antoine walker making a comeback?

[boston.balla]

Antoine Walker shimmied his way to Puerto Rico

By Trey Kerby

The last we heard from Antoine Walker(notes), he was in massive debt — $4 million, massive. Since then, not much.
He hasn't played in an NBA game in more than two years, and the last transaction involving the former Celtic star was a buyout after not playing a minute for the Memphis Grizzlies.
But according to Peter May's Yahoo! Sports report, Walker is playing professional basketball again. Kind of.

According to reports coming out of the island, Walker's deal with the Guaynabo Mets is for one month, guaranteed, as they want to see what kind of shape he's in. He is reportedly being paid $7,000 a week. Another former NBA player, Marcus Fizer, also joined the Mets at the same time. They started the season 4-0 according to the standings posted on Latinbasket.com.

Walker at least has a profile on LatinBasket, so there's something happening there. However, there's no stats or really anything except a headshot. Very strange.
According to May's report, Walker tried to land a deal in the Chinese Basketball Association, new home of Stephon Marbury(notes). With their inflated statistics and hefty paychecks, the CBA would have been a perfect fit for 'Toine. But it wasn't meant to be.
Instead, Walker's working as a hired gun where he'll have to prove that he's in basketball condition, which has never been the big guy's specialty. He'll have to prove something, as a month of playing basketball for $7,000 a week will leave him, oh, just $3.95 million short of repaying his debts. Furthermore, Walker still has a DUI case against him, and is still awaiting trial for his arrest for writing bad checks at casinos.
Let's just hope 'Toine can revive the shimmy in Puerto Rico. Then, maybe, he can turn his life around. I think that's how the song goes.

[mogrovejo]

I got tape of the first game. He played well and looked better than I expected, in decent shape and all, but no shimmy. Still, he was playing probably the worst and smallest frontcourt of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional.

Almost 4,000 tickets sold for Guaynabo. Very good for them, they're a small club. If Toine stays in shape, it may end up being a very good deal for them.

Oh, and he's using the #8.

[IronMexican]

Isn' he broke? Good move on his part to stay in shape enough to earn some dough.

[ChrisRichards]

Dumbass, how can you earn more than a $100 mil in a decade and have nothing left in your bank account? These athletes (NBA players) specially are really really dumb.

[ChrisRichards]

Just as easy as earning 100k and be broke at the end of the year. Its common in our society, in fact, across the world. People just don't know how to manage money. My state is broke, this country is broke, not just dumb black athletes.

I agree that its just not athletes (why did you single out blacks anyway?), but come on, you'd have to be pretty stupid to blow that amount away. You can live on interest with that amount of money alone. All you need to do is save at least 30% of your earnings with that kind of money and you'll never go broke. But then again, Walker has driking and gambling problems.

[lefty]

How do you say 3 pt chucker in Spanish?