"I played over 10 years in the NBA and made tens of millions of dollars. I had everything I ever dreamed of. But after a series of legal issues and personal problems, my life has become something I could never have imagined. I'm right back to where it all began - back in Coney Island, back in the projects, back in the fire."
"Fighting the Feds and my divorce affected my finances. Now I got to run around broke. This right here is the same building y'all seen through the fire that I grew up in. It's crazy. Going through my NBA journey and end up right back in the same spot,"
Sebastian Telfair emerged as a high school basketball star and signed a $15 million Adidas deal before declaring for the NBA Draft. He played ten years in the NBA and earned an estimated $19 million plus endorsement income. Post-retirement legal issues included a 2017 gun charge and a 2021 indictment tied to a league healthcare fraud case, and his wife filed for divorce in 2019. With no steady income after leaving the league, his savings were depleted. Telfair now lives again in the Coney Island projects where he grew up.
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