Ex-Blazer's decline into a homeless thief...Rumeal Robinson

[DaRizzle]

There are plenty of stories about athletes blowing their cash stores quickly, and ending up in bad financial shape within years of retiring from their chosen game. Rumeal Robinson fits that archetype. Robinson, who played for six teams over a six-year NBA career, did things a little differently though. He wasn't content to blow all of his money of material items and drugs.

He still bought plenty of material items, according to an in-depth story by the Miami New Times. But that's not what crushed him. What crushed him was what the New Times calls "a strip club habit that would have made Pacman Jones blush."

The New Times reports that Robinson would have strip club binges in which he'd spend $20,000 at a club per night for a week, all while bringing strippers back to his house to dance and even clean his house for various dollar amounts.

Once his NBA career ended and he hit rock bottom, Robinson made things worse by reportedly bribing a broker for a loan for his poorly planned real estate development firm, a firm he named after an extinct species of shark (Megalodon). The ill-begotten loan money didn't fund his business, of course. The New Times reports it funded luxuries like expensive steak dinners, high-flying hotel rooms, Cuban cigars and (ahem) a $10,000 M16 machine gun, purchased at a police supply store in Miami.

Worst of all, he sold the Connecticut home of his adoptive mother out from underneath her. She told police he tricked her into signing a deed. He took the $600,000, and she got booted out months later. Then he disappeared. Robinson is apparently homeless. He faces fraud charges related to the bank loan, with a court date set for November in Iowa.

http://nba.fanhouse.com/2009/10/11/...robinson-blew-his-nba-fortune-on-strip-clubs/

Say no to drugs kids...

 

[santeesioux]

Don't forget, he was also a Laker.

 

[DaRizzle]

Don't forget, he was also a Laker.

They used a Blazer pic he is more associated to your team!

 

[PapaG]

They used a Blazer pic he is more associated to your team!

I'd say he's more associated with the University of Michigan than he is to any NBA team.

Of the NBA teams, it would have to be Atlanta.

 

[andalusian]

They used a Blazer pic

Of course they did. They are a national source and out of southern California, the piss and purple is not something people want to see. It's like Mexicans are used to their water, but when Americans go there - they often get tummy aches. It's the same, just because you are used to that shit - does not mean that the people at large have to...

 

[alex42083]

Damn.. that's pretty sad even though it was his fault for his undoing. I remember Rumeal.. he played during a time when we were desperate for any capable backup PGs that we turned to John Crotty, Gary Grant, Rick Brunson, etc. until we found one in Greg Anthony.

 

[MARIS61]

Re: Ex-Laker's decline into a homeless thief...Rumeal Robinson

By all accounts he was a standup guy until his stint in LA turned him to the dark side.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

10 years from now this will be -

Zach Randolph: Where are they now?