ Days

Found October 26, 2009 on The Basketball Nonsense:
PLAYERS: Antoine Walker
TEAMS: Memphis Grizzlies

Antoine Walker, one of my favorite players during the early millennium is now facing a BIG problem w/c includes a really big debt. Walker, now is really deep in financial troubles. Boston globe reported the former NBA star have well over 1 million dollars in debt. Reading the post, it really shocked me learning Antoine [...] Related posts:Players That Catch Me These Days (This Season) In every NBA season, there are always players that seemed...
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Via Red's Army  |  October 25, 2009
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Via Deadspin  |  October 26, 2009
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Looks like 'Toine already lost his shirt"][/caption] When Rick Pitino was coach and team president of the Boston Celtics, he decided to give Antoine Walker a max-contract equaling six-years and $71-million.  Wait, I haven't even gotten to the bad part yet.  He then made the...
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