Not sure if this was posted yet, but worth reading. From The Players' Tribune.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us ... -way-worse

I had no idea he went thru so much.

I'm glad the NFL and NBA are offering counseling and financial advisors to their players. No matter how rich a friend of mine was, I don't even think it would ever cross my mind to open up a sealed envelope to add my name onto an insurance policy. That's pretty vile right there.

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This does not surprise me.

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Man that 2004-05 Bulls team was just turning the corner to competing in the East, and then the heart thing happened with Eddy.

That sucked as a fan.

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I saw him talk about this in some YouTube video.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Yep. He had a tendency to disappear in second halves. But the game before he had the issue he started dominating in the second half. He was fist pumping and strutting back down court after a strong finish at the rim, and I was ecstatic. I thought they were finally ready to roll. Then a heart and a Deng injury...toast.

That was a fun try-hard group. Don't forget NOOO-CIIII-OOOO-NIIIII. The year after Stern really fucked the Bulls with the 1 year in College rule, otherwise Durant falls to the Bulls in 2006.

Very good read. Sad story, and I hope Eddy is able to live a good life.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

The guy still really takes no responsibility for his actions. Everything was done to him. "I didn't know, I didn't know", even as you admit your wife was there telling you every step of the way what was happening.

I'm not going to feel sorry for a guy who feels he was taken from his life's aspiration of being a stoned gamer 24/7.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Great story about a great woman though. His wife Patrice.

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There's that "Catholic compassion" folks.

I'm not Catholic and I agree with gd...the whole tone of that was "whoa is me". His wife should be a saint for putting up with his immature bullshit.

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I think he's still conflicted. He knows he has made a lot of mistakes but wants it to still be portrayed that he was the victim of circumstance.

Every kid would rather play video games instead of work.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

The problem is the adults that saw him as a cash register. He never loved basketball, you can't force a kid to love a sport. They tried to make him something he wasn't.

MANY streamers play video games for good $$$.

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Putting the details aside for the moment, this is a common problem: young atheletes unprepared for the real world making mad money with no idea how to be fiscally responsible. Makes even more sense if you come into this money and have no mentors to guide you, such as parents or trustworthy advisors. Allen Iverson has/had this problem, Shawn Kemp, Antoine Walker, and the list goes on. The most evil people in these kinds of stories are the predators who exploit the athlete's ignorance and inexperience for personal gain.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I think if your infant daughter gets murdered you are allowed to throw yourself a little bit of a pity party.

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Damn...autocorrect is a fickle bitch sometimes.

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I had a co-worker that hated Eddie, while I was banking on those Bulls teams to bring back the glory. And he just kept saying, “he lost to Schaumburg High School”. The guy thought Eddie sucked just because of that.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

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He was on to something. While he was here one constant critique was that he just wasn't motivated to work on his game, to be great, etc. This is all pre-tragedy. In the age of the declining center, this 6-11 250+ dude averaged 5 rebounds per game. Scott Skiles famously said the key to Eddy becoming better at rebounding was to simply jump.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

I read plenty of ownership of not being there and making mistakes.

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Heartless Dolphin becoming more conservative by the day.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Limousine Liberal.

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He had a lot of hangers on. One of my friends used to own a car wash in Highland Park and Curry's boys would come in with his fancy sports cars. Then they would go back and play video games at Eddy's house. I picture it being like the mostly empty house in Boiler Room.

That's why it's so vile for dopes like bernstein and Phil Jackson to dismiss LeBron's guys as a "posse" or to intimate that he needs (((different))) advisors. It's racist as hell. Maverick Carter is a sharp motherfucker. Eddy's guys were not that.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

#Truth

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GO BEARS!!!

Most professional athletes hang with guys who are nothing more than leeches. Then you have a kid like LeBron demanding unprecedented access for his team. It wasn't unreasonable to assume that they would be like most "friends" of athletes. They were ultimately wrong.

I'm fascinated by who you and others will and won't call racist.

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GO BEARS!!!

Come on. If LeBron had a friend from Shaker Heights named Shlomo Glickstein handling his business affairs, do you think bernstein would have been so critical?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don