Antoine Walker has been sentenced to 5 years probation for failing to pay back hundreds of thousand dollars of gambling debts in Las Vegas.
Walker was originally arrested back in 2009 on the gambling debt charges. He had written three Las Vegas casinos ten check for $100,000 in exchange for chips, but all of those checks were bad. Walker plead guilty to the charges, but still must pay the casinos bask $770,050. Walker will also serve five years probation.
I feel bad for Toine, he is one of my favorite Celtics of all time. At one point I was willing to trade Paul Pierce and build the team around Toine, boy was I wrong. One of the worst days in my life was when we traded Antoine for Raef LaFrentz and one of the best days in my life is when he came back and wore 88.
I heard a lot of his problems, beyond an obvious gambling issue was that he gave a lot of his money away to friends/ family, etc. But it's a shame, and if it was up to me, I'd still bring Toine back. C'mon Danny, give him a chance.