Recently it was reported that former NBA player Tim James was stationed in Iraq. Personally I like hearing this, it’s good to hear a positive story of a former NBA player. All to often we hear about former NBA players getting into trouble and not doing something to turn their lives around.
Other players like former first round pick Kirk Snyder have gotten themselves in a lot of legal trouble. Snyder broke into a neighbors house, robbed and beat them. But this story is just a feel good story that not all former NBA players who could not make it have wasted their lives. While being in Iraq is not the safest thing a man could do, it does give him more of a future than facing a ten year prison sentence and it will give him money preventing him for needed to rob people.
I vaguely remember Tim James as a player. I remember him playing for the Hornets as a scrub. I looked it up and he played 43 games over three years with the Heat, Hornets, and Sixers.
