Ex-Celtics star Antoine Walker warns about glamorous NBA life
  • 7 years ago
Antoine Walker was drafted by the Boston Celtics in 1996 and went on to earn a $108 million contract deal and NBA stardom. Walker's taste for luxury forced him to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2010, just two years after playing his last NBA game. He looked to real estate as an alternative, but the recession of 2007 and 2008 created even more of a financial burden for him. Walker has been debt free since 2013 and now travels the world, educating young basketball players about the price of fame. [I want] (to use this) platform to one: share my story, and two: educate young student athletes on finances, so when they do make this money, that they don't make the same mistakes that I made…"
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