{"id":32842,"date":"2011-05-19T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T01:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32842"},"modified":"2011-05-19T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T01:48:04","slug":"i-dont-find-it-fascinating-that-a-former-great-basketball-player-now-lives-on-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32842","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Find It Fascinating That A Former Great Basketball Player Now Lives On The Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Front and center on NYTimes.com right now is this story: “Ex-Basketball Prodigy Roams the Streets: Lewis Brown seemed destined for N.B.A. stardom. Decades later, his life is an arc of triumph and defeat, as he sleeps on Los Angeles sidewalks and washes car windows.”<\/p>\n

As soon as I read that, I figured the guy’s downfall was drugs, alcohol and\/or mental illness.<\/p>\n

I clicked on the story and found out I was right<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course someone who’s criminally inclined, a drug user, and difficult is going to have a lot of problems in life.<\/p>\n

Success on the basketball court leads to nothing. It’s irrelevant for life success. These anti-social thugs turn up homeless? I’m shocked. <\/p>\n

I don’t hear of many A-students or religiously-disciplined types who end up homeless. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Front and center on NYTimes.com right now is this story: “Ex-Basketball Prodigy Roams the Streets: Lewis Brown seemed destined for N.B.A. stardom. Decades later, his life is an arc of triumph and defeat, as he sleeps on Los Angeles sidewalks … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[26443,20880,26444,26446,26445,23506],"class_list":["post-32842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-arc-of-triumph","tag-basketball-court","tag-basketball-player","tag-car-windows","tag-life-success","tag-stardom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t