<p align="justify">Keon Clark claims he never played a game sober.</p> <p align="justify">We knew he had problems with weed and with maintaining interest in the sport, but by his own admittance, he was a hardcore alcoholic throughout his NBA career, drinking up to a pint of gin every day.</p> <p align="justify">Pretty crazy story, really. His father murdered another man over a dispute over a bicycle a few years back, and is incarcerated because of it IIRC. Clark was highly critical of the Raptors after he wasn't kept around following a productive but troubled career in The Big Smoke. He had a few choice words for Vince Carter after leaving as well.</p> <p align="justify">Keon had a good season with the Kings following a year and a half with the Raps but after that his personal problems really took hold. He only played in two games for the Jazz in 2003/04 before literally walking away from the sport. At one point he was a missing person, according to his agent, who completely lost track of Keon.</p> <p align="justify">Clark has been in trouble with the police repeatedly since dropping out of the NBA, most recently being convicted of drug and weapons related charges and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. "Clark was arrested Oct. 18 after U.S. Marshals got a tip that he was on a bus leaving Houston. He was arrested on several Illinois charges, including not having a firearm owner's identification card and possession of a controlled substance. He had been in Texas at a drug and alcohol rehab clinic, according to court records." [ESPN]</p> <p align="justify">Clark is currently hoping for a new hearing as a judge has claimed Clark lacked proper representation in his last court appearance.</p>
Sad, sad story. He was one of my favourite players back then. Its sad that Grunwald was completely incompetent at managing the cap, because I always wanted to keep him.</p>
It's not that suprising, there are people called functioning alcoholics. He was a pretty decent player, imagine if he stayed sober.</p>
