Antoine Walker Sued for Shit-Filled Building
Antoine Walker, former NBA player and Chicago high school hoops legend, has fallen on some hard times. Although he made millions during his playing career, he has had all kinds of financial problems ranging from being robbed to owing millions in gambling debts.
Well the news for Antoine is about to get a lot worse. In his old neighborhood on Chicago’s south side, there is a building that has been classified as a slum. Parts of the exterior are falling off, and burst pipes in the basement have flooded the building with, well, shit. How is Walker involved? He owns the building:
At one point, bricks fell off the building’s facade, a hazard that went unfixed for months, city records show. Before that, a broken sewer pipe filled the basement with feces, toilet paper and other debris, creating an odor that forced families to move their children out…
[Antoine Walker]’s company owns the building…
Real estate investment companies that list Walker as an investor or principal — Walker Ventures LLC and AW Realty LLC — are the target of more than a dozen lawsuits alleging poor management of numerous properties, unpaid debts and damages caused by shoddy repair work. In one case last month, the city won $950,000 in court-ordered fines against Walker Ventures.
As a basketball player, I never really liked Walker. He always struck me as that guy on the playground who just kind of hung around the 3 point line always calling for the ball but never passing and complaining about everything. Off the court he seemed okay, but all these recent incidents don’t exactly cast him in a good light. In all fairness, he probably has little part in the actual management of the company. Still, if I put my name on something, I would probably make sure it didn’t have a basement full of poop.
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Comment from Kevin Tapani Fan Club
Time November 30, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I’m baccccccccccck. I know you guys missed me. Just a quick comment. I noticed that Antoine’s lawyer mentioned that he is currently looking to sign with an NBA or European team. You know that the only reason he would even contemplate this is because of its financial problems. Can you imagine an NBA team taking this guy right now? If any team does, they automatically get the award for dumbest personnel decision of the decade. But hey, if he plays in Europe maybe his whole situation will become more interesting as he adds the element of diplomatic controversy to the mix. The best would be if he played in a place like Iran. Would add a whole new wrinkle to the U.S.-Iran standoff. Walker could go there, default on a few loans, run up a huge tab at illegal casinos and then flee back to the U.S., causing a major standoff about whether the U.S. would extradite him back to a country that might be-head somebody for that type of stuff. With Antoine Walker, the possibilities are endless.