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.
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.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 9)
10-11-2009 @ 10:03AM
Live,Love,Life said...
What a F@#@ing L-O-S-E-R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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10-12-2009 @ 10:10AM
Angela said...
I agree with you 100%.. That was sooo wrong of him to do such a thing.. Greed is what kills people these days.
10-12-2009 @ 12:20PM
JIM said...
Nice touch, selling your mom's home and blowing the money, resulting in her being evicted. That could be a new NBA player low.
10-12-2009 @ 1:28PM
cjimmech2 said...
You are being far too kind.
10-12-2009 @ 2:59PM
mgthornton said...
Is he going to start up a dog fighting ring?
10-11-2009 @ 7:52PM
Me said...
Hey dont say anything bad about him!! Dont you see he is black and that will make you racist!!
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10-12-2009 @ 8:14AM
steve035135 said...
Uh no. You probably ARE a racists though
10-12-2009 @ 8:38AM
J.M. said...
Commenting on the story doesn't make one a racist. Your response makes you one, though.
10-12-2009 @ 10:21AM
MEDIC4U2 said...
hahahaha u r rite, anything u say bad about this black man will label you a racist for life,,,,,
10-12-2009 @ 10:26AM
Live,Love,Life said...
Well I am black and I still think he's a LOSER!!!
But figure you would bring race into A-HOLE!
10-12-2009 @ 12:24PM
HELLO MEANLADY said...
LOSERS ALWAYS MAKE COMMENTS WHILE HIDDEN BECAUSE TRUTH IS YOU'D GET YOUR TAIL KICKED IN REAL LIFE.
10-12-2009 @ 1:25PM
Nicole and Jason said...
Thats stupid....black, white or green....so call a spade a spade, wrong is wrong. When we live in financial times such as these, making unwise foolosh decisions with money affects us all the same.
10-12-2009 @ 2:56PM
Hugh said...
Doesn't matter what color he is, he's a moron. The fact that YOU brought it up, makes YOU the racist. You just don't get that, do you? You must be as dumb as he so obviously is.
10-12-2009 @ 11:32PM
NOLEN88 said...
WOW WHAT A ASSHOLE NO STUPID WHAT HE DID WAS TOTALY WRONG IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FACT HE IS BLACK EVEN IF HE WAS WHITE HE WOULD STILL BE A ASSHOLE YOU ON THE OTHER HAND ARE ASSHOLE AND YOU MUST BE WHITE YOU AND THE OTHERS LIKE YOU ARE A STAIN ON YOUR RACE!!!!!! (STICK THAT IN YOU PIPE AND SMOKE IT!!!!)
10-11-2009 @ 6:31PM
samtull said...
Hey ,
I'm black and he is a loser.
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10-12-2009 @ 7:58AM
Ms. Diamond said...
GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY!! KARMA IS A BAD MUTHA ... shut ur mouth!
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10-12-2009 @ 8:03AM
mahaganybk said...
he spent his money on white chicks and now they are not returnibg the favor he is a loser.the one person who took in his orphan behind he tricked her he shouldve tricked his white tricks and have them dance and clean on an i.o.u promise. im black
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10-12-2009 @ 2:40PM
crimjust said...
How do you know the strippers were white? Are you speaking from a racist mind set? Some people should place a muzzle on their mouth.
10-12-2009 @ 8:07AM
lilwonderducky said...
Wow, he was so preoccupied with his own hard-on that he couldn't even see anything beyond it.
Poor woman adopts him and he even screws her. He deserves to be homeless after what he did to her. Bet his hands are still down his own trousers though. Viagra and a magazine would have been a lot cheaper though and he'd still be living in the lap of luxury. I guess you can take the man out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the man.
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10-12-2009 @ 8:10AM
Michael Ross said...
just typical.....while the vast majority of us either have to work all our lives just to keep a roof and food and other things to live or the greater percentage that are lucky to have a decent meal or a bath....you have these guys and gals making millions to play a sport and yet dont take the time to spend a little money to learn how to manage all that money...along with the "above all others" attitude...well sorry but those folks have made more money than most of us will ever see in a lifetime...and blew it....i dont feel sorry for him or any other person in that position...do you think they were feeling sorry for any of the average joes and joans(who create their saleries)while they were on top?...and this isnt about color for those who brought color into it....wake up!
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