Found October 27, 2009 on Ball Don't Lie:
In 12 years, Antoine Walker(notes) made more than $110 million playing professional basketball moderately well. Take away taxes, throw in some adidas endorsement money and a "NBA Live 99" cover, and he's left with, what, $60-to-65 million? Whatever the details, it was a big chunk of change, which, amazingly, wasn't enough.That's right, during the last several months, the once multi-millionaire athlete has been pursued by multiple financial institutions for unpaid debts. In fact, according to The Boston Globe, "Employee No. 8" owes more than $4 million to his creditors and is facing felony check fraud charges in Las Vegas. All of this at the age of 33. Wild.Now I know what you're thinking: How in the world does somebody — not named Montgomery Brewster — even begin to blow through that amount of money? The answer: fairly easily."[Walker] liked to move in an outsized entourage; his mother estimates that, during his playing days, he w...
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