What a waste....
http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/217097
Another twist in saga of ex-Raptor
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Keon Clark played in the NBA from 1998 until 2004, including two years with the Toronto Raptors.
Keon Clark: 'The boy is just self-destructing in public, and it's painful'
May 24, 2007 04:30 AM
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/columnists/94556Dave Feschuk
When last Keon Clark was quoted in these pages, in the fall of 2005, the pogo stick of a former Raptors forward was 30 years old and still sought after by NBA general managers. As of yesterday afternoon, he was wanted by Illinois police.
A warrant for his arrest on felony charges of drunk driving with a suspended licence was issued on Sunday, and if Clark's latest run-in with the law was an anomaly, it might not merit mention. But earlier this month Clark pleaded guilty to cocaine- and gun-possession felonies for which he'll be sentenced in July in his hometown of Danville, Ill. And his frequency of transgressions is such that one of the local newspapers has occasionally taken to headlining stories about his missteps with the tag: "Keon Watch."
"The boy is just self-destructing in public, and it's painful," said Frank Young, a state's attorney in Danville. "You hate to see a young man destroy himself after he's worked so hard and accomplished so much ... You're just going, `Wake up.'...................
http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/217097
Another twist in saga of ex-Raptor
Keon Clark played in the NBA from 1998 until 2004, including two years with the Toronto Raptors.
Keon Clark: 'The boy is just self-destructing in public, and it's painful'
May 24, 2007 04:30 AM
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/columnists/94556Dave Feschuk
When last Keon Clark was quoted in these pages, in the fall of 2005, the pogo stick of a former Raptors forward was 30 years old and still sought after by NBA general managers. As of yesterday afternoon, he was wanted by Illinois police.
A warrant for his arrest on felony charges of drunk driving with a suspended licence was issued on Sunday, and if Clark's latest run-in with the law was an anomaly, it might not merit mention. But earlier this month Clark pleaded guilty to cocaine- and gun-possession felonies for which he'll be sentenced in July in his hometown of Danville, Ill. And his frequency of transgressions is such that one of the local newspapers has occasionally taken to headlining stories about his missteps with the tag: "Keon Watch."
"The boy is just self-destructing in public, and it's painful," said Frank Young, a state's attorney in Danville. "You hate to see a young man destroy himself after he's worked so hard and accomplished so much ... You're just going, `Wake up.'...................
