Vin Baker is Now Giving Spirited Speeches as a High School Basketball Coach
Former Athletes, High School Sports, Video April 12th. 2011, 2:05pmVin Baker’s career arc: Under-recruited out of high school in Connecticut, he stayed local and dominated at the University of Hartford, becoming the school’s all-time leading scorer. He was taken in the lottery by the Milwaukee Bucks in 1993, then pinged around to the Sonics, Celtics (where he battled weight issues and alcohol problems), and a few other teams before retiring in 2006. In 2007 he got a DUI. In 2008 his house was foreclosed upon (Baker earned roughly $97 million in his NBA career). Now, he’s teaching freshman basketball at his old high school. [Slam]
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April 12th, 2011 at 2:16 PM
The Sonics trading Kemp for Vin Baker still never doesnt make sense.
April 12th, 2011 at 2:16 PM
Was he drunk?
April 12th, 2011 at 2:22 PM
Legend.
April 12th, 2011 at 2:22 PM
HAH! Now this is unintentional comedy. Seriously, one of the softest, least motivated and, as Tamp Bo mentioned, drunkest NBA players in the last 20 years. I’d rather have Manny Ramirez coach my kid.
April 12th, 2011 at 2:22 PM
I was in line at the grocery store a few weeks ago and some rich kid douche from the University of Hartford wanted to know if he could use his “Hawk Bucks” to buy his groceries. I wanted to club him in the head.
April 12th, 2011 at 2:23 PM
Kemp hasn’t exactly done well for himself since leaving basketball either though. Not that I’m using that as a metric for success, but Kemp has got to be hurting for money too.
April 12th, 2011 at 2:24 PM
Seriously, one of the softest, least motivated and, as Tamp Bo mentioned, drunkest NBA players in the last 20 years
Derrick Coleman is pissed you forgot about him.
April 12th, 2011 at 2:24 PM
Seriously, one of the softest, least motivated and, as Tamp Bo mentioned, drunkest NBA players in the last 20 years.
Redemption for no one!
April 12th, 2011 at 2:26 PM
dozens of monthly child support payments can do that to you.
April 12th, 2011 at 2:30 PM
After you have, maybe 4 different babymoms’ they should require court ordered vasectomies
April 12th, 2011 at 2:33 PM
After you have, maybe 4 different babymoms’ they should require court ordered vasectomies
They actually used to do forced sterilization for men and women in this country if they were deemed “dullards”, “promiscuous”, or a potential drag on society.
April 12th, 2011 at 2:37 PM
They actually used to do forced sterilization for men and women in this country if they were deemed “dullards”, “promiscuous”, or a potential drag on society.
Kind of like Nazi sterilization policies that targeted “asocials” or “work-shy”.
April 12th, 2011 at 2:39 PM
Then why is the Hispanic population in this country so substantial?
April 12th, 2011 at 2:43 PM
Kind of like Nazi sterilization policies that targeted “asocials” or “work-shy”.
Funny you should say that. The first forced sterilization law in human history was passed by the state of Indiana in 1903. The Nazis formulated their T4 eugenics program based on the forced sterilization laws that were on the books in 35 states by the 1930s.
The last legally allowed, forced sterilization took place in Virginia in 1980. 65,000 Americans were sterilized and institutionalized against their will. It’s a pretty fascinating and dark part of 20th century American history that not a lot of people know about it.
There’s a famous Supreme Court case associated with American eugenics as well. Buck vs. Bell (1927 I think).
April 12th, 2011 at 2:45 PM
The last legally allowed, forced sterilization took place in Virginia in 1980. 65,000 Americans were sterilized and institutionalized against their will. It’s a pretty fascinating and dark part of 20th century American history that not a lot of people know about it.
and you didnt’ even mention all the lobotomizing. But still, you crushed the topic.