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Eric willams
They all went broke because they all spent their money on things they didn't need.The reson kd and jimmy were homeless is because they had no permanent home.
Williams, who played in the NBA for 12 seasons,said he spent the money he made as a professional athlete. Reportedly in the letter to the court, Williams said that one of the reasons he couldn't attend the hearing was because "a court-ordered citation for me to appear was not delivered to my home address as I have no home."
The former athlete also said he couldn't afford the plane ticket and did not have money for a lawyer. The 41-year-old stated in the letter that he is currently a volunteer at a non-profit organization and said he's in the process of putting his life back together.
Kevin Durant
Mum 'Kept us off the street. Put clothes on our backs, food on the table. When you didn't eat, you made sure we ate. You sacrificed for us. You're the real MVP.'Mom put my older brother, Tony, and me in sports early to keep us off the streets.KD was homeless in his younger years because he keep having to move to apartments so he never had a periment home
Allen Iverson
Bill mcGill
Allen Iverson fell on hard times when his basketball career abruptly ended. Though the 76ers legend is currently bankrupt, he does have a $30 million trust with Reebok, which he cannot access until he is 55-years-old.
Over his NBA career, Iverson made over $154.5 million in salary. The 39-year-old also racked up quite a bit of income in endorsements, bringing his income to over $200 million.
Iverson said” he couldn't even buy myself a burge. Iverson lost his mo
Jimmy Butler
Butler told ESPN.com his mother put him on the streets because "she didn't like the look of him". Butler moved in with a friend, Jermaine Thomas, whose father spent most of his time on the road as a truck driver. Before his senior year of high school, Butler met Jordan Leslie, a freshman, at a basketball camp. Leslie, who was born to a white mother and African-American father, previously lost his father in a car accident. Before his senior year at Tomball High School, 16-year-old Butler and Thomas moved in with Leslie, his three siblings, and his mother, Michelle Lambert. Lambert is the woman Butler calls, "Mommy."\
McGill, 71, says he still is paying the cost of not applying himself academically at Utah, where he led the nation in scoring and caught the eye of the Chicago Zephyrs, who made him the No. 1 pick in the 1962 NBA draft.
Eight years later, an unexpectedly fallow pro career behind him, the 6-foot-9 McGill was living on the streets in Los Angeles and lamenting his not having earned a college degree.
He's no longer homeless today, but he's still regretful.
He has been unemployed for nearly four years, his lack of a degree stifling his job search, he says, and his confidence and self-esteem reaching new lows almost daily.