The Shawn Kemp debacle: He won $91 million in the NBA but ended up shot and jailed for an iPhone

It all starts with the theft of an iPhone. The victim, two meters tall and eight, finds the thieves thanks to the geolocation of her phone. He is armed and, far from calling the police, decides to take justice into his own hands. He comes to a car parked in some sort of gigantic parking lot. As she approaches the vehicle, the shots are returned. And a shootout begins.

The person involved is none other than Shawn Kemp, former NBA star which once again highlights the problem of guns in the United States, which do not surpass basketball. A couple of weeks ago the Memphis Grizzlies star, Ja Morant, was filmed in a bar naked dancing with a gun. Justice acquitted him but the franchise imposed several weeks of suspension.

Now, after the shooting, the former American basketball player, NBA figure in the 90s, has been arrested in Pierce County, Washington, after being involved in the incident that came to light in the last few hours.

Kemp, 53, and former figure of the missing Seattle Supersonics, was arrested by the Tacoma Police Department on charges of shooting a firearm from one vehicle to another in the vicinity of a County mall Pierce, reported the news agency dpa news.

As reported by the forces of order on the networks, the situation left no injuries and the criminals fled. But a few traces remained, including a gun registered to Shawn Kemp, for which the former NBA player ended up being held at Pierce’s unit.

Shawn Kemp, the legend of 11 children, 9 women and 91 million

Shawn Kemp headlined the Seattle Supersonics as an incredible duo alongside Gary Payton Glove. Those were the times when Michael Jordan reigned and “the Sonics” reached the Finals in 1996. That year, the team suffered against Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls 4-2 and the Bulls’ 23rd was the big reason Kemp didn’t never got a ring in the NBA.

In any case, in 14 seasons, the former Seattle forward was chosen six times for the “All Star Game” and earned more than $91 million as a professional basketball player.

At 28 Kemp already had at least seven children (recognized) and his career went into decline or at least stopped shining as in his best days. The press started talking about a drinking problem, however from the franchise they attributed its downturn to authorship. The forward had 11 children with 9 women.

According to initial information provided by the police, there was an accident between the vehicles in which Kemp was traveling and another which was occupied by two people, and shots were fired but no one was injured, and one of the cars fled and she walked away. recovered a firearm that would be from the ex-NBA.

Kemp, born in Indiana on November 26, 1969, played 14 seasons in the NBA, the first eight, between 1989 and 1997, for the Supersonics, a franchise in which he formed a duo remembered with point guard Gary Payton, and, beyond , He was world champion with the United States in the 1994 World Cup played in Canada in a team in which Shaquille O’Neal stood out.