The shocking confession of an NBA star: “I put a gun to my head twice”

John Wall’s Confession, 33 years old and one of the stars the NBA has had in the last ten years, has shaken the world of sports. Guest on the program The OG show led by former players Udonis Haslem AND Mike Miller, revealed the dark landscape he fell into when injuries prevented him from continuing to impress on the basketball court. “I know what it’s like… And I try to tell people that the mental health issue is very serious. After that I had to look for a therapist. If it wasn’t for my two children I would have committed suicide“, he confided, before adding: ““I put a gun to my head twice and a lot of people close to me, my friends at the time, didn’t know.”.

His story begins in 2010, when he signed with The Wizards of Washingtonteam of which he was part until 2019 and with which he became a All Starstitle achieved five times in his career. But, one day, the star’s light began to go out.

In 2018 he suffered an injury to his left knee at the start of the season, and another to his left heel at the end of the same year. And as if that wasn’t enough, he injured his Achilles tendon due to an infection contracted during surgery. This led him to miss part of the 2019 season and all of 2020..

Due to injuries that didn’t seem to stop, his mental health was severely affected. The first time he confessed to trying to take his own life was in 2022in an interview with NBC Sports: “It’s the darkest place I’ve ever been. I mean… at one point I thought about killing myself,” John said, at the moment He was the second player to earn the most money ($47.3 million), just behind Stephen Curry ($48 million).

His battle with his mental health was not only the cause of countless injuries that kept him off the field for several years. In 2019, his mother died of breast cancer, the same year he almost had to have his foot amputated due to an infection. “I tore my Achilles tendon, my mother got sick, my mother died at 58, my grandmother died a year later… all this in the midst of the COVID pandemic“

John Wall had a career with a lot of light early in his career, but equal parts darkness. He commented that to deal with his suffering, he started going to parties to find happiness somewhere. “A video came out of him doing street gang gestures and stuff like that, It was when I was in my darkest hour, trying to find happiness… But I wanted to commit suicide and it was like I was moving away from the Earth… I’m letting my children down. Who will be there to raise them?,” he told The OGs Show.

Despite having walked a path full of pain, John Wall is still an active player. After spending almost 10 years with the Washington Wizards, of which he was leader for a period, in 2021 he changed shirts with that of the Houston Rocketsand in 2022 for the Los Angeles Clippers, with which he averaged 11.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 5.2 assists in 22.2 minutes.

He took advantage of Haslem and Miller’s podcast to highlight that he would be a good addition to the Miami Heat: “It could help them a lot,” he commented.