Antoine Walker Announces his retirement from D-League

[LkrFan]

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For the past couple seasons, a guy named Antoine Walker was playing for the Idaho Stampede in the D-League who looked and sounded a lot like the former Celtic and three-time All-Star.

But if you watched him he was a shell of that former player (which is why he never got another shot in the NBA). He had become a player more known as a cautionary tale of losing money than the Chicago legend who went on to play for storied teams like Kentucky and the Celtics. A guy who picked up a ring in 2006 with the Heat.

LINK (http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/08/antoine-walker-announces-retirement-from-d-league/related/)

[jeebus]

:lol

[Venti Quattro]

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[jeebus]

uwsbJa9QyKo

If he did that now, it'd be censored on tv due to his fat rolls.

[lefty]

Celtic Legend :cry

[LkrFan]

Waste of talent ala Billy Owens and Derrick Coleman tbh. What a shame.

[JamStone]

Employee #8... he makes baskets

[lefty]

Waste of talent ala Billy Owens and Derrick Coleman tbh. What a shame.
yup

[JamStone]

Lol Billy Owens was never that good tbh

[CubanMustGo]

Has anyone else EVER announced their retirement from the D-League?

[lefty]

Lol Billy Owens was never that good tbh
He was good but he was lazy

[Giuseppe]

He's got that ring though. Like Rider.

[baseline bum]

He's got that ring though. Like Rider.

But he ain't got the ring no more.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Still amazed a team with this guy and White Chocolate starting won a title

[DMC]

Has anyone else EVER announced their retirement from the D-League?
Lamar tried, but they wouldn't take him.

[LkrFan]

Lol Billy Owens was never that good tbh

:huh

At Syracuse, he was very good and a very good NBA prospect. Maybe you didn't see him at Syracuse? Maybe you are too young to remember. Billy used to dominate in college. It just didn't translate well to the pros. It happens.

[Latarian Milton]

he'll probably play elsewhere to earn a bit more $ for his retirement imho, maybe chinks league will be the next destination for him and thats a known dustbin for the trashes disposed from NBA. dude is a trash even in the d-league but he would still be a star player in chinks league imho

[LnGrrrR]

:(

[The Franchise]

I read in SI that he is sharing an $800 a month apartment. Damn, from $162 million in career earnings to splitting rent in a rathole.

[TE]

Complete failure of a human being tbh.

[Xylus]

I read in SI that he is sharing an $800 a month apartment. Damn, from $162 million in career earnings to splitting rent in a rathole.

I don't know where you've been living, but $800 is pretty common for a multi-bedroom apartment. Probably a pretty standard pad, not a rathole.

[Giuseppe]

I don't know where you've been living, but $800 is pretty common for a multi-bedroom apartment. Probably a pretty standard pad, not a rathole.

In Phoenix you damn right.