Antoine Walker Picked the Wrong Place to Do Too Much: The Real World

The saga of Antoine Walker as a basketball player was a narrative of squandered talent. He was big yet deft, a power forward equipped with a shooting guard's touch, but never consistently made those skills part of a winning team, making three All-Star teams and reaching the Eastern Conference Finals just once. He also, to put it kindly, expanded his physique. This is the sort of decline that takes a player good enough to earn a maximum contract in 1999 and makes him a salary figure acquired by the Memphis Grizzlies in 2008 for cap relief and nothing more.It will be his off-court overextension, however, that defines Walker's legacy. Walker was arrested in Las Vegas this July, and stories began to leak about his titanic debt obligations. Today, the Boston Globe compiles those stories, and adds more, in the stunning tale of Walker's fall.Rumors of gambling problems have metastasized to million-dollar judgments against Walker in decisions favoring J.P. Morgan Chase and Wacho...